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18/10ºC (64,4/50F) averages in August (the coldest month) and the hottest month has averages of 23/16ºC (73,4/60,8F)? For real? At a latitude inside the tropics? (22° 41′ 0″ S) it's even worse than Lima.
In fact actually there are 14ºC (57,2F) in Swakopmund. And it's 7.20PM there. Damn, that's 5.5ºC less than where I live at 38ºN latitude... and we got 1 month and a half to reach the winter, they got 1 month and a half to reach the summer. No comment. Don't even mentione the rain amount. 18mm on a year (0.71 inches).
Erie, PA. Same latitude as Rome but with no sunshine between October and April and endless lake effect snow. Spring is miserable due to proximity to the ice-cold lake. Summers are very humid.
Oh puhleeze. NO sunshine from October through April? Way to exaggerate.
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Typical climate on the east coast cursed with colder winters for its latitude and low sunshine hours. Nothing surprising here.
East Coast climates don't exactly have "low sunshine hours". Most have about 55-60% sunshine, which calling that "low" is as absurd as calling 40-45% sunshine "high".
Even if you take the 200-300 hours off from the discrepancy between other countries, that's still about 50-55% possible sunshine. Not exactly "low".
Oh puhleeze. NO sunshine from October through April? Way to exaggerate.
East Coast climates don't exactly have "low sunshine hours". Most have about 55-60% sunshine, which calling that "low" is as absurd as calling 40-45% sunshine "high".
Even if you take the 200-300 hours off from the discrepancy between other countries, that's still about 50-55% possible sunshine. Not exactly "low".
Ridiculous melodramatic exaggerations are all too common in this forum. In this country I noted a claim made by a resident in a town where winter fogs are reasonably frequent at times claim that there was "no sun for a month". Absolute nonsense of course.
Erie, PA. Same latitude as Rome but with no sunshine between October and April and endless lake effect snow. Spring is miserable due to proximity to the ice-cold lake. Summers are very humid.
Anything east of the Great Lakes is going to be disastrous. Aside from Chicago and parts of Michigan that whole part of the US is a mess, especially places on the east side of Lake Ontario, of course the Wisconsin side of the Great Lakes is horrible too
Ridiculous melodramatic exaggerations are all too common in this forum. In this country I noted a claim made by a resident in a town where winter fogs are reasonably frequent at times claim that there was "no sun for a month". Absolute nonsense of course.
Seriously. It's like people think anything less than like 99% sunshine is "low" or "no" sunshine.
People always seem to exaggerate cloudiness here in the US. Even the "cloudiest" places in the Eastern US average around 50% sunshine. Actual cloudy climates would kill for 50% sunshine. People don't know how good they have it here in terms of sunshine compared to other countries at temperate latitudes.
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Ridiculous melodramatic exaggerations are all too common in this forum. In this country I noted a claim made by a resident in a town where winter fogs are reasonably frequent at times claim that there was "no sun for a month". Absolute nonsense of course.
