Seattle Weather/Climate Thread (Kirkland, Rainier: hotel, houses, camp)

[pilgrim7578]

Originally Posted by CityGirl72

Just as I respect many people love Seattle, many people love Sac (that's why they live here)

One person's paradise is another person's hell (and vice versa)

I will take temps yearly from 40s to 70s anyday over Florida 80s to 100s with sogging humidity... YUKKKKKKK get me out of Florida... Yall can keep the sunshine all it does is burn your skin in twenty minutes..uplifting to look out the window but other than that your huddled in your home with AC>...when you walk outside all you hear is the LOUD hum of AC units... not nature.

[irrational exuberance]

pilgrim,

You have a good attitude which is very important in any transition, I visited Miami quite frequently. I recommend to not underestimate the value of sunshine, after all it effects the aspects of everything from people to nature.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by sofia76

Downtown Sac is very pretty and green. I like it. But that's not where everyone lives. I have friends who live about 20 minutes outside the city and it is just brown, and all new developments with little saplings. There was no one out. 10am, 80 degrees with no shade, kids out of school - no one at the playground, and we saw ONE woman with her one child walking. This, in a neighborhood with sidewalks and trails and pretty paths. Went out in the evening - it was 75 degrees, after dinner, NO ONE out. My friends said it was "too cold." It felt perfect to me. Obviously, not the right place for us, weather-wise.

Those trees as you can see were imported and planted, not like a lot of the native lush greenery that surrounds Seattle. What you saw outside of downtown Sac is the typical semi arid steppe that is the central valley.

What you described is exactly the Sacramento I remember and continue to hear about from my family. It's a dull place. Like I said, Seattle is in a different league altogether.

[baba_yaga]

I read the title of this thread to my husband, and he said "I love this town." We're from Philly.

[observer]

Originally Posted by irrational exuberance

pilgrim,

You have a good attitude which is very important in any transition, I visited Miami quite frequently. I recommend to not underestimate the value of sunshine, after all it effects the aspects of everything from people to nature.

Good point. That is why even though I myself a long time Florida resident who honestly is tired of the "extended summers" every year, will not take a move to Seattle or a similar climate lightly. Again, I don't know if I can adapt to months and months of lack of sunshine. I think I can but unless I experience it myself I will not know. I have heard it and read it here on CD too many times about people that have moved to Seattle or Portland and eventually had to move because of the constant lack of sunshine during the winter and spring really got to them. Some people describe their effects of SAD almost like there energy and drive to do regular tasks is sapped out of them.

One thing for sure, I could definitely tolerate living someplace that has less sunshine than Miami; we get plenty here. Now, someplace that has a lot less? I really don't know. The combination of the heat and sunshine does wear on you as well, but probably in a different way. I too get tired of revolving my outdoor activities around the weather in the summer time in Miami. Winters though, are beautiful here.

[pilgrim7578]

Originally Posted by observer

Good point. That is why even though I myself a long time Florida resident who honestly is tired of the "extended summers" every year, will not take a move to Seattle or a similar climate lightly. Again, I don't know if I can adapt to months and months of lack of sunshine. I think I can but unless I experience it myself I will not know. I have heard it and read it here on CD too many times about people that have moved to Seattle or Portland and eventually had to move because of the constant lack of sunshine during the winter and spring really got to them. Some people describe their effects of SAD almost like there energy and drive to do regular tasks is sapped out of them.

One thing for sure, I could definitely tolerate living someplace that has less sunshine than Miami; we get plenty here. Now, someplace that has a lot less? I really don't know. The combination of the heat and sunshine does wear on you as well, but probably in a different way. I too get tired of revolving my outdoor activities around the weather in the summer time in Miami. Winters though, are beautiful here.

I believe its such a hard choice...
Sunny all the time (UV damaging) but emotionally uplifting....

Emotionally draining grey skies,,,, although natural environmental connections with the sound, mountains, and fauna... unfortunatly Florida has little to no environmental connection...

If it wasnt for Airconditioning.. it would be uninhabitable...
It just seems that Florida has had its golden years and rural places in Washington may still have them to come...

Either way you bring the umbrella in seattle or bring the lotion in Florida.

I personally think its easier to survive naturally in Washington state than survive natural in Florida...

Well see..........

[irrational exuberance]

Yeah one thing you dont have to worry about here is hurricaines and violent thunderstorms. It will be a tradeoff from using your AC constantly there to using you heater here. I like the tropical look of Miami, birds, mango trees, coconut/palm trees, lizards everywhere. There is an abundance of trees here. Mt Rainier lis nice. The Cascade and Olympics are beautiful. Evergreen trees, if green/nature is what you seek you will find it in abundance here, which is definitely a plus.

[kwalk65]

I moved from the West Coast (Santa Cruz) 6 years ago to Raleigh, NC. I thought when looking at weather patterns in other states it was more importantant to have sunshine...boy was I wrong. I think unless you have lived in this sauna type of heat day after day for what really is 5+ months of summer you realize that you would really do anything for a cold foggy day - even a few months of them. I think sunshine is over-rated when mixed with high humidity!

[green_mariner]

I would consider that nice. Down here in the suburbs of Atlanta, it has been in the 90's and humid. 75 degrees Fahrenheit is what I would call a nice day. Throw in a cool ocean breeze and things and right with me. I wouldn't mind temps in the 60's.

[observer]

Originally Posted by kwalk65

I moved from the West Coast (Santa Cruz) 6 years ago to Raleigh, NC. I thought when looking at weather patterns in other states it was more importantant to have sunshine...boy was I wrong. I think unless you have lived in this sauna type of heat day after day for what really is 5+ months of summer you realize that you would really do anything for a cold foggy day - even a few months of them. I think sunshine is over-rated when mixed with high humidity!

I am in Raleigh, NC now where I have been spending most of my summers for the past several years. Yes, it has been uncomfortably hot for the past 2-3 weeks. This however is unusual to be this hot here for so long, especially in June. Raleigh does not have 5+ months of summer like Miami does. Raleigh actually has nice change of seasons. This extreme heat that Raleigh is experiencing is rare, and the hot summer usually lasts 2-3 months from about mid June to late August/early Sep. In May you will still find temps between the 50's-70's. Come mid/late Oct. it is usually not necessary to have the AC on.