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Post by Babu on Oct 12, 2017 16:16:53 GMT -5
Buxton?
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Post by Nidaros on Oct 12, 2017 16:23:43 GMT -5
Wonder if Buxton ever had a calendar year completely without air frost? |
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Post by boombo on Oct 12, 2017 16:27:47 GMT -5
Wonder if Buxton ever had a calendar year completely without air frost? Pretty certain that would never happen. Why does Scandinavia have so many weather stations on tiny islands or lighthouses anyway? Is the idea to capture as many different microclimates as possible or something? |
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Post by Nidaros on Oct 12, 2017 16:35:51 GMT -5
Wonder if Buxton ever had a calendar year completely without air frost? Pretty certain that would never happen. Why does Scandinavia have so many weather stations on tiny islands or lighthouses anyway? Is the idea to capture as many different microclimates as possible or something? Do we? I'm not sure how common that is in other countries. Lighthouses have been used for weather stations for many years here. But it's a long coast, so there can be long distances between them. Some of our longest recordings (without moving the weather station) are from lighthouses. Those recordings are good for judging climate trends as there are nil UHI at those stations. |
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Post by Lommaren on Oct 12, 2017 16:40:50 GMT -5
Pretty certain that would never happen. Why does Scandinavia have so many weather stations on tiny islands or lighthouses anyway? Is the idea to capture as many different microclimates as possible or something? Part of it is for measurement of the sea conditions to enable Class 1, 2 or 3 condition-warnings for high winds when they're potentially hazardous for ships  |
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Post by Lommaren on Oct 12, 2017 17:02:03 GMT -5
Falun in 2014: One of the weirdest Swedish years I've ever seen was Falun (60.40N something, inland) in 2014, with that 27.0C oozing July heat wave, the sudden cooldown in August after a 35.1C heat strike on Aug 4 and so forth   |
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Post by boombo on Oct 12, 2017 17:02:04 GMT -5
Pretty certain that would never happen. Why does Scandinavia have so many weather stations on tiny islands or lighthouses anyway? Is the idea to capture as many different microclimates as possible or something? Part of it is for measurement of the sea conditions to enable Class 1, 2 or 3 condition-warnings for high winds when they're potentially hazardous for ships Well we're an island so you'd think that would be even more important to us, but I've never heard of temperatures on lighthouses being quoted anywhere. I can understand why you'd want wind information but I'm not aware if places that aren't on land even record temperature. Is there a separate weather forecast for sailors all about sea conditions? There's a shipping forecast on BBC radio a few times a day that mentions the weather out at sea, people like listening to it just so they can imagine they're out there in the middle of the sea somewhere even though they have no idea what half of it means or where these places are  |
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Post by Giorbanguly on Oct 12, 2017 22:32:57 GMT -5
I would like to see a weatherbox from either AJ or Alex for the coldest years at their location. Maybe on a record cold year SoFlo will actually be liveable lol Also here are 2015 and 2016 in Queens side by side  |
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Post by jgtheone on Oct 12, 2017 23:11:29 GMT -5
The final boss of shitty lighthouse weather stations. This one is the coldest year of the southernmost weather station of any Australian state and/or territory, excluding Antarctic stations and Macquarie Island. It's also one of the windiest stations along with Wilson's Promontory.  |
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Post by Ariete on Oct 13, 2017 1:50:18 GMT -5
Part of it is for measurement of the sea conditions to enable Class 1, 2 or 3 condition-warnings for high winds when they're potentially hazardous for ships Well we're an island so you'd think that would be even more important to us, but I've never heard of temperatures on lighthouses being quoted anywhere. I can understand why you'd want wind information but I'm not aware if places that aren't on land even record temperature. Is there a separate weather forecast for sailors all about sea conditions? There's a shipping forecast on BBC radio a few times a day that mentions the weather out at sea, people like listening to it just so they can imagine they're out there in the middle of the sea somewhere even though they have no idea what half of it means or where these places are Do you have a broken archipelago with a lot of summer cottages on small islands or hundreds of fjords? No. IDK how big boating is in the UK but here it's YUUUUUUGE, and navigating here is a "bit" more tricky than on the Atlantic. Also, you probably don't have ice forming in winter. Yes, there are separate weather forecasts for sailors. |
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Post by lab276 on Oct 13, 2017 7:43:28 GMT -5
Sydney in 1980, quite a dry one, in fact no year since has been drier. It's also the sunniest year on record and was the warmest year of the 20th century in max temps (1988 was warmer in min and mean temps).  |
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Post by Lommaren on Oct 13, 2017 8:10:01 GMT -5
Oviedo in 1987. I chose it given its higher elevation than Gijón so I thought of the Spanish oceanic cities it would've been the most affected of the 1987 European cold wave. Having said that, my expectations of Oviedo having a "London January" got quashed even though it was cooler than normal. In summer it got a surprising late-summer heat wave in the face of the no-show-summer in NW Europe.  |
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Post by Ryan on Oct 13, 2017 10:31:56 GMT -5
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Post by lab276 on Oct 13, 2017 12:16:27 GMT -5
Tokyo 2014, the snowiest year since 1984. Hope I got all the numbers down right. I was in Tokyo for a couple days in July of this year, never felt heat like it before.  |
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Post by Donar on Oct 13, 2017 12:53:13 GMT -5
1947 was a great year weatherwise (bar December), although a lot of people died in that winter...   |
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Post by alex992 on Oct 13, 2017 13:12:45 GMT -5
 Westernmost Scandinavia in 2015 Holy fuck, what a horrid climate that is.... |
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Post by Lommaren on Oct 14, 2017 3:37:48 GMT -5
Liepaja, Latvia in 1997. Abnormally hot summer but not as extremely hot summer nights as one might would have expected given the shallow nature of the Baltic Sea and the peak heat wave coming in late August, this being with Liepaja being right on the coast. Some intense heat breakthroughs though with all three summer months breaking 30C in a shoreline west-facing location at 57N   |
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Post by longaotian on Oct 14, 2017 4:34:52 GMT -5
Talking about places with climates so disgusting and rediculous you wonder why anybody would live there, I was born in my part of the world's only subarctic year on record - look at that ultra fail whale of a non-crummer ffs!!  We haven't even got close to a February, April and August that cold since, and September is still the coldest on record as well. Late August that year was more like October than most recent Octobers have been: en.tutiempo.net/climate/08-1986/ws-33440.htmlKnowing I come from this is about the only thing that makes my current climate seem acceptable in comparison At least you were too young to really experience the year in terms of the weather. I'm sure it would've been very depressing, a record high of 16.5C in August!!?  Btw, is this place in the UK? |
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Post by Lommaren on Oct 14, 2017 4:54:39 GMT -5
At least you were too young to really experience the year in terms of the weather. I'm sure it would've been very depressing, a record high of 16.5C in August!!? Btw, is this place in the UK? Yep, it's on the Yorkshire highlands adjacent to the Pennines range |
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Post by boombo on Oct 14, 2017 5:05:18 GMT -5
At least you were too young to really experience the year in terms of the weather. I'm sure it would've been very depressing, a record high of 16.5C in August!!? Btw, is this place in the UK? Lol yes it is, it doesn't look like one of these typical samey British climates with 21C summers and 7C winters but it's central northern England in a freakishly cold year (that February, April and August might never be beaten with the way things are going), plus a couple of hundred metres higher up than most towns - Bingley's the nearest weather station to me but where I actually live would have been a degree or so warmer than that. |
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