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for cold, Resolute, Nunavut gets my vote..."summer" temperatures are typically in the 30s fahrenheit. For overall gloominess, Prince Rupert, BC or the Faroe Islands or the Shetland Islands would be right up there. They actually did a report here a few years ago about people from South Africa who moved to Prince Rupert because they were allergic to the sun..I guess they must be happy now
I hope you are not putting Moscow and Barrow in the same category
Moscow is warmer in winter, and gets less snow than Montreal. Which is cold, to be sure, but not THAT cold.
I hope you are not putting Moscow and Barrow in the same category
Moscow is warmer in winter, and gets less snow than Montreal. Which is cold, to be sure, but not THAT cold.
No, I know Barrow is far worse than Moscow .
I was gonna list Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, etc. as well.
The absolute worst by far is Vostok, its -86°F there right now, times 5,000,000,000.
for cold, Resolute, Nunavut gets my vote..."summer" temperatures are typically in the 30s fahrenheit. For overall gloominess, Prince Rupert, BC or the Faroe Islands or the Shetland Islands would be right up there. They actually did a report here a few years ago about people from South Africa who moved to Prince Rupert because they were allergic to the sun..I guess they must be happy now
For gloominess, you're overlooking the southern oceans, not that many live there. Our Campbell Is. with its 600-640 hours of sunshine, and probably less than 500 in parts of the southern Pacific at least. That makes Prince Rupert look Mediterranean.
For gloominess, you're overlooking the southern oceans, not that many live there. Our Campbell Is. with its 600-640 hours of sunshine, and probably less than 500 in parts of the southern Pacific at least. That makes Prince Rupert look Mediterranean.
Here is the Wikipedia description:
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Campbell Island's weather can be summarized as cool, cloudy, wet and windy. The island receives only 650 hours of bright sunshine annually and it can expect less than an hour's sunshine on 215 days (59%) of the year. The peaks of the island are frequently obscured by cloud. It has an annual rainfall of 1,450 millimeters (57 in), with rain, mainly light showers or drizzle, falling on an average of 325 days a year. It is a windy place, with gusts of over 96 kilometres per hour (50 kn) occurring on at least 100 days each year. Variations in daily and annual temperatures are small with a mean annual temperature of 6 °C (43 °F), rarely rising above 12 °C (54 °F). [1]
For gloominess, you're overlooking the southern oceans, not that many live there. Our Campbell Is. with its 600-640 hours of sunshine, and probably less than 500 in parts of the southern Pacific at least. That makes Prince Rupert look Mediterranean.
Yes, my bad you are right but very few if any people live that far south. An exception would be Punta Arenas in Chile which is at 53S and has 120,000 people. I imagine it must be very gloomy there. All the subantarctic islands which are pretty much uninhabited (for good reason) would definitely be among the gloomiest if not the gloomiest places in the world.
Some minor amendments and additions to the Wikipedia figures:
Average sun 1941-1995 640 hrs (last 30 years, 616 hours).
Days with zero sunshine, 37%; days with less than an hour, 57.5% {June values 65% and 90%}.
Mean rainfall 1941-2008 1385mm (54.55")
Mean raindays >= 0.1mm 318, mean "wet" days >= 1.0mm 243
Mean daily max annual = 9.4C, mean daily min annual = 4.7C
Average windspeed (near ground level) is 27kph, windy but nothing special at all.
Warmer than MacQuarie which is further south, but considerably wetter and cloudier.
Campbell and the other subAntarctic islands are quite popular "look spots" on trips down to the Antarctic because of the variety of wildlife. Albatrosses love the cold and in fact feel heat-stressed on NZ's Otago peninsula anytime temperatures exceed about 20C.
PS: Campbell used to have a manned weather station with staff doing 6-month shifts. Now there are no permanent or semi-permanent residents, but regular visitors and maintenance people.
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