On 21/3/15, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: >On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote: >>>given England's grey image. >> >> I find this very odd! How did you come to believe this? > >I didn't say I believe it, but that is the image many have of England.
Okay, it's obviously a perception you and/or others have. I'm genuinely just curious as to where/how you (possibly) acquired it? The only thing I can think of is the infamous pea-souper fogs that used to happen in London pre-WW2 ? Or is it the idea that it is always raining here therefore grey skies? Out of interest spent a few minutes looking to see where the UK is in the globla scale of rainfall and according to this web site we rank 48th out of 95 in annual rainfall totals (the USA being 25th) although regional variation isn't obviously taken into account. There are places in the UK where it does rain a LOT - eg in the mountains of north Wales and Scotland. <http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Geography/Precipitation> And here is a map showing totals in translated colours: <http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.PRCP.MM/countries/1W?display=map> As a bit of background the UK is a small island nation and the weather is predominantly dictated by the Atlantic ocean, with pressure systems flowing from a generally westerly direction more or less along the north Atlantic jet stream. This means we get a fair few low pressure systems with associated warm and cold fronts, and their associated rain. They usually skip through quite quickly and within a few hours. Because we sit usually near the 'border' with cold Polar air to the north and warmer air to the south, we often find big temperature variations within the space of a few days. Hence the saying in Britain we don't have a climate, we have weather. But to be fair, cloud cover is not something I think about a lot as some days are cloudy and some days are sunny. I find the variation is good and unless we get stuck under a winter high pressure that drags in freezing easterly winds from Siberia, it's all fine! So, just curious as to where the idea that England is grey. A nation full of clerical grey office workers? ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Production ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
