Do You Buy Sunshine Stats All The Time? (climate, record, rainfall)

[Texyn]

I just can't help but notice some incongruities that occur with sunshine stats. For example, why is Naples cloudier in winter than Miami, when both are in South Florida, under a tropical wet-dry season regime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples...hy_and_climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami#Climate

Incongruities like that cause me not to buy sunshine stats, not without a grain of salt. Or at least seek any explanation that can cause those incongruities.

[BMI]

No.

Good example is Redding, California

Not even close to being desert....it gets almost 40 inches of rain a year
and yet it has almost 4000 annual sunshine hours....sounds fishy to me.

As for Naples vs Miami .... Springs agree abit strange,
isn't Naples a bit drier? ....it has a bigger diurnal range than Miami.

[Botev1912]

But Redding almost has no cloud in the sky in spring, summer and first part of fall and only 78 rainy days. It's really sunny there.

[jgtheone]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

But Redding almost has no cloud in the sky in spring, summer and first part of fall and only 78 rainy days. It's really sunny there.

Nowhere near sunny enough to get 4000 annual. It's most likely around 3300-3500.

[Texyn]

I just checked out Redding. Yep, the sunshine hours there are suspect. I understand late Spring-early Fall (Med climate regime), but the rest of the year does not add up:

- 5+ inches of rain in every winter month
- Frequent rainfall that season as well, including nearly half of January on average featuring rainy days.
- The weather from October-April is said to either be rainy or foggy

Yet somehow, the sunshine hours for are higher than Miami's, even though the latter sees a fraction of the rainfall, with much less rain days during winter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddin...fornia#Climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami#Climate

[grega94]

Also Eureka and San Francisco probably are a bit darker in winter, aren't those places supper foggy?

And also Walla Walla's winters seem to dark, they are even darker than Forks the rainiest sizable city in the US.

[RWood]

Originally Posted by grega94

Also Eureka and San Francisco probably are a bit darker in winter, aren't those places supper foggy?

And also Walla Walla's winters seem to dark, they are even darker than Forks the rainiest sizable city in the US.

Redding has been long discredited. However San Francisco's record is quite lengthy and should be OK.

[lommaren]

Different calculating methods in the US and the rest of the world as far as I've understood it. That means US places always exaggarate a bit. If you'll add 10 % to my place it have 1900 hours of sunshine or thereabout, possibly even 2000 now.

[Baba_Wethu]

Originally Posted by lommaren

Different calculating methods in the US and the rest of the world as far as I've understood it. That means US places always exaggarate a bit. If you'll add 10 % to my place it have 1900 hours of sunshine or thereabout, possibly even 2000 now.

You could have got 1820h for 61-90 even since you're so close to the coast, and if not most definitely for 81-10, so yeah definitely above 2000.

[Ariete]

In Finland there's no big differences with the 71-00 and 81-10 sunshine stats. In a 30-year period sunny and cloudy months level out. I doubt you see any linear increase in sunshine just based on temps.