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The SE of England is atypical in a way because of its summer temperatures: while most of the UK struggles to top 21C as an average high, London is like 23-24. Also it gets far more days over 25 and 30 than the rest of the country, a tendency that has seemed even more pronounced in the last 10-15 years. Nowhere in the UK really escapes the damn cloud though, even the warmest parts have no guaranteed sunny season like Vancouver/Seattle gets.
In terms of land area, anywhere in Australia that doesn't have a Koppen A, B or Cs climate is unusual and very little of the country doesn't, however a lot of the population lives in these areas. Probably only 5% of the land area.
The best case I can think of where a capital has a climate untypical of the country is Oslo in Norway: Cold, dry winters where the rest of the country is mild and wet or cold and snowy; almost continental summers with lots of sun but also a summer rainfall maximum: very untypical of a country where the prevailing climate is oceanic or subarctic, depending on latitude and elevation.
I think I agree with you here. It still isn't great, but I have definitely noticed a difference compared to East Anglia where I currently am. I think we get more warm spells, and temperatures are generally more stable in the SE during summer, i.e during July there are normally no days below 20C where places up north can have weeks of 18C weather.
I think someone posted a while ago about the average number of 20C+ days for different towns, London had about 120 I think, whereas most places in the UK had fewer than 80.
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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- Green Spain: cloudy and rainy with cool summers, in a dry and hot country
The far northwestern side of Portugal also fits this definition. In fact, the Iberian coast from Porto (Portugal) until its final end to Spanish-French border complains that, even though summer tend to be slightly drier and sunnier as you go to the west towards northern Portugal .
There is another place in Spain that impressed me the most: The eastern part of Pyrenees mountains and some few adjacent areas, which are located only 150 or 200 km away to Mediterranean coast (Barcelona).
They have the rainiest season from May to September because the high number of summer thunderstorms.
Thus, they are so far away to the Atlantic coast, so most fronts reached this area in a worn way by losing most of their moisture as going trhough the Iberian peninsula with its mountain ranges and plateaus. In fact, winter is the dry season there, even tough is not extremely dry.
Typical mediterranean torrential rains during early and mid autumn (which bring to coastal Catalonia the rainiest season) can't reach this area in a clearly way because they are blocking by Catalan Coastal and Pre-Coastal mountain ranges. so convective rains by summer thunderstorms wins there.
The far northwestern side of Portugal also fits this definition. In fact, the Iberian coast from Porto (Portugal) until its final end to Spanish-French border complains that, even though summer tend to be slightly drier and sunnier as you go to the west towards northern Portugal .
There is another place in Spain that impressed me the most: The eastern part of Pyrenees mountains and some few adjacent areas, which are located only 150 or 200 km away to Mediterranean coast (Barcelona).
They have the rainiest season from May to September because the high number of summer thunderstorms.
Thus, they are so far away to the Atlantic coast, so most fronts reached this area in a worn way by losing most of their moisture as going trhough the Iberian peninsula with its mountain ranges and plateaus. In fact, winter is the dry season there, even tough is not extremely dry.
Typical mediterranean torrential rains during early and mid autumn (which bring to coastal Catalonia the rainiest season) can't reach this area in a clearly way because they are blocking by Catalan Coastal and Pre-Coastal mountain ranges. so convective rains by summer thunderstorms wins there.
Spain is a country with many contrasts, it has a very interesting variety of climates, landscapes and vegetation due to its mountain ranges! Despite its reputation (at least among italians), it's definetely not all sunny, dry and hot with warm winters like Andalucia!
A few years ago I absolutely didn't know that, I'd like to know better all the different regions!
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Spain is a country with many contrasts, it has a very interesting variety of climates, landscapes and vegetation due to its mountain ranges! Despite its reputation (at least among italians), it's definetely not all sunny, dry and hot with warm winters like Andalucia!
A few years ago I absolutely didn't know that, I'd like to know better all the different regions!
Does anyone believe many places in Spain experience quite enough foggy days all year round?
Most people view Africa as being hot all year round, but most of Eastern Africa is a plateau with cool mountain climate.
Many people consider Turkey to have warm Mediterranean climate, but it's so for not all of the country: places like Erzurum are really cold in winter, Ankara is quite cold in winter too but not as cold as Erzurum.
Dean York thinks we're always warm in May. This is not true.
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