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So did I lol. I've seen snow in May several times, so i'm surprised that snow in late April is a big deal for you.
Here it very rarely happens... but eastern Sweden has lower precipitation than Northern Ireland so May frosts are associatied with clear weather and warm daily highs. It's key to remember that May is when our warmer period starts and renders significantly milder temps than NI.
Here it very rarely happens... but eastern Sweden has lower precipitation than Northern Ireland so May frosts are associatied with clear weather and warm daily highs. It's key to remember that May is when our warmer period starts and renders significantly milder temps than NI.
I typically open my backyard pool in late April. So we can swim in the first weeks of May. Believe it or not.
I can fully imagine that. The Ottawa region is like June here in May so it's perfectly reasonable
One of the most irritating things about spring here is the slow warm-up in March and April, once daylight really kicks in it hits 17C averages rather quickly, but for a Gulf Stream-influenced climate March is rather dull. To have some lag in October too wouldn't have hurted either. 10C highs two months after 21C is a rather poor phenomenon.
That has very little to do with the lack of sun heating and everything to do with climate type.
Ottawa's sun is also strong enough to push temps into the 10-15 C range on occasion during warm spells in winter.
Those warm days are mostly from warm air coming in from further south, not from the sun doing much heating. The sun doesn't do much till maybe late February or so. You can tell that the sun doesn't much heating in the winter here as there's no (or negative) correlation between sunshine and warmer days. Partially it's from the clearest air coming from cold continental air, but if the sun were stronger it would overcome that effect.
correlation looks weak, but it sure doesn't look like the sun is pushing temperatures up in January or February. Either way, at higher latitudes in the winter the radiation from the sun is smaller than the heating provide by an airflow from another region.
Ah come on. Don't bring that retarded terminology here again. Just because you don't like a climate, doesn't mean it's a climate "fail". It's literally impossible for something to be a fail geographically or climate-wise. It is what it is.
I can fully imagine that. The Ottawa region is like June here in May so it's perfectly reasonable
One of the most irritating things about spring here is the slow warm-up in March and April, once daylight really kicks in it hits 17C averages rather quickly, but for a Gulf Stream-influenced climate March is rather dull. To have some lag in October too wouldn't have hurted either. 10C highs two months after 21C is a rather poor phenomenon.
Northeast US is the same, the warmup is very very slow. March in general is very cold, in fact Marches in both 2014 and 2015 were colder than February 2016. April is usually a bipolar month where you can either get 75 degree weather or frost and flurries, not fun
Northeast US is the same, the warmup is very very slow. March in general is very cold, in fact Marches in both 2014 and 2015 were colder than February 2016. April is usually a bipolar month where you can either get 75 degree weather or frost and flurries, not fun
Perhaps not that surprising considering the latitude and the fact that you've got slightly colder January's there
But yes, very annoying. Your Septembers are very nice though! Here the heat just goes into hiding usually from August 10 and then its lukewarm for three weeks and then the depressive fall of temps begins way too early.
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