Birth and Death Chains

The process below is not a birth and death chain, but a problem similar to this one can be found in the Birth and Death Chain handout.

The weather in a certain city can be in one of 3 states: sunny (1), cloudy (2), or rainy (3). Suppose the weather evolves over time according to a continuous time Markov chain with the following transition rate matrix. Rates are all per day (24 hours). (Diagonals left blank on purpose.)

\[ \mathbf{Q} = \begin{bmatrix} & 0.25 & 0\cr 0.8& & 0.4\cr 2.0& 1.5& \cr \end{bmatrix} \]

Given that it is currently cloudy, compute the expected number of days elapsed from now until it is sunny.