Is Torshavn really the gloomiest place in the world? (record, towns, meteorology)

[rock_chalk]

That's terrible. No heat, cold, sun, or snow. Just rain.

[RWood]

Originally Posted by Kaul

This is not the gloomiest place in the world, Cold Bay in the Aleutians is, as far as I know. look at my dream climate thread..
Cold Bay Climate Guide - Finding Film Locations - Filming on Location Pre-production Guide
I'm glad that you also have a preference for gloomy climates, something similar to where you are right now.

Cold Bay's sunshine total from those charts is high compared with even 1000 hours climates!!

[RWood]

Originally Posted by ben86

We've talked about the gloomiest places on Earth before and we think Torshavn is the gloomiest inhabited place on Earth with a permanent population (though Kinlochewe runs it close), though Bjørnøya in the southern part of the Svalbard archipelago is the absolute cloudiest, with 591 sun hours per year. And damn - I missed the deadline to apply for a job at the weather station there

Jobbe på Bjørnøya? - met.no

Soltid - Meteorologileksikon

And you talked about grey, long summer days - their July has non-stop daylight, so (31x24) 744 hours of possible sun I suppose, though their average for that month is only 79 hours, 11% of the possible!

Statistics: Bjornoya, Norway - The Weather Network

Yep, and I'm claiming Campbell (620-640) as silver medallist (fully open locations with no sky obstruction required).

[dhdh]

It's awkward that even Bjornoya has a higher sunshine total in April than Hong Kong. ^^

[Lunar Delta]

Sounds nice; my kind of weather.

[mianfei]

Originally Posted by Kaul

This is not the gloomiest place in the world, Cold Bay in the Aleutians is, as far as I know. look at my dream climate thread..
Cold Bay Climate Guide - Finding Film Locations - Filming on Location Pre-production Guide
I'm glad that you also have a preference for gloomy climates, something similar to where you are right now.

Where are your sunshine data for Cold Bay? I have been really seeking them out for a long time - though I have cloudiness data, I have very little data for sunshine over the North Pacific and am very interested

If you could give me them and tell me your source (and I will do this only after I can be sure of their accuracy). I had a look at those figures and they do not seem reliable (I have the same problem with southern Chile which probably has as little sun as the other notoriously gloomy subpolar oceanic climates).

[Kaul]

Originally Posted by mianfei

Where are your sunshine data for Cold Bay? I have been really seeking them out for a long time - though I have cloudiness data, I have very little data for sunshine over the North Pacific and am very interested

If you could give me them and tell me your source (and I will do this only after I can be sure of their accuracy). I had a look at those figures and they do not seem reliable (I have the same problem with southern Chile which probably has as little sun as the other notoriously gloomy subpolar oceanic climates).

I can't find any official sources for Cold Bay, but I'm sure it exists somewhere. According to this site, there are 354 days of cloud cover, that's 97% of the year.

Cloudiest Places in United States - Current Results

The Aleutians are very stormy, there's constant drizzling in the summer, and daily snowstorms in the winter. Just check the weather forecast for Cold Bay and compare that to Torshavn. Torshavn is no way as cloudy as the Aleutians, considering its location just north of England, in calmer waters of the North Sea.

[Kaul]

This picture from Wikipedia is of Torshavn. It doesn't look that cloudy to me, very sunny rather. This sunny sight would be extremely rare in Cold Bay, or the Aleutians in general. If Cold Bay has 354 days of overcast skies, Torshavan must have more to be the gloomiest, and these pictures must have been taken in one of those 7 rare days of sunny skies lol.



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[Kaul]

Originally Posted by Lunar Delta

Sounds nice; my kind of weather.

I agree. It seems like there are more people in this forum who prefer cool, cloudy weather over the hot, sunny ones. I wonder if the ratio in this forum could be very well representative of the general population!

[Dreamnine]

Nice pics! I'd skip the Faroes, though, and go on up to Iceland instead.