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Sunshine hours has more to do with the fact that the sun sets here at 4:00pm in the winter. More often than not it's sunny or cloudy with sunny breaks.
by NathanCH 10y ago
Sunshine hours has more to do with the fact that the sun sets here at 4:00pm in the winter. More often than not it's sunny or cloudy with sunny breaks.
- acchow 10y agoI'm 95% sure that's not how the earth's orbit works. Sure, further from the equator makes your days shorter in the winter, but they're longer during the summer. It's awash.
- swsieber 10y agoIt is a wash, but judging from the comments the heavy rains/gloom come in the winter... so it could be a real explaination.
- acchow 10y agoActually, just the opposite. If most of the cloud cover/gloomy weather happened in the winter, then much of the clouds would be at night...which wouldn't dramatically reduce your sunshine hours. If the gloominess happened during long days, you'd really see a drop in mean sunshine hours.