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noble1:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on October 31, 2012, 08:31:24 AM ---
There"s more sunshine and the temperature is warmer in the Summer, usually, and therefore there should be more evaporation. Right?
So why does it rain more in the Winter than the Summer?
You"d think it would be the other way round.
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I have sailed now and then and been flying light aircraft for a little while and i"m ok"ish on meteorology in northern Europe, its all to do with in the winter, the pole is under a six months night and the difference of temperature with the equator is greater, thus the depressions deeper, the wind stronger and u get more rain fall....
Us poor souls who live north of latitude 40 will get rain most in the winter, some snow :) so in short it all depends where u are latitude wise as this will mean we will get influenced by the passing depressions on the front between the polar and temperate air masses...
ck188 find that article, i"m confusing myself thinking about this, let alone trying to put it down in words...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_latitude
Pianissimo37:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on October 27, 2012, 14:20:44 PM ---
No two ways about it - this is a brag post. I try hard not to post about my two daughters, cos they basically win at everything they do and people are not terribly interested in someone posting a string of boasts. I sometimes wonder if they are really my daughters, cos their achievements are way ahead of mine. I"m gonna do it this time, but I"ll try to restrain myself in future.
They have had a lot of their schooling in Australia. Rosie went right through at a very nice boarding school, finishing two years ago. At the same time, Rachel, who had two years left to do, got herself a music scholarship to Geelong Grammar, which is basically Australia"s equivalent of Eton, and switched to there. [Yeah, that"s right, they both finished Grade 8 music at about age 13, one sax & piano, the other clarinet & piano - what did I tell you?]. A lot of prominent people have been schooled at Geelong, including Prince Charles, Rupert Murdoch, the King of Malaysia, some Australian Prime Ministers and so on. Even if you do nothing and just pass through, it is an amazing formative experience and the contacts made are unsurpassed. But she didn"t just pass through. She is coming to the end of her time there (their academic year is opposite to ours - ie summer holidays are in December/January) and yesterday she won the Elisabeth Murdoch Award for Student of the Year out of one of the most talented groups in Australia. Just thought I"d tell you.
[For those who are not Australian, Elisabeth Murdoch (mother of Rupert) is a prominent philanthropist, whose achievements it is not worth bothering to start listing. Still going strong at 103.]
Rosie is doing okay too. She took a gap year and is currently stressing over upcoming first year exams in Medicine. Don"t think she needs to stress, though, cos last week she got 100% in something that counts for 10% of the year.
Okay, that"s it - I"ll go back to my usual level, posting about blumpkins and suchlike.
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John, how very proud you must be. Two such talented and clever daughters really is something to brag about.
It is in the genes of course.
ck1888:
--- Quote from: noble1 on October 31, 2012, 23:07:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: MintTrav on October 31, 2012, 08:31:24 AM ---
There"s more sunshine and the temperature is warmer in the Summer, usually, and therefore there should be more evaporation. Right?
So why does it rain more in the Winter than the Summer?
You"d think it would be the other way round.
--- End quote ---
I have sailed now and then and been flying light aircraft for a little while and i"m ok"ish on meteorology in northern Europe, its all to do with in the winter, the pole is under a six months night and the difference of temperature with the equator is greater, thus the depressions deeper, the wind stronger and u get more rain fall....
Us poor souls who live north of latitude 40 will get rain most in the winter, some snow :) so in short it all depends where u are latitude wise as this will mean we will get influenced by the passing depressions on the front between the polar and temperate air masses...
ck188 find that article, i"m confusing myself thinking about this, let alone trying to put it down in words...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_latitude
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Can"t find the article but that was basically what it was saying. The rain is always there but the pressure and jet stream dictate where and when it falls. For us winter. For others it can be summer.
Fatcatstu:
Dear John,
Are you looking forward to getting beaten by all 3 England teams at the home international tournament?
Yours,
St George
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MintTrav:
So higher pressure in the warmer places causes air to move to the lower pressure cooler places. I"m willing to buy that - I have noticed more wind in Winter; often wind and rain together. Although, shouldn"t there be wind in both the higher and lower pressure places?
It"s Winter in the whole Northern Hemisphere at the same time and vica versa. Even the hot bits are less hot. Does that mean the rain is constantly travelling across the Equator from the Summer Hemisphere to the Winter one and then the opposite way for the other half of the year?
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