Col wrote:


"Paul Hyett" wrote in message
...
In uk.sci.weather on Sat, 26 May 2007, Tudor Hughes
wrote :

Meanwhile, in NW Russia, eg St Petersburg, temperatures will probably
exceed 35°C.

Where on earth would be the source for such hot weather in that
location??

That huge land mass to the south, presumably.
Given the right wind direction and suitably hot air from
far to the south I can imagine it could get pretty hot up
there. Don't temps sometimes get to 30C in Siberia in
mid-summer?
Still, above 35C that far north in late May seems
pushing it a little.....

I recall a three-week spell one June almost forty years ago when north
Norway, Finland, Russia, had max temperatures into the 30s. Minima were in
the mid-20s. Here, it was dull, wet, and temperatures struggled to get into
double figures.

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Graham P Davis
Bracknell, Berks., UK
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