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Admittedly it would have taken me by surprise. I'd always assumed Florida was warm throughout the year.
Nope. Florida spans a number of degrees latitude, and while southern Florida and the Keys might be more or less warm MOST of the year, even they have their cold months (January, February).
As for the northern part of the state...it has its issues at times with winter freezes.
Not rubbish at all. Way too strong of a description imo. What is rubbish is a winter climate that sends your body thru convulsions of 20-30F degree temp changes over the course of two or three days. Welcome to winter in this continental climate.
Some of us long for stability in temps and despise the wacked out ups and downs we get every late autumn, winter, and early spring.
How can an ISLAND have a CONTINENTAL climate?
Nope. It may vary, but try the interior of the North American continent (Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska) or, even better, the Eurasian (Siberia and inland China/Mongolia) for truly variable weather. I mean, like sunshine on a day in August followed a few hours (or a half day) later by flurries. I have experienced this in Montana (it was in May, but some parts of the state can have snow any time of year).
Sorry, Tom; just reread your statement; didn't realize you were talking about the Mid-Atlantic. More continental indeed because the prevailing wind direction renders the onshore flow very weak except right on the coast.
Indeed, total amounts of Sunshine in Britain are not great. However, due to the variable conditions, most Britts see the sun every day.
Countries with 2000+ Sunshine hours but stable weather won't see the sun as many days a year as in the UK.
that's true. We may have had endless sunshine last summer, but 10 days of cloudy weather in a row is totally possible in fall / winter here
Like people say in Brittany: "here it is sunny several times a day !"
Interesting, I thought variability would be a feature of your climate as well, being maritime like ours. Don't you get sunny spells in winter between bouts of rain? Some places in the south of England in January 2014 had up to three times the average rainfall yet still had above average sunshine.
Where I live we might get an entire week of constant sunshine about once every 10 years, maybe roughly the same for constant overcast under anticyclonic gloom. We had a December with only 7.2 sun hours back in 1992, but I'd be surprised if even that managed two weeks of constant overcast just because our weather doesn't stay stagnant for that long.
I can't forget February 2013 in Ioannina. Just 3 sunny days! Just 3! The rest were rainy and gloomy days with only 3 days with snowfall. I don't know if it is an oceanic feature to have just 3 days with sun like us.
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