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Location: Originally Fayetteville, Arkansas/ now Seattle, Washington!
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Originally Posted by operadivo
Well, summer is summer...it's a season for a reason. There's just something homogenous (not only) about the Pacific Northwest. If you think the humidity is bad in NYC you have a low tolerance, because (I proudly say) there is nothing quite like Gulf Coast humidity.
Hehe it is humid, but i really think the inland south has it worse. If you're actually close to the gulf, you get the advantage of ocean breeze.In my homestate of Arkansas, on the other hand gets intense heat+humidity that goes without regulation because of no ocean. Also Memphis for example, i've found to be much more humid than say Mobile, AL. Just my opinion though, I love the south so i'll take it humidity and all!
I lived in New York City and now live in Seattle. I'll take Seattle's weather anyday. Not that NY is that bad but its just too hot and humid in the summer and to cold in the winter. Seattle feels far less humid, milder in the winter with living plants and flowers. After living out here and visiting NY on occassion, I absolutely love Seattle weather.
i like NYC's weather better because it's colder in the winter and has more distinct 4 seasons, there's only like a 30 degree difference between Winter and Summer in Seattle while in NYC it's 47 degrees.
IMHO to really understand a city's weather you need to live there a few years. I have never been to NYC so I would tend to compare it with Chicago.
From what I hear it's slightly less extreme/schizophrenic. Seattle/Portland
I can comment on, the summers are freaking sweet. The winters not so much.
I think the rap against the PNW is more due to the predictability of boring
grey more than the grey itself. The weather up hear tends to moderate at a
deliberate pace. Having said that some area is going to flood during the
Nov/Dec rains, much like some place will burn in the southwest.
NYC. I love those four-seasons climates. I even like some humid summer weather. I've spent just about my entire life in various combinations of the Northeast, the South, and Midwest, so I'm used to humid summers. Maybe it's a sub-concious emotional attachment to all the memories of close, sultry summer nights over the years--who knows--but to me it wouldn't seem like summer if I didn't get broiled a little. As for winter, well, NYC is at a latitude where the seasons are fairly well balanced and winter doesn't go on forever. There is something to be said for the relatively mild winter temperatures in Seattle, and maybe I'd have to reconsider if you asked me whether I preferred the weather in Seattle or International Falls, but that's not this thread.
Seattle and the Pacific NW are waaay too dreary for me. No wonder you guys have the highest suicide rates in the country LOL. New York wins hands down!
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