It's likely your sunshine isn't yet strong enough to register as being sunshine that counts towards sunshine hours. WeatherCat simulates a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell?Stokes_recorder) - it calculates whether the paper is burnt or not; if so it adds that time period to the sunshine hours.
Is temperature involved in that calculation (it has been really cold up in Maine, like -10 to -20 at night and a high of around 3-10 degrees - for about 5 days).