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Who here hates cold and cloudy wintry days? We have a thread for hating sun, lets have a thread for hating actual crap weather! I live in one of the worst places in the galaxy for cloud, and seeing no sunshine at all for 3-5 months straight with icy 55F days and constant dampness and drizzle, and without a summer to make up for it, you tend to get jaded. Real freaking jaded
Wintry days don't make me mad, as long as there is no rain or wind which is rare (because my area is the winner for having say 39-45 and rain, that happened many a time last winter with 1 day of snow in mid Feb). Its rare that we are in the 30s or 40s without wind, which makes it cold. 50s in midwinter was nice for me last winter, which was the coldest since the late 70s.
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Here clouds are an every day fact of life so I have to get used to it. This June we have a dismal 50 hours of sunshine so far, probably less than Melbourne (and it's winter there) so we truly are damned with our wx.
Melbourne has had an appalling 37 hours so far in June actually, with an average of 3.1 hours per day. This is actually cloudier than another other June during my lifetime here. ALL HAIL GLOBAL WARMING - TEH GREATEST MORAL CHALLENGE OF OUR TIME ZOMGOSH HOLY CRAP ON A STICK!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
By comparison, Hobart has had 47 hours, Sydney 69 hours, Adelaide 51 hours....
no need to mention Perffffffff and Dickbane as they are no doubt close to 100 hours
LOL you can come and enjoy a Buxton July this year just to see the summer crap we have to contend with, probably barely warmer than a Melbourne July!
Back in August 2008 Buxton recorded only 71 hours of sunshine! Given a max day length of 14.5 hours, that's atrocious.
Not to mention it's not unusual for us to go an entire June-July-August without a single thunderstorm. We haven't even had a thunderstorm here so far this year yet, I had to go to Leicester for a week to get the only two (weak) T-storms I've seen this year, and that was by pure chance on a business trip.
Melbourne has had an appalling 37 hours so far in June actually, with an average of 3.1 hours per day. This is actually cloudier than another other June during my lifetime here. ALL HAIL GLOBAL WARMING - TEH GREATEST MORAL CHALLENGE OF OUR TIME ZOMGOSH HOLY CRAP ON A STICK!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
By comparison, Hobart has had 47 hours, Sydney 69 hours, Adelaide 51 hours....
no need to mention Perffffffff and Dickbane as they are no doubt close to 100 hours
EPIC FAIL
OUCH!!!
I can't really complain after that, but these clouds are getting me sick, it's supposed to be sunny & 86F (30C) today with a t-storm later but it's cloudy & 77F (25C). It's only 11:43 AM but still, it's just these stupid clouds.
I only support clouds if there's a thunderstorm on the way, we haven't even had a real one yet which is very rare for anywhere in the Eastern 2/3rds of the U.S., like it's mid-June with no real T-Storm YET???
I live in Oregon's Willamette Valley and have seen it go from late November clear to mid March with out one fully sunny day. I don't have exact sunshine figures as are presented for such sunshine magnets as Buxton and Melbourne, but I can state that we have gone as many as 75 and more consective days with no sunbreaks whatsoever and very likely have totaled less than 24 hours for an entire winter season. That's rare, mind, and I have also been fortunate enough to see it sunny from sunrise to sunset for up to 20 of 31 days in January. That happened in 1986 and not since.
High latitude places in both hemispheres are subject to extensive periods of clouds and gloom. One spot to check out is Bahia Felix on Chile's southern coast......an average of 345 days per year of measurable precipitation and yearly sunshine totals in single digits. Yecch!
Fod God's sake mate, what about me, with less than half the annual sunshine that Melbourne gets? I think that deserves "sympathy".
Maybe this will help: In January 2004 we had 14 hours of sunshine. Some time a decade a go areas in this part of England had around 2-8 hours of sunshine in January once.
Buxotn gets between 10-30% of the maximum possible sunshine in a year, so about 1,000 hours of sunshine. In a good year, we may get 1,200 hours, but that's very rare, only happening in 2003 and 2006 in the last decade.
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