What place has the worst weather? (climate, snowy, hot, warm)

[ohioan_17]

I have heard that the Pacific Northwest is pretty bad, but a lot of people have said that Ohio has the worst weather and I wanted to know what everyone else thinks.

[KevK]

Wichita Kansas

[ohioan_17]

Why is that?

[§AB]

I think the world's crappiest climates are: southern part of New Zealand, Macquarie/Heard Islands, St Paul Island alaska, the Alaskan Panhandle, Pacific Northwest, Ireland and Scotland.

[Jammie]

Yes, it does look like the Pacific Northwest does get a lot of rainy, dreary days. I've often read that it's the area with the most suicides in the country, but I have nothing to back that up.

I guess it depends on what you consider to be "awful weather". Some people think if it's 100 degrees that it's awful. Personally, I think that Northern Mn. has terrible weather because it gets so cold there. Before reading a lot on the Weather Forum here, I didn't realize it, but Alaska also has a lot of weather that I don't like. They sure have beautiful scenery, but it's just too cold for me. Also, the areas that have a lot of lake effect snow don't seem too appealing to me. I guess I don't really care for the weather in the northern one half of the country.

[desertsun41]

I lived in the Pacific Northwest for a while. Vancouver, BC to be specific. I wonder how people can live with 330 days a year of rain. I hated it. The day I left there it was pouring buckets. When that plane got above the clouds and I seen the sun for the first time in months, this grown man shed tears.

Now I live where the sun shines 360 days a year. In fact the sun is so intense that if you look at it, it will melt the corneas in your eyes into liquid. Now I cant stand it here either.

So what place is perfect?

[dxiweodwo]

south florida, it's so hot all year long that you can't stand it.

[dullnboring]

For me, northern Alaska would pretty much be the worst thing imaginable; or really anywhere at that latitude. It never gets warm, is more often than not, PAINFULLY cold, and you don't see sunlight in the winters. I couldn't deal with it.

Amongst the more inhabited portions of the U.S. though, I think the Buffalo area has some pretty hideous weather. Hot and humid summers, cold and snowy and incredibly grey winteres. Spring and Fall seem rather minimal.

[§AB]

The crappiest climates in Australia are Tasmania, the southwest coastal fringe of Victoria and the extreme southwest coastal areas of Western Australia.
Melbourne is a tropical paradise compared to these antarctica wanna-bees

For example, todays forecast is 101 in Melbourne yet only 73 for Hobart

[KevK]

Originally Posted by ohioan_17

Why is that?

Wichita Kansas is hot as hell 4 months a year (June-October) and then it has decent weather for a month (November) and then freezing cold weather for 4 months (Dec- March) and then it warms up one day, freezes the next and the place has some of the most violent weather you could ever see in March, April and May until very hot weather sets in until about the end of September.