Edmund Lewis wrote:
This change by which December is now colder than February (and about
the same as January) is most striking, for
a) It goes against everything the textbooks say regarding a maritime
climate, where the effect of sea temps should put off the coldest
weather till after the solstice
and
b) It means that if we take the year as a whole, the temperature graph
is not symmetrical. By this I mean that the *same time-lag still occurs
in summer*, with August significantly warmer than June. So the warmest
and coldest periods (on average) are not 6 months apart. How could
sea-ice changes explain this?

Edmund


My perception is that the peak of summer is end-July and start-August,
so I would hope August would be warmer than June. I would normally
expect January to be the coldest month (not this year!), so I never
thought of symmetry. I have not of course read the text book.

My perception is based on my recollection over the years btw ... no
supporting data. The pattern in the UK seems much the same as in IT.

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Gianna Stefani

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