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View Poll Results: Which has a better collection of climates?
The U.K. 47 36.43%
The U.S. South 82 63.57%
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Old 05-30-2016, 08:34 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Raleigh averages 69 days with a minimum at or below freezing.

Clearly this thread is setup as another UK bashing thread. This has been done to death.

UK is superior in terms of comfort and sunshine.
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Old 05-30-2016, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Broward County, FL
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I'd have to see the statistics to believe this. What does Raleigh average a year as far as below-freezing nights? 60ish? Certainly not after this past winter. But that's besides the point...
Are you serious? Raleigh quite obviously has colder nights on average from November-February than London. There's not really any disputing that. And using this past winter as a vantage point is rather pointless, especially with the historically warm December.

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Old 05-30-2016, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK
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I'd have to see the statistics to believe this. What does Raleigh average a year as far as below-freezing nights? 60ish? Certainly not after this past winter. But that's besides the point...
Well go look at the stats yourself & believe it Not only does Raleigh get more frosts, but much colder ones than London too...
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Old 05-30-2016, 10:40 AM
 
Location: United Nations
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The U.K. of course! The Southern U.S. is too hot for most of the year.
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Old 05-30-2016, 10:43 AM
 
Location: Lizard Lick, NC
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I'd have to see the statistics to believe this. What does Raleigh average a year as far as below-freezing nights? 60ish? Certainly not after this past winter. But that's besides the point...
Yeah, good guess lol. So still a good third of winter nights are above freezing. This past December- January period we had 39. So most nights this winter were above freezing. To be fair London has a massive UHI and is at a coastal location, how are the stats for places more inland?
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Old 05-30-2016, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Broward County, FL
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Yeah, good guess lol. So still a good third of winter nights are above freezing. This past December- January period we had 39. So most nights this winter were above freezing. To be fair London has a massive UHI and is at a coastal location, how are the stats for places more inland?
December was also the warmest on record. Why do you conveniently leave stuff like that out? Wanna look up the stats for an average winter?
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Old 05-30-2016, 10:55 AM
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Location: Surrey/London
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To be fair London has a massive UHI and is at a coastal location, how are the stats for places more inland?
Heathrow is inland and not part of the UHI and gets 30 frosts per year. Greenwich gets 25 frosts per year. Central London gets around 5-10 frosts per year.
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Old 05-30-2016, 11:57 AM
 
Location: Lizard Lick, NC
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December was also the warmest on record. Why do you conveniently leave stuff like that out? Wanna look up the stats for an average winter?
Well nah, the average is 69 nights a year that is already known, and I said our average is in the 60s, I just stated we got 39 this year lol. That's all.
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Old 05-30-2016, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Norman, OK
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Well nah, the average is 69 nights a year that is already known, and I said our average is in the 60s, I just stated we got 39 this year lol. That's all.
But that only includes the winter. We got 49 if you count November, March, and April.
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Old 05-30-2016, 02:25 PM
 
Location: Portsmouth, UK
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But that only includes the winter. We got 49 if you count November, March, and April.
Don't worry he's always trying to make out it's warmer there than it actually is
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