The scale is throwing me. Differences of:
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Can someone ELI5 why it varies vertically across Scandinavia?
The Scandes, a mountain range, runs north from southern Norway along the border between Norway and Sweden. Cloud formation is much more likely on the west side of the mountains, because of all the humid air blowing in from the North sea. The sun doesn’t shine through an overcast sky.
Not all that surprising when you consider that New York is a tiny bit more to the south than Rome. Draw a horizontal line through Italy, Spain and New York and you’ll find similar amounts of sunshine. Draw a line through Scotland and see where you would end up in Canada, it’s probably going to be even more cold and miserable there than in Scotland ;)
I always thought england was pacific north west levels of dreary, didn’t know it was that bad. How are the English not more depressed?
They are. The ones you see are the ones with enough happiness and energy for you to know them.
“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.”
You didn’t think the place notorious for its lack of sun was this dreary?
I don’t know for British people but Bretons (from Brittany, westernmost part of France) have about the same sun exposure but are quite festive
We do drink a lot though
Britain: hold my drink
The interesting one in the US would be Alaska, since the amount of sunshine in that state alone varies wildly.
Scandanavia covers very similar latitudes as Alaska does. The mountains, storms have huge impacts on yearly sun
Nice, but umm, where’s the rest of us?
What rest? This is a map of the whole world
Bullshit, there is no way England gets that much sun …
England sits at a yearly mean “sunshine hours” of 1538. If it wasn’t for the western and northern parts it would be be one rank higher.
English people just love to complain about the weather, despite it raining ~50% more in Wales and Scotland.
I lived there for 8 years, it is a pit of moist gloom caked in soot and misery
The blob across the border between England and Scotland explains so much as to why I get twin peaks vibes from Dumfries and Galloway.
Really sucks that there’s no sun at all here in Canada :(
Even worse, there is no Canada at all 😱
Thr US one is what you get when you spill a bottle of ketchup on the corner of a white duvet you just washed.
Is the unmarked white space north of the U.S. , and between it and Europe, Mexico, or Canada? I get those two confused
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i’m confused, why does the swedish highlands magically have less sunlight hours? surely they’d have more
and there’s a splotch of higher sun hours too, which looks to be lake Vänern, but if big lakes get more sunlight then why not Vättern or Mälaren too?
Wearher and local geography play hugs roles in amount of annual sunshine.
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@The_Picard_Maneuver I live near Denver and can confirm that we get a lot of sun. We got solar panels last year and are now in the perverse position of using the power of the sun to counteract the power of the sun on hot summer days.
I don’t understand the scale.
“Sunshine duration in hours per day”.
A day has about 24 hours. Why do the values range between 1200 and 3500?Not seeing the word “day” anywhere tbh
Woops. I could have sworn there was “day” written. Misread it, haha. Thanks for the hint!
