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Impressively mild winters for the subarctic latitude and summers slightly warmer than I was expecting, but those sunshine statistics are amazingly low for somewhere not at altitude - most towns even in the higher parts of Scotland get at least 1000 hours. Almost up there with Schefferville or Dallol in the unliveable stakes for me, horribly depressing in the autumn and winter, and anywhere where it spends more time raining than sunny is a definite no-go for me. Under four hours of sun a day in July, when 17 hours is probably possible
D. I would have given it a C if the sunshine wasn't so terrible. Can anyone think of cloudier places?
I was wondering that myself, Campbell island is cloudier but it's uninhabited so nobody has to experience it - Is there anywhere inhabited worse than this (there are possibly small villages nearby which are worse, but no data)?
D. I would have given it a C if the sunshine wasn't so terrible. Can anyone think of cloudier places?
F(+). To be fair, I understand the site where sunshine is measured has obstruction from nearby hills or the like. The % of sun will not be quite as low as it appears.
At the risk of repeating myself too often - Campbell Is 640 hrs/year, Signy claims under 600.
F(+). To be fair, I understand the site where sunshine is measured has obstruction from nearby hills or the like. The % of sun will not be quite as low as it appears.
At the risk of repeating myself too often - Campbell Is 640 hrs/year, Signy claims under 600.
Sure, particularly in midwinter when the sun would only get to 9 degrees above the horizon there would be a lot of hours of sunshine blocked by mountains in that location. But if anybody knows the answer then it would probably be you - anywhere with a permanent population that has less than 894 sun hours/say 1000 (to be generous) on a completely flat horizon? I looked up Macquarie island, but it seems that only has a base, no permanent residents.
Sure, particularly in midwinter when the sun would only get to 9 degrees above the horizon there would be a lot of hours of sunshine blocked by mountains in that location. But if anybody knows the answer then it would probably be you - anywhere with a permanent population that has less than 894 sun hours/say 1000 (to be generous) on a completely flat horizon? I looked up Macquarie island, but it seems that only has a base, no permanent residents.
I can't name one offhand, but I strongly suspect some towns in northern Norway and Svalbard (Spitsbergen), as a first guess.
For the period 1941-1995, Campbell Is was occupied as a base - met. staff doing 6-monthly tours.
I suspect the Aleutians and islands in the Bering sea (SAB mentioned St. Paul island in that thread) could be cloudier than Scotland. But it's hard to get sunshine hours of American sites.
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