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Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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One of the most striking value of my database is El Fonoll, which is a town at 618 meters asl and located 50 km away to the Mediterranean sea towards Salou, being able to reach -8,3º C as lowest temperature in 2012, and 4,4º C as lowest summer average from 15th June to 15th September 2012!
That's the way how pre-coastal mountain ranges work into the Iberian peninsula blocking any maritime influences.
Another striking one is Ródenas, with 231 number of days bellow zero in 2012, 32 of them in summer months, and -6,1º C as lowest summer temperature for 2012!
I dont' think so there are many places like Ródenas or Griegos in the southern half of Europe, except for the Alp mountain range.
P.S: I discovered that there is a small error in the value from Griegos as lowest summer temperature, so it is just -2,2º instead of 2,2º C.
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Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Originally Posted by The East Frisian
There are some dolines in the Black Forest (Bernau, Albstadt) and Alps (Funtensee) though, which can record even lower temperatures, Funtensee e.g. has the lowest low of a weather station in Germany with -45.9°C (-50.6°F).
Wow! What a cold place!
I'm just wondering how large diurnal temperature ranges can get there in summer months.
Being in the north slopes of the Alps it would get warm when foehn arrives.
somewhat surprisingly, it only had 18 frost-days during the period 15th june - 15th september last year. i cant think of a higher elevated valley in sweden, so perhaps spain outdo sweden in this department.
Among sizeable French towns, Mouthe (930 m asl) would get the most, with 156 frosts per year. From 27 frosts in January to 0.2 in July.
The Jura highlands have a lot of dolines, hence closed frost hollows like Funtensee. The Amburnex doline (uninhabited), in nearby Swiss Jura, is equipped with a weather station. Records began in December 2010. Over 1049 days, it had 683 frosts. That would correspond to 238 frosts per year. Not nearly long enough to make a climatic assessment, but it seems quite frosty and "promising".
One of the largest summer amplitudes: 29.8°C (31.4/1.6°C) - 08/19/2012
Largest amplitude to date: 37.9°C (11.2/-26.7°C) - 02/22/2012
There have been 24 30°C+ amplitudes and 5 35°C+ ones over the past 3 years.
The record low is -37.4°C and the record high low 12.7°C.
14 lows below -30°C so far.
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Originally Posted by Ariete
Most certainly. They are just uninhabited and probably don't have weather stations. And those examples you posted are on much higher elevations than here. All areas above 1000m are uninhabited.
The highest villages in Spain can be found at 1600 meters above sea level. All areas above 1700 meters are uninhabited, except for some sky resorts that supporting services such as hotels or restaurants.
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Originally Posted by kronan123
here's swedens highest elevated weather station (1142 masl) located in the tarfala valley just behind kebinekaise.
somewhat surprisingly, it only had 18 frost-days during the period 15th june - 15th september last year. i cant think of a higher elevated valley in sweden, so perhaps spain outdo sweden in this department.
Summer nights are very short or inexistant in Scandinavian countries, so there are few options to get really cold at night time hours.
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I don't have a database like yours or much mountain data, but here is a map of Britain showing frost days. Outside Scottish mountain valleys very few places average below-freezing lows even in the coldest month, so we are really very tame.
Another point of view is most of Iberian peninsula usually gets a higher amount of clear nights than the British Isles, which often remain mostly cloudy, so there are better options to get cold at clear nights here, and hence the awareness of exerting influence in getting strong temperature inversion on these few cold spot dolines located in the northern half of Spain.
However, as I said yesterday, more than 90% of the territory on my country is warm all year round, according to northern European's climates.
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Summer nights are very short or inexistant in Scandinavian countries, so there are few options to get really cold at night time hours.
Tarfala is also less than 100 km from the coast, so the Atlantic influence is considerable there as well. The short nights are only one factor of many. All of southern Scandinavia has warmer night averages than the northern parts.
The short nights are only one factor of many. All of southern Scandinavia has warmer night averages than the northern parts.
In Norway, the influence of the sea /fjords are very important. So an inland valley in the south might have colder nights than a coastal area much further north - especially with regard to extreme lows. Places on islands and close to the sea have often longer frost-free season than inland valleys north of Oslo despite being some 700 - 1000 km further north.
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