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Bonos Ego writes:
On Jun 6, 8:45*pm, "David Haggas" wrote:
"Anne Burgess" wrote in message

... The south east of
England with its more continental (more interesting?)
climate invariably features heavily in this 'story' not necessarily
because of bias towards that region but because it generally has more
extremes.
David (N.Yorks)

Now that is a very interesting assertion. Not the one that says that is
why the south-east of England/Britain features more heavily in the
'story', *but the assertion that that area has 'more extremes'.

What evidence can you provide to justify that assertion?

Anne

More continental influence, The highest temperatures in summer, the most
thunderstorm activity (this evening is an example) the most sun hours, the
most disruptive snowfall and occasionally some rather high winds.

David

Most of those are rather debatable,


Not according to the times online
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/to...erty/buying_an
d_selling/article2875491.ece

Sunniest Weymouth, Dorset

The south coast is usually the sunniest part of the country (if you
exclude the Channel Islands) in terms of annual totals. I think it's
pretty close between Weymouth (SW) and Eastbourne (SE).


Wettest Seathwaite, Cumbria

Yep.

Driest St Osyth, Essex

Which is in the SE.

Warmest Scilly Isles

Coldest Braemar, Scotland

Those are the warmest and coldest averaged over the year as a whole,
which is rather different. Because the Scillies are surrounded by sea,
they never have really hot days. (Their mild winters are what brings the
annual average up.) The highest maxima recorded have been in the SE.

It's true that the lowest values - both maxima and minima - have been
recorded in sheltered Scottish places like Braemar.


Stormiest Thetford to Stoke-on-Trent

By stormiest do you mean thunderstorms? I think it's true that the east
Midlands just shades it over the SE.

Windiest Cornwall/west coast

Yep, and especially the Western and Northern Isles.

Foggiest Dartmoor, Devon

I think they are confusing low cloud with fog, but I'm not sure where
the foggiest place would be.

Most snow Tomintoul, Scotland

Probably. I don't think the SE has a claim to the heaviest snowfalls.
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