Texas Is The Ultimate Climate Rip-off (dew point, Seattle, Georgia, San Diego)
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The Rockies protect the western 1/4th of the country from the Arctic, the cold air in the western 1/4th of the country comes from the Gulf of Alaska, part of the Pacific which is much more moderate than the Arctic. Arctic air can't cross the Rockies due to cold air masses not rising higher than about 9,000ft. How many times does this need to be explained?!?!?!?!
Actually he is not wrong again I meant to post the research paper many months ago when i found it, the jet stream started becoming wavy about 4k years ago due to global cooling.
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Actually he is not wrong again I meant to post the research paper many months ago when i found it, the jet stream started becoming wavy about 4k years ago due to global cooling.
He is wrong. The west does get troughs, we are not under a permanent ridge. BUT, and a big but, our cold during troughs comes from the Gulf of Alaska, not the Arctic. Arctic air CAN NOT cross the Continental Divide. Cold air stays within 9,000ft of Sea Level, so Arctic air masses can not cross the Rockies!!!!!!!!
He is wrong. The west does get troughs, we are not under a permanent ridge. BUT, and a big but, our cold during troughs comes from the Gulf of Alaska, not the Arctic. Arctic air CAN NOT cross the Continental Divide. Cold air stays within 9,000ft of Sea Level, so Arctic air masses can not cross the Rockies!!!!!!!!
Yeah that's not what I meant, the point is its true at one point the eastern us was more stable, but that was 4000 years ago.
Charleston, Savannah, NOLA yes are all gems as well, though excluding NOLA are quite small. I'm talking about the sprawled cities like Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, etc. They don't interest me at all. I like history.
Sadly yes, Charleston and Savannah are very small so while they are beautiful, it's a fun-size beauty. Wilmington NC also looks nice, maybe not a tourist destination, but much nicer than your regular Anytown USA
Honestly NC probably has some of the lamest cities in the country. Raleigh has a tiny boring downtown surrounded by cul-de-sacs and malls on all sides. It looks like an overgrown suburb. Charlotte has a cute but tiny downtown that is surrounded by graveyards, highways, and traintracks on all sides. Winston-Salem has literally five blocks of Downtown that morphs into the surrounding low-density whitepicketfencia. In Greensboro Downtown is literally one street that runs for a few blocks, if you dont believe me look on Google Street Views yourself
Sadly yes, Charleston and Savannah are very small so while they are beautiful, it's a fun-size beauty. Wilmington NC also looks nice, maybe not a tourist destination, but much nicer than your regular Anytown USA
Honestly NC probably has some of the lamest cities in the country. Raleigh has a tiny boring downtown surrounded by cul-de-sacs and malls on all sides. It looks like an overgrown suburb. Charlotte has a cute but tiny downtown that is surrounded by graveyards, highways, and traintracks on all sides. Winston-Salem has literally five blocks of Downtown that morphs into the surrounding low-density whitepicketfencia. In Greensboro Downtown is literally one street that runs for a few blocks, if you dont believe me look on Google Street Views yourself
I dont know anything about winston salem but that is not true at all about raleigh and places like asheville. I have never been to greensboro either but Raleigh has one of the fastest growing downtowns in the country, I have family who retired int that area and work for a florida software company citrix that has a big presence in the warehouse district in downtown raleigh and its absolutely booming with condos and nightlife but still a very green city, tons of greenways and parks and very tree filed downtown. one of the highest tree canopy percentage in the country, city of oaks. I think you just have to find right neighborhoods, north raleigh is not really downtown.
boylan heights arts district
views from boylan bridge
moore square and cobblestone streets.
cameron park near glenwood south and nc state
downtown
oakwood
red hat amphitheater downtown
museum district downtown
blount street
even the restaurants downtown have trees in them
the beloved governor. my mother says there are protests every night. raleigh doesnt like him, a charlotte republican
one of the cooler restaurant and bar in america. you canoe right up to it, outdoor movies. in asheville.
But it still looks very small for a city the size of Raleigh, in addition to the streets not being very active. Valparaiso has a massive Downtown/Center area despite not being a very big city itself
Why do you say streets are not active? It doesnt seem that way to me at all, its one of the fastest growing downtowns and states in the country and there are condos going in left and right downtown, that downtown has grown like 130% since 2000. On first friday and weekends when I am there visiting I avoid most of the downtown because its packed , I hate big crowds and places like glenwood south are just packed with p[people you can barely walk from bar to bar, I hate stuff like that .
There are like 35,000 nc state students and tons of smaller womens colleges in downtown raleigh , students from duke and unc may venture to raleigh as well I imagine, about 15,000 people live one mile from state capital in downtown. this is a food truck rodeo downtown but there is always some festival or marathon downtown when i am there, its not like a college town that just shuts down when the kids are not there. there is a huge population that lives in downtown raleigh
What the title says. If you are one who likes a moderate climate, and expects one for the location, then inland Texas is the ultimate climate nightmare. During summer, expect weeks of temps in the triple digits, and without a drop of rain, despite abundant low-level moisture from the Gulf; you can thank mid-level high pressure for this, which always seems to set up in inland Texas for some strange reason. Meanwhile, it turns around, and gets blasts of freezing cold air during winter, thanks to lack of moderation of cold airmasses coming down the plains. And in seasons where temps aren't extreme (spring and fall), there are loads upon loads of severe, tornado-spawning storms.
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As a resident of eastern Texas, all I can say is AMEN!!!
The weather here is absolutely appallingly stupid, only a moron with the IQ of dryer lint would set weather up in this way.
As I get older (I'm in my 40s), I can't deal with extremes very well, hot or cold. I like WARM weather, but I cannot stand HOT weather, I just can't stand it, yet at the same time I don't want a very cold winter either, but the only places that give you that are places like San Diego or Hawaii which have a high cost of living and are crowded as heck. I want it to be no hotter than 85 AND no colder than 45 AND not be crowded AND not have a high cost of living, ALL OF IT. There is no such place, unfortunately.
Getting back to what stinks so bad about our weather--as I was saying, I like warm weather but not HOT weather, and yet those milder warm periods (75-85) are when it seems heck-bent on raining every other day and and spoiling it, or it's overcast and the sun which at that time of the year would feel good is nowhere to be found seemingly 75% of the time. Meanwhile when it's 95 and 105 it refuses to rain a single drop and there's not a cloud in the sky, it gets so hot even swimming isn't very refreshing. That's just stupid.
Had I known it was like this, I'd never moved here. Weather-wise, eastern TX is absolutely the armpit of the USA as far as I'm concerned. Anymore, I'm ready to get out of here on account of it.
California is the best state by far for a moderate and really fantastic climate and amazing topography and near stuff like Vegas but lifestyle wise I would like if it were more right wing , way ,way too many people in california and traffic and liberal policies and very, very expensive state to live in, but its the best in the united states for growing just about anything. Its an amazing state
California is like Texas. As soon as you get away from the coastal area, it changes. Most days of the year, has the hottest day in the whole country, and can be in the southern desert area, or as far north as Redding in the far north central area of the state. Just like the OP complains about Texas when you get away from the coastal area. It also has the coldest readings in the country many days, with deep snow in parts of California.
I remember Christmas Day 1950 being in San Diego, on the beach it was 98 degrees a little hotter than normal, and that night it was so cold you had to wear a heavy coat to be outside with a bitter cold and very humid cold damp air.
When you say California has a "moderate and really fantastic climate", you are only telling part of the story, and that statement is true for only small coastal portions of California.
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