Which is more likely to go an entire winter with ZERO snowfall? London or Oklahoma City?

[nei]

Originally Posted by Mac15

Why does the Met Office do that? Its so decieving? I don't like the constant reference to sleet as wintry precipitation, yes of course it is but it will never lie or cause transport problems so why stick it in with snow stats?

Why can't sleet lie?

[Don't remember the British definition of sleet if it's different from ours. Ours is small ice pellets.]

[nei]

Originally Posted by Mac15

Lol darlin I don't know what you are rolling your eyes about. London is colder than Oklahoma and has a much lower sun angle. Really standard deviation makes Oklahoma look cool but in reality it is more mild.

Arguable, but the thread question is not what city is more mild but what city is more likely to go an entire winter with zero snowfall. Not the same thing.

[ben86]

Originally Posted by nei

Why can't sleet lie?

[Don't remember the British definition of sleet if it's different from ours. Ours is small ice pellets.]

Ours is a mixture of rain and snow, and I've never seen it accumulate. London probably gets more of that at least.

[Mac15]

It never sticks. Its wet

[MeteoMan]

Originally Posted by Ed's Mountain

Well according to Wikipedia, Oklahoma City has an average of 5.7 snowy days a year whilst London has an average of 16 snowy days a year. Based on that my vote goes to OKC--doesn't seem that close really.

(Wikipedia references NOAA data for both sites.)

Thought someone might quote the wiki stats, which are dreadfully inaccurate because they are not comparing by the same standard either.

The Oklahoma "snow days" is showing days of lying snow of 0.1"+.
The London NOAA snow data is actually showing Gatwick Airport's (not in London, but in rural West Sussex, 30 MILES south of London) "snow falling" days (as it says on the NOAA link from the London wikipedia article).
Two totally different measurements altogether, with a "London" site that's not even in London, so a direct comparison of the wiki tables is 100% bogus.
You'll also notice on that NOAA link for Gatwick, that the temperature averages, inc. for winter, are a good 1-2°C COLDER than for London itself.
Oklahoma's "snow falling" days is higher than London's when I compared data for those two places.
For what it's worth, Gatwick Airport's figures are not representative of London, and certainly not as much as Heathrow's because it is much further away from the city, and right out in a rural area.

[Caleb Yeung]

Oklahoma City for being drier.

[Mac15]

Originally Posted by nei

Why can't sleet lie?

[Don't remember the British definition of sleet if it's different from ours. Ours is small ice pellets.]

Because its wet and most of the time it falls at 3 or 4c.

[B87]

Originally Posted by nei

Why can't sleet lie?

[Don't remember the British definition of sleet if it's different from ours. Ours is small ice pellets.]

Sleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia