No. of days of cloudy sky in Ireland

Big Tone · 30-06-2008 1:02pm #1

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

Big Tone · 01-07-2008 9:06am

I would guesstimate 362 !

Danno · 01-07-2008 9:25pm

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

Hal1 · 01-07-2008 9:56pm

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

mike65 · 01-07-2008 10:00pm

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

Mike.

Danno · 01-07-2008 10:13pm

Where's MR DATA - Mothman?

I'm pretty sure he has an answer!

Dshell · 01-07-2008 10:18pm

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

mike65 · 01-07-2008 10:30pm

366 this year! :pac:

Mike.

Deep Easterly · 03-07-2008 12:43am

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

redspider · 03-07-2008 8:05am

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

No. of days of cloudy sky in Ireland

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