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Re:Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm genera... by Symbiote on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:45PM (#35720449)
Annual sunshine is around 1300 hours in Glasgow, 1400 hours in Manchester, 1500 hours in Birmingham, 1700 hours in London and Paris, 2500 hours in Rome and 3500 hours in Cairo.

So it's not so sunny, especially as you go north, but films/TV do exaggerate the problem. "I'm from London" regularly gets a comment about terrible weather, "I'm from Paris" does not.

There's very little solar power in Scotland, as you'd expect: https://electricityproduction.uk/plant/solar/map/

(Figures from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate and so on.)

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Re:Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm genera... by allendoerfer on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:25PM (#35722121)
The weather in London is not terrible per se, it just changes rapidly, so it could start to rain at anytime during the day.
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