Stornoway, on Lewis, had its fewest hours of sunshine since 2005 - 105.8 hours - and second highest amount of rainfall.

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The number of wet days is rather less than in western Europe and the number of hours of sunshine rather more.

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However, the town had its most hours of sunshine since 2003.

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These days, Perth is a vibrant cosmopolitan city which still enjoys Mediterranean climate and rightly claims to offer more hours of sunshine than any other Australian state capital.

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With 2, 000 hours of sunshine each year, plus buckets of snow blanketing the mountains of Sun Peaks, it is a wonder only 400 people claim year-round residence here.

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Data suggests Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway had 249mm of rain and 68.6 hours of sunshine - more rain and less sun than it had in the past 10 years.

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Solar charge times are determined by the total area and efficiency of the solar cells -- the Spark uses high-efficiency monocristalline cells which will charge an iPad from about 10 hours of sunshine.

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The island also had its lowest recording of sunshine duration since 2003 with 137.3 hours.

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The seaside town of Nairn, known as the Brighton of the North, had 140.7 sunshine duration hours - the lowest recording since 2007.

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Dundee City has the lowest average annual rainfall (775 mm) while residents of Aberdeen City enjoy, on average, the most sunshine hours per week at 28.4 hours.

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