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Al R

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Not sure I'd bank on the weather being similar to Wales, particularly since Wales is fairly well sheltered by Ireland.

Winds are cold, strong and relentless, not many trees, which tells it's own tale.
No shelter down here from Ireland.... not many trees either!
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If you keep going straight from there you’d end up in Brazil, Cuba.

A couple were walking through the farm yard here last week from the Falklands and stopped for a chat while I was bellying lambs, they were saying it gets a lot hotter and a lot colder on the falklands, the weather forecasters gave a daily report on sheep weather, if shorn and the weather turned bad they could either freeze to death or burn.
 
No shelter down here from Ireland.... not many trees either!
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If you keep going straight from there you’d end up in Brazil, Cuba.

A couple were walking through the farm yard here last week from the Falklands and stopped for a chat while I was bellying lambs, they were saying it gets a lot hotter and a lot colder on the falklands, the weather forecasters gave a daily report on sheep weather, if shorn and the weather turned bad they could either freeze to death or burn.
Perhaps not in your specific area, but the most of Wales has Ireland to the west, so at least there is a land mass within 40 or 50 miles to break the weather a bit.
West Wales isn't an attractive prospect, but I'd still bank on it being a bit kinder than the Falklands.
My mate said that it was more extreme like you have said, summer was nice if you could ignore how bleak and barren it was, he described winter time as hell on earth.

Looking at Google earth the islands looks more like the terrain of Wester Ross than the relatively fertile looking West Wales coast.
Although I'd rather avoid all 3 unless I was going on holiday in summer. :)
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
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West Wales
Perhaps not in your specific area, but the most of Wales has Ireland to the west, so at least there is a land mass within 40 or 50 miles to break the weather a bit.
West Wales isn't an attractive prospect, but I'd still bank on it being a bit kinder than the Falklands.
My mate said that it was more extreme like you have said, summer was nice if you could ignore how bleak and barren it was, he described winter time as hell on earth.

Looking at Google earth the islands looks more like the terrain of Wester Ross than the relatively fertile looking West Wales coast.
Although I'd rather avoid all 3 unless I was going on holiday in summer. :)
We just had a summer in June, the first 1 that I remember where it hasn’t rained every few days. August and September were ridiculously wet like normal years.
I preferred the weather I had in Warkwickshire when I worked there, you knew the winters were cold and dry, the summers were hot and dry, none of this monsoon weather 50 weeks of the year with howling winds.
 
We just had a summer in June, the first 1 that I remember where it hasn’t rained every few days. August and September were ridiculously wet like normal years.
I preferred the weather I had in Warkwickshire when I worked there, you knew the winters were cold and dry, the summers were hot and dry, none of this monsoon weather 50 weeks of the year with howling winds.
I can't like that but I know what you mean, it was the same when I was in NI, milder than eastern Scotland but the rain and terrible ground conditions were beyond a joke most years.
 

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