Glasgow is the city that has the Lowest Sunshine Duration in Europe

[♥ Lily ♥]

Naples has quite high rainfall for Italy and Europe. About 1,000 mm a year. But it s not the rainest city of Italy wich is Udine that gets about 1300mm a year.

Althought for neaples it's different. Rain is concentrated only on autumn and winter. Because it has a mediterranean climate.

Udine might be different with more year even distribution.

Grazie mille for the interesting info. Rainfall is nice because it makes the grass green and I don't like arid and dry climates.

I'd love to visit Venice on an Orient Express steam train via the Alps... and then get lost in the mysterious Venice - when it's not full of tourists, (a sensual city associated with water, decay and death, writers and poets, etc.) Roma is the 'eternal city', Florence (Firenze) is the 'city of art', Verona is the city of 'Romeo & Juliet', and Venice (Venezia) is the 'romantic and sensual city of mystery and death.' (The only city in the world to be on water and where humans determine the pace of life, rather than cars and traffic.)

[♥ Lily ♥]

You have a lot of fascination with latitude and longitude, temperatures and climates, etc. Pourquoi? (I thought only British people were obsessed with discussing the weather. )

[GiCa]

Bergen is less sunny than Glasgow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen#Climate

I didn't look. At norway since the maps did not pointed out norway. I guess the title of the thread should be changed.

Glasgow the 2nd lowest for sunshine duration

[GiCa]

Anyway a sum

Less Sunshinest places in Europe

Bergen, no, 1,187 hours a year
Glasgow, uk, 1,265
Murmansk, Ru, 1,293
Limerick, ie, 1,295
Reykjavik, Ic, 1,326
Derry, ie, 1,343
Belfast, uk, 1,352

[♥ Lily ♥]

I don't know why people say that the British weather is 'bad', as I feel we're quite lucky with our weather compared to other nations.

We don't get frequent horrific hurricanes, fire tornadoes, massive earthquakes (ok, that's a geographical problem rather than a weather problem,) nor lots of deadly snakes and dangerous types of spiders that live in hot climates, etc.

We don't get extremely dangerous levels of sunlight that causes premature skin ageing and lots of young deaths each year from skin cancers like in Florida and Australia (where the thunderstorms there look terrifying and the burning heat looks intense enough to cause fainting from heat-stroke, etc.)

We don't get the types of horrific floods as seen in some other nations, tsunamis, severe heatwaves and droughts, major bush fire devastations, etc. Now that's what I call bad weather!

The weather here is mostly mild thoughout all four seasons. We get about two weeks of a heatwave during the summer which is very uncomfortable, but luckily it doesn't last for long.

We have a damp type of cold during the winter yule season which feels colder than in Scandinavian nations which have a dry type of cold.

My mother said that she didn't feel cold during her cruise trip this year to northern Norway, despite the temperature being lower than her home area of the south-west coast of England, and despite trenching through knee-high snow in the north of Norway to admire the vast wildlife there. She said she started shivering though as soon as she returned home to southern England.

I've seen Scandinavians who live here shivering in London and complaining about the weather here. I was stunned when I saw them shivering as I thought they'd be used to cold weather, but they also told me it's a different and more bearable type of cold in their nations to the damp cold we have here which kills more people annually than in Scandinavian nations. Your fingers often feel like ice and turn blue with pain in the winters here.

We get a lethal thin 'Black Ice' on the roads and pavements here during the Yule season which is an invisible type of ice that is hazardous as you can't see it.

I like weather that feels warm but very cloudy and rainy.

[GiCa]

I don't know why people say that the British weather is 'bad', as I feel we're quite lucky with our weather compared to other nations.

We don't get frequent horrific hurricanes, fire tornadoes, massive earthquakes (ok, that's a geographical problem rather than a weather problem,) nor lots of deadly snakes and spiders crawling around in hot climates, etc.

We don't get extremely dangerous levels of sunlight that causes premature skin ageing and lots of young deaths each year from skin cancers like in Florida and Australia (where the thunderstorms there look terrifying and the heat looks intense enough to cause fainting from heat-stroke, etc.)

We don't get the types of horrific floods as seen in some other nations, tsunamis, severe heatwaves and droughts, major bush fire devastations, etc. Now that's what I call bad weather!

The weather here is mostly mild thoughout all four seasons.

Yes, it s more dangerous for example where rainfall is concentrated in one season. For example Liguria is quite rainy as it gets on Average 1000 mm a year and more in some Places but they get the rain concentrated and in massive showers in autumn, that have caused overflows and many deaths

What we call "Bombe d'acqua".. Water Bombs

[Damião de Góis]

Anyway a sum

Less Sunshinest places in Europe

Bergen, no, 1,187 hours a year
Glasgow, uk, 1,265
Murmansk, Ru, 1,293
Limerick, ie, 1,295
Reykjavik, Ic, 1,326
Derry, ie, 1,343
Belfast, uk, 1,352

Islands in the north atlantic are extremely cloudy. I just checked Faroe Islands and their capital is under 1000 hours:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B3rshavn#Climate

Also the Azores are very cloudy. Santa Cruz das Flores has 1,392 despite the lower latitude (even Madeira has somewhat low numbers for their latitude at close to 2100 hours):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_...Flores#Climate

So it's no wonder the British Isles and Iceland are on the top.

[GiCa]

Well yes. I ve looked only at infos for towns with over 100.000 people

[Graham]