What Are Sunny Days?
Sunny weather days are days when there are very little or no clouds in the sky. We usually experience more sunny days in the summer when the days are warmer. This is the reason we enjoy spending more time outside in the summer.
The climate of South Africa is determined by South Africa’s situation between 22°S and 35°S, in the Southern Hemisphere’s subtropical zone, and its location between two oceans, the Atlantic and the Indian.
It has a smaller variety of climates than most other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and it has lower average temperatures than other countries within this range of latitude, like Australia, because much of the interior (central plateau or Highveld, including Johannesburg) of South Africa is at a higher elevation.
How Many Sunny Days In South Africa?
South Africa is famous for its sunshine – an average of 2,500 hours of sun every year. It’s a dry country, classified as semi-arid.
South Africa’s long coastline – some 2,800 kilometers – influences much of the climate. On the west coast is the cold Atlantic Ocean, and the warmer Indian Ocean is on the south and east.
Starting at the hot and arid desert border with Namibia in the northwest, South Africa’s coastline runs south down the cold Skeleton Coast, around the Cape Peninsula to Cape Agulhas. This is the southernmost tip of Africa, said to be where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet. It’s here, slightly offshore, that two coastal currents meet, currents that determine the different coastal climates. The cold Benguela current sweeps the west coast, and the warm Agulhas current the east.
From Cape Agulhas the coastline moves east and slowly northwards, and the climate becomes warmer and wetter. The Western Cape’s pretty green Garden Route gives way to the forested Wild Coast in the Eastern Cape, and then humid subtropical KwaZulu-Natal coast, famous for its beaches.
What Exactly Counts as a Sunny Day?
So, it’s been a minute since we’ve had a full day of sun to dry out our raincoats. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), Seattle hasn’t had an officially sunny day since November 30.
But that can’t be right, you might be thinking. Just yesterday, you were basking in the afternoon sun. But the NWS isn’t gaslighting you. It just defines “sunny” pretty rigidly. An official “sunny” day to the service means a day with no rainfall and an eighth or less cloud coverage. (Technically, that is; the Seattle region’s office doesn’t use such a strict definition, according to Reid Wolcott of NWS Seattle.) Only two days in December were even considered partly sunny, and they had an average of 70 percent cloud cover. January had none.
What Weather Is Sunny Day?
The condition of the air outside is called weather. The weather also describes how air moves, and anything that the air may carry, such as clouds, rain, or snow. The five main types of weather are sunny, rainy, snowy, cloudy, partly cloudy, and windy.