Thursday 26 April 2012

April showers and rainy city myths

Manchester has a reputation for being perpetually rainy but read on as I play with some statistics. The Met Office show the city's average annual rainfall as 806.6 mm(31.76 inches), which is lower than the UK average of 1,125.0 mm (44.29 inches), and Manchester mean rain days are 140.4 per annum, lower than the UK average of 154.4.

Manchester does have a relatively high humidity level, which optimised the textile manufacturing (evidently threads break less in humid conditions) that transformed the region through the industrial revolution.

Thanks to Tim Sutton-Brand for the photo effects.

10 comments:

  1. Cool shot! Or should I say, rainy shot. Kudos to Tim for the effect...works well!

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  2. Great post and cool shot Chrissy. It is rainy and humid in DC right now. :(

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  3. It's a rainy day in Toronto as well. I like the soft focus on this one. It works well!

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  4. I love rain. Over here it might take now month until the next will fall. A great picture indeed. Please have a good Friday.

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  5. That's a delightful photo, Chrissy! The peripheral soft focus effect gives it quite a romantic feel.

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  6. Rainy and romantic. Nice life moment captured on camera.

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  8. I also got the feel of 'romance' about this image Chrissy, the soft edges and pink are lovely.

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