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Approximately 2,600 hours for sun, give or take 100. Rainfall, I'm not sure. Maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 inches?
Hmmm this might have been before I realized how inflated US sunshine figures were. Probably more like 2,200 hours...estimate of the annual sunshine where I live.
Coming from somewhere with about 1600 hours of sun a year.. it is not enough. It sounds worse than it is though, as we have short winter days that are often gloomy, from May - September our sunshine levels are normally alright though.
My preference is for around 3,000 hours of sunshine, and precipitation about 800mm a year. Summer precipitation should come only from thunderstorms
Hmmm this might have been before I realized how inflated US sunshine figures were. Probably more like 2,200 hours...estimate of the annual sunshine where I live.
If your climate is anything like Scranton you may average less than 2200 hours. I'd say Philly averages about 2200 to 2400 varying dry years vs wet years.
Coming from somewhere with about 1600 hours of sun a year.. it is not enough. It sounds worse than it is though, as we have short winter days that are often gloomy, from May - September our sunshine levels are normally alright though.
My preference is for around 3,000 hours of sunshine, and precipitation about 800mm a year. Summer precipitation should come only from thunderstorms
Good point. Don't you think Brits like to complain about lack of sun, yet Britain gets more sun than places in East Asia. China seems pretty cloudy in summer.
1000mm as a maximum, though even more importantly no more than 120 wet days, and no more than 30mm/5days in a summer month.
Dull winters would be more bearable if summers were reliably sunny, 200 hours monthly is par from May-August for me, in recent summers we've had months here below 100 hours which is at joke considering the longest day is 17 hours long. That's my biggest bugbear with the UK- those wretched cloudy summers.
If reflecting to my own climate, both high sunshine and high precipitation is rather impossible. I can never get enough of sunshine in summer, if there's some rain and thunderstorms once in a while. 1100 hours of sun would be maybe the max at this latitude during Jun-Aug. In spring and autumn I'm well happy with 40% of the possible, even 35%. A 75% possible sunshine in October would seem foul. In December it might as well be 15% of the possible, I don't care.
The precipitation here is near perfect, so 1000 mm a year could be the limit. Depends when it falls and how. More thundery downpours, yes, more autumn drizzle or spring drought, no.
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