Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Winter daylight is limited to so that will accentuate the 'gloominess'.
See now I don't agree with this. If every day in winter were to feature crystal clear skies, but say the time from sunrise to sunset is only a short few hours, I wouldn't consider that to be gloom. To me, overcast skies make gloom, not the shortness of hours between sunrise and sunset.
They'll usually have snow on the ground in winter though to reflect the light, so it probably doesn't feel as gloomy as the Northern Isles of Scotland would with near-identical winter sunshine hours and daylengths.
6 hour days with the sun setting at 2pm will feel gloomy, especially if the trees are bare, the grass brown and everything lifeless.
In Seattle, it is dark before 5 PM in the winter. Granted we get a couple more hours of daylight, on a clear day it seems hardly 'gloomy' around here. It's on those overcast, drizzly days that things seem 'gloomy', especially when it's the 20th such day in a row with no let up to that streak in sight.
Anyway my original point was going to be shorter daylight hours can be misleading with regards to sunshine statistics. With short daylight hours, the slightest bit of cloud will have a more pronounced effect because daylight hours are already so short.
Good climate if you are a winter lover, otherwise not much to write home about. I gave it a D+. Could have been a C- but the lack of sunshine and marginal summers pushed it down into D range.
My hometown of Riga is just barely warmer and sunnier to earn a C-.
We are still talking about only 10% of the possible sunshine for some of the places I listed. That is however still a lot better than the 3-4% in June at dear old unpolluted subAntarctic Campbell.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
