On Sunday, 21 December 2014 18:57:46 UTC, RW wrote:
On Monday, 22 December 2014 04:46:33 UTC+13, Graham Easterling wrote:

As an antidote to that digraceful mildness you could try this:

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/UEEE.html


Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

That got me looking as the 'normal' conditions for Jakutsk.

This page is fairly comprehensive https://weatherspark.com/averages/33...ian-Federation

The amount of cloud cover, even in summer, is pretty depressing. The median cloud cover is 96% and does not vary substantially over the course of the year, there's a graph to rub it in.

Graham
Penzance - where it's currently dull, mild, drizzly. Only 8 days since the summer have failed to reach 8C, a notable figure even for Penzance.

The cloud cover statements don't square with EducaPlus's tables which allege Yakutsk averages about 2190 hours of sunshine per annum. Something certainly doesn't "add up" here ...

It certainly doesn't. The site quoted by Graham seems very dodgy and given these cloudiness figures it's difficult to believe any of it. I have a figure from somewhere (pre internet days) of 2394 hrs sunshine per year. It also says the temperature rarely falls below -47. This is not true - it does so every year and for considerable periods. It's below -47 now (actually -50) and they have had continuous fog for at least the last 9 days. This is actually fairly normal. What a place!

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.