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How in the world has Fuxton had 30 hours more sunshine than us this month, yet had crappy winter-esque temperatures????!
Only I may call it Fuxton.
B87 is joking, obviously 106 hours is our monthly figure. Pretty nice.
Anyway the reason is pretty obvious... we've been in a NW airmass, and being NW England the air has had minimal land track for surface heating, unlike when it reaches the south east. Sea temperatures are 3 degrees below average in the Atlantic. Buxton is 1000ft above sea level so its 2 degrees cooler than surrounding places like Manchester. The airmass is a cold one, but the high sunshine hours has meant we have had a large diurnal range of 10°C between the average low and high this month.
I did a new Buxton climate that would represent it with a lot more sun and an increased diurnal range that would result. Adding 2 degrees to the average high and taking 2 degrees off the average low would be a typical result.
I saw that, looked alright. I think if we had 300 hours of sunshine in each of May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep with our temperatures as they are at the moment, I would be very happy
Even York and Leeds have had more sunshine than us this month, weird.
Would like this climate 100x better, and would not complain on the rubbish days if we could have 800 hours more sunshine.
We have similar yearly sun and rain figures to you though, so there's nothing unusual about us being sunnier. The only difference between here and London is the temperature.
Last year we had 300mm less rain than you did in London. Quite a difference really. Temperature wise though, an average summer in London would be considered very good here. We only average highs of around 21C for July and August.
We have similar yearly sun and rain figures to you though, so there's nothing unusual about us being sunnier. The only difference between here and London is the temperature.
Last year we had 300mm less rain than you did in London. Quite a difference really. Temperature wise though, an average summer in London would be considered very good here. We only average highs of around 21C for July and August.
Yeah I forget that you average around the same sunshine hours as us, it's only further west where it drops in the midlands. We aren't particularly good for sunshine here anyway..
June has been pretty sunny so far, we had 117.7 hours in the past 12 days (average for the whole month is 207 hours).
Total sunshine for the year is now: 784.5 hours. (roughly half of the annual sunshine).
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