On 13/06/2012 09:04, Nick wrote:
More significantly perhaps, I'm wondering whether how our sunshine
record this month compares to January's at the same time.
From estimates I'd guess we're running at under 2 hours/day in
Southampton so far, while January ISTR being sunnier than average,
I'd guess 2hrs/day is about average for January.

.... Using Hurn for this part of Dorset (and probably a close
approximation for a wider area of SE Dorset/SW Hampshire), the figures
of 'sunshine/day' (from their KZS output) give a *mean* for January of
67 hours over the 8 years of that instrument's use, or 2.2 hr/day.

The figures of sunshine/day since last winter a-
2011 Dec 1.5
2012 Jan 2.3
Feb 2.3
Mar 5.4
Apr 4.3
May 6.3
2012 Jun 1.1 (so far/12 days)

June of 2011, the figure was 5.8 hr/day.

Martin.



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