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I have no idea how people manage to live in such a place. It makes London look like a warm sunny dry paradise.
OMG ! London is indeed the Costa del Sol or Corfu compared to that place!
Even that extremely rainy Colombian city that was featured here last week looks like a sunny resort compared to this. Just imagine a sunless December with nearly a foot of rain. The inhabitants of Kinlochewe must be the whitest people on earth...
OMG ! London is indeed the Costa del Sol or Corfu compared to that place!
Even that extremely rainy Colombian city that was featured here last week looks like a sunny resort compared to this. Just imagine a sunless December with nearly a foot of rain. The inhabitants of Kinlochewe must be the whitest people on earth...
See my note in the poll thread. Not quite as bad as it looks.
I've recently moved from a place with about 1300 hours on the west coast of Scotland to a place with over 3000 hours in Southern California. The difference is quite extreme, I'd say that I would prefer a point in the middle somewhere closer to say 2000 hours. No less though as Scotland seems insanely dark compared with here. A dry climate is more important to me though.
I'm fairly certain I could handle less than 1800 just fine, though I don't think I'd enjoy a place that's closer to 1000 (or less!). I grew up in the Nashville area, and if Wikipedia is to be trusted, it averages about 2500. To me, it seemed oppressively sunny. I believe where I live now is closer to 2000, perhaps a little less, and it's just fine to me. But it could be cloudier throughout summer and I wouldn't mind at all.
It's odd, but I've lived in one of those sub 1200 hours a year month, and I don't remember it being particularly grim. It was Buckie, near Elgin in northern Scotland, and while grey was the norm, I only really remember the extra grey hours in terms of what I think of as autumnal skies coming in August rather than October or November. What I didn't like about the weather was the persistent drizzle and the chilly winds off the firth, but the sunlight wasn't particularly troublesome.
Given that I've also lived in Cairo ( well over 3000 hours annually ), I guess sunshine just doesn't matter than much to me.
In terms of weather hells, if someone said "You will have to take only a 1000 hours of sunlight annually OR five months of below-freezing weather OR three meters of snow," cloudiness is definitely my poison. I like sun, but I really don't mind cloud.
Where I live it's just below 1800 and it can be a bit too much for me at times. Just now there was more than a week of pure sunshine and combined with 18+ hour days it was starting to get on my nerves. Something like 1200-1500 would be better.
I find 2370 hours (average in my city) barely tolerable as it is. Seems like there are endless stretches of overcast days in winter and lots of cloudy days in summer. So, anything 2000 hours or less is unlivable in my book. 1500 hours and less, I'd be dead from alcohol-induced liver cirrhosis by now. I honestly could not stand a climate cloudier than Melbourne
The wide variation and subjectivity of weather preference is perfectly demonstrated by Flight Simmer and Hiromant. Flight Simmer finds 2400 hours too cloudy, and Hiromant finds 1800 hours too sunny .
The wide variation and subjectivity of weather preference is perfectly demonstrated by Flight Simmer and Hiromant. Flight Simmer finds 2400 hours too cloudy, and Hiromant finds 1800 hours too sunny .
Both are outliers at opposite ends of the distribution. You can point to Verne Troyer or Yao Ming as examples of the wide variation in human height, but that doesn't change the fact that 99% of the adult male population are between 5' 5'' and 6' 3''. Weather forums will naturally tend to have a much higher representation of extreme tastes than the rest of the population.
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! London is indeed the Costa del Sol or Corfu compared to that place!
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