May 2016 - Sunny month and 'year' so far
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 5:32 pm
After four days of unbroken sunshine and a generally sunny month overall, this May is likely to turn out to be the sunniest I've recorded since setting up my sunshine recorder in 2006.
Total sunshine (as of 18:20 on the 30th) stands at 227 hours. Because, over the last 10 years, there have been many extremely sunny Aprils, the average sunshine for May has ended up at 1 hour less than April! My eLTA for April is 197 hours and May is 196 hours. Or could it be that we've had a run of cloudy Mays......
The annual sunshine total is up to 784 hours. If this level of sunshine persists then this could be a 2000+ hours year.
May sunshine:
2007 = 163 hours
2008 = 200 hours
2009 = 203 hours
2010 = 205 hours
2011 = 173 hours
2012 = 229 hours
2013 = 213 hours
2014 = 189 hours
2015 = 177 hours.
Total sunshine (as of 18:20 on the 30th) stands at 227 hours. Because, over the last 10 years, there have been many extremely sunny Aprils, the average sunshine for May has ended up at 1 hour less than April! My eLTA for April is 197 hours and May is 196 hours. Or could it be that we've had a run of cloudy Mays......
The annual sunshine total is up to 784 hours. If this level of sunshine persists then this could be a 2000+ hours year.
May sunshine:
2007 = 163 hours
2008 = 200 hours
2009 = 203 hours
2010 = 205 hours
2011 = 173 hours
2012 = 229 hours
2013 = 213 hours
2014 = 189 hours
2015 = 177 hours.