Spring Weather

[JustCallMeTC]

Originally Posted by mea-oh

Central Ohio doesn't get lake-effect snow. We get more ice than anything. Every once in a while we get a huge pounding, but more often we just get freezing rain, ice, sleet, and all sorts of unpleasantness. I don't like snow a lot, but I can handle snow and 30 degrees. I hate, hate, HATE really cold weather. You know, the weather where it's so cold, it doesn't snow...too cold to snow. Yuck.

I'll take 45 and rain over 25 and snow any day.

I realize that Central OH doesn't get those monsters. I've been to Cleveland during those. Mercy me those can get ugly.

[mea-oh]

So I went to the beautiful Seattle website and looked at the almanac of weather for Seattle. It really doesn't look that bad. For most of the months there were still quite a few days with sunny or partly cloudy skies. I didn't look up the summer months; only Nov-May. I was pleasantly surprised. We certainly have plenty of dreary days in Ohio, so it doesn't seem that bad.

Plus the temps seemed much warmer in Seattle than Ohio, at least in the Dec-Feb timeframe. With the exception of a few months (Jan 2006 had only one partly cloudy day), it looks very tolerable.

[TheseGoTo11]

Seattle has a similar spring to Boston, which takes forever to warm up. And there you're also coming off a frigid, snowy winter.

Early sunsets are unpleasant, but Seattle's earliest Dec sunset of 4:20 is the same as Chicago, and a few minutes later than Boston's. Higher latitude is offset by being further West within its time zone.

I hate winter, but with all the darkness, rain, and late spring thrown in, Seattle's a weather upgrade from most of New England as well as the Great Lakes cities. I'd say misery break-even point might actually be somewhere around Columbus.

[mea-oh]

Today is a beautiful fall day in Columbus. Sunny and upper 60s. This will disappear in a few days and it will get COLD.

I'm hoping Seattle will be a weather upgrade from Columbus, and I think it will be overall.

[Ira500]

A lot of places have bad winters. In Seattle, that mostly consists of the sun setting early ( what sun?), coldness, dampness, and a steady rain for days (weeks?) on end that is mostly drizzle but gets harder also..Spring may be late as far as weather goes, but because we don't get all that cold here, flowers bloom earlier, so you'll see forsythias in bloom a full month before they're blooming on the east coast.
On the east coast, a lot of plants die or go dormant in the winter because of the cold, where in Seattle some plants die or go dormant without watering in the summer, because it's so dry ( Yes, in Seattle!), but come back to life in the fall when the rain reappears.
That also makes it great for veggie gardening. You can plant some things here in the fall , like broccoli and kale, garlic, onions,etc and keep stuff growing all winter. I've had almost year round crops of collards and broccoli and lettuces.

[Ira500]

I'm hoping Seattle will be a weather upgrade from Columbus, and I think it will be overall.


Columbus win's today's weather contest. Seattle is 46 and raining and dark and gray and saturated wet...It's slowed down to a drizzle, but was pouring for quite a while earlier. This is when the Arizona fantasies start to emerge.

[mea-oh]

Originally Posted by Ira500

Columbus win's today's weather contest. Seattle is 46 and raining and dark and gray and saturated wet...It's slowed down to a drizzle, but was pouring for quite a while earlier. This is when the Arizona fantasies start to emerge.

Yes, but let's discuss again in January! ;-)

[mea-oh]

Originally Posted by Ira500

A lot of places have bad winters. In Seattle, that mostly consists of the sun setting early ( what sun?), coldness, dampness, and a steady rain for days (weeks?) on end that is mostly drizzle but gets harder also..Spring may be late as far as weather goes, but because we don't get all that cold here, flowers bloom earlier, so you'll see forsythias in bloom a full month before they're blooming on the east coast.
On the east coast, a lot of plants die or go dormant in the winter because of the cold, where in Seattle some plants die or go dormant without watering in the summer, because it's so dry ( Yes, in Seattle!), but come back to life in the fall when the rain reappears.
That also makes it great for veggie gardening. You can plant some things here in the fall , like broccoli and kale, garlic, onions,etc and keep stuff growing all winter. I've had almost year round crops of collards and broccoli and lettuces.

Well, I don't love the cold and damp, but it's much better than the bitter cold and dry, IMHO.