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I think the high latitude inflates the number of sun hours because the summer is relatively clear in both regions (but especially in the PNW) and it doesn't get dark until 9 or even 10 PM.
The 2193 hours in Victoria are not inflated though. Victoria had 433 hours last July. I bet that no place in the UK has ever had that much sunshine in a month. Actually, I don't know that any place in the United States has even gotten this much sun a month either.
We can have very sunny summers if a european high settles over us.
Its not rare to see a month of constant sunshine. Also we have about 90 minutes of extra daylight to play with with 2 hours in Scotland.
We can have very sunny summers if a european high settles over us.
Its not rare to see a month of constant sunshine. Also we have about 90 minutes of extra daylight to play with with 2 hours in Scotland.
What, in Northern Ireland with your record monthly high of only 298 hours, the lowest of any country in the world with an equivalent climate and latitude? Bradford is an extremely dull city by almost anybody's standards, but it would still be the NI record holder for getting most sunshine in any one month...
Also.. you keep looking at our records but we actually have like six weather stations and they are all in the wrong places. We have no mountain stations, no coastal stations.
Also.. you keep looking at our records but we actually have like six weather stations and they are all in the wrong places. We have no mountain stations, no coastal stations.
Um...you mean last year when Victoria got nearly 50% more than anywhere in NI has ever got? Add up your two best months together from anywhere in the country from last year and they probably still don't get to 433.
They don't REALLY have the same kind of climate as here.
Its more maritime and Colder here.
I don't know why we are even comprising oceanic locations with continental locations.
Actually the western coastal isles of Scotland freeze about as rarely as the Oregon Coast. And equally lack a summer. Overall Northern Ireland and western Scotland are slightly colder than coastal Oregon and Washington, but not by very much.
Continental climates don't begin until you get to the east side of the Cascades.
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