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Originally Posted by Hali87
I always forget about this factor when thinking about SW BC's climate. I was recently surprised to learn that Halifax, Minneapolis, and Portland OR are all around the same latitude... it had never really clicked with me how much further north BC's cities are. The light/dark season factor is a lot more pronounced above the 49th parallel than it is here, although days do get somewhat shorter in the winter.
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One factor few people think of is that as you go farther north the sun appears lower in the sky. This is kind of subtle but it means for example that Halifax's low point on December 25 is equal to Vancouver on November 15. If you live in LA the lowest the sun gets is around 32 degrees which is like Vancouver on October 13. Or thinking of it another way, LA never experiences the kind of low sun and long shadows at noon that we get here. Stockholm today is tied Los Angeles in late December.
In December, Halifax gets about 105 hours of sun and Vancouver gets just under 50 hours. But the difference in solar energy is probably a bit bigger than that suggests. I find that the "perpetual darkness" feeling hits me much harder here than in Halifax (not that I am suggesting the weather there is great either).
Portland has a noticeably nicer climate than we do here with more real summer but they still get hit with that Pacific Northwest gloom around November-January (and lately smoke, and crazy riots). Their shoulder seasons are noticeably nicer than Vancouver's, with summer extending into September/October more.
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