It was an interesting story highlighted by HR (my regional public TV network for Hessen). So, since 1951.....the weather guys have counted the number of hours per day....of sunshine. Yes, sunshine records.
This summer (June to 30 August) is now labeled as the most sunny period of Hessen, and German history, since 1951. A total of 857 hours of sunshine for the 3-month period.
Previous record? 2003, with 814 hours of sunshine.
Relating this also to rainfall? Well....Hessen also had only 85 liters of rain per square meter for the same period. Normal average? 222 liters. For drought-chatter, it's pretty dismal.
The positive? If you had a solar panel situation....you probably had a all-time record of energy creation.
What can you attribute the sun-days to? Well....high-pressure systems brought in limited clouds, and stayed for days at a time. On at least two occasions, we had some weird African 'dust-cloud' that came
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