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Old 03-29-2008, 07:16 AM
 
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I just got up an hour ago..went uptown to get my coffee. And something amazing did I ever see (besides an attractive girl who was actually younger than 50): SUNSHINE!!! I swear the sun came out this morning...and it's still out!

Pittsburgh, PA, gets maybe 1 day of sunshine per 3 or 4, in my estimation. That is, the winter is awful for weeks on end, and the summer is generally ok. How is it in Maine--how many days of sunshine? ...I might move there, and though it really wouldn't stop me (probably not), I really could use a place with a little more sunshine.
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Old 03-29-2008, 07:18 AM
 
Location: York Village, Maine
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Maine is a place that puts sunshine in your heart year round.
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Old 03-29-2008, 07:19 AM
 
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Maine is a place that puts sunshine in your heart year round.
That was the fastest reply I've ever received. ...and you are saying, then, that ME gets no sunshine either?
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Old 03-29-2008, 07:28 AM
 
Location: Free Palestine, Ohio!
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Here is a link for my area:
Rumford, Maine (ME) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, news, sex offenders
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Old 03-29-2008, 07:35 AM
 
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you can view % sunshine hours for Pittsburgh and Portland ME on the City-Data pages for those cities ... plus on the charts on the following link:
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Old 03-29-2008, 09:38 AM
 
Location: York Village, Maine
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That was the fastest reply I've ever received. ...and you are saying, then, that ME gets no sunshine either?

No I wasn't saying that. Maine gets it's share, but living in this state makes you feel so good and days that are lacking are well worth it.
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Old 03-29-2008, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Waldo County
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When I took my private pilot's license, the course curriculum taught us that Maine has as much sunshine and clear weather for flying as most of the rest of the US. The standard that was being used was weather suitable for flying under visual flight rules, as opposed to having to file an instrument only flight plan.

The problem in Maine was that although the actual number of VFR flight hours is equal to or nearly equal to the rest of the country, it is impossible to count on them being lined up in a nominally useful order. We might well get a beautiful morning, and by noon have a raging snowstorm and clear by midnight.

In Maine especially, if you don't like the weather, wait a minute.

It is also true that if you can't stand the winters, you don't deserve the summers.....
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Old 03-29-2008, 10:04 AM
 
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Maine gets a lot more sunshine than WI. I know this for an absolute fact. We're lucky to get 1 or 2 days of sunshine per week out here in the Winter. I never experienced SAD in Maine but I have it out here.
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Old 03-29-2008, 10:24 AM
 
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Heh ... bush-league when it comes to winter gloom compared to the NW ... lucky you! Want a shudder? ... look at the sunshine charts at the links I sent in this thread earlier.

Known fact: SAD related suicide capital of the country here. Days without sun? ... no, multiple weeks without even a couple hours. Day temps hover in upper 30's while you swim through mist and showers from house to car to stores and back. The wet finds its way inside your clothes regardless of Gortex. Constant chill. When the sun does show itself, rarely, people here whip out sunglasses ... glare hurts. Literally, more than 6 weeks can go by at a time commonly.

Yet, our annual sunshine hours are equal to Maine's ... summer we get No rain with mid-70's temps ... like Maine summers, summers here entice immigration.

Nothing wrong with 20* and snow on the ground when the sun shines a while at least every few days. I've lived both. Happy to endure either to be where I love with the ones I love ... if I can afford it! Nothing affordable left here ... and no open space anywhere near water, either. Damn.
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Old 03-29-2008, 01:08 PM
 
Location: home is in the heart
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I've been comparing the weather, and it was sunnier in Jan and Feb in Maine than over here in Utah...Being on the coast I would imagine Maine's weather changest much more frequently than in PA... giving you a good variety of sun and clouds I would think!
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