Interesting Statistics (Seattle, Vancouver: buy, living, assess)

[mea-oh]

irrational exuberance:

You forgot to include "partly cloudy" in your statistical analysis. I think you lumped partly cloudy and mostly cloudy into one "cloudy" category, but to me there's a significant difference. If it's a beautiful day but there are a few clouds around, that to me signifies partly cloudy. It certainly doesn't have to be clear to be a nice day. If it's very cloudy and you can't see the sun at all, or there are only a few sun breaks, I would classify that as mostly cloudy.

I think if you break down your data again, and separate partly and mostly cloudy from each other, you'll find a more realistic analysis.

[Botev1912]

Also half of the rainy days had precipitation of 0.05 or less inches which means it rained for 20 minutes

[swerver]

The weatherman on channel 5 said last night that partly cloudy means 30-60% of the sky is cloudy. They didn't say anything about the duration required.

[Botev1912]

It's much more accurate to use percentage of sunshine, so you know if there was 10% of sunshine today or 90%. But they don't do this in the US unfortunately

[tyx]

Originally Posted by irrational exuberance

IRA:

...last Saturday. I drove down to Centralia...

I think I have identified the source of your dysthymic colic. Too much time in Centralia and not enough time imbibing the elixer of the gods (beer!)

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

It's much more accurate to use percentage of sunshine, so you know if there was 10% of sunshine today or 90%. But they don't do this in the US unfortunately

Exactly. If they gave a stat like; The sun shines in Seattle a certain percentage of the year, one would get a more accurate picture of sunshine.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by tyx

I think I have identified the source of your dysthymic colic. Too much time in Centralia and not enough time imbibing the elixer of the gods (beer!)

Centralia isn't so bad. My dad used to live in Napavine!

[Botev1912]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

Exactly. If they gave a stat like; The sun shines in Seattle a certain percentage of the year, one would get a more accurate picture of sunshine.

43%

Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Seattle, Washington, United States of America

[Ira500]

Thanks for that link, Botev. That sunshine link means the percentage of sunny hours during daylight, and November, December, and January are all under 30%. Those months also happen to be the months with the least amount of daylight, so when you combine short days with dark, cloudy, rainy days..it's not too surprising that some people react to that with seasonal affective disorder.
But how do you explain the fact that Seattle leads the nation in per capita sales of sunglasses?
Is it that when the sun does come out, it seems so blindingly bright? Or is it that by the time the sun comes out, we've already lost the last pair of sunglasses we bought?

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Ira500

Thanks for that link, Botev. That sunshine link means the percentage of sunny hours during daylight, and November, December, and January are all under 30%. Those months also happen to be the months with the least amount of daylight, so when you combine short days with dark, cloudy, rainy days..it's not too surprising that some people react to that with seasonal affective disorder.
But how do you explain the fact that Seattle leads the nation in per capita sales of sunglasses?
Is it that when the sun does come out, it seems so blindingly bright? Or is it that by the time the sun comes out, we've already lost the last pair of sunglasses we bought?

LOL or it could be that the days or so freaking long that you'd better have eye protection during summer.

Botev, nice link