Very pretty, 300 days is an exaggeration though
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Can confirm. Live in Manchester. It's nearly true though, it does rain a lot.
averages 152 days of rain per year.
Paris 171
Berlin 159
Rotterdam 159
Barcelona 55
Rome 129
Oslo 170
Bern 190
Prague 160
Just a bunch of cities I thought of off the top of my head. At least compared to those, Manchester doesn't really seem like a standout.
The city in europe with the most rain is Bergen, in Norway, with ~250 a year(195 ≥1mm, Manchester gets 142 ≥1mm). And they apparently get two months straight with constant rain every day and night sometimes.
Manchester gets on average 828mm of rain a year, Bern gets 1022mm and Bergen gets 2412mm.
It's not even close to being a standout.
Although fun fact, Capel Curig in Wales gets more downfall(and arguably rain) every year at 2697mm over 206 days(≥1mm), but Cetinje in Montenegro wins with 3300mm over 136 days(≥1mm). It's insane over a few months(Nov->Feb/Jan)
Paris has 111 average, not 171
https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainy-days,Paris,France
The average annual number of rainy days is: 170.
Better this than possibly constant drought and fires.
explains the smiths
After 8 months in Manchester I came back to Denmark and something was off, seemed off.
The roads were dry, hadn't seen that in a while 🙂
Loved the city and the weather, in general, though.
Copenhagen averages 170 days of rain per year. Manchester 152. Manchester rains harder though, at 86cm/year vs Copenhagen's 61.
I don't live in Copenhagen 🙂 it was my experience regardless of statistics, though. Could just be a month of rain in Manchester before we went home, but who knows. It always just seemed like it had just drizzled a bit.
Iirc this is why Manchester became an industrial city in the first place. It is easier to work with wool when it's humid, and so the spinneries were out in Oldham which is very humid and also in a good spot for collecting the wool from Lancashire. The weaveries were then placed a short distance from there in Manchester, and the cloth was shipped out from Liverpool.
Cotton mostly, not wool, hence Manchester's old nickname of Cottonopolis. Wool tended to go east to Yorkshire, where it was worked in Halifax, Bradford and Leeds. Yorkshire has a lot of sheep, and used to have even more. But otherwise yes, you are correct. The damp climate of North-West England was an important part of it becoming dominant in the 19th century cloth trade, because it made the fibres easier to work with. Cotton fibres are a serious fire risk if they are dry.
Odense 162
Aarhus 167
aalborg 173
Billund 123
Herning 178
Esbjerg 128
Skagen 158
Ringkobing 180
I guess there are a couple of very specific areas that might have less, but overall the country has more rain than Manchester. I do believe Manchester likely gets more rain on those rainy days though. You may have a lot more 'spitters' in Denmark than you do in the UK.
Love that kind of weather
As a Californian who lived in Oregon for a brief couple of years, I offer my condolences.
That said, it was 106F today, so... Yeah. That rain looks quite pleasant at the moment.
Likely to be 120F without AC in parts of southern europe, if not this summer the next.
Way things are going, Manchester is looking good.
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