Not all that surprising when you consider that New York is a tiny bit more to the south than Rome. Draw a horizontal line through Italy, Spain and New York and you’ll find similar amounts of sunshine. Draw a line through Scotland and see where you would end up in Canada, it’s probably going to be even more cold and miserable there than in Scotland ;)
I always thought england was pacific north west levels of dreary, didn’t know it was that bad. How are the English not more depressed?
I don’t know for British people but Bretons (from Brittany, westernmost part of France) have about the same sun exposure but are quite festive
We do drink a lot though
Britain: hold my drink
“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.”
They are. The ones you see are the ones with enough happiness and energy for you to know them.
Based on the amount of loud, shameless, nocturnal drunks in London, they appear to self-medicate in a more bacchanalian fashion than Seattleites.
Thr US one is what you get when you spill a bottle of ketchup on the corner of a white duvet you just washed.
The scale is throwing me. Differences of:
400
200
200
500
500
500
500
Really sucks that there’s no sun at all here in Canada :(
Even worse, there is no Canada at all 😱
Nice, but umm, where’s the rest of us?
What rest? This is a map of the whole world
I don’t understand the scale.
“Sunshine duration in hours per day”.
A day has about 24 hours. Why do the values range between 1200 and 3500?Not seeing the word “day” anywhere tbh
i’m confused, why does the swedish highlands magically have less sunlight hours? surely they’d have more
and there’s a splotch of higher sun hours too, which looks to be lake Vänern, but if big lakes get more sunlight then why not Vättern or Mälaren too?
sola i karlsta vettu
Please don’t post images like this, I’ll end up with fellow Americans telling people in Chicago to flee north to Italy before you know it.
Well, then again maybe they won’t know what Italy looks like
Did you know that Venice sits at the same latitude as Minneapolis?
Didn’t know that off the top of my head. I was making a joke about Italy and Chicago being at the same longitude do to the picture.
Although the area just west of Venice, now part of Tuscany I believe was given to Spain in exchange for the Louisiana Purchase (part of a larger deal) , which I believe may have included Minneapolis. Don’t remember where the lines fall.
Bullshit, there is no way England gets that much sun …
England sits at a yearly mean “sunshine hours” of 1538. If it wasn’t for the western and northern parts it would be be one rank higher.
English people just love to complain about the weather, despite it raining ~50% more in Wales and Scotland.
I lived there for 8 years, it is a pit of moist gloom caked in soot and misery
England, Wales, Scotland, or 1538?
England
Can someone ELI5 why it varies vertically across Scandinavia?
The Scandes, a mountain range, runs north from southern Norway along the border between Norway and Sweden. Cloud formation is much more likely on the west side of the mountains, because of all the humid air blowing in from the North sea. The sun doesn’t shine through an overcast sky.
