Updated: Eleven days without seeing the sun.

[speedyTC]

They did the "convicts" a huge favour when they decided to banish them to Australia.

Neener-neener!

[Ray Proudfoot]

4 minutes ago, speedyTC said:

They did the "convicts" a huge favour when they decided to banish them to Australia.

Neener-neener!

If you ignore the skin cancer and being eaten by sharks. 😁

[Antipodeslonghaul]

Here in the Munich area it's been dreary recently as well. I can only describe it as some omnipresent, stale old greyish brown lentil soup, completely blotting out the sun and the blue sky, which surely must still be there, perhaps only a few hundred meters above. That coupled with the fact that we've already set our clocks back just over a week ago, and it already seems to get dark around 4 pm, can feel quite depressing. But no matter how gloomy it gets, just getting outside for twenty minutes or so around lunchtime every day still feels pretty good. I look towards the south, right about where the sun ought to be, and I can definitely sense it, a slightly brighter patch within that morass of thick dark soup.

[Ray Proudfoot]

6 minutes ago, spearmint_flyer said:

This happened a lot when I lived in Pittsburgh, PA. They only had 63 days of sunlight a year. Couldn’t take it anymore. I moved to Austin,TX  and now I have 10 days of cloud cover a year. 

From one extreme to another. 😳

[dave2013]

I remember when I was stationed in England how in the Winter it was dark when I went to work at 7:30am and dark when I went home at 4:30pm.  It was weird for me because I grew up in Tennessee which is a lot further south, so never had such short days.

It was cloudy a lot, too, but that's not too different from TN.  The UK gets that drizzle all day long like we do I think.  One thing I did like was that the Summers weren't as hot.

On the other hand, we lived in south Alabama for a while and had nice mild Winters, but I couldn't stand the 5-month long Summers and high humidity.  There's just no perfect weather anywhere, really, although southern California does come close.

Dave

[Ray Proudfoot]

4 minutes ago, dave2013 said:

There's just no perfect weather anywhere, really, although southern California does come close.

The south of France is reputed to have the best climate. Not too hot in summer with mild winters. Snow is quite rare.

Or perhaps an island in the Pacific close to the equator where it’s 30°C all the year round.

[Mace]

Friend in Oregon tells me there are two seasons there: Sun, and rain.

 

[Matthew Kane]

Wellington New Zealand is having a late start to spring this year, been colder and windier than usual, which leads to an increase in Windy Landing Videos at Wellington Airport 

Our windy season is about September to early December, when Australia heats up this time of year that hot air hits the Tasman Sea and turns that energy into wind, which makes its way towards us, when summer comes it starts to stabilise 

[birdguy]

8 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Does this ever happen where you live?

Not much Ray.  Where I live we have over 300 days of sunshine a year.  Sometimes we go as long as three or perhaps four days of overcast though.  Our visibility is usually over 100 miles.  Most days I can see the top of Sierra Blanca (elevation over 12,000 feet) 90 miles from Roswell.  During the summer our temperatures are usually over 100 degrees most days.  But it's very dry with relative humidity between 10 and 20 percent.

Noel

[birdguy]

2 hours ago, Mike A said:

The S.F. Bay Area has so many microclimates.

Right after the Loma Prieta earthquake my commanding officer and I went to the Presidio of San Francisco to provide weather support for the 6th US Army Headquarters.  I had one of the weather observers prepare a map that showed all the upslope areas around the bay to assist in forecasting the weather in each climate area.  The helicopter operations after the earthquake ran into several weather areas.

Noel

[bofhlusr]

2 hours ago, charliearon said:

Yeah, Mike's right!  Ocean Beach San Francisco!

For Mike's reference:  28th and Cabrillo and 4400 block of Cabrillo about 4 blocks from the old Playland
and now the Ocean Beach Safeway!  Red spot is were I lived 1973-1974.

We didn't know it, but we were neighbors then. I might have lived in the same block as you did on Cabrillo St. back in the 70's. I used to go to a small grocery store there about a block or two from the Ocean for late night snacks after night school at the University of San Francisco (I used the 5 Fulton and 31 Balboa bus frequently). Small world.

The one thing that neighborhood didn't like... cars.  It would rust out so quickly being only a block or two away from the ocean.

Edited November 4, 2024 by bofhlusr

[Mike A]

San Francisco fog patterns

 

[charliearon]

41 minutes ago, bofhlusr said:

We didn't know it, but we were neighbors then. I might have lived in the same block as you did on Cabrillo St. back in the 70's. I used to go to a small grocery store there about a block or two from the Ocean for late night snacks after night school at the University of San Francisco (I used the 5 Fulton and 31 Balboa bus frequently). Small world.

The one thing that neighborhood didn't like... cars.  It would rust out so quickly being only a block or two away from the ocean.

I was in the Richmond District from 1972-1983.  For the 10 years before 1983 I have a great 1 bedroom apartment at 22nd Ave. and Geary Blvd ($175 per month).  Bought my house in Glen Park in '83 till present.

[Luis Hernandez]

I remember here in Córdoba there was a 10-day stretch with full cloud cover and drizzle. One of the city tour buses here is an old English double-decker red bus. I remember a friend took a photo of that bus and posted it saying "hey mom, I'm in London now!"

Edited November 4, 2024 by Luis Hernandez

[Ray Proudfoot]

8 hours ago, birdguy said:

Not much Ray.  Where I live we have over 300 days of sunshine a year.  Sometimes we go as long as three or perhaps four days of overcast though.  Our visibility is usually over 100 miles.  Most days I can see the top of Sierra Blanca (elevation over 12,000 feet) 90 miles from Roswell.  During the summer our temperatures are usually over 100 degrees most days.  But it's very dry with relative humidity between 10 and 20 percent.

That sounds like you live in a desert Noel. The exact opposite of the British climate. Your climate is ideal for solar panels. Believe it or not I have a 4Kw array and my income for the last week has amounted to 1-2GBP. Ho hum. 🤨

The lowest humidity my station has recorded in 15+ years was just 17%.

https://www.cheadlehulmeweather.co.uk/record.htm