Capital Region’s unusually cloudy season may impact mental health | The Daily Gazette
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Clouds cover the sky facing east along the Mohawk River in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
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CAPITAL REGION — New York winters have a reputation for being drab and dreary, but lately, the clouds have hardly seemed to clear.
“It definitely hasn’t been people’s imagination. It’s been quite a cloudy period here,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Villani.
In Albany, two-thirds of the days since Dec. 1 have had 80 percent cloud coverage during daylight hours, according to Villani.
“It’s typical for December but usually, once we get into January we start seeing some more sunny days disperse within the cloudier days too, alternating. But in January it looks like we really only had like a couple days … where we had 50% or less cloud cover,” Villani said.