It Never Rains But It Pours

SydneyRoverP6B

SydneyRoverP6B

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Two comments were made recently on the forum regarding rainfall, so I thought that I would expand on that theme.

People who don't live in say London like myself often associate the city with grey skies and rain, just as people might often associate Sydney with sunny hot weather. The truth though can often be quite revealing...

London's average annual rainfall is 585mm, whereas here in Sydney it is over double that at 1217mm. Over in New Zealand, Wellington goes even further with 1270mm.

Now here in Sydney, the weather always seems to come in blocks,...a week or two of sunny days, then a week of rain,..lots of rain,...in many cases too much. On other occasions it is just nuisance rain,.wetting the ground but not much else.

Australia is a country of extremes, from drouts to flooding rains, and the weather in Sydney keeps with that theme, although being on the coast the variations are less dramatic.

My understanding is that within the United Kingdom, rainfall can also vary depending upon elevation and whether or not you happen to live in the east or west.

So what is the weather like where you live?

Ron.
 
London's average annual rainfall is 585mm, whereas here in Sydney it is almost double that at 1217mm. Over in New Zealand, Wellington goes even further with 1270mm.
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Yay, NZ beats Australia again! :LOL: :LOL:

Crowded house wrote a song called 'four seasons in one day' which refers to Auckland. The weather can politely be described as "changeable."
It's spring here now and yesterday morning it was very ovecast and cold, about 7 degrees C 'til midday. By 2pm the clouds were nowhere to be seen, sun was out, wind was gone and temp was up to 18. Then at 5pm it rained.
A couple of weeks ago we had some glorious sunny days, interrupted by the occasional hailstorm. Oh well, if you don't like the weather here, just wait 5 minutes. :D
 
Hi Ron

Here in Scotland most people think it rains all the time......and sometimes it feels like that. The west coast, being subject to the warm air of the gulf stream, is wetter than the east. Here in the southeast the annual average rainfall is around 800mm but 30 miles north in Edinburgh it's about the same as London. We are starting to see more extremes of weather here too. Scotland's weather has always been pretty stable with mild-warm summers and cold winters. We had a very cold winter last time, down to -18 degrees and snow through to April. We also had a pretty wet summer too and another cold winter is forecast. We don't pay any attention to forecasts though as it is always very London-centric. If we want to know what the weather is like we simply look out the window :)

Dave
 
I don't know - It's dark outside... ;)

ok seriously - Here in the east midlands you tend to get an even split between northeasterly and south westerly weather. Drizzle and cold weather tends to come from the north east, and proper rain comes in from the atlantic.

Loughborough actually has a microclimate and is generally a couple of degrees warmer than nottingham or leicester (about 10 miles to the north and south repectively!)

England as a whole is kept cool in summer and warm in winter by the gulf stream from the south west so tthe extremes of weather are tempered...

Rich.
 
Weather here in New York City is quite predictable. From memorial day it gets unbearably hot for me (A South London transplant) with temps in the 100degree F range not being uncommon. Then Labor Day arrives and we get two weeks of lovely autumn weather with 70 F days and 50-60F nights, then it gets progressively colder until we get 15-20F cold weather with 1-2foot of snow followed by two weeks of spring weather only to start all over again. To add excitement we do get micro bursts and very dramatic thunder storms that keep us on our toes.

I miss the grey of London. I'm generally the only one smiling when its windy and wet around here.
 
The amount of times I've recieved a photo on a miserable day via e-mail on the mobile from Mark Gray with photos of snow in Wolverhampton. - they always seem to get it first.

My most-significant-living-former-significant-other lives on the Isle Of Wight and delights in sending me regular updates of how sunny it is there, whilst we in the mainland (I'm barely 40 miles away) are bathed in grey cloud. The sun obviously shines on the righteous :D
 
NickDunning said:
My most-significant-living-former-significant-other :D
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:D How very specific!

When we've had three days of weather like the weekend and today (glorious), I really notice and it makes me realise how much I appreciate the sunshine. This would lead me to believe it's a rare and treasured thing.
 
Here in Christchurch NZ it's generally quite dry averaging about 600mm of rain a year with a lot of sunshine, quite dry in winter and very dry in summer, with winter temps from -2or-3 to 33 (even the odd 40) in summer. But as KR says four seasons in one day and sometimes twice that.
I lived in Nelson NZ for a number of years and that was fantastic, warm and sunny just about every day of the year, warm night time temps and a predictable light rain fall that would start at about 7pm most days and would finish an hour later. Truelly magical place to live and one of the worlds most undiscovered paradises, dont know why I left!!

Graeme
 
well ,here in ireland as you might expect we get normally plenty of rain , the winters have been generally fairly ,mild except this last winter which was severe and saw temps to -18c , all of the exotic trees died this year , weve had a nice summer and a nice warm autumn so far , it doesnt seem to reach very high temperatures in the summer , 21-22 being the norm , weve seen some bad flooding this year , but the summer was fairly dry , they have a word here a 'soft day' which i think describes a kind of light drizzle , regards rich
 
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