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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2407205)

On average the south is usually 2-5 degrees C warmer.

On the odd day the opposite occurs, the southerners simply bitch and moan :)

Wow I wouldn't have imagined it'd be that much of a difference in temperature. See you learn something new every day!

It's the Atlantic.
Warm water arrives from the Mexcan gulf and gives the British Isles it's wet but not cold climate Scandinavia gets.
Slovenia is much further south but we get a years worth of English snow in one day.

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Originally Posted by STEED (Post 2407207)

You can have the next heat wave up North. :O:

Lets see how you Northerners last without much sleep, you lot be on the M1 heading south faster than a fart out of a cow's backside. :haha:

Is that so :hmm2:

The Fahrenheit temperature scale for Geordies

50 Degrees:

People in southern England turn on the central heating

People in Newcastle plant out bedding plants

40 Degrees:

Southerners shiver uncontrollably

Geordies sunbathe on the beach at Whitley Bay

35 Degrees:

Cars in the south of England refuse to start

People in Newcastle drive with their windows down

20 Degrees:

Southerners wear overcoats, gloves and woolly hats

Newcastle men throw on a T-shirt and girls start wearing mini-skirts

15 Degrees:

Southerners begin to evacuate to the continent

People from Newcastle swim in the North Sea at Amble

Zero Degrees:

Life in the South grinds to a halt

Newcastle folk have the last BBQ before it gets cold

Minus 10 Degrees:

Life in the South ceases to exist

People in Newcastle throw on a light jacket

Minus 80 Degrees:

Polar bears wonder if it's worth carrying on

Boy scouts in Newcastle start wearing their long trousers

Minus 100 degrees:

Santa Claus abandons the North Pole

People in Newcastle put on their long johns

Minus 173 Degrees:

Alcohol freezes

Geordies get upset because all the pubs are shut

Minus 297 Degrees:

Microbial life starts to disappear

The cows on the Town Moor complain about the farmers with cold hands

Minus 450 Degrees:

All atomic motion stops

Newcastle folk stamp their feet and blow on their hands

Minus 500 Degrees:

Hell freezes over

STEED votes Tory

Dull and overcast here but just took the boy to the airport where his destination promises to be a lot warmer and sunnier.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2407480)

Is that so :hmm2:

:har: :har: :har: :har: :up:

Thought you'd missed that :):03:

Very warm yesterday and overcast today. Outlook for this week warming up to the mid 70's.

Warm and sunny here but still stayed indoors to watch England beat Sri Lanka in day four of a five day test :sunny:

Off topic i know, weather in Germany last night, Braunsbach and Ansbach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gDqlTv3svc

:shifty:

Hey you Met Office I got a bone to pick with you about today's weather you said dry and bright and what did I get? Wet and overcast! :stare:

Dry but overcast here in Gods country.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2408458)

Dry but overcast here in Gods country.

When did you move to Yorkshire Jim?? :D

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Originally Posted by BossMark (Post 2408554)

When did you move to Yorkshire Jim?? :D

Could well be soon, it's bitter cold here this morning with a little drizzle for good measure :stare:

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2408563)

Could well be soon, it's bitter cold here this morning with a little drizzle for good measure :stare:

Same here I was going to go to Headingley to see Yorkshire finish Lancashire off, but as much as I love cricket I was not sitting outside in the cold :nope:

June the 1st and it was overcast.