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How is this place so dull at low latitude and low elevation, particularly in June-August with low rainfall? I'd have expected it to get twice as much sun.
I'm very sceptical about the sunshine numbers. Thye are far too low for the given cloud cover amounts. Unless the recording site loses a lot of daylight, I think they're almost certainly wrong.
According to your average annual oktas of cloud figures, the place gets 34% of the max possible sunshine therefore around 1,500hrs, which is still crap but not as bad as Buxton.
This place is in the state of Sao Paulo, on the coast, and gets well over twice the rainfall of somewhere like Rio de Janeiro.
The climate is typical of a subtropical or semi-tropical place, with little seasonal variation.
However, I seriously doubt the very low sunshine figures during winter, especially June, considering these are the driest months.
Even allowing for the incredible rainfall, I would expect sunshine hours to be on a par with somewhere like Sao Paulo.
Reminds me a bit about those climates in China/south-east Asia discussed often here, that seem very hot in summer but cloudy like mad. Don't know if that is typical of many wet tropical climates (the "rainforesty" type) though.
How is this place so dull at low latitude and low elevation, particularly in June-August with low rainfall? I'd have expected it to get twice as much sun.
That's very simple. As a ocean border city, it's under sea humid winds influence, when it shocks itself against mountains around that town, we have the answer for your question. A covered up sky even in winter. Ubatuba isn't as sunny as Rio de Janeiro. Think about São Paulo mountain ridge as a 2,400 feet fortress. With my city on the top.
That's very simple. As a ocean border city, it's under sea humid winds influence, when it shocks itself against mountains around that town, we have the answer for your question. A covered up sky even in winter. Ubatuba isn't as sunny as Rio de Janeiro. Think about São Paulo mountain ridge as a 2,400 feet fortress. With my city on the top.
So its topography is like Milford Sound in New Zealand, which I might have guessed with that rainfall. Still, that sun is amazingly low unless half the sun gets blocked by mountains, perhaps the lowest anywhere at such a low latitude at sea level?
Last edited by ben86; 05-12-2011 at 03:48 AM..
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