The sunshine recorder turned on around 10 seconds after 5:30 this
morning. The earliest it has start recording sunshine this year
(obviously but still indicative of the very clear conditions).

Last night the recorder turned off at 21:05 (very clear conditions as well).

If things remain as they are with cloudless, clear skies and say the
recorder turns off at 21:06, then there will have been 15.63 hours of
sunshine. That is a remarkable 95% of the total possible (the highest
percentage I've recorded this year to date).

It will not (and probably cannot) get better than that!

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk