First up is a graph of minutes of daylight per day versus time of year.
Delft gets over 1,000 minutes of daylight per day in the middle of the summer. Or, rather, the cloud-layer over Delft gets this daylight. Boston and Cedar Rapids only have small differences in daylight per day.
I was wondering how much less daylight Delft gets per year than Iowa, and to my surprise, Delft gets more daylight!
The second graph is a zoom of the previous graph. As you can see, Delft gets roughly one more day of daylight each year than Cedar Rapids and Boston.
I am looking forward to the days following the Equinox here. One thousand minutes of daylight. Sounds like a novel.
5 comments:
I dunno, I'm not convinced that an extra day of sunlight is a good trade for that much more variance over the year.
Although I guess 1000 minutes of sunlight means if you sleep 8 hours a night (not that you do) you could conceivably avoid seeing nighttime at all for days, which sounds strangely awesome.
Though a second, winter job in Australia or South Africa sounds tempting, I would miss winter too much.
Last year I avoided seeing daylight (in Cedar Rapids) almost entirely Monday-Friday. It was not strangely awesome.
Avoiding such a fate could get complicated with < 8 hrs daylight.
Re: avoiding daylight, my building's windows help prevent a batcave atmosphere, though we're trying with the optical room we need to setup. The far-away picture of the library at my previous post is from my desk:
http://oogrobot.blogspot.com/2008/09/world-is-quiet-here.html
Clare's crazy...<3 sunlight!
the real question on the sunlight variance is how much it affects the temperature variance...
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