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Intersting that may is midnight sun when january is mostly civil polar night.
The midnight sun "summer" period sun in such latitude doesn't go much above horizon + no sun until mid feb (more like march because of the hills) + proximity to the sea make the season lag.
Sounds even more shocking considering January has 24 hours of darkness and May 24 hours of daylight!
That's not ever going to happen here, but we did have February 1998 average 6.6C and then April 1998 (unfortunately with the data from the 25th and 26th missing) average only 5.4C. Bradford has a full data set for both months, and April still ended up 0.6C colder than February and 0.2 colder than March that year. 14 April 1998 had a colder 24-hour daily mean than any other day that winter bar 1 and 2 December 1997. I can't imagine that happening again any time soon.
March 2013 was also the coldest month in the 2012/3 winter, and the final third of March colder than either of the first two.
Not temperature related, but what's shocking is that Feb 2008 was sunnier than August 2008, even though August's sunshine average is only about 60 hours less than the maximum possible amount of daylight in February!
Not temperature related, but what's shocking is that Feb 2008 was sunnier than August 2008, even though August's sunshine average is only about 60 hours less than the maximum possible amount of daylight in February!
In Blue Hill, Massachusetts (not that high only 600 feet) June 2009 had less sun (123 hours) than Februray 2009 (190 hours). Percentage-wise February and June are similar (56% vs 60%) but of course by hours the difference is large by about 55%.
Cloudiest recent month was December 2013 at 34% or 96 sunshine hours. I wonder if last December was cloudier? Reading the weather summaries, this must read as an odd combination:
The official summer (June, July and August) was cool, wet and sunny. The average temperature was 68.7 degrees, 0.3 degrees below the 30-year average. Total rainfall for the season was 13.71 inches, 2.75 inches above the normal precipitation for this time of year; note that almost half of this rainfall came during Hurricane Arthur, on July 4th and 5th. Sunshine hours totaled 897.47 hours; this is 154.47 hours above the average. All three summer months had well above average sunshine.
In Blue Hill, Massachusetts (not that high only 600 feet) June 2009 had less sun (123 hours) than Februray 2009 (190 hours). Percentage-wise February and June are similar (56% vs 60%) but of course by hours the difference is large by about 55%.
Cloudiest recent month was December 2013 at 34% or 96 sunshine hours. I wonder if last December was cloudier? Reading the weather summaries, this must read as an odd combination:
The official summer (June, July and August) was cool, wet and sunny. The average temperature was 68.7 degrees, 0.3 degrees below the 30-year average. Total rainfall for the season was 13.71 inches, 2.75 inches above the normal precipitation for this time of year; note that almost half of this rainfall came during Hurricane Arthur, on July 4th and 5th. Sunshine hours totaled 897.47 hours; this is 154.47 hours above the average. All three summer months had well above average sunshine.
Wet + sunny would be strange here in summer, but not in winter. In the country as a whole last winter was the wettest on record but the 8th sunniest. This time round we're possibly on target for the sunniest winter on record in my part of the country at least at halfway, yet rainfall is above average as well.
Cool + sunny referring to summer though just looks like a typo to me.
Aberdeen Dyce airport:
January 2012: 83.3 hours (+52%) beat
June 2012: 80.8 hours (-44%) and...
July 2012: 69.4 hours (-52%)
March 2012: 163.9 hours (+45%) beat both June and July put together!
That is so sick. Double the sunshine and June would still be the gloomiest since -81 in Turku. But January was sunnier than any January here. Not much compensation, though.
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