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Depends on what the OP considers "mild" winters. Most of the West Coast has relatively mild winters. Seattle is at 47N latitude; no other major American city is that far north. But Seattle has a much milder winter than Chicago, New York, Washington DC, etc. But it is quite rainy. Naturally, winter weather becomes warmer as one travels south and Los Angeles has a warmer winter than any major city outside Florida & Hawaii.
Low humidity is common throughout the Western states but much of the area has very hot summer temps except right on the immediately coastline.
I get your point (about latitude)…but just to be fair to our nation’s capital (lol)…the above is slightly misleading:Winters are not “much warmer” in Seattle than Washington DC…they are only about 2-3 F warmer. Here are the winter average highs/lows for Seattle and Washington DC
The other "ten months of the year"...the highs in Washington DC are warmer (or much warmer) than Seattle...and most other cities on the West Coast. Also, there are a few other cities outside of Florida and Hawaii have similar highs/lows to LA in winter:
I get your point (about latitude)…but just to be fair to our nation’s capital (lol)…the above is slightly misleading:Winters are not “much warmer” in Seattle than Washington DC…they are only about 2-3 F warmer. Here are the winter average highs/lows for Seattle and Washington DC
The other "ten months of the year"...the highs in Washington DC are warmer (or much warmer) than Seattle...and most other cities on the West Coast. Also, there are a few other cities outside of Florida and Hawaii have similar highs/lows to LA in winter:
Phoenix, AZ: (same links)
DEC: 67/44F
JAN: 67/44 F
FEB: 71/47 F
Tucson, AZ (Same links)
DEC: 65/39F
JAN: 65/39 F
FEB: 69/42 F
New Orleans, LA (Same links)
DEC: 65/45F
JAN: 62/44 F
FEB: 65/46 F
Sorry, I should have specified that I was using the downtown weather station for Los Angeles. The airport readings are cooler but inland regions are as mild as any city outside Central Florida:
I am from Iowa and totally sick of the humidity. Summer temps are like living in a sona. You step outside and it takes you breath away. Plus it also zaps your energy,to where you can't get anything done.As for the winters the humidity makes it more bone chilling.
I live in SW Ohio and cannot stand the humid weather, and its not even as bad here as many other places. Wherever I move after grad school, it will have be drier and not muggy. Winters however, are fine as long as wintersports are nearby.
I live in wisconsin and the winters are horrible but the summers are too hot. In the winter in can range from 0 degrees too 50 degrees, in the summer it can go from 70's to 100's.
Seattle. It rarely snows in the winter. If it snows it melts within 1 day. It is NOT windy. Temperatures 45-55 during the day and 32-42 at night, a lot of cloudy days. But very nice summers 70-80, low humidity, it rains very rarely, a lot of sunny days, cool nights (56-60) --> it's very comfortable to sleep
Yeah, it rains very rarely in the summer (about 3-4 months) and than you have rainy and overcast days for the rest of the year!
Yes, I'm serious. We "average" 60 in. a year, but that is the long term average. Many winters have 35 in or less. And it does melt in 2-3 days. There truly are weeks of snow-free weather.
One could double that amount the closer to the foothills, and that is a lot of snow, period.
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