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1st percentile of daily minimum temperature (coldest day of the season)
1st percentile of daily minimum temperature (coldest night of the season)
99th percentile of daily maximum temperature (warmest day of the season)
99th percentile of daily minimum temperature (warmest night of the season)
99th percentile of daily precipitation rate (wettest day of the season)
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Sunshine hours

The number of hours of sunshine measured on a daily basis.

In detail

Sunshine hours is one of the UKCP09 Weather Generator variables, measured in hours.

An overview of the outputs from the UKCP09 Weather Generator is provided in Section 1.4 of the Climate change projections report.

Further details are available in Section 1.3 and Annex 2 of the Weather Generator report.

Last updated: Sunday, 11 March 2012