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God I'm so glad I don't live in the Pacific northwest, especially Vancouver. I crack the ****s after 2 or 3 days of grey drizzle, let alone weeks of even colder grey drizzle with no proper summers for compensation.
If I was in the USA, it'll be SoCal for me!
That's the area that everyone used to want to live in about 40 years ago. Unfortunately, it sounds like so many things have changed there for the worse and many people are fleeing the area. The cost of housing and just living in general is supposed to be very expensive.
God I'm so glad I don't live in the Pacific northwest, especially Vancouver. I crack the ****s after 2 or 3 days of grey drizzle, let alone weeks of even colder grey drizzle with no proper summers for compensation.
If I was in the USA, it'll be SoCal for me!
No summers? One of the best summers in USA. SoCal and San Diego will be too cold to you Only 70-75 degrees in the summer
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Except right along the ocean beach, L.A. is pretty hot during the summer, say July through September. SD is cooler from what you hear, except in the inland desert suburbs. NW summers are beautiful scenery 80s clear sunny and dry, but RIDICULOUSLY SHORT.
Pittsburgh and W PA are dreary areas most of the year particularly November thru March. And cold cold cold.
The rustbelt cities those from Detroit to Pgh, are gray and cold for half of the year. Days, weeks on end.
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Just a thought.... what is the exact definition of "cloudy"? Are we talking of days with full overcast without any recorded sunshine, or broken clouds with some recordable sunshine?
Just a thought.... what is the exact definition of "cloudy"? Are we talking of days with full overcast without any recorded sunshine, or broken clouds with some recordable sunshine?
the US definition is 80-100% cover. When it is 80% the clouds are broken and you see the sun sometimes
Nothing you've ever seen in terms of "dull" weather gets CLOSE to what we put up with in the UK each winter. Some nice stats for you from my family's home town in Buxton, Derbyshire, UK.
January 2004 sunshine hours:
TOTAL hours of sun in the entire month: 14.03
August 2008 sunshine hours:
TOTAL hours of sun in the entire month: 71.37
Dig that
Statistically, the UK has fewer annual sunshine hours than even the dullest location anywhere in the USA.
Not wanting to start an argument but I find the "mostly cloudy" or "cloudy" and their respective percentages a useless way of determining how sunny or not a location is compared to actual sunshine hours.
RichardW---------the woman from Oak Harbor Washington said in the 1966/1967 winter season , they went over 60 days of NEVER seeing the sun as she kept track on a calendar.
But, since she was a bar owner and not a meterologist, I doubt it's official .
( some might doubt if its even accurate )
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Unfortunately, it sounds like so many things have changed there for the worse and many people are fleeing the area. The cost of housing and just living in general is supposed to be very expensive.
