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Originally Posted by PalmettoStater

Rather than start a new thread, I'll ask this here.

How accurate are the sunshine hours for Golden listed on this site: Golden, Colorado Weather - Sunshine Hours

That can't be right ... can it? The city had 878 hours of sunshine all of last year? It had 2.1 total hours of sunshine in August?

That's highly variable and impossible to predict going forward.

What I can say is that most days throughout the year are generally sunny. There might be a couple days in a row here and there with mostly cloud coverage. But most days will have at least some sun. Last year seemed like a more "normal" Denver summer, where it started out cool and sunny in the morning (few clouds), got really hot in the afternoon, and got cloudy and rained for about 20-30 minutes around 4-5pm, cooling it off for the rest of the evening.

There is generally more cloud coverage during the winter months with a little more precipitation, but the difference is pretty nominal. It might be cloudy and snow all day one day and accumulate half a foot of snow or more, and the very next day, it can be sunny and most of the snow melts by the evening.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by PalmettoStater

Rather than start a new thread, I'll ask this here.

How accurate are the sunshine hours for Golden listed on this site: Golden, Colorado Weather - Sunshine Hours

That can't be right ... can it? The city had 878 hours of sunshine all of last year? It had 2.1 total hours of sunshine in August?

Judging by that data they are having/had a wardrobe failure with whatever their measuring device is. 2016 is missing several months worth of data. Look at 2014 and 2015 compared to 2016.

[emm74]

Sunshine hours is the amount of time that the solar energy being received is at least 75 percent of the maximum possible for that day and time.

That is what that link is claiming to measure, but I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.