ndaltonb

Hi gang,

If anyone is interested, I've spent a short time comparing temperatures, rainfall and sunshine for
Horsham, near Gatwick in the UK
Melbourne
Sydney
Johannesburg South Africa (as I used to live there as well)

Here is the data, just copy into Excel and graph it up.
1. Horsham has been "normalised" for a summer of christmas
2. all temps in centigrade and rain in mm
MAX and MIN temps are Average MAX and MIN, not record breaking temperatures.
3. Sunshine is average sunshine hours per day

Sites used
http://www.bom.gov.au
http://members.tripod.co.uk/HolidayWeather
http://www.weather.com

Have fun

Nigel db

MAX Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Horsham normed 22 21 18 15 10 7 7 7 9 12 16 19
Melbourne 26 26 24 20 17 14 13 15 17 20 22 24
Sydney 26 26 25 22 19 17 16 18 20 22 24 25
JHB 25 25 24 21 19 16 16 19 22 24 24 25

MIN Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Horsham normed 11 11 8 6 3 1 0 0 1 3 6 9
Melbourne 14 14 13 11 8 7 6 7 8 9 11 13
Sydney 19 19 17 15 11 9 8 9 11 13 16 17
JHB 15 15 14 11 8 5 5 8 10 12 13 14

MEAN Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Horsham normed 17 16 14 11 7 5 4 4 6 8 11 14
Melbourne 20 20 18 15 13 10 10 11 12 14 16 18
Sydney 22 22 21 18 15 13 12 13 15 18 20 21
JHB 20 20 19 16 13 11 11 13 16 18 19 20

RAIN Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Horsham normed 45 56 68 73 78 79 78 51 60 54 55 57
Melbourne 48 47 52 57 58 49 49 50 59 67 60 59
Sydney 103 111 131 130 123 129 103 80 69 83 81 78
JHB 150 129 110 48 24 6 10 10 25 65 126 141

Sunshine Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Horsham normed 7 7 5 4 3 2 2 3 4 6 7 8
Melbourne 8 7 6 5 4 3 4 4 5 6 7 7
Sydney 7 7 6 6 6 5 6 7 7 7 8 8
JHB 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9