I think it is pretty remarkable, that the average daily sunshine hours in Stockholm, in the past 30 days is equal to a whopping 7 hours. (Recently i said 6 hours, but that was wrong). No, but 7 full hours every day in the past 30 days. That is a lot.

Let's have a look how it was in the past, on a 6 October:

1983

On 6 Oct 1983, a very poor sunshine year, the 30-day average had fallen to just slightly over 3 hours in average. It would then continue at that level until end of November. Because the sun was shining almost daily during October and November. Then the "big gray" came, and the 30-day average dropped to 0.5 hours in average, by Christmas in the town of Stockholm.

2020

While on the same date in 2020, it was 4.5 hours

It would then however turn into one of the dullest, darkest winters with barely any sunshine. After mid October, the sunshine show was pretty much. The lack of sunshine would last until the end of January 2021. It is here many of my plants died. The 30 day average dropped down to just 0.1 hours sunshine per day in a 30 day period.

Nevertheless, as a whole year, 2020 was one of the most sunniest years with a whopping 2118 hours in total. Compare that to 1983 (shown at first) with just 1531 hours.

Massive amounts of sunshine in Spring / Summer 2020

Notice the massive amount of sunshine in spring and summer 2020. I remember it as super sunny, and my balcony was so green en masse, like i never had done in my life before. It was also because i had gone stuck in Sicily in the stupid lockdown - and once i came home, i had the intense urge, "for the last time", making my home into the most beautiful, homey, safe place in the world. It was a sort of "reaction" to the time when people were stripped from all their rights (based on blatant lies and deceptions, it later would show). My thinking was, now or never. If the shit hits the fan, then I'll make this balcony into an oasis this spring / early summer, as if it is the last time.

I was almost obsessed with it wanting to feel "safe". And punched my credit cards beyond all reason, unfortunately. The backside of the coin *LoL*

2021

At the checkpoint date of 6 Oct (2021) the 30 day sunshine average was 3.5 hours, And I believe that autumn was pretty average in regards to sunshine hours. Perhaps slightly sunnier than average, staying around 3 hours per day until the second week in Nov 2021. However, it wasn't one of those dreadful, super dark winters, because the average stayed slightly below 2 hours, for the rest of the year.

And no (summer) plants died in my home. As a whole, the year had 1961 sunshine hours - which was pretty much the same like year 2019.

2022

Even here we see massive amounts of sunshine hours, starting already ever so slightly in January, but it then would really get extreme by the end of February 2022, with MANY days of "max" sunshine. In March it already reached daily average of 9 hours per day. That was really something out of the ordinary ! (How much it was out of the ordinary, I can not say, because my statistics do not contain too many years).

You will in a later graph see, how 2022 lifts off regarding sunshine hours very early in the year, compared to the other years of 2019-2024.

Autumn on the other hand was average, albeit still sunnier in the beginning, in October 2022, where we had 4 to 4.75 hours per day. Then in November it dropped to low levels around 1 to 0.5 hours into December 2022. IN total however, it was a record (?) of 2158 hours.

2023

So last year, at a time around 6 October, we had a 30-day average of a whopping 5.5 hours. I remember it to be very mild, which was a beautiful feeling. Early autumn was warm and sunny, but then something weird happened after the second week in October 2023: the total lack of sunshine, made the average drop like a stone to EXTREME low amounts of sunshine for the remainder of the year. Already in the second week of November, it had fallen to a mere 0.35 hours in average, and would never go above 0.8 hours for the rest of the year. A VERY DARK WINTER !

2024

Finally we have arrived to this year 2024, and you see that now around 6 October we have a daily average slightly below 7 hours form the past 30 days. That is the highest of all the years (1983 + 2019-2023) i have listed here.

The oddity about this years sunshine hours, is that the winter and especially march and April have been very slow. The average would not go above 4 hours until May. Which is a bit unusual, to say the least. It compares more to the sunshine poor year of 1983 (and even 1984 was sunshine poor).

In May 2024, however, it just "exploded" with massive amounts of sunshine - and as you can see not a single day of 0 hours sunshine days. This lead to a rapid increase, which would culminate at an average of 14 hours per day in the beginning of June 2024.

Accumulated sunshine hours in Stockholm

So, let me in the next graph show you the individual years compared together with accumulated sunshine hours though out the year.

Massive year of 2022

Here you see, how the sun punched though rather early in the end of Winter, and into spring 2022 - making the red line of 2022 stand out. It also marks the year with the most sunshine hours of all compared to the rest.

Abrupt "stop" in Autumn 2023

When you follow the green line of 2023, you see how the sunshine hours more or less "stopped" after the second week in October. It is almost flat until the end of the year. Also a bit odd. Odd because this already started rather early in October, while other years show this phenomena later (2019 for example also has the same, very flat end, and it starting already in November) I would assume that Nov 1993 did the same (not shown here), because in Nov 1993, we had only 5 hours of sunshine in Stockholm, in total.

Very slow start of 2024

Then you have this year; 2024: the pink line doesn't lift off in spring. In fact, APRIL had the same average sunshine hours like MARCH - which is slightly odd. But because May became such a strong "summer" month, and we got massive amounts of sunshine, the line rose steeply.

What happened to 1983 ?!

Realize, how much more sunshine we get these years, in comparison to the mid 80s. Because if 1983 was a year with not that much sunshine, then 1984 was even worse. The light blue line is way off in this chart

Our Sun Is Everything !

So; we have MUCH MORE sunshine these years, which also means, more energy is hitting our area. Which also corresponds to an overall warmer weather.

More Sunshine = More Energy = More Warmth.
Less sunshine = Less Energy = Less warmth.

It is Evil to twist knowledge into a dark, distorted version we seem to be paralyzed our brains with - by trying to make it to look like "man-made climate change". And allow to transfer trillions into the hands of few, who give a rats ass what about you and you existence. And all the endless amounts of companies speaking the same BS day in, day out. And Greta for that matter. And Extinction Rebellion. Or Friday's For Future. All those AstroTurfed groups, sponsored / overtaken by wealthy west oligarchs who seek to destroy humanity with lies, deception and wars on the human mind.

Don't be that stupid !

Our SUN is the main driver of earth's climate.
There is no other energy source stronger than the sun. What is there not to understand ?!

CO2 in our atmosphere - the more the better

Well, simply read about Photosynthesis. It is the food for the plants. If you take away CO2 = no plants = No food = No animals = No humans.

Who on earth would come on the wicked, literally evil idea, to make CO2 responsible for everything bad ? I mean it is so beyond stupid, that i have no words. Photosynthesis - our plants - NEED CO2.

The more the better.

Monthly sunshine hours in Stockholm

Finally, I'll show monthly sunshine hours from the year of 1983 + 2019-2024. Where Oct 2024 is of course premature, as only 6 days have passed. The line will certainly change a lot as we progress into the month.

Here again, See how 2024, went from average sunshine hours in March, into very low sunshine hours in April 2024, and then it took off like a rocket with May 2024. Which turned out to become the SECOND most sunny month since the count of sunshine hours. The sunniest May was in 2018.

(I assume that May 1992, and May 1993 also had LOTS of sunshine hours, but they are not listed here).

Since SMHI doesn't summarize daily numbers for sunshine

- we only get the raw data for every single hour for many, many years in one big number chart. Therefore I have write every day down manually in a new chart - in order to get the daily sunshine hours - which I then have to transfer manually day by day, into a new chart in order to make annual graphs. (8760 posts, into 365 lines).

It is extremely tedious, I feel.

Therefore i never expanded my charts above, beyond those listed years of 1983, 2019-2024 here). On the other hand - too many lines would have meant that a chart gets overcrowded... difficult to see. So, i decided to focus on the latter years instead.

Curious about other years !!

Yet... I am still very curious about certain years from the past; how sunshine hours developed though certain years. I know that some years were special (or so i assume) like 1992 with its very warm lengthy spring. And then the highly weird 1993 in particularly - which had an extreme warm spring, but then it all stopped after 24 May 1993, and summer was barely any summer. (We only had a couple summer days at / around 25°C in Stockholm). For a whopping 7 months - average temperatures remained below normal !

Also 2018 is curious, with its unusual long and very warm/hot summer, sounds interesting to look at.