Utah's weather factoids

Park City has had to endure a very dry weather so far. We have had just 5 hours of rain since the end of May. This said, I always claimed that we get 250 days without any precipitations in a year, but I've never counted them.

I know stand corrected: I just counted the days we had without precipitation during the entire year of 2017 and I get 214 full sunny days, 19 partially sunny (yeah, some big clouds) and 31 days overcast. This amount to a whopping 264 days, with just 101 days of precipitation (snow and rain combined).

Am I right to say that in the meantime, Chamonix had exactly the reverse, namely 115 days of sun vs. 250 days of precipitations?

Maybe, as no one has taken the pain and time to count and compare them. What's for sure is that in 2017, Chamonix only claimed 85 day of “full sun”, while Park City received 214 of them.

The only thing seriously counted in Europe are “hours of sunlight”. In that specific category, Park City still beats Chamonix by 1,000, with 3,035 hours for the Utah resort vs. 2,030 for “Cham” as folks there call it.

Further, in that hourly ranking, Park City is at par with the sun-drenched French cities of Marseille, or Ajaccio, Napoleon's birthplace, in Corsica. Now, time to go in the shade!