Random Daily Banter

[First Aspect]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.

Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

 

[Rusty Nails]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.
Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

If only we were still in the EU that would be so simple.

 

[C R]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.

Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

Galicia has had worse wetter weather than the southwest for the last three winters. Weather wise, the north of the Iberian peninsula is not that much better than the UK, generally. I would say that Galicia is weter.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.

Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

You probably know these, but they are very useful in assessing options: Met Office 'actual' and 'anomaly' maps.

 

[briantrumpet]

You probably know these, but they are very useful in assessing options: Met Office 'actual' and 'anomaly' maps.

You might think I jest about the Topsham forcefield, but if you go through the annual average rainfall maps, year after year just NE of the Exe estuary there is a lower average than most of the peninsula.

Obviously, one has to look at both the actual and anomaly maps to see how typical or unlucky specific areas are for each year.

Once I'm properly retired, I'll be aiming to make the best of the seasons in my two home locations, though the French one would have been similarly miserable this year: it's been mostly grey, cold & wet since I left there mid-January.

 

[First Aspect]

You probably know these, but they are very useful in assessing options: Met Office 'actual' and 'anomaly' maps.

I have them bookmarked already.

 

[briantrumpet]

Here's one I'm bookmarking for later...