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Plakias => Plakias => Topic started by: Ploppy on February 06, 2016, 07:37:28 PM
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As many of you already know, Nikos at Medousa maintains a Weather Station for the National Observatory of Athens.
You can find the uploaded data here (http://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/plakias/).
It has been a bit patchy recently and is not currently updating.
Anyway being the sad individual that I am, I also maintain a Weather Station here in Whitton, West London and one for my father in Ilfracombe, Devon.
So I thought I would do a comparison between the 3 locations to see who is the warmest, coldest, windiest, wettest etc.
The results aren't hugely surprising!
If you are interested in the data I have attached two spreadsheets here for the last two years, there are different worksheets in the spreadsheets.
It should be fairly self-explanatory if you look at them.
Taking 2014 as an example (as 2015 is missing some data for December in Plakias) we see that:
Highest Average (whole day) - Plakias 361, Whitton 4
Highest Max - Plakias 330, Whitton 30, Ilfracombe 4
Lowest Min - Whitton 211, Ilfracombe 153, Plakias 1
Windiest (Average) - Plakias 211, Whitton 129, Ilfracombe 24*
Wettest - Whitton 171, Ilfracombe 135, Plakias 59
* Anenometer placement not good, windier in reality.
Nothing hugely surprising there.
Though it doesn't tell the whole story, you need to look at the detail.
For example in Jan/Feb 2015 Plakias had an incredible 700mm+ of rain, way more than my total for the year.
I need to update the spreadsheets with sheets for rain and wind, i'll get around to that sometime.
Whitton Weather Website here (http://www.ploppy.me.uk/Weather/index.php)
Ilfracombe Weather Website here (http://www.ploppy.me.uk/Ilfracombe/index.php)
2014 Spreadsheet Here (http://www.paulrickwood.co.uk/Weather%202014%20-%20Ilf,%20Plak,%20Whit.xlsx)
2015 Spreadsheet Here (http://www.paulrickwood.co.uk/Weather%202015%20-%20Ilf,%20Plak,%20Whit.xlsm)
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Interesting stuff Paul. I live in Hertfordshire and I suspect that in virtually every year Plakias has a higher total annual rainfall than here. Fortunately this doesn't usually come when I'm there!