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Sunshine Hours
How long has the sun been out today...
Traditionally, the World Meteorological
Organisation, WMO, defines a sunshine hour as “the sum of the time intervals (in
hours) during which the direct normal solar irradiance exceeds a threshold of
120 W/m2”. Recently, the WMO has approved the “pyranometric method” of
calculating sunshine duration from pyranometer measurements (WMO-No. 8, Guide to
Meteorological Instruments). Inside the Mountsorrel & Rothley Weather Station, a
software algorithm calculates sunshine hours by first calculating the 1-second
maximum potential solar radiation possible (clear sky, bright sun) based on the
time and location of the sun proximity to the weather station. If the weather
station' Pyranometer output is greater than 40% of the maximum potential direct solar radiation, then a sun second is recorded. These sun seconds are then totalled up to calculate sun hours per day.
Leicestershire averages 1364 hours of sun a year
Recorded
Sunshine Hours by Month (2020) |
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| 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | TOTAL(hrs) |
| APR | 0.2 | 4.2 | 1.5 | 8.5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
16.4
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| MAR | 3.5 | 5.6 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 2.2 | 5.9 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 6.8 | 3.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 6.4 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 10.2 | 11.4 | 9.2 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 4.1 |
133.8
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| FEB | 2.7 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 4.8 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 4.0 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
69.8
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| JAN | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
29.2
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Recordred Sunshine Hours by Year |
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| YEAR | JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC | TOTAL(hrs) |
| 2020 | 29.2 | 69.8 | 133.8 | 16.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
249.2
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| 2019 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 134.4 | 148.1 | 120.2 | 151.1 | 172.0 | 141.9 | 76.4 | 24.5 | 19.5 |
988.1
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Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday: Fine throughout, with good deal of bright and sunny weather. Chilly by night, perhaps with some fog, but becoming very warm by day.
UK Outlook for Thursday 9 Apr 2020 to Saturday 18 Apr 2020: Warm with long spells of sunshine on Thursday, with the highest temperatures most likely in the southeast. It should be predominately dry, though the far northwest could see some rain later on. Moving into Friday and Saturday, there indications that high pressure could return to give further settled conditions, with the south likely to remain dry. However, the west and northwest could see rain or showers at times. Looking further ahead in this period, there should be a good deal of dry and settled weather with spells of sunshine. The driest conditions and highest temperatures are mostly likely towards the south, and whilst still warm in the north, there may some windier and wetter periods at times and a risk of overnight frosts.
Mountsorrel is a village in Leicestershire on the River Soar, just south of Loughborough with a population of 6,662 inhabitants. A castle was built in 1080 by Hugh Lupus, but there is evidence of an earlier Norman settlement in the area in the form
of pottery fragments. A Roman villa is supposed to have existed on Broad Hill during the 4th century AD, the site of today's quarry, as quarrying during the late 1800s revealed many artefacts including a preserved wooden bucket. However, the first recording of the village was in 1377, when it had a population of 156.
The Mountsorrel Weather Station is located in Mountsorrel which is just South of Loughborough andjust North of Leicester, Leicestershire.
This website is non for profit and is freely maintained by Stormchaser Stuart Robinson whose passion is for all type of weather but especially the more severe types of weather such as Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tornadoes.
Stuart oftens travels the globle to experabce severe weather first after seeing his first tornado outside a town called Stuart in Nebraska, USA on the 9th June 2003.