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What about 11 hours in a 24 hour day? When I said daylight hours have to be considered, I meant the more daylight, the lower the sun percentages, so there is more sunshine than the percentages suggest.
You think that 11 hours of sun can be more depressing than 1 minute. LOL, I know which I’d rather.
Do you know why 100% sunshine in a 12h day is better than 50% in a 24h day? Because in one, you're guaranteed sunshine when you go out to the beach or to the city shopping, or go out for a leisurely stroll with your dog. In the other you might get clouds the whole day and then when you get inside to eat an evening snack and go to bed, the sun comes out and shines through your eyelids as you lie in bed trying to sleep.
Do you know why 100% sunshine in a 12h day is better than 50% in a 24h day? Because in one, you're guaranteed sunshine when you go out to the beach or to the city shopping, or go out for a leisurely stroll with your dog. In the other you might get clouds the whole day and then when you get inside to eat an evening snack and go to bed, the sun comes out and shines through your eyelids as you lie in bed trying to sleep.
I can attest to that. Happens a lot here in Iqaluit.
Do you know why 100% sunshine in a 12h day is better than 50% in a 24h day? Because in one, you're guaranteed sunshine when you go out to the beach or to the city shopping, or go out for a leisurely stroll with your dog. In the other you might get clouds the whole day and then when you get inside to eat an evening snack and go to bed, the sun comes out and shines through your eyelids as you lie in bed trying to sleep.
Well there are no climates with 100% sun, and sun % does not denote the chance of sunshine, just look at the number of days of measurable sunshine in Northern Canadian climates during the summer.
Anyhow, being fussy about sun percentages means you want the climate to fit YOUR fussy preferences, in my eyes the climate has delivered the same amount of sun. You have to adapt and in climates with polar day I would sleep when its cloudy and be awake when it is sunny. They have the same amount of sunshine, you just want sunshine on demand.
It is anything but bright, as the sun would be so low in the sky.
It is exactly bright. When the sun is in the sky it's brighter than in summer in Selsey, and when it's down it's still bright enough to read your book outside
Well there are no climates with 100% sun, and sun % does not denote the chance of sunshine, just look at the number of days of measurable sunshine in Northern Canadian climates during the summer.
Anyhow, being fussy about sun percentages means you want the climate to fit YOUR fussy preferences, in my eyes the climate has delivered the same amount of sun. You have to adapt and in climates with polar day I would sleep when its cloudy and be awake when it is sunny. They have the same amount of sunshine, you just want sunshine on demand.
Humans have a circadian rhythm. Sunshine doesn't. Fool. And sun percentage does exactly denote the percentage of sun. That's what the percent is. It's an average, meaning sure, if it's an overcast day, the probability of there being sun isn't 56% april in Vostok, but if you're locked inside an enclosed cube and you open the hatch in the day, there's a 56% chance it's going to be sunny.
I also think that sun percentages should be taken with a pinch of salt. It does not really tell you how sunny a climate feels, because there is a variation in daylight hours. Climates with high daylight hours often feel Sunnier.
A little trick I employ, is to make the percentage relative to the day length.
Wouldn't climates with long daylight hours, also feel cloudier?
I would have thought that with longer daylight hours, the sunshine would be more spread out, whereas with shorter daylight hours it is more concentrated into a certain part of the day.
The same could be said of cloud.
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