Philly vs Denver weather (better, compare, people, beautiful)
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Assuming i hate cold and windy weather, how would you say the East coast winter compares with Colorado? How about the spring and fall? I do not like getting cold and rainy weather in the spring when it is supposed to be nice out! Anyway, I have seen a lot of people on the Denver forum posting about how mild the weather is out there, and it really surprised me.
After growing up in Massachusetts and spending years in Baltimore and Cleveland, I'll take a Colorado winter over an east coat or midwest winter.
There is far less humidity so it feels less cold. 30 degrees in Denver can feel relatively mild if the sun is out - which it most often is. Yes, it snows. Yes it gets cold. And we will get snow late (May maybe even early June some years.) But you don't get that 4 months of gray like you see back east and you rarely get early spring cold rain.
Redsoxfan is right but I would add one thing, the weather in Colorado is nuts! While in general it is way warmer and definitely way sunnier (I think it's something like over 305 days of sunshine!) the weather can be extreme. For example, in November you might get 3 days in a row where it's around 70 then the next 2 days you get a snow storm, then the next three days are back in the 60-70's and so forth. In the early summer you can have a day that's completely beautiful, then in about 30 min a thunderstorm can roll in that can scare the living crap out of you and then an hour later it's beautiful again.
But overall way better than the gray and gloom of East coast.
As far as average high temperatures go, Denver is on par with Philly/NYC/DC for every month. Denver's average low temperatures are a good 10 degrees below that of Philly/NYC/DC. Denver also has lower precipitation so I don't think you have to worry too much about rainy Spring days.
So overall Philly is warmer than Denver (only because of the low temps).
Redsoxfan is right but I would add one thing, the weather in Colorado is nuts! While in general it is way warmer and definitely way sunnier (I think it's something like over 305 days of sunshine!) the weather can be extreme. For example, in November you might get 3 days in a row where it's around 70 then the next 2 days you get a snow storm, then the next three days are back in the 60-70's and so forth. In the early summer you can have a day that's completely beautiful, then in about 30 min a thunderstorm can roll in that can scare the living crap out of you and then an hour later it's beautiful again.
But overall way better than the gray and gloom of East coast.
Oh yeah, it's absolutely crazy!! It hit 60 last January and it snowed close to 2 feet in mid-April!
As far as average high temperatures go, Denver is on par with Philly/NYC/DC for every month. Denver's average low temperatures are a good 10 degrees below that of Philly/NYC/DC. Denver also has lower precipitation so I don't think you have to worry too much about rainy Spring days.
So overall Philly is warmer than Denver (only because of the low temps).
I'd argue that the "feels like" low temperatures are even due to the sunshine and low humidity in CO.
As far as average high temperatures go, Denver is on par with Philly/NYC/DC for every month. Denver's average low temperatures are a good 10 degrees below that of Philly/NYC/DC. Denver also has lower precipitation so I don't think you have to worry too much about rainy Spring days.
So overall Philly is warmer than Denver (only because of the low temps).
As far as cold goes, I always go by the average LOWS in judging a place as well as # of days below 10 and # of days below 0 ...not the highs. When most people get up to go to work in the morning, that is usually the low of the day in the winter, 6-7am. My advice, pay attention to the average low.
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