On Jan 20, 7:18*pm, Fusarium solani wrote:
On Jan 20, 2:33*pm, "Tony Kenyon"
wrote:





Having lived in Winchester on and off for about ten years I can confirm
that, meteorologically speaking, it is the most boring place in Britain!

It never gets too hot in summer nor too cold in winter due to its proximity
to the sea. Fronts coming in from the west tend to have lost their vigour by
the time they get here and easterly winds fail to deliver snow showers as
they die out around London.. Thunderstorms no longer seem to come up from
the south and north westerlys are *guaranteed to give clear blue skies in
any season rather than the heavy showers experienced elsewhere. Strong winds
are rare due to the shelter of the surrounding downs. To cap it all one
never knows whether to look at the forecast for the SE or SW!

Perhaps this is why so many "normal" people see it as the ideal place?!!

Bored regards

Tony

Guildford seems to share a very similar climate to yours described for
Winchester. A very familiar story - especially with regard to the lack
of thunder in the seasons that have passed for 'summer' in the last
four years. A westerly type winter following a westerly type summer is
not a welcome set-up as such synoptics seldom deliver the goods (heavy
rainfall, heavy showers, snow, thunderstorms etc) in 'central
southern' England (S.E. / S.W.!).

Let's sincerely hope that 2012 is not going to be as boring a year in
southern England as 2011 was.

Guy.
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The lack of thunderstorms is not due to the specific location or
even local area but seems to be a recent and marked anomaly in
southern England that will rectify itself soon. The number of thunder
days in a year is subject to some strong random effects and doesn't
seem to be correlated with the overall weather in a particular year.
In the last 2 years I have had only 9 thunder-days, equal to the
previous lowest for just *one* year, in a 28-year record. The most
thundery, with 31 days, was 2004, a not otherwise remarkable year.
The average for the entire record is 16.
Everybody seems to think thunderstorms are "elsewhere". Well,
they are; "elsewhere" is a much bigger place than your immediate
neighbourhood.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft. TQ 3516 5955