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Old 08-20-2014, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK/Swanage, UK
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There are almost 200 hours difference annually within different locations of the same city! Why is this?

London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenwich is a rather dull 1480.5 hours
Heathrow is almost as sunny as Paris with 1632.6 hours
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Finland
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The view is obscured by tall buildings and their shadows, and can't pick everything up. I thing B87 said something like this. Makes sense.
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:54 AM
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Location: Surrey/London
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There are no tall buildings near the Greenwich station. It's due to terrain blocking the shadows. Also, the climate box for Greenwich is for 1971-2000, not for 1981-10 as it says.

Here is the actual data.
Greenwich climate information - Met Office
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Old 08-20-2014, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Finland
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There are no tall buildings near the Greenwich station. It's due to terrain blocking the shadows. Also, the climate box for Greenwich is for 1971-2000, not for 1981-10 as it says.
Well, I was half right!
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK/Swanage, UK
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There are no tall buildings near the Greenwich station. It's due to terrain blocking the shadows. Also, the climate box for Greenwich is for 1971-2000, not for 1981-10 as it says.

Here is the actual data.
Greenwich climate information - Met Office
The actual, or current, data for Greenwich is even duller! Between the period of 1981-10 heathrow has around 220 hours more sunshine than Greenwich...
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:02 AM
B87
 
Location: Surrey/London
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Here's the location of the weather station. Looks like a combination of trees and the big hill to the west. I doubt it's anything to do with low cloud from the North Sea, as Gravesend pretty much on the estuary gets over 1600 hours as well.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK/Swanage, UK
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Here's the location of the weather station. Looks like a combination of trees and the big hill to the west.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/...!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
Strange, why would you put a weather box under trees if it's not giving you an accurate description of how much sun the area is actually getting?
On a tangent, that Google photo of the area makes Greenwich look more like somewhere in the dry med, when was this taken... The grass is so brown!
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:08 AM
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Grass looks like that most summers.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK/Swanage, UK
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Grass looks like that most summers.
Ow, maybe we just get more rain in Hampshire...
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK
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Ow, maybe we just get more rain in Hampshire...
The grass gets like that most summers in the part of Hampshire I'm from...
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