This might not be the best place for this question. Pointing me to a better forum would be appreciated if that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
I live in Seattle, WA, which has a reputation for being rainy. But it\u2019s not a well deserved one. There are cities in Florida that get more rain than us, for example.<\/p>\n
After living here for 20 years, I\u2019m convinced that what makes Seattle noteworthy is rather how dark it is. But any time I try to research this, it\u2019s a dead end. All sources of data break things down into the binary of cloudy \/ sunny. Usually by day. One infographic I found at least had the nuance to use hours of sunshine.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m looking for a source to break cities down by average lux over the course of a year. With a smooth range from 120,000 lux to 10,000 for full daylight, and a range of 1,000 to 5 lux for cloud cover, and assumably 10,000 to 1,000 for some sort or partial cloud cover, it seems like there\u2019s a ton of nuance possible here beyond \u201csunny\u201d or \u201ccloudy\u201d.<\/p>\n
With 10% or so of Americans being impacted by seasonal affective disorder, I\u2019m confused why this information isn\u2019t more in demand. I want to look at the big picture of average yearly light exposure.<\/p>\n
But I also want my weather app to predict lux for tomorrow. How bright will it be at noon? I want people to have access to the vocabulary of lux like we\u2019ve recently developed the vocabulary of air quality. \u201cWow, yesterday only got up to 10 lux in Seattle!\u201d<\/p>\n
It seems more significant to me than what time sunrise and sunset are, or what the humidity is, but I can\u2019t find evidence that anyone is tracking this information at all \ud83e\udee4<\/p>\n
Can anyone point me to the secret database of global lux records?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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