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Post by Nidaros on Feb 2, 2019 6:49:07 GMT -5
I intend to start summing the 2010's up - especially for Northern Europe - slowly but surely during this year. My first installment as well as my first post back here is Saint Petersburg and its years between 2010 and 2018. 2010 saw a really cold January and Saint Petersburg fell beneath -10°C average highs for the only time this decade.   I hope it was interesting. Any suggestions on other Northern European cities found on either Météo Climat or SMHI are of course welcome! 2010 was bad, far too cold winter. 2014 had the best climate of those years in St P.
Other cities, suggestions: Narsarsuaq Cork Volgograd (aka Stalingrad) Krakow
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Post by Lommaren on Feb 2, 2019 8:44:31 GMT -5
Well I had already completed Tromsø this decade Nidaros ! Since Météo Climat uses international means, I've gone with that, even though the YR does use 24 hour ones.
So, let's see what the largest town of the Nordic Arctic has had weather-wise this decade so far:
2010 was remarkably mild compared to interior Scandinavia in January and December, whereas February was comparable to Southern Sweden at least. Only two summer months went above 10°C.  2011 actually saw four months above 10°C, in spite of the warmest summer high only being around 16°C.  2012 was just 0.1°C less cold than the all-time record low during February. Only four months managed to go above 4.5°C means and July was also way below average.  2013 was another Dfb year, with a flat summer, but also a long winter. March was actually the coldest month, being below -4°C in means. Remarkably, the long winter was concluded with the coldest temperature being merely -11.4°C and this was set as late as 9 April!  2014 saw one of the warmest July's in the location's history with 19.7°C highs in a coastal inlet at 69°N! The remarkable part about this was that only two months went above 10°C in spite of this, with June being much closer to the averages. The dry below-average January at -4/-7 was also rather interesting, retaining low diurnals in spite of virtually no precipitation.  As Nidaros mentioned before with Trondheim, the spring delay of 2015 was rather strong in coastal Norway and Tromsø was no exception to that. In general terms though, 2015 had many mild and even warm tendencies. The temperature didn't fall below -10°C once from February onwards, and August recorded a 17°C average high, which is way above average. Interestingly enough, this is also very strong seasonal lag for Tromsø, that does have a warmer June record high than August record high, the difference being more than 3°C stronger than during a normal year.  The most notable thing about 2016 was the end of the year and the high precipitation amount for December. In general, summer was quite cool during the beginning, but later caught up and July was similar to the long-term averages. Interestingly enough, this meant that September was warmer than June in spite of the vast daylight difference and Tromsø not being influenced by any ice sheet.  2017 is as close to a Köppen Cfb year I've found tij . That being said, at -2.9°C winter means and 9.9°C June means, it would've had to take some luck to get over that line. The interesting part about 2017 was the delayed spring that saw April being at 0.3°C means as the sixth coldest month, this in spite of no month being below -3°C!  2018's summer ended up similarly to 2014, in that an unusually warm July only saw one other month end up above 10°C. June was way below average this time instead, whereas March was affected by the general cold wave in the interior to end up at -1.7/-7.5, until the rapid warmup culminated in a May day above 23°C.  Tromsø definitely is one interesting hybrid climate between the extreme Gulf Stream moderation and some warmth potential in summer, along with a reliable, but mild winter. This decade has seen a bit of everything in that town. |
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Post by nei on Feb 2, 2019 22:58:51 GMT -5
wrote a script to download data from the NCDC and create the correct wikipedia text for weatherboxes. Dunno what people want weatherboxes of. Here's 3 years of Melbourne. Does these look correct jgtheone ?    |
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Post by nei on Feb 2, 2019 23:02:28 GMT -5
here's Norrköping  |
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Post by nei on Feb 3, 2019 0:36:40 GMT -5
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Post by nei on Feb 3, 2019 0:39:03 GMT -5
some of the Northeast. Islip, 50 miles east of NYC  city in the middle of the UHI  up to Amherst with colder nights  up in northern New Hampshire in a low-elevation frost hollow just outside the mountains  Pinkham Notch, narrow V-shaped valley below Mt. Washington at 2000 feet  summit of Mt. Washington  |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Feb 3, 2019 1:03:13 GMT -5
Thanks! Looking at these stats make me feel nostalgic. I definitely remember that 76F in May 2010, which was the highlight of summer that year. I went on a bike ride that day and I'll just say that was the hottest 76F I've ever felt. I don't remember December 2010 being that cold but I guess I was used to it. |
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Post by jgtheone on Feb 3, 2019 1:37:13 GMT -5
wrote a script to download data from the NCDC and create the correct wikipedia text for weatherboxes. Dunno what people want weatherboxes of. Here's 3 years of Melbourne. Does these look correct jgtheone ? Yep, those are correct! |
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Post by Lommaren on Feb 3, 2019 13:32:00 GMT -5
I decided to do Liverpool's 2010's, in its Crosby station five miles away from the core right on the Irish Sea just as Liverpool is. All in all, I think it gives a very good representation. It wasn't on Météo Climat, so I used Infoclimat instead. Unfortunately a couple of June monthly record lows were missing and just read as "0.0" I did however, verify that the December 2010 reading was indeed something reported elsewhere too, even though I was a bit skeptical of it at first. While there are not that many Brits here nowadays, this might still be of interest! 2010 was as cold as Liverpool is going to get nowadays, with two months below 4°C average high, that stunning -17.6°C low right before Christmas and summer was a bit mediocre to say the least. This is especially evident when compared with the heat wave that summer in Continental Europe.  2011 reminded me of the London weatherboxes for that year, only cooler.  2012 was rainier than normal, but at least saw an August with 14°C average lows after a mediocre start to summer.  2013 saw March being the coldest month, with extremely flat average highs between January and March to start the year off. Summer ultimately ended up quite a bit above average and actually reached south coast average levels of warmth:  2014 was largely a no-show of any particular interesting weather aside from a few exceptions. The similarities to the Scandinavian heat wave that summer at least rendered above average-weather for July, before September saw a late advancement of summer again.  2015 saw the coldest night fall to -2.6°C and December had a 12°C average high with lots of rainfall. Aside from that, the most notable part was the 16.7°C absolute high for May!  2016 saw a quite flat summer that was most relevant for the end of spring and the beginning of autumn being rather mild. Also, the warmest temperature so far of the decade was measured in July with a 32°C day.  Flat summer again for 2017? Well, here we go! May saw that year's warmest temperature, similar to my area. October having an average low of 11.7°C is also something I can relate to September here that autumn, westerlies from the Atlantic and low diurnals:  Northern Europe's record-breaking summer largely passed Liverpool by, with 21.8/14.1 for July not even being the warmest of the decade. It was drier than normal though, considering the normal perception of Liverpool's climate, summer had an extensive drought. This was the main resemblance of the incredible Scandinavian summer, although the year was far less significant in terms of notability.  |
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Post by boombo on Feb 4, 2019 16:40:32 GMT -5
That -17.6C low in December 2010 is even more impressive when you look at how mild and how bland nearly all their other winters are. I have no idea how somewhere right by the west coast that's not in a valley got as cold as it did that month, seven consecutive ice days and 7 out of 8 nights at or below -10C in a place where the next December didn't even get a frost! www.tutiempo.net/clima/12-2010/ws-33160.html |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 4:14:23 GMT -5
I'm amazed at how wet Liverpool was in Dec 2015; London only received 39mm that month.
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Post by boombo on Feb 5, 2019 5:13:12 GMT -5
I'm amazed at how wet Liverpool was in Dec 2015; London only received 39mm that month. Bingley got 239 mm even with a day's missing data! Nobody remembers that month up here because of how amazingly mild it was, if people remember it at all it's because of Storm Desmond and the Boxing Day floods. |
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Post by Lommaren on Feb 6, 2019 9:39:37 GMT -5
This is the next instalment of the 2010's series and it is Kiev. One of the most interesting humid continental climates for me, with moderate winters and historically quite moderate summers too. As seen by this, however, that season is now warming at a very fast rate. 2010: The UHI effect pushed up winter lows, in spite of the cold highs in relation to the average. The end result was -6.5/-10.9 with lots of snowfall. The warmth still arrived rather fast for summer that was really hot in relation to averages and also saw a 39.2°C day in August - the warmest so far of the decade. The Northern European cold wave of December didn't hit Kiev that strongly, although it was still below average by a bit.  2011: The 2010-11 winter actually peaked in February rather than December, even though it was still a modest cold in comparison to what most of continental Europe faced that winter. Summer was warm, but had a lot of rainfall. Therefore it didn't get as hot in relation to averages as areas farther east in Russia. Like Northern Europe in general, December was very mild.  2012: The Central European cold wave of 2012 hit Kiev really strongly and caused the coldest month so far this decade, that February. Unlike Western Europe, summer saw a strong heat wave, although it didn't match 2010. Still, July recorded a 24.0°C mean temperature. The year ended with a proper snowout of a December, that actually had colder values than 2010.  2013: This was a really odd year for Kiev's weather. Spring was really delayed, but then May came and saw a 25.1°C average high, being a full summer month. Even though the heat escalation calmed thereafter, summer was rather stable and saw four months with above 25°C highs, a rather unique year for a climate like Kiev. This came to an abrupt halt with a very rainy September and then autumn was mild in general.  2014: Another of the Dfa years, 2014 saw a cold start to the year, with a -23.4°C low being recorded in January and the averages being well below freezing. The interesting part about the summer half of the year was how May managed to be so rainy and warm simultaneously! Ultimately, both July and August saw average highs above 27°C, although Kiev was way less above the July average than the Nordics were that summer.  2015: In stark contrast to Northwestern Europe, Kiev had a warm start to the summer, which ultimately ended up in two months above 22°C as it followed the trend of a warm August that year, also including a strong drought for that month. September remained dry (and probably rather sunny) and recorded 23.3°C average highs, which is also rather impressive given the usual front-loaded nature of May rather than September heat. The most impressive reading of this decade also occurred in that month, with a 35.7°C day and two consecutive days above 35°C early in the month. Winter-wise there was very little interesting to report, it being a rather winterless year similar to much of the Northwestern parts of the continent.  2016: Another Dfa year, 2016 saw an even more bipolar January month than the Baltic Sea region, with a 15.6°C day before the -19.2°C low just two days later! Although the summer got off to a rainy preface with May, the heat eventually stayed for both July and August, with July being the hottest that year. The autumn cooled down faster than Northwestern Europe, but never had any strong cold either.  2017: In a year without strong seasonal tendencies in the Baltic Sea region, Kiev recorded yet another Dfa year in spite of that, with a cold start to the year and some late-season heat that took August to a 22.6°C mean temperature. The year ended with presumably a lot of cold rain, given the averages and the moderate monthly record low for December.  2018: This was one of the weirdest weatherboxes I've made. Five months with lows below freezing, but all the other seven way above averages. May was warm again, before quite a bit of rainfall tempered June and July a bit, before a drier August saw the year eventually reach a Dfa with a 28.3/17.0 month.
Let's just say that the 1991-2020 averages for Kiev will be rather interesting!
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Post by Ariete on Feb 6, 2019 13:41:14 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2019 14:45:17 GMT -5
not directed at me. but gothenburg 2010-2018 would be nice if you feel like it. |
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Post by Lommaren on Feb 6, 2019 15:44:19 GMT -5
2010 was what I mainly was interested in about Kazan nei, so it was really cool to see it! Volgograd had 35°C July average highs both in 2010 and 2011 and a rather cold January the same year from what Infoclimat has, but sadly they didn't have precipitation. |
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Post by nei on Feb 6, 2019 17:35:41 GMT -5
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Post by Lommaren on Feb 7, 2019 16:43:53 GMT -5
It's time for the next instalment of the 2010's series! This time, it's Trabzon in Northeastern Turkey, as opposed to the previous more northerly ones and one of the weirdest subtropical climates I've ever seen. This will be a wild journey to say the least: 2010 was way above average in winter, in contrast to Ukraine on the other side of the sea, then followed up by a cool March before a stable and very muggy summer followed in spite of the drought. August ended up at 29.6/24.6, which is way warmer for lows than a normal summer in Naples and New York City on the same latitude. The sunshine curve didn't make much sense either, always fluctuating back and forth. Then, 25°C in February and 26.6°C in December? Incredible. Its position north of the mountains on the sea can create some rather interesting winter scenarios.  2011 was very cloudy, with a below-average winter that still didn't fall below freezing and a mild summer by Trabzon's recent standards, but still above historical averages. Once again, the 1991-2020 normals will be rather interesting for August as you'll see later, with year after year being above them.  2012 saw a quite cool winter and the complete opposite March to what North America had! Summer actually saw very little seasonal lag by Trabzon's standards, with July being warmer than August. Sadly, the sunshine readings vanished from Météo Climat that fall for that location and haven't come back! Either way, 27°C for December was a new record for the location, while Northern Europe was below average universally!  2013 lacked a June record low. That aside, the most interesting part was the 30.5°C March reading when as far southeast as Ukraine was impacted by the Northern European cold wave. It also was warmer than it managed throughout peak summer! July and August were incredible stable, but also rather warm, although maybe not by this decade's standards!  2014 was another intriguing year. August was rather rainy but still recorded 28.3/24.2 as means and the autumn went on like that too. In spite of being at the end of a mediterranean-style drought, July was less warm than the rainy August.  In 2015 it was April's time to get the lottery ticket of a random day above 30°C! This time the lag was strong enough for September to have 26.4/21.8, which is warmer than the historical August averages! For September to not fall beneath 19.6°C at all near 41°N is rather incredible!  2016 actually saw an ice day in January, believe it or not! It was -0.4°C as a high on a low-diurnal day on the 25th. In 2016, Trabzon actually showed some compatibility with Southern Europe, when September recorded a 37.5°C, but as late as the 20th! Besides that it went full California and recorded a 31.5°C day in November! Summer was quite hot and muggy with low diurnals as always this decade.  2017, yet another bemusing year from a logical standpoint. Another moderate January ice day occurred once more, once again with a -0.4°C high. Then summer turned into a dry 28.3/24.1 August again, but somehow the entire year failed to get above 31°C! Still, December had 15°C average highs like it was on the French riviera, rather than close to the Caucasus!  2018 was another one of those years that looked like a crazy joke! While Southern Europe was shivering through especially early March, Trabzon went and recorded the highest temperature of the year at 31°C! Then it followed that up by a rather modest May in stark contrast to areas north of the Black Sea, before not falling below 20.7°C once all of July and August! Even as the autumn rain set in, September still managed a 20.1°C average low.  I hope you enjoyed this rock'n-roll version of London's seasonal range and cloud cover! It clearly has one of the weirdest climates in the western parts of the Eurasian landmass. Prone to all sorts of California-like heat bursts and such. Then, it reverts to being like a stable tropical island in summer where the only thing that happens is whether the sun will emerge or not. Unlike the two previous years' ice days, not only did Trabzon not record a frost in 2018, it didn't even fall below 3°C, while all other years fell to 0.1°C or colder. |
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Post by Lommaren on Feb 8, 2019 9:16:58 GMT -5
These are Nuremberg or Nürnberg's 2010's readings. This is a rather interesting climate, being located at a bit of elevation in Germany's deeper interior, at a vast distance from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea simultaneously. In spite of this, Nuremberg is fairly maritime. Still, it has cold and heat potential courtesy of its inland position, which makes it quite intriguing. 2010 saw two months with highs below freezing, mostly looking like a moderately continental climate. During summer, Nuremberg did get affected by the Eastern European heat wave, being 27.3/14.7 for averages in July, before intensive August rainfall brought the heat wave to a halt. What is also notable, is that four months fell to -11.4°C or below.  2011 had a typical Western European flat summer for that year. The speedy spring warmup was slowed down in early summer, before August eventually reached 24.9/13.6 averages under drier circumstances than July had. Ultimately September ended up quite a bit above average. Winters generally were mild, although January and February saw double-digit cold snaps.  2012 was a year of heat bursts, rather than prolonged consistent heat. As such, Nuremberg recorded a 31°C reading as early as in April and proceeded to see all three peak summer months record temperatures above 34°C, peaking in a 36.3°C August reading with 26.6/13.7 averages. Also notable, was that February saw the cold wave bring a -20.7°C low, the coldest temperature of the decade. It also rendered -3.5°C means and with -7.4°C the coldest average low of the decade so far, tied with January 2017.  2013 saw Infoclimat start using sunshine hours for Nuremberg, adding a further dimension to the climate statistics. Winter was generally chilly, but with low diurnals. No night all year fell below -10°C in spite of the first three months averaging -1.6°C lows or below. The peak summer heat bursts were even more intense than the year before, with temperatures above 35°C being recorded for all three peak summer months, with a sunny and dry July peaking out at 27.5/13.7 average temperatures.  2014 was nothing really that special in Nuremberg, unlike farther north on similar longitudes. Winter was rather mild all along, then a few early heat bursts ensued, before summer settled down as generally mild and rainy. Even so, July was still above the historical averages. The most remarkable part about the latter part of the year were the 11 sunshine hours of December! Those are levels you'd expect near the Arctic Circle at above 65°N, not in Germany!  2015 saw a prolonged heat wave hit Nuremberg, resulting in two successive months hitting 100°F, with average mean temps both times being on 21.7°C. Besides that, the year was not that interesting, aside from the February lows being quite cold. The annual precipitation amount was rather low as well.  2016 started with winter not quite breaking through except for a -12.8°C low in January. Summer was quite flat and backloaded, with September being way above average at 23.9/11.3 averages. Then the curtain fell on the sunshine, with the cycle looking way more like arctic latitudes than close to the mid-latitudes.  2017 saw a strong and prolonged winter cold for the first time in several years. January tied February 2012 for coldest average low so far this decade at -7.4°C and also fell to as low as -17.2°C. Besides January, however, winter didn't get much of a hold at Nuremberg that year whatsoever, with no further temperatures below -5°C being recorded at all, making the January look quite out of place. Spring saw a quick warmup in March, prior to it stalling out in April, while May ended up above average with a 32.7°C peak temperature. Summer then turned rather flat, with temperatures being very comparable within the 25°C high, 19°C mean bracket for all of June through August.  2018 was the sunniest year of these and possibly also the wildest. After a quite cold February and a cold start to spring that followed, April suddenly spiked into a 20.8°C average high! Summer then continued to be above average all the way through a warm September and a mild October, with an extensive drought even outlasting November. Then out of nowhere, a very cloudy and rainy December followed. The mild temperatures did remain, however, ultimately making 2018 the warmest year of the decade so far.  |
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