I’ve always thought these sunshine maps were a little suspicious. Not just the JPEG artifacts, but is Ohio really that much sunnier than France? Britain is dreary, but is it so dreary that Estonia is brighter? Maybe it was the gloomy weather in Amsterdam but for some reason I tried to recreate this map the other day. A few hours messing around with a dataset from the World Metereological Organization answered many of these questions. (Same scale as first map.)(Same scale as first map.) Is t...
