Which is the best part of the UK...yes I mean as in totally weather related!

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A spin off from the fields closed thread really...I was pondering the other day, that the rain in Somerwet always seems(constant) far heavier than the rain in Sussex..I genuinely believe that you get more raindrops per square millimeter here than you do in Sussex...and it kind of makes sense..I know that the dawn/dusk/daylight hours vary fractionally across/up/down the UK and that according to the weather maps it always seems to be coming in from the west (predominantly) ie from Ireland/the Channel....and we all know that if America gets it bad, our weather will usually have a mini tantrum shortly after...so just wondered who gets the driest part of the UK?( I know Wales is ALWAYs expecting rain) and I know there is massive difference because of valleys/plains & simply due to the topograpy but we all know if it snows, it WILL happen in Scotland...and Yorkshire usually gets hit too... so what is the best & worst about your county & is there somewhere you know that always seems to have greener grass on the other side of the weather fence? (will also help me when i come to stick the drawing pin in the amp when I next come to sell, but please don't 'sabotage' your area just because of me...not that bad, honest!:D

Chocolate croissant bread & butter pud with raspberry & port saucey jammy warm dippy stuff & vanilla icecream to share this eve...
 
Well apart from this afternoon, West Kent is pretty good in terms of dryness - only problem is the clay. Parents in Berkshire are on sandy soil so seem to have better 'going'.
 
I like my location in Leicestershire! When the UK has snow it tends to go around my town, even if the rest of leicestershire gets hit. We have hot/Dry weather and Cold/Wet weather but mainly overcast though not raining lol
 
We often miss weather, ie snow etc as on the coast in Sussex, just south of the South Downs and the weather seems to go round the back of the downs.

Plus chalk fields so excellent drainage.

Mind you still been very wet this year with puddles in bottom of field...a real rarity!
 
Hi i'm in Sussex and its wet at the mo but yesterday was lovely and sunny and we did manage a hack round the farm :)
We do get snow and it tends to stay with us for a week or two and the summer can be very dry = no grass (not this year v wet)
Horses fields are not to bad and only have mud in the gateways.

Also don't ride on the roads anymore as far to busy :(
 
I live on the Wirral and all our fields are still open and the horses out 24/7 and you don't need wellies on to get through the gate!! We are very lucky!!
 
Tuffles 23 said:
Hi i'm in Sussex and its wet at the mo but yesterday was lovely and sunny and we did manage a hack round the farm :)
We do get snow and it tends to stay with us for a week or two and the summer can be very dry = no grass (not this year v wet)
Horses fields are not to bad and only have mud in the gateways.

Also don't ride on the roads anymore as far to busy :(
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miss_wilson said:
I live on the Wirral and all our fields are still open and the horses out 24/7 and you don't need wellies on to get through the gate!! We are very lucky!!
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Hmmm...so my next post will be about being homesick (ok chalk-sick) and depressed!:eek:
 
I always thought we missed a lot of bad weather ( Welland Valley around Market Harborough ) but not this year!

While my fields have been very wet, we went on a trip to Wells next the Sea on the north Norfolk coast in August..........It was so dry and hard that we bent most of the tent pegs! there was no grazing for the horses so we had to buy hay!
 
West Sussex is definitely great weather wise. I live right on the coast between Worthing and Littlehampton and I think we have our own micro-climate. Weather normally comes in from the west and you can see the clouds coming in and just as you think you might get wet they then head North passing us by :)

Even a couple of miles inland the weather is significantly different - one day my friend in Findon couldn't get out of her house because of the snow and there was none at the yard 4 miles away. When I briefly kept my horse 20 miles inland (during the worst winter we have had for years) there was a 7C drop in temperature between the coast and inland :eek:. That yard also had awful heavy clay soil but nearer the coast there is more chalk downland and is free-draining. My current yard is not on chalk but seems to hold up well especially as on individual turn-out I think the horses don't cut it up as much running around.

The main thing that puts me off moving anywhere else is the weather!
 
sussexbythesea said:
West Sussex is definitely great weather wise. I live right on the coast between Worthing and Littlehampton and I think we have our own micro-climate. Weather normally comes in from the west and you can see the clouds coming in and just as you think you might get wet they then head North passing us by :)

Even a couple of miles inland the weather is significantly different - one day my friend in Findon couldn't get out of her house because of the snow and there was none at the yard 4 miles away. When I briefly kept my horse 20 miles inland (during the worst winter we have had for years) there was a 7C drop in temperature between the coast and inland :eek:. That yard also had awful heavy clay soil but nearer the coast there is more chalk downland and is free-draining. My current yard is not on chalk but seems to hold up well especially as on individual turn-out I think the horses don't cut it up as much running around.

The main thing that puts me off moving anywhere else is the weather!
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I wasn't very far from you then! just this side of the South Downs (as in the nice micro climate side!) It was funny as Bury would literally get burried just like Findon but literally the other side of the hill all was rosy...I WISH I had never moved away..missing the chalk & even the flinty downs more than ever atm *snivvels & dollops more comfort pudding on her giant pudding bowl*
 
Anywhere that's not the Lake District would be good for me - I suspect that I can beat most of you for the amount of rainfall we get. We are seriously thinking of moving away from here.
 
SaharaS said:
I wasn't very far from you then! just this side of the South Downs (as in the nice micro climate side!) It was funny as Bury would literally get burried just like Findon but literally the other side of the hill all was rosy...I WISH I had never moved away..missing the chalk & even the flinty downs more than ever atm *snivvels & dollops more comfort pudding on her giant pudding bowl*
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Whereabouts were you?

Funnily enough I may have to move for work and Bristol would probably be the place I would go to as that is where Head Office is. So I may end up be lamenting the weather like you :(

Its a lovely area though - I go there quite a bit for work and my sister lives in Congresbury :)
 
I think statistically Lincolnshire gets the least rain and most sun (but also most wind) BUT the soil is mostly heavy clay and so you go from concrete cracked fields that you can't canter on to knee deep mud in about 2 showers!!
 
slightlyconfused said:
Bedfordshire mostly misses everything! So im voting for here:D
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*snivvels AND snarls ever so slightly*

Holly Hocks said:
Anywhere that's not the Lake District would be good for me - I suspect that I can beat most of you for the amount of rainfall we get. We are seriously thinking of moving away from here.
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Don't pick Somerwet...I'm actually applying to get it renamed Seriouslytoowet as we speak!

sussexbythesea said:
Whereabouts were you?

Funnily enough I may have to move for work and Bristol would probably be the place I would go to as that is where Head Office is. So I may end up be lamenting the weather like you :(

Its a lovely area though - I go there quite a bit for work and my sister lives in Congresbury :)
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Am half hour from Bristol ish...Shepton Mallet (Bath & West Showground nearby...its not Hickstead or Ardingly or Cowdray Park, but I guess it'll do till I escape!) I did a couple of HHO cake/curry eves...if you move up I'll have to start a weather woes eve for those of us who know better(there is better weather in the known world!):rolleyes:
 
Northeast scotland - definitely drier to the west of scotland but yes we do get hit with cold, snow and recently wind :rolleyes: March/April can see 15+degrees C, rain, hail and high winds all in the same day, just to mix it up. But we do get "sunny scotland" in our area :)
However- as we are so used to snow, we don't take much notice of it, roads are pretty well looked after and most people get on with it, at least whilst its below 2ft deep... 3foot+ is hard work ;)
Land is very varied though - clay, stoney, petey etc... all very localised!
 
coss said:
Northeast scotland - definitely drier to the west of scotland but yes we do get hit with cold, snow and recently wind :rolleyes: March/April can see 15+degrees C, rain, hail and high winds all in the same day, just to mix it up. But we do get "sunny scotland" in our area :)
However- as we are so used to snow, we don't take much notice of it, roads are pretty well looked after and most people get on with it, at least whilst its below 2ft deep... 3foot+ is hard work ;)
Land is very varied though - clay, stoney, petey etc... all very localised!
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Its all about being prepared with Snow, like Switzerland & Scandinavia (particularly north of the arctic circle) spend the spring spring cleaning after winter so its cared for in time for summer...and summer preparing for autumn/winter & the snow! I have to say its nice they have just dumped salt piles along the lanes, at least it shows willing & a little forethought...but prob also means they may be planning on leaving us to it when the worst hits us(1mm or so!:rolleyes:) I could cope with snow if we didn't have the sea (mud) blow it, esp this year...ben autumn for over a year now!! :D
 
Cambridgeshire I would usually say isn't too extreme weather wise but we are on clay ridge and furrow which is now more like bog and swamp. Disgusting and winter isn't even here yet. I'm contemplating the best places to go if I ever move based on ground drainage and bridlepaths!
 
I think the island of Gigha is supposed to have the most sunshine hours in the UK.
Definitely not my part of the world!
 
slightlyconfused said:
Bedfordshire mostly misses everything! So im voting for here:D
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Agreed - I am on Beds/Herts border and as we are pretty much in the middle of the country the worst of the weather has burnt itself out by the time it gets to us regardless of whether it is coming from the south/west/east/north.
 
Scrap Carmarthenshire too (I was near Pontardawe/Ammanford between two mountains for 9 years) :(

Excellent riding but 75% of the time it was wet/clammy/damp 2 days of the year it is perfect and the rest of the time it was like living in a tupperware box. I had SAD for 10 months of the year and my bones ached ALL year round. I loved Wales, just couldn't stand the climate anymore. I grew up in East Devon (Honiton area) funnily enough I don't recall the rainy days at all :eek:

Coming into my 7th winter here (can't believe we have been here so long) and even though it's wet today (but 16C) I don't feel the dread or depression at the onset of winter that I used to in the UK, even the hunting season didn't cheer me up that much :(
 
Some friends of mine have moved to Spain to live and taken their horses with them, purely because of the weather in the UK. I have to say I am sick of the weather too, but don't want to live in Spain, mostly because of their attitude to animal welfare. Definatly want some better weather though, lol.
 
Essex is frequently the driest place in britain :)

But we have clayey soil (not as bad as beds though) and so it can get a bit muddy
 
coss said:
Northeast scotland - definitely drier to the west of scotland but yes we do get hit with cold, snow and recently wind :rolleyes: March/April can see 15+degrees C, rain, hail and high winds all in the same day, just to mix it up. But we do get "sunny scotland" in our area :)
However- as we are so used to snow, we don't take much notice of it, roads are pretty well looked after and most people get on with it, at least whilst its below 2ft deep... 3foot+ is hard work ;)
Land is very varied though - clay, stoney, petey etc... all very localised!
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This - Not only can a lot of places like ours be on sand which means they drain well, our house and fields face south so frost goes quickly. We DO get feet of snow, so it wouldnt be ideal for competitive types but if you mainly want to ride spring summer autumn then it is ideal. We have the countryside of the Highlands but a lot less rain normally and in most places no midges!! AND the access rules up here cos of low population density and historical reasons mean you can use any track provided you dont trash it, imagine that. No point having lovely weather if you have hardly anywhere to hack out!
 
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