Auckland Sunshine Averages

[janewaystv]

Albert Park 1909 - 1955
2041.8 hrs

Mechanics Bay 1950 - 1962
2082.4 hrs

Whenuapai Aero 1954 - 2004
2035.8 hrs

Auckland City 1962 - 1990
2071.2 hrs

Mangere 1963 - 1998
2021.5 hrs

Auckland Aero 1969 - 1994
2096.0 hrs

Mangere EWS 2002 - Open
2174.4 hrs (Based on only 7 years of observations)

Giving an overall mean of 2074.4 hrs for all sites combined.

[RWood]

Don't forget that the end-periods of several of those are very suspect - Albert Park from about 1946, Whenuapai (1998-2004), Auckland City (1986-1990), Auckland Aero (1989-1994). In each case, the reason is increasing site obstructions causing a reduction in the possible measurable amounts.

[janewaystv]

Yeah I’m well aware of that; I took this into consideration but decided to factor them in anyway.

(All from various sites combined into one)

All-time sunniest month was 316.2 hrs in 1957.

All-time cloudiest month was 62.2 hrs in 2002.

Sunniest year was 1940 with 2331.3 hrs and cloudiest year goes to 1988 with 1724.2 hrs.

[janewaystv]

The 316.2 hrs of 1957 was in January and the 62.2 hrs of 2002 goes to June.

Overall (all sites) average for each month 1909 - Ongoing

Jan = 227.6
Feb = 196.8
Mar = 186.9
Apr = 161.2
May = 137.2
Jun = 116.2
Jul = 131.7
Aug = 151.5
Sep = 157.2
Oct = 181.5
Nov = 197.9
Dec = 217.7

June is the cloudiest & December/January the sunniest.

[Michael]

Funny that...an example this morning,As soon as dawn arrives it goes from totally clear the entire night to 8/8 at sunrise.It does it especially in Winter.

[RWood]

The 62.2 hrs was recorded at Whenuapai during it's "oops, there's a tree in the way" period and should not be accepted. There was a total of 72 hrs at the City site in June 1979 and also at Mangere in June 1969.

[janewaystv]

Funny that...an example this morning,As soon as dawn arrives it goes from totally clear the entire night to 8/8 at sunrise.It does it especially in Winter.

Michael - I have on many occasions made it very clear not to use my threads as excuses to make more irrelevant & exaggerated claims, you are trolling and baiting me like you have done before on numerous occasions, do you get a good kick when it comes to stirring me up? When are you going to quit being so antagonising?

[janewaystv]

The 62.2 hrs was recorded at Whenuapai during it's "oops, there's a tree in the way" period and should not be accepted. There was a total of 72 hrs at the City site in June 1979 and also at Mangere in June 1969.

Rwood - after reading Michaels totally idiotic and irrelevant post, I feel very disinclined to carry on this interesting debate with you for now as Michael has pretty much killed my enthusiasm for some good discussions with you, next time ok? Sorry about that Rwood

[RWood]

NP, understood.

[Willoughby]

Michael has lost his access for 48 hours.

Just a reminder for all users to please use the report button which alerts moderators quickly as I missed this one until now.