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Is that the Linton on Ouse data, or Church Fenton? I live almost halfway between both stations, but I work at Linton so I tend to use that station. It's a shame Church Fenton shut down really.
Church Fenton. Linton would be more or less the same, maybe a little lower but not much difference. Yeah I agree. The Met Office need to buck up because their station coverage is abysmal.
Didn't expect that. Strangely, our 2012 absolute maximum was about 3°C above the average abs max in Paris, even if we're only 380 miles southbound from Leeds
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:
Personally, I find discussions about what the max temp in summer reaches to be useless for describing the overall feel of a summer. Okay, so London reaches 30C every summer. I'm more interested in knowing what most days in summer are like. 30C for one day sounds impressive, but what would it be like day in and day out all summer? That is what really matters imo. Same goes for winter anywhere.
PI'm more interested in knowing what most days in summer are like. 30C for one day sounds impressive, but what would it be like day in and day out all summer? That is what really matters imo. Same goes for winter anywhere.
London only has 212 sunshine hours (~42%) in July which is very little considering the long summer days. Summers there are bad.
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This is a typical summer day in London. I wouldn't call it 'bad'. You've never even been to London so I don't know how you can say that.
Looks similar to here on a summer day. We get loads of partly cloudy days, and not many of those blue dome days like the southwestern desert areas. At least that is what the afternoons build to from clear skies in the morning.
What is the average dewpoint on a summer day in London?
London only has 212 sunshine hours (~42%) in July which is very little considering the long summer days. Summers there are bad.
Are you using Greenwich data for sun hours? As many from the UK pointed out, that site is flawed. It seems lower than all the other surrounding sites. 42% seems very low.
Looks similar to here on a summer day. We get loads of partly cloudy days, and not many of those blue dome days like the southwestern desert areas. At least that is what the afternoons build to from clear skies in the morning.
London's cloud cover
Compared to Philly
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What is the average dewpoint on a summer day in London?
According to weather spark it peaks at 59F/15C in August. So dew points are in the comfortable range.
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Dew Point
Dew point is often a better measure of how comfortable a person will find the weather than relative humidity because it more directly relates to whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid.
Over the course of a year, the dew point typically varies from 31°F (dry) to 59°F (comfortable) and is rarely below 22°F (dry) or above 63°F (mildy humid).
The time of the year between May 20 and October 23 is the most comfortable, with dew points that are neither too dry nor too muggy.
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