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  1. Heard the first blackbird singing today under the pleasant March sunshine. Always a good sign of spring having arrived.
  2. 11C and sunny, a fine early spring day
  3. A lovely day... frosty morning with mist, nice sunny afternoon with light winds. Went from a low of -2C this morning to a high of 9C right now. Starting to get those larger diurnal ranges now.
  4. Summer8906 The south coast is definitely pretty wet between November and January, but it's sunnier for sure year-round but especially in the summer. Bognor Regis for example gets 1,918 hours of sun a year on average while London gets 1,674 hours. That's almost as big as the difference between London and Glasgow.
  5. SunSean it was a mostly sunny day here, not bad at all. Monday looking sunny as well. The forecast for here kinda made me laugh though. Every single day with a high of 10C. I don't think I've ever seen such a ridiculously stable and boring forecast - but at least it's dry. Seems like we're finally entering the period of the year when the Atlantic goes quiet.
  6. Wade We got off pretty lightly here all things considered. Only a bit wetter than average.
  7. raz.org.rain eh, that's far too simplistic. London certainly doesn't have colder winters than Liverpool or Glasgow for example, and summers in Leeds/Hull/Sheffield etc are warmer than summers in Plymouth or Swansea (in terms of average highs at least). The average high at my nearest station is 21.4C in July, which is on par with Birmingham even though we're about 100 miles further north. Hull has average highs of 22.0C in July which is higher than Bristol - I bet very few people would expect that to be the case but it shows how being further east in the UK is often better than simply being further south (being further south and east is obviously the best bet). You could argue that the SE quadrant of the UK is more continental though, especially East Anglia and Kent (though more historically than currently as Kent in particular has become pretty rubbish for snow since the 90s & the decline of midwinter easterlies).
  8. I think summer in most of England is definitely fairly cloudy by default, with only the south coast exceeding 50% of the total possible sunshine in any month. Definitely not wet though. Cool is pretty subjective really. Places like Cumbria and western Scotland definitely fall under the cool/cloudy/wet summer category though.
  9. RJBingham True. Australia is one of the few developed countries with even worse new build houses than the UK in terms of insulation & Australia sees a surprisingly high number of cold-related deaths in winter. You will probably feel colder in a Melbourne house in August than a Stockholm house in February. One of the first things I noticed when I visited Stockholm a few years ago was just how warm every building was in winter - definitely too warm sometimes.
  10. raz.org.rain the south coast to a limited extend already comes under the influence of the Azores high, they exhibit a similar kind of summer rainfall minimum pattern. It's possible that influence will extend north over time I suppose.
  11. In Absence of True Seasons They definitely have better summers. Seattle, Portland and to a lesser extent Vancouver all move under the influence of the semi-permanent North Pacific High during the summer and consequently have more reliably settled summers. It's a similar phenomenon to the Azores High that keeps Southern Europe hot, sunny and dry between May and September. Then during the autumn, the influence of the high retreats and they get bombarded by heavy rain between October and March. They get far more rainfall than most places in the UK.
  12. Markus03 Yup. It was an exceptionally mild/snowless Christmas for much of Canada last year, and on Reddit I saw a lot of people in Calgary/Edmonton etc celebrating the lack of snow.
  13. The current scene in Tallinn, Estonia. Looks very much the same as the UK right now. Grey, damp and miserable.
  14. In Absence of True Seasons those temperatures are way above average for Estonia in February
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