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Hmmm. I didn't realise the Mediterranean had edged up into the Arctic
Circle. Um..... Hang on.... what other coast does Suffolk have? Has
Suffolk moved south, perhaps?

Special litle micro-climate; all the heavy rain and cloud has to cross the
UK to get to us so we have lots of sunny days and relatively low rainfall.
The sea close by keeps us warm in winter and cool in summer.

Hmmmm.

We only get extremes of weather when the wind blows off the continent,
giving us cold air in the winter and hot air in the summer.

And as I remember it there is nothing nothing higher than the East
Anglian Heights between that region and the Urals.... ....and east winds
tend to be commoner in the winter....

Only one day of snow last winter, and the grass grows all the year round.
Palm trees grow outside (well, Yuccas anyway) and geraniums overwinter
outside in pots.

So they should - or do you mean pelargoniums? And yuccas survive
more-or-less anywhere. (I've got about a dozen date palms sprouting -
since it can get very cold in the desert at night, I guess they ought to
be hardy?)

So not bad for the U.K.

They have real palms at Poolewe, and corals live in the Minches.

And as you mention it, I think someone has moved the Arctic Circle in the
last ten years - it certainly seems a lot warmer. :-)

This probably explains why i have a windowsill full of lemon trees,
granadillo vines, date palms and tamarinds - not to mention
(j)chhhhhhhhhalapino chillis.

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