On Mar 11, 8:41*pm, "Nick Gardner"
wrote:
Rainfall is high in the west and south with huge amounts over Dartmoor.
The rain shadows in Exeter and the Otter Valley are much drier though and
the coast gets most sun. Dartmoor and other inland hilly areas can have a
lot of cloud in the warmer season.

True. The Devon weather is very variable depending on location.

Here, 10 miles ESE of Exeter and 6 miles from the sea, going on the last 5
years:

Annual rainfall 700 - 900 mm.
Annual sunshine 1750 - 2000 hours.
Virtually frost-free from April to beginning of November.

Just a few miles further inland and higher up such as the Blackdown Hills,
it's another world. Dunkeswell isn't too far from here and the weather there
is often dramatically different to here, as is the weather in mid-north
Devon and Dartmoor.
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Nick
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http:\\www.ottervalley.co.uk

I agree with Will's summary on Devon's climate.
Here on the coast in the SW corner of Devon it is pretty decent in the
summer and not too foul in the winter.
If the wind has an easterly component then we are laughing, Glorious
sun usually, as we have had recently, and generally this winter.
Dartmoor helps, but cloudy anticyclones run out of cloud when they get
to us after such a long land track.
Annually of course we have more rain than those on the eastern side of
the country. About 950 mm on average each year. But the bulk of this
comes in the winter.
If you do not like rain and still want to live in the SW, then you are
advised to live on the coast, as annual rainfall increases by about 75
mm per 100ft rise in altitude.

And summer sea breezes mean the temp. usually keeps below 25C, while
up country people swelter.

Len Wood,

Wembury, SW Devon, 275 ft, 83 m asl