Average Annual Tempatures of UK Caves

[Amy]

Caveshat 

  OMG I think I love you  :kiss2:

 

[Peter Burgess]

Steady now, I think you should sort out the kind of chat sites you visit first!

 

[Cavemud]

Cave shat or Cavechat? 

More often than not its Caveshat!

 

[Pitlamp]

A mate of mine (the same one referred to in the Christmas Cracker thread about bats) has been measuring cave waters in the Dales for many years. He reckons that percolation inlets are normally close to 8 degrees C (but points out that the temperature in streamways varies much more, depending on surface temperatures). It's a bit warmer in the south of England; the effect of latitude on cave temperature is apparent even in a small country like the UK. (I remember being amazed the first time I saw folk diving in Wookey Hole (in the south) without any gloves on. I'd never contemplate that in northern England!)

 

[graham]

A mate of mine (the same one referred to in the Christmas Cracker thread about bats) has been measuring cave waters in the Dales for many years. He reckons that percolation inlets are normally close to 8 degrees C (but points out that the temperature in streamways varies much more, depending on surface temperatures). It's a bit warmer in the south of England; the effect of latitude on cave temperature is apparent even in a small country like the UK. (I remember being amazed the first time I saw folk diving in Wookey Hole (in the south) without any gloves on. I'd never contemplate that in northern England!)

It isn't entirely latitude, though. The cave waters in Co. Clare are somewhat warmer than both Mendip and the Dales despite being nearly as far north as the latter. Something to do with the Gulf Stream, I suspect.

 

[whitelackington]

Or elevation  :-\

 

[Leclused]

And elevation    (See my reply earlier in this thread)

Alpine caves are (much) colder then caves on the same latitude on sea level.