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By the end of March/April, the lack of sun would make London seem like Yuma, Arizona in comparison!!
The first few months appear to be just a permanent blanket cloud cover but without the tropical rain. I would be happy to trade a few sunshine hours for a few degrees C....
PS Often find the BBC site useful for these sort of stats
It's funny you should say that. It's been dry (apart from October/December) but not overtly sunny as would be expected under a El Nino pattern. Lack of westerlies unusual as well.
I think part of the reason is that the site was moved to Mount Lawley, which makes a small different. Weird, though, back in the 1870s there wasn't a heat island effect and they never recorded anything below 1C.
July 1970 was a very dry, cold and sunny month with frequent SW winds. In fact it was the driest (1.8 mm) and sunniest July (254.2 hrs) on record at the Ob Hill site, the latter being overtaken by 1978's total of 255.1 hrs, former still stands today.
July 1970 was a very dry, cold and sunny month with frequent SW winds. In fact it was the driest (1.8 mm) and sunniest July (254.2 hrs) on record at the Ob Hill site, the latter being overtaken by 1978's total of 255.1 hrs, former still stands today.
Wow, 254 hours of sun, when your day length is less than 10 hours?
Sounds like a winter in Darwin.
It has happened quite a few times in this country. On odd occasions, enclosures that were not well-protected or on private property were subject to vandalism.
Wow, 254 hours of sun, when your day length is less than 10 hours?
Sounds like a winter in Darwin.
Only during the first week of July, after that, goes over 10 hours. The maximum possible during the month is 310 hrs. As aforementioned before those two are the only occasions where the 250 hours mark has been reached/exceeded. Other years that has come close (over 230 hrs): 230 hrs in 1981, 233 hrs 1995, 232 2000, 246 hrs 2002 and 239 in 2005.
However several of those "sunny' Julys were followed by much cloudier conditions during the same month of the following year. Two examples: 188 hrs in 1982 and 2006 with 182 hrs.
Only during the first week of July, after that, goes over 10 hours. The maximum possible during the month is 310 hrs. As aforementioned before those two are the only occasions where the 250 hours mark has been reached/exceeded. Other years that has come close (over 230 hrs): 230 hrs in 1981, 233 hrs 1995, 232 2000, 246 hrs 2002 and 239 in 2005.
However several of those "sunny' Julys were followed by much cloudier conditions during the same month of the following year. Two examples: 188 hrs in 1982 and 2006 with 182 hrs.
That's funny to hear 182/310 hours of sun as "cloudy."
56.7% chance of sun; equal to Toronto's 2nd or 3rd sunniest month of the year.
(I would really like that )
That's funny to hear 182/310 hours of sun as "cloudy."
56.7% chance of sun; equal to Toronto's 2nd or 3rd sunniest month of the year.
(I would really like that )
Average is 205 hrs. Cloudiest on record at airport site is 1993 with 135 hrs. At Observatory Hill 74 hours in 1950 (equal with wettest July on record with 336 mm falling)
By Sydney standards, it is cloudy It is a subtropical city after all, unlike the arctic badlands of Melbourne and Toronto
Which can't be fairly comparable given the location/latitudes
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It is a subtropical city after all, unlike the arctic badlands of Melbourne and Toronto 
