Annual Sunshine Hours Per City

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Sun and rain both please me, if in different ways. Weather that’s merely overcast is deathly dull in its wishy-washiness (though an overcast sky can have a kind of grandeur at night, when the light of buildings reflect off the clouds). At least rain is affirmative.

Temperature and hours of daylight/hours of darkness are much bigger factors in determining my mood.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 6 June 2003 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

wow. recognize how hard it was for me to keep my ghostly pallor as an AZ goth.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 6 June 2003 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm, thread's a bit slow. If you like, we could add permission to talk about anal sunshine hours per city. How many hours does the sun shine out of the ass of the average Angelino, for instance?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link

I really dont know the answer to this one... the last three times I have been to Europe, I have gone in winter, and the dreariness is definitely part of my experience of Europe and therefore my romanticization of it... I expecially liked the sort of glowing haze of london in february... i think overcast days can sometimes result in really strange ambiences... in general, its hard not to associate weather with all sorts of personal and sociocultural knowledge, and sometimes it jsut depends on my mood.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

It's easier to express the sunshine hours as a percentage (of 4380, half of all the hours in a year). So you get this:
Edinburg - 30.1%
Cork - 31.7%
London - 34.1%
Paris - 38.8%
Chicago - 60.1%
New York - 61.3%
San Antonio - 62.1%
Los Angeles - 77.1%

Et cetera.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:28 (twenty years ago) link

Sunlight/cloudlessness has a profound effect on my outlook & motivation. Sunny days, I'm a rip-roarin' smilin' rowdy ready-to-play summer-warrior. Rainy/cloudy days, I become a coffee-drinking frowny-faced sleepy sulking mess. I want to say the change has something to do with vitamin B-12, but it's probably psychosomatic (imagine that? < /sarcasm>).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:38 (twenty years ago) link

Temperature and hours of daylight/hours of darkness are much bigger factors in determining my mood.

I hear you there, m'friend.

How many hours does the sun shine out of the ass of the average Angelino, for instance?

Let me get back to you on that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

(Ned dons goggles, climbing gear, torch.)

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

It's a dirty job, sir. Anyway, have you taken up Mr. JOhn Mountain Goats' musical challenge to you on that other thread? ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link

If it's sunny for too long I get miserable.

If it rains all the time, I get used to it.

Ideally, the weather should change every couple of days.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

I see Denver is not on this list. It is one of the sunniest cities in the USA, having over 300 sunny days a year. Plus, it doesn't get too hot. Yay Denver.

― Mandee, Friday, 6 June 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Seattle's at 46%...

But hey, we beat TOKYO! (which is around 45%).. and almost all of Canada, the UK, and Ireland.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

(I think we've exhausted our 46% in the last two weeks, however.. goddamn)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

this is bullshit.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

55.3% here in Winnipeg. Just about right as far as I'm concerned!

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

I don't remember Berlin winters as having been particularly brutal(relative to Washington, DC).

Seattle had sun recently? That explains everything! For the last 3 weeks DC was solidly overcast, drizzly, and unseasonably cool. What the hell were you doing with our spring?

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

The figures for Detroit seem way off...it has nowhere near as many sunny days as is being claimed.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

What nickalicious said.

But also, the sun can make me sleepy, just like everything else does.

New York might be sunny, but it's got all those super-tall buildings to shade you.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

The sunshine bores the daylights out of me. (Unless it's cool and crisp.) I need to move to Vancouver, although DC has been OTM for the last month. Any moment now it's gonna be 97 (that's like what, 36 for you metrics?) and the air will be made of water and I will be eating fuc.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

Sure, the weather affects me. It sets the tone for the day, in a similar way as a dream does, ie you don't even need to be consciously aware of it for it to affect you. You can see the way it affects a whole region via such things as the music and art that people living there produce. Of course, it's is hard to entangle weather's role from all the other factors that influence such things.
Useless fact of the day: St. Petersburg, Florida had 768 days of consecutive sunshine.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

Stuff the sunshine! It causes skin cancer!

(I am not a goth.)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

The sun annoys me. It hurts my eyes, it causes my skin color to darken, it gives off intensive heat, it makes everything on the outside have this really bright sparkle to it, it turns the green plants outside brown, it dries up everything, it makes the pavement scorching hot to the touch, and it leads to drought, skin cancer, and other not-nice things.

Ooh, but lucky me, I live in a place with 2,721 bloomin' hours of sunshine per year, even taking into consideration the fact that every May we experience weeks of cloudiness as a result of the controlled field fires Mexican farmers set each year. Oh lucky, lucky, lucky me. Help.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 6 June 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

Pasadena is sunnier than LA, so we're probably over 3400 hrs. I don't mind lots of sun but I hate it when it's warm in the morning (8-9 AM). And it's "Angeleno," BTW.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 6 June 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link

How many hours does the sun shine out of the ass of the average Angelino, for instance?

"Yellow is the color of sunrays"

Not anymore.

(I can't believe I couldn't restrain myself from posting that)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 6 June 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

I hate the sun. Especially these last few days.

Once my boss and I left the office -- this was about a month ago on one of the first sunny Portland days -- and she was admiring how the landscaping was doing until she noticed that I was literally bent over and shielding my eyes from the late-afternoon sun.

Stupid sun.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 6 June 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

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