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Sunshine Hours
« on: July 02, 2014, 08:05:29 AM »
I know there is a tag for Sunshine Hours and that Total Sunshine Hours for a month show up in the Statistics tool in the Year Over Year tab.

I have some questions:

  • Is there anyplace that the Sunshine Hours for a specific day is reported? I can't find it. I know the sunniest day on record shows up in Statistics | Records, but I can't find where the Sunshine Hours are recorded by day.
  • Are sunshine hours calculated from the solar radiation data? If so, how? If not, how are they calculated?
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Re: Sunshine Hours
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2014, 04:44:23 PM »
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.

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Re: Sunshine Hours
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2014, 01:03:41 AM »
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Re: Sunshine Hours
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2014, 02:55:21 AM »
Steve, you are my hero. That is ridiculously cool.

Do you know if sunshine hours by day is available in a WeatherCat Report? I can't find one.
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Re: Sunshine Hours
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2014, 09:42:28 PM »

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Re: Sunshine Hours
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2014, 09:44:57 PM »
Steve, you are my hero. That is ridiculously cool.

Do you know if sunshine hours by day is available in a WeatherCat Report? I can't find one.

For some strange, inexplicable reason it isn't there - I'll add it to the feature request list - thanks for the spot  [tup]

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Re: Sunshine Hours
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2014, 11:17:35 PM »
For some strange, inexplicable reason it isn't there - I'll add it to the feature request list - thanks for the spot  [tup]

Thanks Stu! You are always spot on.
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Re: Sunshine Hours
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2014, 05:20:59 PM »
Hey! That's where my 9/16 socket went! ;) I forgot I was using it there. Thanks guys. You saw that I put it together for $76, when complete used ones go for $1500-$2000, so I don't think I'll be sending it your way, Stu.
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