I recently scraped the Environment Canada website for climate data in BC and Alberta. I’ve been learning R and I thought I would graph the mean of the sunshine hours and temperature for each month. Do remember this is only stations with BOTH bright sunshine and temperature records for the month.
In Alberta the number of stations reporting sunshine peaked in the 1980s around 24.
Alberta Stations with Temp + Sunshine July
In BC the number peaked around 64 in 1988.
sunshine hours 