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The average warmest day of the year at Heathrow is 32.5, so yes, it does. You have to go back to 1993 to find a summer that didn't reach 30c, even the rubbish of 07 and 08 reached 30c. Botev lives in Seattle, which is barely warmer than London in summer, by 0.05c, and has never even visited, so he's talking pure, grade A ****.
I have never said Seattle is warm and sunny because it's not. But London is even cooler and cloudier. There is no major city in the US or Canada that receives only 1600 hours of sunshine per year.
I have never said Seattle is warm and sunny because it's not. But London is even cooler and cloudier. There is no major city in the US or Canada that receives only 1600 hours of sunshine per year.
32.5? I'm sure someone worked it out before as 30. Something.
Maybe that was the average for London, rather than just Heathrow. Most years will record 32c somewhere in London, usually St James's Park or Kew if it isn't Heathrow.
Why do all discussions about London end up with trolls and arguments? Never happens when discussing other places, not to the same degree anyway.
30C is not too shabby given the latitude. And that was only 5 years out of 30. Would the same happen in other areas of England? I'm curious just how warm London is compared to the rest of the country.
According to Meteostats, Birmingham averages 29.8°C. Not sure how (in)accurate it is for English cities though, I'm not familiar with Brummy's climate.
The hill behind Owen's house has never reached 27C, because the snow cools down the surface temperature. NI can still support some hardy palm trees, which is a huge mindf**k for Owen.
London is not cooler than Seattle. They have the same annual mean temperature.
The annual avg max is slightly in Seattle's favor but considering that Seattle is at 47.4N and London is at 51.3N I would give the nod to London as being more impressive.
Another stupid London debate.. it gets so boring...
Heathrow doesn't even record the hottest temperatures in the London area - Gravesend does and it is not even in the UHI (technically it is not in London, although it is about the same distance from central London as Heathrow)
London as a whole generally reaches 30C every year, the last time not being 22 years ago in 1993.. Heathrow might have had a few more instances though, it is silly to judge the whole climate of London on just Heathrow alone which is in the suburbs.
That aside, what is so special about 30C anyway? Last July here was very nice - only a record max of 30.3C at Heathrow but an average July temp of nearly 26C. Summers here are generally very stable, we don't often get much above 32C in mid summer, but then again we very very rarely go below 19C in mid summer as well.
This looks very pleasant to me, although a bit boring - July 2014:
[url=http://www.meteociel.fr/climatologie/villes.php?code=3772&mois=7&annee=2014]Meteociel - Climatologie mensuelle de London (UK)[/url]
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