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A map shows areas of insolation (incoming solar radiation) across the world, categorized by watts per square meter.

Average annual levels of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface

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The map illustrates global insolation, showing variations in incoming solar radiation from the tropics to the polar regions. In the Northern Hemisphere, high insolation (220 to 280 plus watts per square meter), highlighted as dark green to dark red spans from northwestern Mexico through southern Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean, across the Atlantic to North Africa and Southwest Asia, with peaks in the eastern Sahara and Arabian Peninsula. In the Southern Hemisphere, high insolation areas stretch from East Africa to South Africa and across the Indian Ocean to most of Australia, with other high insolation zones in the Central Pacific and south-central South America. Middle insolation values (120 to 219 watts per square meter), highlighted as light blue to green, are found between 50 degrees north and 50 degrees south latitude, excluding high insolation regions. Low insolation areas (80 to 119 watts per square meter), highlighted as blue to light blue, are located north of the 50-degree lines to the poles in North America, the North Atlantic, and Eurasia, and around the Southern Ocean in Antarctica. The lowest insolation values (less than 80 watts per square meter), highlighted as dark blue, are in the ocean east of northern Greenland.

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Sea-surface temperature: Negative 0.5 to negative 1.5 (purple): Central Pacific regions. Negative 0.25 to 0.25 (light purple) are in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean. 0.25 to 2.25 (red) are mostly in the North Atlantic Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

A composite of sea-surface temperature anomalies during La Niña from November to March during the following years: 1955, 1956, 1965, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1989, and 1999. When sea-surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific drop below normal, it is known as a La Niña event.

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Arizona																																																			44.2%	33.7%	22.1%
Utah																														1																							70.0%	8.89%	2.63%
Yukon																																																										100%
Northwest Territories																																																									2.63%	82.4%	14.9%
District of Columbia																																																							100%
Idaho																																																							78.1%	21.9%
New Hampshire																																																								100%
Vermont																																																								100%
Wyoming																																																						12.4%	87.6%
Montana																																																							14.7%	85.3%
North Dakota													1																		1									1																100%
Kentucky																																																						46.4%	53.6%
Saskatchewan																																																								42.7%	57.2%
Mississippi																																																					82.1%	17.9%
West Virginia																																																							99.2%	0.827%
Nebraska																																																						9.53%	90.5%
Missouri																																																						66.4%	33.6%
Oregon																																																							96.3%	3.75%
Alabama																																																					66.2%	33.8%
New Mexico																																																			15.5%	33.9%	49.1%
Kansas												1																										1						1									5.90%	91.6%	2.46%
Wisconsin																																																								100%
South Carolina																																																						100%
Michigan																																																1								100%
Alberta																																																								29.7%	53.1%	17.2%
Connecticut																																																								100%
Pennsylvania																																																							19.4%	80.6%
Colorado																										1							1	1																			48.1%	51.6%	0.332%
Nevada																																																				1.58%	63.4%	31.2%	3.86%
Georgia																																															1						48.3%	51.7%
Manitoba																																																								26.0%	66.7%	7.35%
Oklahoma																																																					82.2%	17.8%
Tennessee					1																																																	100%
Ontario																																																								30.4%	56.0%	13.7%
Arkansas																																																					50.1%	49.9%
South Dakota																																																							50.1%	49.9%
Ohio	1													1							1																																		51.6%	48.4%
Indiana																																																						0.561%	79.2%	20.2%
Minnesota																																																								99.9%
Iowa	1	1								1					1				1									1																											77.7%	22.3%
Illinois																																																						11.8%	73.8%	14.4%
Alaska																																																										28.4%	69.2%	2.23%						0.230%
Florida	2					1					1										1	1	1		2		1								1								2			1						32.7%	67.3%													0.528%
Rhode Island																																																								100%										4.64%
Washington																																																							1.22%	98.8%										0.523%
Nunavut																																																									1.36%	33.1%	65.5%							0.349%
Maine																																																								99.8%	0.153%									0.133%
Nova Scotia																																																								52.4%	47.6%									0.869%
Virginia																																																						2.49%	97.5%											0.126%
Delaware																																																							100%											0.762%
Prince Edward Island																																																									100%									1.45%
Texas				1	2		1	1									1	1	1					1												1				1	1	2				1			1	1	5.26%	58.9%	35.9%													0.183%
Louisiana																																																				26.8%	73.2%														0.120%
Hawaii																																																				2.67%	97.3%								2.11%	0.444%	1.11%	0.206%	0.177%	1.57%
North Carolina	3								2																				1																									73.0%	27.0%											0.319%
New Brunswick																																																								47.2%	52.8%									0.522%
British Columbia																																																								21.7%	31.5%	46.8%								0.181%
Newfoundland and Labrador																																																									29.5%	69.1%	1.36%							0.356%
New Jersey																																					1		1																51.6%	48.4%										0.329%
Massachusetts																																								1														0.220%		99.8%										1.78%
New York																																																								100%										0.105%
Maryland																																																							100%											0.874%
Québec																																																								10.4%	38.5%	41.0%	10.1%							0.107%
California			1			1										1				1	1	1		1								1			1	1						1			1	1					2.69%	22.7%	49.4%	19.9%	5.25%											0.105%

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