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Old August 27th 08, 07:06 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Nick Gardner Nick Gardner is offline
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Default Ranked sunniest months 2008 to date - August just surpassing January

And sunshine this year so far here in the Otter Valley, Devon:

1st Jun 233
2nd May 199
3rd Apr 194
4th Jul 188
5th Feb 135
6th Mar 132
7th Aug 106
8th Jan 67

Total so far of 1148 hours.

But a better guide to actually how cloudy/sunny a month was is to use the
sunshine as a percentage of the available time the sun is above the horizon.
Thus the months so far will be:

1st Jun, Apr & Feb 47%
4th May 42%
5th Jul 38%
6th Mar 36%
7th Jan 26%
8th Aug 22%

August may move up a place if it turns sunny for the last few days but so
far the sun has shone for only 22% of the available 448 hours.
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