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Boring, thunderless, cold overcast drizzle where you don't see the sun for days on end and just get a light accumulation.
VERY different from your handsome, warm, short-lived but intense thunderstorms that are preceeded and proceeded by full on sunshine. Northern U.K has some of the dullest climates in the world and yes, I suspect this will turn into another bashing British climates thread.
I suppose that's why the Brits have such good skin. I've noticed that many Brits have youthful looking skin, even in older years. While the people in hot, sunny climates like Phoenix can have skin that looks like leather.
Anyway, nowhere in the UK is even remotely sunny, so that stereotype is certainly correct. The sunniest place in the country only gets about 54% sunshine in the sunniest month, and that is only in a very tiny part of the country. Move inland away from that small area, and it quickly drops below 50%.
This simply isn't true! I know I am lucky that I live near the south coast but look at this:-
If you think that (due to its northerly location) winter sunshine hours are so low (2 hours a day) yet annual sunshine hours are still greater than 1800 it just goes to show how 'sunny' this part of the world is!! over 8 hours a day through the Summer months, how is this 'not remotely sunny' exactly??
He's just fed up with the inaccurate stereotypes like everyone else from the UK on here (minus you).
I don't really fret over whether a summer day is sunny or partly cloudy, they are both good and a partly cloudy day isn't going to make someone suicidal. Some people would have you believe that you go days without seeing the sun however, which is only true in the cloudiest spells of winter (around 3-5 days at a time). The winter months average 2-3 hrs a day, and most days see some sunshine. I'd rather have a couple of hours every day, instead of 15 days of overcast and then 15 days of sun.
Didn't the NE US just go 10-11 days without seeing the sun? That's more than we went at any point over the past year, during which Heathrow had its cloudiest November and 2nd cloudiest December.
The UK is THE most talked about climate in the world yet it is still THE most misunderstood, this is down to the stereotypical views of the climate that simply won't go away. You can see the inappropriately dressed tourists in London at any time of the year! They stick out a mile and are simply clueless about the 'right thing to wear', most tourists are bundled up like its the Arctic even in July, you see them with several items of clothing wrapped around their middles, jumper, raincoat etc, sweat dripping off their miserable hot red faces while on the underground, an umbrella in hand. I read somewhere once (Rick Steve's guide to London perhaps) that if visiting you must 'waterproof your shoes' I mean WTF! I've lived in the UK my whole life and I have never 'waterproofed my shoes' or walked around with a 'wax jacket' and umbrella (in fact I've never even owned an umbrella except the one that came with my golf bag), nobody suggests that the UK is some kind of 'Tropical paradise', we know the weather can be a bit unpredictable at times but the bad rep it gets is completely and utterly over the top, why is it that the same tourists will trounce around in London in wellington boots and yet a week later have a completely different outfit for Paris?
If you think that (due to its northerly location) winter sunshine hours are so low (2 hours a day) yet annual sunshine hours are still greater than 1800 it just goes to show how 'sunny' this part of the world is!! over 8 hours a day through the Summer months, how is this 'not remotely sunny' exactly??
The sunniest place in the country barely gets over the 50% mark in the sunniest month. That's not sunny. That's a tiny sliver of the countr too, so go inland a few miles and it rapidly gets worse.
Also, it depends what you're used to though doesn't it. If you've lived in the UK all your life, then you're more likely to find it acceptable. If you've lived anywhere that gets something resembling a summer, then you realise just how crap summer is in England. When I was a kid, I didn't mind summer here, but then I started working abroad...
I've spent summers in northern Spain, Brisbane and Romania, and I don't find southern England abnormally cloudy.
Northern Spain was very similar to here, Romania was warmer but rainier; the hot days were hotter but the cool days were cooler.
Brisbane was obviously the best climate, but it wasn't as sunny or oppressive as people make it out to be. It was windier than the UK.
Well you would say that wouldn't you. You won't have a bad word said about the climate of the South East. If your sunniest month barely gets 200 sun hours, then it's pretty bad.
Where in Romania where you? I find it hard to believe that somewhere like Bucharest, which is about 6c warmer in summer, gets cooler days than London in summer.
In Spain I was in the mounains between Oviedo (which is cooler and cloudier than London) and Leon (which is warmer and sunnier), and in Romania I was in Timisoara/Deva.
Have you not seen any of my posts complaining about the terrible summers we had between 2007-2012, or how when we do get average temps, we can't even record average sun? If we had average temps and normal sun then, no I won't have much bad to say about it.
The sunniest place in the country barely gets over the 50% mark in the sunniest month. That's not sunny. That's a tiny sliver of the countr too, so go inland a few miles and it rapidly gets worse.
Also, it depends what you're used to though doesn't it. If you've lived in the UK all your life, then you're more likely to find it acceptable. If you've lived anywhere that gets something resembling a summer, then you realise just how crap summer is in England. When I was a kid, I didn't mind summer here, but then I started working abroad...
But that's no worse than huge areas of the world!! an average of 8 hours of sunshine stacks up well against a lot of places, I responded to the statement 'nowhere in the UK is even REMOTELY sunny' well I think that this proves that statement wrong, no wonder the world has the weather in the UK so wrong with in-accurate statements like that!
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