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In April 2008 we had a snowfall in the morning in Portsmouth, gave a covering... But by lunchtime the sun was out, all the snow melted & the high that day was 14C...
Just post some photos to prove him wrong, not much you can say that won't go in one ear and out the other.
No photos sorry. I've never taken photos until I joined this forum, and my el cheapo camera (the second one) is on the blink. Snow to 3000ft in a Southland summer isn't the sort of photo one would take anyway -unremarkable
NI is portrayed as a place where deadly blizzards can strike at any time, yet a city with with summers 1.5C colder than Belfast or Edinburgh, can't get summer snow down to 3000 ft? Weather nerds aren't what they used to be.
No photos sorry. I've never taken photos until I joined this forum, and my el cheapo camera (the second one) is on the blink. Snow to 3000ft in a Southland summer isn't the sort of photo one would take anyway -unremarkable
NI is portrayed as a place where deadly blizzards can strike at any time, yet a city with with summers 1.5C colder than Belfast or Edinburgh, can't get summer snow down to 3000 ft? Weather nerds aren't what they used to be.
Snow lying to 3,000 feet in July!? I don't think so..
I guess that's the difference. NI doesn't have Oceanic weather in the way NZ does. Your cold systems aren't able to drag cold air from the polar regions like they do here.
The (not very high) mountains of southern Australia in Victoria and NSW get regular summer snow. There was a major snowstorm on Christmas Day in recent years - I think it was 2006 or 2007.
What else is interesting is that the town of Thredbo in NSW at a relatively moderate base elevation of 1400 m has recorded colder lows in summer (-4.4 C in January and even lower in Dec and Feb) than has the town of Inuvik north of the Arctic Circle in Canada (-3.3 C in July).
The (not very high) mountains of southern Australia in Victoria and NSW get regular summer snow. There was a major snowstorm on Christmas Day in recent years - I think it was 2006 or 2007.
What else is interesting is that the town of Thredbo in NSW at a relatively moderate base elevation of 1400 m has recorded colder lows in summer (-4.4 C in January and even lower in Dec and Feb) than has the town of Inuvik north of the Arctic Circle in Canada (-3.3 C in July).
Indeed. I made the point earlier that NZ(and southern Australia) was an Oceanic climate cold relative to latitude, whereas the UK is warm relative to latitude. I don't think young mac really grasped the significance of that.
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