*European overview*

27th JULY 2011

Max °C Min °C Rain (mm)
8.7 5.1 - Ny Alesund(8m)
33.6 21.6 - Moscow(156m)
13.3 10.8 TR Reykjavik(61m)
17.4 11.4 - Bergen(50m)
24.5 13.0 - Oslo (204m)
27.3 13.0 - Stockholm/Bromma(14m)
28.7 16.9 - Helsinki(56m)
20.0 15.2 5.4 Warsaw (107m)
24.6 14.0 0.4 Berlin (49m)
23.9 15.4 4.2 Frankfurt(113m)
22.2 12.4 - Copenhagen/Kastrup (5m)
23.4 8.3 7.4 Glasgow (Bishopton)
21.5 6.5 TR Edinburgh (Gogarbank)
22.3 9.6 5.0 Dublin(68m)
21.9 12.9 - Cardiff (St. Athan) (49m)
20.8 14.8 - Heathrow W/P(24m)
19.7 13.9 1.0 Brussels (58m)
19.0 12.9 0.2 Paris-Orly(89m)
21.7 13.9 - Amsterdam (-2m)
25.2 11.5 - Munich(535m)
23.3 14.6 1.4 Zurich/Kloten (432m)
24.9 14.4 TR Vienna/Hohe Warte(200m)
25.2 16.4 1.2 Bordeaux Merignac(49m)
20.8 18.5 13.5 Nice(4m)
32.4 17.0 - Madrid/Barajas(631m)
26.8 21.3 - Barcelona/Aeropuerto(4m)
28.2 22.5 - Palma De Mallorca/Son San Juan(4m)
24.4 20.5 2.5 Menorca/Mahon(87m)
28.7 23.6 - Alicante/El Altet(43m)
28.0 22.9 - Ibiza/Es Codola(7m)
29.8 21.8 - Malaga/Aeropuerto(16m)
29.3 23.0 - Faro (4m)
22.6 14.1 0.8 Prague/Ruzyne(365m)
24.7 15.4 2.3 Budapest(139m)
26.7 14.0 - Belgrade(96m)
28.3 19.7 - Dubrovnic/Gorica(53m)
25.0 16.5 8.0 Venezia/Tessera(6m)
26.3 19.5 15.2 Roma Fiumicino(3m)
28.4 19.5 - Luqa - Malta (4m)
31.0 23.0 - Athinai (Aero)(28m)
29.6 17.4 - Kerkyra (Aero)(2m)
29.6 24.0 - Rhodes (Aero)(4m)
29.4 21.6 - Heraklion (Aero)(37m)
32.2 24.1 - Istanbul (33m)
34.9 22.7 - Antalya(54m)
33.4 24.1 - Larnaca(2m)
27.4 16.4 - Sofia (586m)
25.0 18.4 - Lajes (Azores)(55m)
26.0 20.3 - Funchal (55m)-Madeira
27.3 21.4 - Las Palmas/Gran Canaria

All data taken from website

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 at 14:35:22, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

*European overview*

27th JULY 2011

Max °C Min °C Rain (mm)
8.7 5.1 - Ny Alesund(8m)

Is this far enough north to be getting the midnight sun at this time of
year? If not, I'd have expected a higher diurnal range.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

In article ,
Paul Hyett writes:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 at 14:35:22, "Keith (Southend)G" keith_harris9
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

*European overview*

27th JULY 2011

Max °C Min °C Rain (mm)
8.7 5.1 - Ny Alesund(8m)

Is this far enough north to be getting the midnight sun at this time
of year? If not, I'd have expected a higher diurnal range.

It's on Spitzbergen, isn't it? If so, the maritime nature of the
location is going to tend to keep the diurnal range down. Also even if
it's not quite getting the midnight sun, it is only going to be below
the horizon for a couple of hours.
--
John Hall
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Winston S Churchill (1874-1965)

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 at 10:23:06, John Hall
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

In article ,
Paul Hyett writes:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 at 14:35:22, "Keith (Southend)G" keith_harris9
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

*European overview*

27th JULY 2011

Max °C Min °C Rain (mm)
8.7 5.1 - Ny Alesund(8m)

Is this far enough north to be getting the midnight sun at this time
of year? If not, I'd have expected a higher diurnal range.

It's on Spitzbergen, isn't it? If so, the maritime nature of the
location is going to tend to keep the diurnal range down. Also even if
it's not quite getting the midnight sun, it is only going to be below
the horizon for a couple of hours.

I just dug out an old sunrise/set calculating spreadsheet I found years
ago, and at NY Alesund's latitude, the midnight sun lasts from
17/4-26/8.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

"Paul Hyett" schreef

: I just dug out an old sunrise/set calculating spreadsheet I found years
: ago, and at NY Alesund's latitude, the midnight sun lasts from
: 17/4-26/8.

At Longyearbyen on Svalbard (Spitzbergen) the midnight sun runs from 20th
April to 24th August
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...fl =-11&day=1

It's interesting to see how rapidly the length of the night increases once
the sun does go below the horizon again.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

"Colin Youngs" wrote in message
...
At Longyearbyen on Svalbard (Spitzbergen) the midnight sun runs from 20th
April to 24th August

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...th=4&year=2011
&obj=sun&afl=-11&day=1

It's interesting to see how rapidly the length of the night increases once
the sun does go below the horizon again.

In the extreme case, at the North Pole, night length changes from zero to
24 hours at the equinox in September (actually a few days later due to
refraction appearing to 'raise' the sun).

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 at 18:59:53, Colin Youngs
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

"Paul Hyett" schreef

: I just dug out an old sunrise/set calculating spreadsheet I found years
: ago, and at NY Alesund's latitude, the midnight sun lasts from
: 17/4-26/8.

At Longyearbyen on Svalbard (Spitzbergen) the midnight sun runs from 20th
April to 24th August
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...&month=4&year=
2011&obj=sun&afl=-11&day=1

It's interesting to see how rapidly the length of the night increases once
the sun does go below the horizon again.

Do the times of maxima/minima have any particular pattern during the
period of 24 hour daylight?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Paul Hyett writes:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 at 14:35:22, "Keith (Southend)G" keith_harris9
@hotmail.com wrote in uk.sci.weather :

*European overview*

27th JULY 2011

Max °C Min °C Rain (mm)
8.7 5.1 - Ny Alesund(8m)
Is this far enough north to be getting the midnight sun at this time
of year? If not, I'd have expected a higher diurnal range.

It's on Spitzbergen, isn't it? If so, the maritime nature of the
location is going to tend to keep the diurnal range down. Also even if
it's not quite getting the midnight sun, it is only going to be below
the horizon for a couple of hours.
--------------------
I've been on a ship at Alesund in a late June heatwave. It's still
pretty light at midnight but it was 27C in the daytime, further up at
Trondheim. It's on the Norwegian coast roughly between Bergen and Trondheim.
Picture taken at 11.30 p.m he-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcweath...in/photostream
Dave

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
I've been on a ship at Alesund in a late June heatwave. It's still
pretty light at midnight but it was 27C in the daytime, further up at
Trondheim. It's on the Norwegian coast roughly between Bergen and
Trondheim.

Perhaps you know this and are quoting it for comparison, but Ny Alesund
(New Alesund) is not the same place as Alesund.

Ny Alesund is on Spitzbergen island, far north of the Norwegian mainland at
almost 79 degs N.

Gavino wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
I've been on a ship at Alesund in a late June heatwave. It's still
pretty light at midnight but it was 27C in the daytime, further up at
Trondheim. It's on the Norwegian coast roughly between Bergen and
Trondheim.

Perhaps you know this and are quoting it for comparison, but Ny Alesund
(New Alesund) is not the same place as Alesund.

Ny Alesund is on Spitzbergen island, far north of the Norwegian mainland at
almost 79 degs N.

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No I didn't. Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't notice the New bit!