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To add to that, I looked at the normals for Spokane - it is at 47N, and even taking into account the inflated US sunshine hours recorded.. it seems insanely high compared to similar latitudes on the western sides of other continents.. does anybody know why this is? Somewhere such as Tours in France at a similar latitude gets nowhere near the same amount of sunshine, and definitely not above 350 hours in summer
It's on the eastern side of the mountain range in a rain shadow. It doesn't get much rain. Plus the 2575 hours of sunshine it gets, even if you chopped off 10% to supposedly meet CS instrument readings, I wouldn't say that's so extreme. It's in the interior of the country..
If you notice the interior of Canada also sees over 2300 hours of sun (as measured by CS)
Even Yellowknife gets 2300 hours. The sunniest places in Canada (Medicine Hat and Calgary areas) get over 2500 hours. The sunniest places in BC (Victoria and Cranbrook) get just over 2200 hours.
As for Spokane, it doesn't get very much sun in the winter, so I would assume that it gets more in the summer than anywhere on the Canadian prairies.
Cambium, where do you get that map from? The 100 degrees is Lytton. I'm at the 91 just to the east of the two 97s (Kamloops and Princeton).
Even Yellowknife gets 2300 hours. The sunniest places in Canada (Medicine Hat and Calgary areas) get over 2500 hours. The sunniest places in BC (Victoria and Cranbrook) get just over 2200 hours.
As for Spokane, it doesn't get very much sun in the winter, so I would assume that it gets more in the summer than anywhere on the Canadian prairies.
Cambium, where do you get that map from? The 100 degrees is Lytton. I'm at the 91 just to the east of the two 97s (Kamloops and Princeton).
Yeah, i'm pretty sure Spokane is cloudy in the winter like it is in the Okanagan and other BC interior valleys.
They just see more summer sunshine.
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