well that is why I said ONE spot!
Come on Belem when science finds ONE spot in the Iberian Peninsula warmer than VARIOUS spots of South Crete and Karpathos on mean annual temperatures then we can see if South Crete and Karpathos are not the warmest in Europe.
Besides,it is obvious that Crete can beat any area of the Iberian Peninsula because of its geospatial position and southernmost geographical alignment!!You do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure this out
Mesogeiakos
That issue ( of weather station data favoring more some countries over the others, in certain aspects) was already discussed here before.
Due to several factors (not based on « how warm a place is»), weather stations were usually placed near human active zones...
While Portugal, for example, favoured places near cooler zones ( not because of it´s climate but because of other aspects ( transportations, etc...), Greece had human activity mostly on it´s warmest areas, so their weather stations were placed there ( mostly on sheltered lowlands). So here you see that you have a negative correlation between weather stations and warmest places...
You don´t need to be a rocket scientist, to understand what I´m saying to you... Just read a bit what was discussed here before on the threads regarding the warmest areas in Portugal or Iberia and you´ll get a better idea about this.
So the present results can give you a misleading result, because Portuguese warmest areas aren´t covered by any weather station ( not even close), while Greek warmest areas are covered by many weather stations. This is due to different geographical human activity distribution.
Spain is in an intermediate position I think, but a bit closer to Greece on this aspect, as their territories are covered by many more weather stations ( even relatively) than Portugal.
However, I doubt that their warmest places are covered by weather stations, as you have in Greece.
So while maybe y place maybe warmer than x place, you can´t get an overview about this subject yet... All you can do, is give your opinion and accept that other people think that the data is too scanty yet ( at least some people)...
I also doubt that most climatologists will pay attention to your claim...
You can only hypothetize and even for that is hard, very hard...
PS: Crete well, maybe yes, maybe not... But it sounds too biased to use it and forget the others islands, see my point?
The Costa´s map was based on IM weather stations, however does show up those results...
Imagine now, if we had weather stations on the warmest places.
