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Prove your bi-polar assertion re daily quantities - I don't believe it. There's 13 months' or so back data for Townsville and many other stations directly available from the BOM site. You have to then make comparisons with other places to establish your claim!
If you're just tlaking about alternation of cloud cover within a given day, there's probably no data available.
I can't prove it.
It does alternate a lot here.
I was just wondering if someone knows which conditions favour the development of overcast skies.
*Yes FlightSimmer, Wyndham would be a great climate for me*
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It's a hole. A house that looks like something out of 3rd world Africa costs $700,000 or about $500 week in rent
I know a part-Maori girl who used to live up in Hedland. She used to get violently bashed up by the aborigines there. I've heard a lot of bad things about it. I have passed through it...just a big industrial mining town and port.
Port Hedland is just in the only part of Australia that, according to the BOM, boasts over 10 hours a day of sun on average.
It's a hole. A house that looks like something out of 3rd world Africa costs $700,000 or about $500 week in rent
Yep, it's little more than overpriced mining/construction camp at the moment.
The WA government's Pilbara Cities Initiative is setting target populations of 50,000 for both Port Hedland and Karratha by 2035, so if all goes to plan they might be a lot more appealing in the future.
I know a part-Maori girl who used to live up in Hedland. She used to get violently bashed up by the aborigines there. I've heard a lot of bad things about it. I have passed through it...just a big industrial mining town and port.
Port Hedland is just in the only part of Australia that, according to the BOM, boasts over 10 hours a day of sun on average.
That would bring Port Hedland's annual sunshine to atleast 3700 hours. Shame this wasn't milked by the early settlers. From the pics of the town I've seen, it appears everything is covered in this rust-coloured silt, similar to Whyalla in SA. Not appealing at all.
It makes me wonder if there is anywhere in Australia that exceeds 4000 hours. There is absolutely nothing in the way of weather stations or sunshine recorders over such a vast part of the Pilbara and Kimberley, I would expect somewhere way out in the desert to record around 4000 hours, away from the coast and monsoon, but still far enough north and inland to avoid frontal cloud and low pressure systems. For the same reason, I would not be the least be surprised if there are places that are hotter in summer than Marble Bar.
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Yep, it's little more than overpriced mining/construction camp at the moment.
The WA government's Pilbara Cities Initiative is setting target populations of 50,000 for both Port Hedland and Karratha by 2035, so if all goes to plan they might be a lot more appealing in the future.
Karratha actually looks decent from what I've seen, better than Port Hedland with proper housing and infrastructure. And cleaner aswell.
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