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Yuma is way too hot starting in late April and doesn't cool off enough to be comfortable until mid October. Growing anything I can eat requires a lot more rain than falls here and even with irrigation, the soils around here are so alkaline that I would have to amend it constantly. I like a lot more sun than my locale gets now but 4100+ hours is a bit much - even for me (assuming Wikipedia stats are accurate - they aren't always).
Torshavn......Hoo boy. Even in sun deprived Corvallis OR, we get more sunshine than Torshavn's best efforts in 9 of 12 months. And as gloomy as our winters are, they aren't a whole lot worse than this cloud magnet's summertime averages.
Those 210 days of measurable precip? They are likely based on a standard of 1 mm rather than the American standard of 0.01 inch or about 0.25 mm. If we used 0.01" as a reference then Torshavn may have as many as 280 or even 300 days of measurable precipitan annually.
I find mildewing in public to be quite embarrasing so this is one spot to cross off my bucket list...
In an older thread Yuma's sunhsine rating was reckoned to be about 3700-3800 from a different type of measurement. Still very sunny though. Torshavn fits my "unliveable" bill perfectly.
Torshavn is the stuff of nightmares for me. Yuma is divine for half of the year. The other half is pretty awful, but I can imagine it'd be tolerable with aircon during the day and swimming at midnight.
June in Yuma is just inhumane, July-August are close, but not quite due to the monsoon. Precipitation in Yuma is horrible and April-October are too hot.
Torshavn may be gloomy, but summers aren't terrible and temperatures are never that bad.
Yuma gets a "Worse than hell-", and Torshavn a D. So Torshavn it is.
Both are awful climates but it will have to be Yuma. It looks pleasant enough from November to March but horrendous the rest of the year. The Faeroes are abysmal all year round and don't know how anyone can live in such an isolated, remote and gloomy place
Summer 2007 and 2012 here were like Faeroe Island summers and depressing does not begin to describe those experiences. I would rather be stuck indoors in an air conditioned house looking out at blue skies than stuck in a centrally heated house looking out at grey drizzly muck.
Torshavn is the actual hell. Can't believe so many people are allergic to sunshine on this forum. Drug addiction must run rife here. Should pose this question on the Australian Weather Forum..... guarantee that Yuma would not get a single vote
Bleh, this is really sort of a coin-toss. Yuma is a more-miserable Phoenix, and Torshavn is just too wet and cool. Cloudiness doesn't bother me at all though, spent enough winter-time in the Willamette valley area of Oregon.
Yuma easily. Torshavn is just too cool and gloomy year round with non existent summers. Yuma summers are too hot but at least I could adopt a nocturnal lifestyle during those months.
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