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Windsor will be the same sun hours as Toronto correct ?
No Windsor would be more like Detroit. Windsor being Canadian used the C-S method and averaged 2261 hours. Higher than places like Toulouse or Genoa or Milan or Venice. The poster makes it sound as if Detroit were nothing but cloud. You cannot go by Pt. Cloudy, Cloudy, Mostly Cloudy number of days etc. That is a highly inaccurate way to measure sunshine hours in the East cause we rarely get those days in summer. Most summer days are pt cloudy. I can't tell you how often the airport reading says mostly cloudy here, in any season, and the sun is shining bright and there are clouds about in the sky but far from cloudy.
Anyway, Detroit using the same numbers as Windsor is certainly not as gloomy as the Detroit poster believes compared to say northern Europe. What would he think living there considering Milan, Toulouse, Genoa, Bologna, Rimini, and Venice all get less sunshine hours annually than Windsor. Even a place like Plovdiv in Bulgaria is barely sunnier.
And keep in mind, Detroit is in one of the least sunny regions of the USA when you look at sunshine maps for this country. The Great Lakes are known for that due to winds blowing over the lakes and creating clouds and fog, etc. even in summer.
The diff between Detroit (US method) and Windsor (Europe method) is 172 hours. Now this is just anecdotal, but based on reading expat forums and talking to Americans (like my own brother) who have lived in Europe, they feel it is definitely cloudier than here and easily noticeable.
I think most Americans when living in Europe are surprised at how cloudy much of Europe really is compared to here, different sunshine methods notwithstanding.
No Windsor would be more like Detroit. Windsor being Canadian used the C-S method and averaged 2261 hours. Higher than places like Toulouse or Genoa or Milan or Venice. The poster makes it sound as if Detroit were nothing but cloud. You cannot go by Pt. Cloudy, Cloudy, Mostly Cloudy number of days etc. That is a highly inaccurate way to measure sunshine hours in the East cause we rarely get those days in summer. Most summer days are pt cloudy. I can't tell you how often the airport reading says mostly cloudy here, in any season, and the sun is shining bright and there are clouds about in the sky but far from cloudy.
Anyway, Detroit using the same numbers as Windsor is certainly not as gloomy as the Detroit poster believes compared to say northern Europe. What would he think living there considering Milan, Toulouse, Genoa, Bologna, Rimini, and Venice all get less sunshine hours annually than Windsor. Even a place like Plovdiv in Bulgaria is barely sunnier.
And keep in mind, Detroit is in one of the least sunny regions of the USA when you look at sunshine maps for this country. The Great Lakes are known for that due to winds blowing over the lakes and creating clouds and fog, etc. even in summer.
The diff between Detroit (US method) and Windsor (Europe method) is 172 hours. Now this is just anecdotal, but based on reading expat forums and talking to Americans (like my own brother) who have lived in Europe, they feel it is definitely cloudier than here and easily noticeable.
I think most Americans when living in Europe are surprised at how cloudy much of Europe really is compared to here, different sunshine methods notwithstanding.
my bad - i meant to say Detroit . Not sure why i said Toronto (a Canadian city at that ) .
anyway , i was just saying that Detroit and Windsor should measure up exactly . That could be the basis for getting accurate sun hours (or euro equiv)
Yep , i sure know how cloudy Europe is
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