Canada has essentially quit recording bright sunshine hours. What a tragedy.
Environment Canada And Climate Change (I can’t believe they changed the name to that!) has dropped the ball. One exception is the Saskatchewan Research Council. They collect sunshine data at two locations.
This is the November data for Saskatoon.
November 2018 had 54.7 hours of Bright Sunshine.
20.7% of the 1981-2010 normal of 97 hours of bright sunshine.
Canada has essentially quit recording bright sunshine hours. What a tragedy.
Environment Canada And Climate Change (I can’t believe they changed the name to that!) has dropped the ball.
One exception is the Saskatchewan Research Council. They collect sunshine data at two locations.
This is the October data for Saskatoon.
The normal is 156.1 hours of bright sunshine.
October 2018 had 207.0 hours.
Using temperature stations designated as part of the “Normals” used by Environment Canada, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been cooling for the last 15 years.
Alberta -.459C/decade
Saskatchewan -.431C/decade
Manitoba -.229C/decade
BC is cooling too. See this post.
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