Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15137832
The previous 1985 record has been broken as the temp hit 29.9C (85.8F) today.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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yep good old gravesend yet again.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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We were talking about this yesterday in the shop, why is Gravesend often the hottest area, it is near the sea which normally means the temperature is a degree or two lower than inland.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Sorry must have double clicked
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Given the very name of the town 'Graves-end'. It being the hottest place is hardly a good advert.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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jan,a bbc reporter explained that the heat comes from london,the buildings in london hold the heat and for some unknown reason blows down to gravesend.i hope this helps answering your question.
Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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On 10 August 2003, Gravesend recorded one of the highest temperatures since records began in the United Kingdom, with a reading of 38.1 degrees Celsius (100.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Gravesend which is a Met Office site reports its data each hour.
One explanation for the phenomenon was the large amount of earthworks in connection with High Speed 1, which had exposed a great deal of the local sandy soil, which absorbed more sunshine.
Gravesend as a rule inherits a more continental climate like the rest of Kent, Essex and East Anglia rather than the usual maritime oceanic climate the West of the UK experiences. It is therefore less cloudy, drier, and less prone to Atlantic depressions with their associated wind and rain than more westerly locations of the UK.
Gravesend and the surrounding area is relatively dry, especially in comparison to much of the UK, due to rainfall being light and patchy by the time it reaches the region. Heavy rain usually comes up from France.
In the winter, snow is not uncommon and like much of the area, it will inherit more of the continental winters, tempered slightly by the Jet Stream and the coastal location.
Gravesend continues to record high temperatures in summer, sometimes reaching country-wide records, recently including the warmest day of 2011, when temperatures reached 32.8 degrees. Additionally, the town holds at least two records for the year in 2010 of 30.9 degrees and 31.7 degrees. Another record was set in October 2011 with 29.9 degrees.
The Kent Downs lie to the south of Gravesend, although it is not known if this causes Gravesend to experience the effects of Foehn Winds that occur as a result of adiabatic warming. This foehn effect seems most likely to occur during a southerly wind flow because of the location of the hills in relation to the town, and indeed it is during times of southerly winds that high temperatures would normally occur anyhow.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Thanks both of you, I must say that to me Jacqui's is the more plausible theory but who knows.
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