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Not good. Long dark days, lucky to be above freezing, snow that doesn't melt away until April sometimes. Lots of respiratory diseases in the months of February and November
This thread is titled "How do YOU rate YOUR climate" So why are some picking apart others ratings?
If someone feels their summers are warm or their winters are cold, that is entirely their opinion, so why are (the usual suspects) saying "I don't think summers in London are warm...blah blah blah"
Yeah, but San Diego in summer has lows between 18° and 20°, while London's summer lows are in the 13° to 15° range. That makes a difference
It's mostly that San Diego probably has a much stronger sun due to being much further south and probably has a lot more sunny days. Also, yeah, I don't know if San Diego regularly wakes up with 12c in mid-summer, does it ?
Also, I believe SD should probably have higher dewpoints on average, but I have no real clue about that.
^^ Thing is, our low temps in mid summer are recorded just after sunrise at about 4:45am.. by 7am when people wake up for work it will often be a few degrees above the low temperature.
Anyway I'm not getting into an argument over what is warm and what is not, as FlamingGalah says - it is all subjective.
Personally I don't find our summers cool - I can comfortably wear a T-shirt and shorts for the majority of summer, and this is coming from a heat lover! I do wish they were hotter and sunnier, but I don't think they are really cool.
^^ Thing is, our low temps in mid summer are recorded just after sunrise at about 4:45am.. by 7am when people wake up for work it will often be a few degrees above the low temperature.
If someone gets up for work at 7am and then goes to bed by 11pm or so, they probably won't experience anything below about 17c.
When they get to work for 8-9am it'll be around 18-19c, and when they leave work it'll be about 23-24c.
I rated London a C, as it has cool/wet winters, and warm/dry summers according to most people (I am one of them). My A climate is Casablanca.
If someone gets up for work at 7am and then goes to bed by 11pm or so, they probably won't experience anything below about 17c.
When they get to work for 8-9am it'll be around 18-19c, and when they leave work it'll be about 23-24c.
I rated London a C, as it has cool/wet winters, and warm/dry summers according to most people (I am one of them). My A climate is Casablanca.
I have to give us a D, purely for the cloudiness... add 300-400 hours and I might give London a C.
During winter the cloudiness frustrates me, and in recent years we have had a tendency to have sunshine well below average.. surely sometime this will have to balance out though?
It seems that the statistics are stacked against us though, the sunshine recorders regularly 'lose' around 3 hours on completely sunny days here for some reason.. as you know. Look at the number of hours in a day here and then the number of hours of sunshine recorded on completely sunny days.. for some reason it is always a few hours short.. even on partly sunny days this also occurs, so you could probably say that we lose about 200-300 hours a year. Maybe 1,850 - 1,900 hours is more realistic
I have to give us a D, purely for the cloudiness... add 300-400 hours and I might give London a C.
During winter the cloudiness frustrates me, and in recent years we have had a tendency to have sunshine well below average.. surely sometime this will have to balance out though?
It seems that the statistics are stacked against us though, the sunshine recorders regularly 'lose' around 3 hours on completely sunny days here for some reason.. as you know. Look at the number of hours in a day here and then the number of hours of sunshine recorded on completely sunny days.. for some reason it is always a few hours short.. even on partly sunny days this also occurs, so you could probably say that we lose about 200-300 hours a year. Maybe 1,850 - 1,900 hours is more realistic
I've seen someone on here before suggest that North American weather stations are better than European weather stations when it comes to recording sunshine hours.
I've seen someone on here before suggest that North American weather stations are better than European weather stations when it comes to recording sunshine hours.
Is there any truth in this?
They use a lower 'burn' threshold, so hazy sunshine still counts as a sunny day, while it wouldn't here.
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It's mostly that San Diego probably has a much stronger sun due to being much further south and probably has a lot more sunny days. Also, yeah, I don't know if San Diego regularly wakes up with 12c in mid-summer, does it ?
Also, I believe SD should probably have higher dewpoints on average, but I have no real clue about that.
Normal summer dewpoints in San Diego are in the 16° to 17° ballpark
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