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The strong winds and cool summer temperatures really limits plant growth even in mild Scottish islands..
In fact, I don't think anything other then grass grows here
Those Scottish islands look really beautiful to me though. I would love to visit there. They are amazingly mild for the latitude. Over here at the same latitude you would be under a few feet of snow I would think.
Those Scottish islands look really beautiful to me though. I would love to visit there. They are amazingly mild for the latitude. Over here at the same latitude you would be under a few feet of snow I would think.
Compare Fair Isle to Nain, Labrador which is actually a few degrees latitude further south on the Labrador coast:
All of the UK is Oceanic, but Ipswich has the greatest range between summer highs and winter lows while Fair Isle is very mild all year, nobody is trying to pass the UK as continental.. lol
All of the UK is Oceanic, but Ipswich has the greatest range between summer highs and winter lows while Fair Isle is very mild all year, nobody is trying to pass the UK as continental.. lol
Compared to coastal California, the UK is continental. I should dig that map I found of an index of continetality.
Compared to coastal California, the UK is continental. I should dig that map I found of an index of continetality.
that's a ridiculous comparison. The UK is on the same latitude as British Columbia, and have similar temperature ranges to Seattle and Vancouver, both of which are also oceanic.The UK is oceanic, but have colder winters due to being at higher latitude.
Should be a clear winner here as the more continentalized climate is nonetheless warmer throughout the year, drier, more thundery, sunnier, less windy, and obviously neither are continental in the true sense of the word.
But anyway...
I only compared daytime temps as i wanted to remove the effect of frost hollows and Urban heat islands skewing minimum temperatures. If the minimum is included, Heathrow is usually the most 'continental' I have not compared extreme temperatures, although the widest extreme span is Shawbury in Shropshire with a span of -25.2c to 34.9c. I have estimated East Bergholts sunshine to be around 1650-1700 hours based on the nearest stations average of 1635hours. But this is more inland and to the North so it is likely to be higher at East bergholt. Stowmarket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most 'Continental' UK Average Climate: Ipswich (East Bergholt, Suffolk, Eastern England)
Average January High: 7.1c/45f
Average July High: 22.9c/73f
Mean annual sunshine: 1650-1700 hours (estimated) Ipswich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Least 'Continental' UK Average Climate: Fair Isle (Northern Isles of scotland)
Average January High: 5.7c/42f
Average July High: 13.2c/56f
Mean annual sunshine: 1206 hours Fair Isle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As can be seen from the Map, Ipswich, about 50 miles North East of London is well inside the most thundery zone of the UK, with at least 14 days of thunder a year (The northern Isles have around 4 days) Thundery summers seem to be typical of continental climates...
If you factored in minima as well as maxima (i.e, the overall mean averages), Ipswich would still win out over London as it generally has lower minima year round.
I agree.. there is just too little summer heat.. but at least the snowfall they do get is fleeting...
The average number of days is 70.
Quite alot.
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