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As someone who lives in England, I'll say UK and Ireland climates and especially English climates are too similar to poll on multiple places. There just isn't that much variation, particularly if you just consider settlements and not mountaintops etc. To be honest north west Europe is rather boring in terms of climate. It's not like some parts of the world like bits of say the USA, Colombia, South Africa etc where there is a big variety in a fairly smallish area.
As someone who lives in England, I'll say UK and Ireland climates and especially English climates are too similar to poll on multiple places. There just isn't that much variation, particularly if you just consider settlements and not mountaintops etc. To be honest north west Europe is rather boring in terms of climate. It's not like some parts of the world like bits of say the USA, Colombia, South Africa etc where there is a big variety in a fairly smallish area.
The Isles of Scilly has warmer winter temps than Cairngorm Summit has in the summer!
The Isles of Scilly has warmer winter temps than Cairngorm Summit has in the summer!
OK I must admit I forgot about the Isles of Scilly, but Cairngorm summit isn't a settlement. In any case to try to compare the UK with a very climatically varied part of the world I overlaid an outline of Britain onto a Koeppen climate map of Colombia to get an idea of the variety that would exist. You'd have a BWh hot desert climate in the far north of Scotland, shading into a BSh hot semi-desert climate just a little further south. Aw tropical savanna climates would exist in Skye, much of Northern Ireland, south Wales and the English midlands stretching down to north Cornwall. Am tropical monsoon climates would cover much of Wales, the south coast and south east England and the Northern Ireland border regions. Af tropical rainforest climates would exist in coastal Northern Ireland, Anglesey and the far south of Kintyre. There would be Cfb oceanic climates in the south Hebrides, Mull and south east Northern Ireland. ET tundra climates would exist on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales and there would even bit a little bit of EF ice climate in the south Hebrides.
I like your enthusiasm, but I still think British Isles climates are too samey to have opinions on lots of different places.
OK I must admit I forgot about the Isles of Scilly, but Cairngorm summit isn't a settlement. In any case to try to compare the UK with a very climatically varied part of the world I overlaid an outline of Britain onto a Koeppen climate map of Colombia to get an idea of the variety that would exist. You'd have a BWh hot desert climate in the far north of Scotland, shading into a BSh hot semi-desert climate just a little further south. Aw tropical savanna climates would exist in Skye, much of Northern Ireland, south Wales and the English midlands stretching down to north Cornwall. Am tropical monsoon climates would cover much of Wales, the south coast and south east England and the Northern Ireland border regions. Af tropical rainforest climates would exist in coastal Northern Ireland, Anglesey and the far south of Kintyre. There would be Cfb oceanic climates in the south Hebrides, Mull and south east Northern Ireland. ET tundra climates would exist on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales and there would even bit a little bit of EF ice climate in the south Hebrides.
I like your enthusiasm, but I still think British Isles climates are too samey to have opinions on lots of different places.
British climates still fall into three categories for me:
D - These are the best British climates, they all have a six-month sunny season:
Making map overlays is fun so I made a UK-South Africa one too.
There would be a BWh hot desert climate in much of Scotland, north east England some of Northern Ireland and North Wales, stretching just into the English border region. BWk cool semi-desert climate would cover south east Scotland a band down the middle of Northern Ireland and much of northern England and the English midlands. Most of Anglesey would have a BSh hot semi-arid climate. BSk cool semi-arid climates would be scattered in a band across the middle of England, in East Anglia, south east Wales, southern England and north east Northern Ireland. There would be a Csa hot-summer Mediterranean climate in west Wales and a a Csb warm-summer Mediterranean climate in west-central and south Wales and parts of Devon. A Cfa humid subtropical climate would exist in a limited part of south west England and a Cfb oceanic climate in south east England, pockets along the south coast and other parts of south west England.
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