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| The Americans
| consider June 21st to be the start of summer,
|
| That's interesting, as most parts of the USA seem to have a later
| summer compared to us. I've noticed (from weather reports) that most
| parts of the USA are as likely as NW Europe to have cool, wet weather
| in say May, while September and October are notably warmer and sunnier
| than NW Europe. I remember seeing some monthly average maxima for New
| York, and amazingly, New York is warmer in October (mean max 21C) than
| May (mean max 20C).
|

When you consider that there is only land between New York and the mass of
ice and snow that accumulates in Canada over the Winter and does not really
start to thaw until March, this is not surprising at all. Their
north-westerlies can be a jolly sight colder than ours - and think how cool
a British north-westerly can be in May after coming from the Arctic via a
thousand mile sea track.

Mind you, New York is also a lot nearer sources of tropical warmth than we
are in May, too.
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