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Old 05-22-2017, 09:51 AM
 
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Are there any transplants from DC who can comment if the winter temperatures in the Triangle are basically the same as in Northern Virginia?


I assume that they're 2 to 5 degrees warmer in the Triangle than in DC but was curious.
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Old 05-22-2017, 10:06 AM
 
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Little warmer than that. DC gets a LOT more snow than we do. My sister lives in Fairfax Co and sends me photos. When DC gets 3 feet of snow, we get 5 days of rain.
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Old 05-22-2017, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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Summer temps are pretty close...we're a couple degrees warmer. But it's more like 5-8 degrees warmer in winter, so it makes a big difference in the type of precipitation.
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Old 05-22-2017, 10:13 AM
 
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Thanks!
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Old 05-22-2017, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Apex, NC
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Summer temps are pretty close...we're a couple degrees warmer. But it's more like 5-8 degrees warmer in winter, so it makes a big difference in the type of precipitation.
Agree with this. Summer temps can sometimes be hotter there, but winter temps usually 5-10 or sometimes more (if a front stalls and doesn't come this far south). There have been winter days where it's actually colder here, but not as common. If you're going to average it, it's between 5-8 degrees colder there in the winter I would say.
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Old 05-22-2017, 10:17 AM
 
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Similar, it's just that D.C. Winters last longer with fewer reprieves from cold, and summers are longer with less frequent cold fronts.
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Old 05-22-2017, 10:32 AM
 
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Thanks for the replies.
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Old 05-22-2017, 11:31 AM
 
Location: Apex, NC
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Are there any transplants from DC who can comment if the winter temperatures in the Triangle are basically the same as in Northern Virginia?
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Old 05-22-2017, 11:38 AM
 
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Thanks. I had thought incorrectly that the winter weather was basically the same.
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Old 05-22-2017, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Little warmer than that. DC gets a LOT more snow than we do. My sister lives in Fairfax Co and sends me photos. When DC gets 3 feet of snow, we get 5 days of rain.
Ha! I don't think DC has ever gotten 3 feet of snow! It's true, though, that the snow/rain line is often somewhere between DC and Raleigh. And DC sometimes gets hit by the Mid-Atlantic/Northeastern storms that miss Raleigh. OP, pretty typical, though, is that DC gets 5 inches and we get rain or 1 inch of mixed precip. On the other hand, we sometimes get southern snow/ice "storms" that DC doesn't get (usually 2-3 inches of mix snow/ice). Average snowfall in Raleigh is about 7 inches per year, while DC's is about 19, so we clearly get a lot less snow here.

Overall, winters are warmer here, usually by about 5 degrees. But sometimes there is a larger day-to-day difference as high as maybe 15 degrees (fun for gloating to friends back in DC!), but 5 is more normal. Summer starts earlier and ends later here as well and is a bit hotter. I lived in the DC metro for 22 years and here for 5.

ETA: And as bad as you may think snow removal is in DC, it's worse here, much worse.

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