When Will This Sunny Weather End? (Pittsburgh, Sewickley: condo, home, driveways)

[Mugatu]

PA, The Sunshine State.

I moved up here in Aug 2006 and I'm still waiting to experience the "horrible, hot and humid Pittsburgh summers" that I read about on these forums.

[Johnny C]

Please link to this thread when you hear people whining about never seeing the sun in Pittsburgh.

Tell them we actually had people complaining about too much sun several times this year lol.

[nuwaver88]

Originally Posted by Johnny C

Please link to this thread when you hear people whining about never seeing the sun in Pittsburgh.

Tell them we actually had people complaining about too much sun several times this year lol.

Good idea Johnny. Guess what? Despite all of this sunshine, there are still no drought warnings and everything is still green and beautiful as always in Western PA. This is because we get our share of precipitation, mostly rain, in winter and spring almost every day for a few months. This allows for a good base of grouind water and keeps us green, unlike so many other places people aspire to move to where the sun shines 300 plus days a year.

[bbrian12]

this week has been perfect
hot and sunny all day
cool at night
and for the first time in years its not supposed to rain all labor day weekend

[scottrpriester]

Originally Posted by Mugatu

PA, The Sunshine State.

I moved up here in Aug 2006 and I'm still waiting to experience the "horrible, hot and humid Pittsburgh summers" that I read about on these forums.

I don't know about "horrible", but I have lived here since Oct of 06. 07 and 08 were definitely hot, humid and dry.

[Mugatu]

Originally Posted by scottrpriester

I don't know about "horrible", but I have lived here since Oct of 06. 07 and 08 were definitely hot, humid and dry.

Your definition of hot and humid is different than mine. I moved up here from FL, so a summer where most days are below 90 degrees, and some days do not get out of the 70s, is great to me. Pittsburgh has hot and humid summer DAYS, but as a whole, the Pittsburgh summer is quite mild.

[Hopes]

Florida is definitely worse, but there are a lot of houses in Pittsburgh that don't have air conditioning. That makes it tough when it's a bad summer.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by Mugatu

PA, The Sunshine State.

I moved up here in Aug 2006 and I'm still waiting to experience the "horrible, hot and humid Pittsburgh summers" that I read about on these forums.

Compared to where? For those of us who have generally lived in Pittsburgh or other northern cities most of our lives summers can feel hot. But to people from the South our summers are prob nice. At my college campus Duquesne, people from Philly complain at how cool our weather is.

[trotter_rej]

I grew up in and near Pittsburgh and moved to South FL for a couple of years, then to Houston for 12 years, before moving back to Pittsburgh last year. I find the physical experience of the extreme heat in FL/TX and the extreme cold in PA to be similar, a -10 degree windy day here and a 98 degree/95% humidity day there both feel like they take your breath away when you step outside. IMO, the coldest/windiest day in Houston and the hottest/most humid day here don't compare to their counterparts.

I kind of get where Mugatu is coming from in that I can recall about a week or 2 of the extreme cold days this past winter in Pittsburgh. However, there are at least 2-3 months of the extreme heat days every year in Houston.

Following up on Hopes' point, even the cheapest house or apartment in Houston will have AC of some kind, but some do not have central heating.

[greg42]

Originally Posted by Mugatu

PA, The Sunshine State.

I moved up here in Aug 2006 and I'm still waiting to experience the "horrible, hot and humid Pittsburgh summers" that I read about on these forums.

Actually, I'd say the last few have not been that bad, compared to many previous years, so that kind of makes sense. This one has been relatively mild, and last summer was relatively mild as well. Beyond two years my memory is even worse ;-) but really I could see where at least the summers of 2008 and 2009 could be seen as mild compared to what I thought of as the norm for 15+ years. The number of 90+ degree days is much smaller. Still gets humid but not as hot.

Still, it's always going to be relative. I moved here from a similar climate so it's all been pretty similar for decades to me. If you move from somewhere milder it's going to seem hot, and vice-versa.