Climate satisfaction

[Craziaskowboi]

Athens, GA gets a B- from me.


Pros

- Winters are cool enough not to have to use air conditioning
- Plenty of steady, soaking rain events during the winter, with occasional wintry precipitation
- Spring weather arrives in March instead of April
- Somewhat lower tornado risk than the rest of the deep South
- An extra month of summer weather
- Fall is mostly sunny and dry with warm days and cool nights
- Typically enough chill in the air by sunset around Christmastime to get people in the holiday spirit


Cons

- Not enough wintry precipitation
- Too cold to do much outdoors during the winter despite a relative lack of wintry precipitation
- Severe weather season starts earlier than most places
- Occasional high-pressure "wedges" result in cool, gloomy weather during the spring
- Very humid and prone to triple-digit heat during the summer
- The relentless heat and humidity gets old by August
- A secondary severe weather season during the late fall
- Occasional warm spells in December create a Christmas buzzkill


By the way, I lived in Pittsburgh for 15 years, and it's actually not perpetually cloudy there. The cloud cover is most persistent from November through March. That's when it can be excessive. It's actually quite pleasant from June through October. (April and May are variable.) Here's a picture I took in September 2010:



And here's a picture somebody on the Pittsburgh forum took in June 2012:



If a typical Pittsburgh summer was relentlessly cloudy or rainy, then PNC Park would have been built with a retractable roof to compensate for it. Pittsburgh is cloudier than the average city in the United States, but the United States is sunnier than most of Europe and Asia, so it's all relative anyway.

[wawa1992]

The major city nearest me, Nashville, TN, gets a 78% / C+. However, my town is about 20 miles north of Nashville and around 500 ft higher elevation, making it just cold enough and snowy enough in the winter to squeeze out a higher grade. It gets an 80% / B-. Bowling Green, KY, where I am going to college from August 24, gets an 81% / B-. Individual years can get C or B depending on the conditions; a year with a mild winter and cool summer is likely to get a C or even a D. Cold winter and hotter than average summer will probably bring a B. The best years such as 1977 and 1985 can even get a low-end A.

[alphatier]

Pros

- Summers are warm and sunny
- Winters are cool but not very cold
- Plenty of thunderstorms in summer
- Spring weather arrives in March
- No tornados.
- Spring and summer are awesome
- Low humidity in summer
- Winter rainfall is relatively low
- Occasional warm spells in winter

Cons

- High diurnal range (lows can be in the single digits in summer and highs ~ 20C higher.)
- Winters could be warmer
- It could be sunnier year-round
- Not enough tropical nights.
- 4 seasons (I'd like to have two; spring and summer.)

I'll give it a B-.

[Noodleman556]

Pros
- Long summers (Nov-Mar).
- Warm autumn and late Spring.
- Some early/late summer thunderstorms.
- Little/no summer rainfall.
- Chance of early Spring variation (e.g. 27-30˚C in September/October).
- Autumn begins in April.
- Good weather in winter for sports.
- Low humidity in summer (although recently I discovered that humidity doesn't affect me (monsoon season in India)).
- Sunshine hours

Cons
- Winter is very boring.
-Cold weather (below 22-25˚C).
- Cold Spring.
- Sea breezes ruin late spring/early summer heat.
- Cold mornings
- Summer is not hot enough (average maximum needs to be 34-36˚C).
- High diurnal range
- Lots of rain

[Wildcat15]

Could be better, could be much worse. The winters are too cold for me. In the summer, humidity is too inconsistent and there are not enough thunderstorms. There is too much cold precipitation, and not enough warm convective rain.

Originally Posted by wawa1992

Bowling Green, KY, where I am going to college from August 24, gets an 81% / B-.

Blowing Green is my version of Perfffff because it's a thunderstorm magnet.