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Hmm... Georgia has four distinct seasons, you usually don't get snow in the winter unless you're in the northern portion and in the mountains. There is humidity in the summer but it doesn't get anywhere as humid as Houston or Miami. When hurricanes hit Georgia, they're usually downgraded tropical storms.
This sounds like Detroit, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Green Bay or Milwaulkee. You described these Midwestern towns down to a tee.
Chicago does not have "lots of snow" in the winter or "scorching hot summers". While there are a few hot stretches in the summer, the rest of the summer is mild, most of the time highs in the 80's. It is absolutely nowhere near as horrible as southern summers are, and the winters aren't as bad as the cities east of the Great Lakes get.
Seattle summers are almost completely sunny blue skies with temperatures in the 70-80F with a very low dew point.
Chicago has a very beautiful fall, but it is very short-lived. A nice rainstorm with some wind, and all the trees are bare the next morning. In Seattle and Boston, it's not uncommon to see fall foliage well into November. I've never seen that in Chicago.
I tend to agree that Chicago falls don't last long enough, but last year was a huge exception. There were 80 degree days all the way until mid November, then falls weather lasted all the way until Christmas. Winter weather didn't even start until a few days before New Years.
As someone who grew up in Chicago I would say the falls are unpredictable. Sometimes they are warmer than usual (last year), other times they are typical fall weather all the way into mid November, and other times it's colder than usual (in 2019 it actually snowed on Halloween). So yeah, you never know what you're gonna get really. But when we do have a typical fall, it really is beautiful.
I would agree New England is hard to beat when it comes to the autumn foliage though.
I tend to agree that Chicago falls don't last long enough, but last year was a huge exception. There were 80 degree days all the way until mid November, then falls weather lasted all the way until Christmas. Winter weather didn't even start until a few days before New Years.
As someone who grew up in Chicago I would say the falls are unpredictable. Sometimes they are warmer than usual (last year), other times they are typical fall weather all the way into mid November, and other times it's colder than usual (in 2019 it actually snowed on Halloween). So yeah, you never know what you're gonna get really. But when we do have a typical fall, it really is beautiful.
I would agree New England is hard to beat when it comes to the autumn foliage though.
OKC doesn't have bad weather, it has a lot of interesting weather. It's a place a lot of people with an interest in meteorology gravitate toward.
Still, though, interesting weather to meteorology students at OU can mean incredibly bad weather to try to put up with. This unbelievable ice storm video shows why so many people don't dare move to Oklahoma City. Some people were without electricity for a week or more. Once again, Oklahoma City is really no. 1 for having incredibly bad weather.
Still, though, interesting weather to meteorology students at OU can mean incredibly bad weather to try to put up with. This unbelievable ice storm video shows why so many people don't dare move to Oklahoma City. Some people were without electricity for a week or more. Once again, Oklahoma City is really no. 1 for having incredibly bad weather.
I think OKC really just has a fairly typical southern Plains climate..warmer than say Omaha, colder than say Dallas, but really not that qualitatively different from either one of those.
OKC has perhaps been at that perfect junction where it's really attractive to tornado development, so I'm not going to argue with that. But of course severe storms are a significant issue just about anywhere between the Rockies and the Appalachians.
I think OKC really just has a fairly typical southern Plains climate..warmer than say Omaha, colder than say Dallas, but really not that qualitatively different from either one of those.
OKC has perhaps been at that perfect junction where it's really attractive to tornado development, so I'm not going to argue with that. But of course severe storms are a significant issue just about anywhere between the Rockies and the Appalachians.
OKC is significantly warmer than Omaha in winter and only a teeny bit cooler than Dallas in winter.
But Townie's insistence that OKC has the worst weather just isn't true regarding temperatures. Once again, winters are more temperate than any place north of it (excluding Cali and the PNW) and summers are slightly cooler and significantly shorter than any place south of it.
If the criteria is tumultuous weather then OKC is up there with other southern plains cities due to wind, hail and tornadoes. But it can be really nice in OKC in the winter a good bit of the time. Today it was in the low 80s in OKC. Dallas was over 100 again.
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Hmm... Georgia has four distinct seasons, you usually don't get snow in the winter unless you're in the northern portion and in the mountains. There is humidity in the summer but it doesn't get anywhere as humid as Houston or Miami. When hurricanes hit Georgia, they're usually downgraded tropical storms.
