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No. of days of cloudy sky in Ireland

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  • 30-06-2008 2:02pm
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    Big Tone
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭


    Would I be right in guessing that the number of cloudy days in Ireland is around 360 or more ?


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    #2
    Big Tone
    Registered Users Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Big Tone


    I would guesstimate 362 !


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    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Hmmm, I wonder how many "clear blue sky" days we get?


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    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    I was wondering when someone was gonna reply to this :pac:


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    mike65
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    Its got to be around 280-300 if cloudy is defined as more than 50% cover throughout the day.

    Mike.


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    Danno
    Registered Users Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Where's MR DATA - Mothman? :D I'm pretty sure he has an answer!


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    Dshell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Dshell


    The ways its going at the mo it'll be 365!


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    mike65
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    366 this year! :pac:

    Mike.


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    Deep Easterly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭Deep Easterly


    Ye're all living in the wrong place folks, move to Galway, sunshine capital of Ireland. :D


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    redspider
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    One simple way to measure cloudiness perhaps is to use sunshine hours. Its hard to believe, but the average no. of sushine hours in June is approx 160 hrs in the month (or 5.2 hrs per day). If the average hours are worked out for every month, and day lengths are taken into consideration, it is possible to calculate the equivalent amount of sunshine days and cloudy days each year.

    Rain
    By the way, are there any measurements taken (or even a device) which measures the amount of time it has been raining? This information is much more useful to people in their everyday lives in comparison to the heavily used and over-simplified measurement of amounts often expressed in mm, which gets 'exaggerated' when there are cloudbursts, etc, and is a localised chaotic phenomenon in comparison to pressure or temperature, for example.

    Redspider


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