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[quote=cjg5;26592547] Although sunshine hours between the two has slightly less than a ten hour difference!)[/quote]
Sunshine difference - Hobart Aero's value from BOM tables is about 2320 hours - and we've already had the endless argument about Seattle's value, but at either 43% of possible (city) or 47% (airport) it is well behind Hobart. Don't fancy either place, but that gives Hobart a win for me.
Sunshine difference - Hobart Aero's value from BOM tables is about 2320 hours - and we've already had the endless argument about Seattle's value, but at either 43% of possible (city) or 47% (airport) it is well behind Hobart. Don't fancy either place, but that gives Hobart a win for me.
Wikipedia - wrong as usual.
It annoys me how much warmer and sunnier Tasmania is than the South Island, especially places like Launceston, which beat anywhere in NZ for sunshine.
Sunshine difference - Hobart Aero's value from BOM tables is about 2320 hours - and we've already had the endless argument about Seattle's value, but at either 43% of possible (city) or 47% (airport) it is well behind Hobart. Don't fancy either place, but that gives Hobart a win for me.
Wikipedia - wrong as usual.
Hobart Airport is well away from the main part of the city, with 100mm less average annual rainfall, so the sunshine is higher. The Hobart city station does not record sunshine any more, but when it did the number of hours was about 100 lower.
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Originally Posted by ChesterNZ
It annoys me how much warmer and sunnier Tasmania is than the South Island, especially places like Launceston, which beat anywhere in NZ for sunshine.
Hobart Airport is well away from the main part of the city, with 100mm less average annual rainfall, so the sunshine is higher. The Hobart city station does not record sunshine any more, but when it did the number of hours was about 100 lower.
Blenheim average is about 2470 hours. Even at 100 hours less, Hobart would still beat Seattle (at either % value, especially the 43!)
Given the fact that New Zealand is more maritime than Tasmania, it is quite unreasonable to expect its stats. to be any better than they are - and if it were 500k or so further east, they would be worse.
My rating is a D+/C-. Too cool on average during the summer, and the winters are somewhat chilly but not cold enough to snow except on exceptional occasions. Sunshine is OK but as others have said it lacks thunderstorm activity (around 5 days a year IIRC).
Nada given it's location on the drier and sunnier eastern side of the island. If it were located on the west coast, that would be a totally different story...
Horrible subarctic oceanic maritime soiled diaper of a climate. YUCK ice cold summers, cold overcast drizzly winters and no thunderstorms, everything you could hate in a climate.
B-. Not bad, but I would rate it behind my own climate, which is similar. Hobart has colder maximums, less sun, more rain days, but has a lot less frost, warmer winter minimums, and under half the rainfall.
Also similar to here in having snow nearby, while seldom experiencing it, although it does get it more than here.
It would appear that the temperatures are never seriously unpleasant for any length of time.
The surprise to me is that while the winter high temperatures and the low temperatures are not vastly different from the averages, those summer high records are just totally off the chain! 41° when expecting 21°! (C).
In Detroit (Dfa) the reverse is the case. Winter and spring record highs and lows can be more than 20° C above or below normal, while summer records are much closer to the norm (+9°C for a typical July high - 38° vs. 29°, even closer for lows - 13° vs, 19°).
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