It was all thanks to a large dome of persistent high pressure, clear blue skies and strong sunshine.

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More important, the city offers reliable sunshine and blue skies when much of Europe and America is dark and grey.

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"These are problems without a solution, " he says with a grin, soaking up the sunshine in his blue serge suit.

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With 320 days of sunshine each year, and bright blue skies, Varney says Tucson is a wonderful place to live and work.

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It is battleship gray with blue and citron crosses and looks so vibrant in the bright sunshine.

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Depending on the capricious whims of the extreme Arctic climate and calendar, thick clouds reveal remote fragments of the landscape as if concealing some great mystery, blinding sunshine illuminates the ice, or perpetual moonlight bathes it all in the strange, blue half-light of the polar night.

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