"Joe, Bedford." wrote in message
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"Joe, Bedford." wrote in message
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"Alastair McDonald" k
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Never mind lowland Southern England. What about the whole of Scotland.
Look at the Annual Mean Maximum Temperature map;
http://www.metoffice.com/climate/uk/...00/tmax/17.gif
and nearly all of Scotland is coloured blue which the key says is 2.4C!

No wonder visiting Sasenachs arriving in May expect to find the Pentland
Hills covered in snow!

Cheers, Alastair.



It actually says between 2.3 and 10.3 (bit of a range) I gather it means
the
peaks average 2.3 at the least.



That should read 2.4 not 2.3.

The blue that I was referring to covers from 2.4 to 12.3C. ie the boundary
between dark blue and blue is very unclear. I suppose I should not really
complain on chauvanistic grounds. Scotland is coloured blue and white,
whereas England is in red and white. But from a scientific POV would it
not be better if a scale of colours from -2C to +30C was chosen and
used consistently on all the temperature maps. The lowest colour (dark
blue) could be labelled 'below -2C' and the highest colour (dak red)
could be labelled 'above 30C.'

If that led to Scotland (and Northern Ireland) being coloured orange
in summer, surely no one would object :-?

Cjeers, Alastair.