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I'm looking to relocate soon so I've been doing a little research. After a little elimination process, I've narrowed down my "list" to Dallas and Atlanta. They are both great cities, attractive, growing, lots of jobs, etc. However, the last factor that I need to consider now is climate/weather.
Which of these two cities is more likely to be affected by severe weather? Is it like I think it is: Dallas-tornadoes, Atlanta-hurricanes or is it not really like that after all?
I'm looking to relocate soon so I've been doing a little research. After a little elimination process, I've narrowed down my "list" to Dallas and Atlanta. They are both great cities, attractive, growing, lots of jobs, etc. However, the last factor that I need to consider now is climate/weather.
Which of these two cities is more likely to be affected by severe weather? Is it like I think it is: Dallas-tornadoes, Atlanta-hurricanes or is it not really like that after all?
Thanks.
Dallas has more extreme weather. Hotter, thunderstorms, flooding, tornadoes, and it tends to get more wintery weather than Atlanta.
Both cities deal with severe weather occasionally. Strong thunderstorms, tornadoes, flash flooding, and ice in the winter are probabilities in Dallas and Atlanta. The former is more susceptible to extreme temperatures though, mostly in the summer.
Dallas tends to have higher temperatures in the summer, sometimes extreme, while Atlanta tends to have colder temperatures in the winter, but not extreme by any margin. Usually Atlanta has more snow, but Dallas has years where it gets more snow than Atlanta. That said, neither really are known for snow.
Dallas is a little worse than Atlanta in the tornado department. Atlanta's hurricanes aren't a huge deal--it is actually pretty rare a true hurricane hits us.
Dallas has worse hail--this is one that people tend to ignore, but can cost you if you get hit.
The weather in Dallas is more extreme across the board than the weather in Atlanta. Dallas is more susceptible to arctic cold blasts, crippling snowstorms, tornadoes (including violent tornadoes) and triple-digit heat waves than Atlanta is. It's also much windier as well. They're both far enough inland, though, that they're only affected by the weakened remnants of hurricanes.
Summers are definitely much longer and hotter in Texas than in Georgia. Atlanta tends to get more stormy weather with its high humidity and Atlanta has a lot more rainfall yearly. Daily pop-up thunderstorms can be very common in the Southeast in summer.
While the weather can be extreme in Dallas it isn't often. early spring is typically when violent weather happens then the dry air sets in the area and its typically sunny skies with little rain, but gets hot earlier in the year and stays hot.
Winters are shorter in Dallas, but being on a prairie with no mountains to the North cold snaps can set in during Jan and early Feb but are short lived. Atlanta tends to have more cold days than Dallas during winter on average and Atlanta has that damp bone chilling cold from the humidity in the air. It is more likely to snow in Dallas in winter and Atlanta seems to have ice more likely (I'll take some snow). The past couple of winters Atlanta has had some very long periods of cold weather where the ice/snow simply would not melt and kept refreezing sometimes over a period of weeks.
As for tornadoes both areas may be about equally as prone to them.
Either way pick your poison. Neither area has perfect weather.
Summers are definitely much longer and hotter in Texas than in Georgia. Atlanta tends to get more stormy weather with its high humidity and Atlanta has a lot more rainfall yearly. Daily pop-up thunderstorms can be very common in the Southeast in summer.
While the weather can be extreme in Dallas it isn't often. early spring is typically when violent weather happens then the dry air sets in the area and its typically sunny skies with little rain, but gets hot earlier in the year and stays hot.
Winters are shorter in Dallas, but being on a prairie with no mountains to the North cold snaps can set in during Jan and early Feb but are short lived. Atlanta tends to have more cold days than Dallas during winter on average and Atlanta has that damp bone chilling cold from the humidity in the air. It is more likely to snow in Dallas in winter and Atlanta seems to have ice more likely (I'll take some snow). The past couple of winters Atlanta has had some very long periods of cold weather where the ice/snow simply would not melt and kept refreezing sometimes over a period of weeks.
As for tornadoes both areas may be about equally as prone to them.
Either way pick your poison. Neither area has perfect weather.
Nothing like a summer storm for relief. Gotta love those big ones that swoop in with the strong winds and drop the temps like 20 degrees within an hour. We get those in Texas, but Houston's the only major city in the state that's really humid and rainy during summer.
Watching the weather channel, I have noticed that Dallas is roughly 10 degrees hotter than Atlanta in the Summer.
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