What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs, I am
just outside of Portland Oregon and I gotta tell you it's kind of cold for us
I say for us because I know there's a few cities in the country right now that
are well below zero about three weeks ago I did a video about the coldest
states and I thought today I would help get your mind off the cold your aching
knees chattering teeth and look at cities that get the most Sun yes
sunshine something we haven't seen much of in Portland for about five months and
for those of you in Portland that want to bring up the fact that we had like
two sunny days three weeks ago or five weeks ago stop typing don't nitpick
sunlight is very important to human beings sunlight can improve your mood
may prevent us from eating too much it helps stimulate the body's production of
vitamin D it can help clear up skin conditions like psoriasis it may even
help maintain the efficiency of the human eye that'll be good for all of you
when I start making videos in 8k someday the Sun can also do bad things so too
much is a bad thing too much of anything's really a bad thing so wear
sunscreen sunblock whatever you want to call it to make this video I looked at
data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to determine
the sunniest cities in the United States and rank them by the percentage of days
with possible sunshine on average now that's how we're gonna do this video
stay to the end of the video I'll have a question for you about the subject of
future videos see which ones you prefer I guess if we're talking sunshine we got
to start with the golden state and
number 10 Sacramento the sunshine in California is legendary one of the main
reasons people moved to California is the sunshine I was in Sacramento in
October of 2018 it was like 85 degrees the whole weekend sunny and filled to
the brim with homeless in Sacramento there are 218 parks and parkways
totaling four thousand three hundred and thirty point seven acres of land for
public use and about 213 of those parks have very tanned homeless people
spending than item I'm sure okay maybe not 213 but a bunch of them do and they
all have tans I noticed that was there every homeless person had an incredible
tan now I'm sure there's Canadians watching documentaries about homeless in
California thinking if they can't afford rent how are they affording a tanning
membership the percentage of sunny days in Sacramento is
78.5% number nine flagstaff arizona flagstaff arizona carries the nickname
of the city of seven wonders it's because it's got seven incredible land
features including the national forest a couple monuments some great hiking
canyons and of course the granddaddy of all hump the Grand Canyon the really
good news is you can visit these locations and be relatively sure you'll
have a nice clear day whenever you go there and it's a good thing they rarely
have cloud cover because it's also home of the Lowell Observatory this is the
place that found the planet of Pluto in 1930
you know Pluto the one that was a planet then someone said it wasn't a plant it
was just a couple of rocks then I guess they said it was a dwarf planet and you
know honestly I don't think they like being called Dwarfs I think they prefer
little planets the percentage of sunny days in Flagstaff is seventy eight point
six percent number eight Reno Nevada this one caught me by surprise then I
remembered almost every single time I've been to Reno it was during the holidays
and they get some snow last time I was there it was during the summer I think
it was actually in August of 2017 it was kind of nice Reno is famous for being
the second Nevada City it's just not as sleazy but still has great gambling Reno
has dry hot summer day so many of the residents and the visitors skip the
gambling and the casinos and head down to things like the Truckee River
whitewater park which is kind of cool it's got like little rapids in the
middle of town they also have a thing at the Whitney Peak Hotel they've got a
climbing wall that climbing wall is pretty cool it's outside and it goes all
the way to the top of this 20 some-odd story hotel and with a 79 percent chance
that you'll have sunny weather you should give it a try I think I made it
15 feet up and called it good it's just me though
number seven Fresno California ask anyone from Fresno how summers were
growing up in Fresno and they might start to cry
Fresno gets hot and it never seems to have wind that's my own personal
experience never seems to be windy there not even a light breeze it's rough
Fresno has an average of 36 days of triple digit heat each summer but in
2018 they had 57 days of 100 temperature weather and that set a new record well
past their 30 consecutive days of triple digit weather and that was in July in
August and that's a rough summer I was there I think 2017 maybe 2016 anyway I
may have eaten my body weight and talked they had this taco truck festival thing
going on oh man it was incredible it's kind of bad when you're looking at taco
trucks going you know I think I could just fit one more in but you could
barely walk yeah that was a great festival you have a seventy nine point
four percent chance of having sunny weather in Fresno on average number six
El Paso Texas El Paso is a border town that has one of the largest military
installations in the United States right there in the city kind of it's sort of
in the north area near the El Paso International Airport Fort Bliss you
also have clear skies for most of the year in El Paso and the cities nickname
is Sun City and for good reason they get a lot of Sun they also get very hot and
dry summer days that feel like you're just a $24 goober ride away from the
actual Sun that's how hot it is Franklin Mountain State Park is a good place to
enjoy a summer day and try not to get heatstroke
Franklin Mountain Park is the largest urban park in the contiguous United
States that's completely within the city of El Paso the annual average percentage
of possible sunshine in El Paso is 84% number five Tucson Arizona Tucson is in
the Sonora Desert and it's known for its great Mexican food the food is hot and
so is the weather last time I did a video that mentioned Tucson had some
Jacqueline give me a hard time because I said a swamp cooler didn't cut it in
Tucson you need AC if you don't want to sweat most the year this clown worked it
around where he was offended I was promoting environmental killing AC units
when I kind of shot that down he switched to only you know people in
poverty can afford swamp color so obviously I hate poverty P it was just
weird he was more heated than the weather and the food he was also part of
the reason I tell people that being offended is not a skill or a talent you
need to just not complain so much anyway the summer's here very hot the
temperatures regularly climb into the hundreds they almost never have humidity
so I mean that's good humidity and 100 degree weather always sucks
my suggestion is put on some sunscreen and go get some Mexican food to enjoy
some a scene if you see some clown pushing a swamp cooler and a shopping
cart and crying that would be the guy from the last one the annual average
percentage of possible sunshine is 85 percent number four Phoenix Arizona
Arizona's capital city is the most heavily populated capital city in the
u.s. and I don't know why I didn't know that
and I still don't know why it is probably because I'm one of those people
that isn't big on hot weather some really most people prefer hot weather
the Summer Sun in the valley a Sun could make a Tucson dude with a swamp cooler
moved to Minnesota Phoenix averages more than 100 days a year topping 100 degrees
that's a hundred days of triple digits with temperatures above 110 not being
uncommon those super hot days most locals stay inside with their
air-conditioning not their swamp cooler or they do something like go the movies
just anything with air-conditioning and to stay out of that heat it gets rough
the annual average percentage of possible sunshine in Phoenix is 86
percent number 3 Las Vegas Nevada Las Vegas is the only place I know where
people go to visit lose a couple months worth of paychecks and then tell you
they had a great time then they turn around ask for a loan to buy some bread
and Gatorade Las Vegas does amazing things to people including sunburns I
think a smart business plan in Las Vegas is a skincare line that comes with booze
already in it that way you will always remember to put your lotion on Las Vegas
has more than 100 casinos in the metro area the mostly sunny days are clear and
hot with temperatures into the 100's almost all summer if you're less than 20
pounds overweight and want to hang out by the pool that's really good news when
you're over 20 pounds overweight like me you sit there and look like you're
waiting for a bus most the time if you're not there for the pool the
casinos are always well air-conditioned the average annual percentage of
possible sunshine 85% number to ready in California have you ever heard of ready
in California most people have been outside in Northern California not a lot
goes on here I mean other than oppressive heat reading is known as the
trails capital of California they have tons of hiking and biking trails in the
hills surrounding the city with over 300 days of sunshine reading is the second
sunniest city in the u.s. the Sacramento River is the longest river in California
and it runs right through town I've never been fly-fishing but I have an
army buddy that lives just outside of Redding in a place called Anderson and
he said the fly-fishing is decent does it all the time which is good because
it's so freakin hot there and when you fly fish you get to stand in a river for
hours of time sidenote I told him what my video was about and he mentioned he
started marking down what the first day of the year was that they get over 90
degree weather each year for the fifteen years now and he said in that 15
years he figures it's about two weeks sooner than it was in 2005 but he said
his data's not complete because it needs to get over 20 years anyway you're
probably thinking why would a man randomly do that he got his degree in
meteorology and he worked for the government for like 20 years after 10
years in the Army so yeah that's that's his kind of brain that he does stuff
like that actually he retires April 1st so congratulations sergeant Andrews
actually that's what he was when I knew him I'm sure he's had other titles since
you know 1989 or 90 the annual average percentage of possible sunshine in
Redding California is 88 percent and number one yuma arizona yuma arizona is
the hottest city in the united states they have so much Sun I think it's
baking the brains of the locals for proof of this they don't seem to think
that there's a problem that the local high school sports teams are called the
criminals I'm not kidding google it actually it's a great story how that
came to be the school was established in 1909 and then the next year a fire broke
out and burned down the school in 1910 the school then used the local prison
which had recently been closed for the next three years to hold classes but
classes were held in the cell blocks that same year Yuma's football team was
dubbed the criminals by fans of Phoenix Union High School after losing the
championship game to Yuma and it stuck the annual average percentage of
possible sunshine in Yuma is 90 percent it's actually a little over ninety point
one percent that's a lot of sunshine alright so that's the end of the video
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