The Absolute Worst City to Live in (for either cold, hot, humid,stormy, etc. wether)
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I found Wavehunter's graph and looked through it again. My town has about 2400 hours, and the 2400 hours line passes through Sussex county, NJ (where ilovemycomputer lives?). NYC and Boston are both above 2600 hours, as the coast is generally sunnier than inland. Since most of the population in the Northeast is concentrated along the coast, 2400 hours is below the norm. And the northeast is not one of the sunnier places in the country and definitely not known for its sunny weather. The only places in the country less with 2400 hours is the Pacific Northwest, the eastern Great Lakes and band following the east coast mountains that includes the three Northern New England States, most of upstate NY :-( , most of Pennsylvania except the region near Philadelphia and Appalachia. Judging from their population, I'd guess the average would be higher than 2650 hours, because it looks like the cloudy regions of the country form a minority of its population.
2500 hours isn't considered cloudy in the US, just not all that sunny. Where I live we get a good number of cloudy days, but usually they're right before, after and during rainstorms. But sometimes they linger. But we get a lot of clear "blue dome" days that's rare in the coast even though it's sunnier overall.
It seems that in northern latitudes there's a choice of mild winters and cloudiness or cold winters and relative sunniness. Though in the NE USA, the inland regions are both cloudier and colder (especially in the winters). But I think that's due a few quirks of geography.
Yes Sussex County. So I guess somewhere between 2400-2500 hours is the most accurate estimate for our areas. Must be one of the quirks to living near one of the cloudiest regions of the country. Funny thing is my parents plan on retiring to Upstate New York.
Since we seem to be right on the cusp between "more cloudy" and "more sunny", which do you think we get more of? Overcast days or sunny days? Difficult to say since there's a decent mix of both.
In the US, the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, gets my vote for worst weather. Their awful winters, are legendary there. They get heavy snowstorms, and temps below zero are common. Speaking of cold weather, the winter wind-chill, can make it feel like 60 degrees below zero, on occasion!
The summers there, are mainly hot, and very humid. And they can have prolonged summer heatwaves. Then there's the severe storms. Fierce thunderstorms with damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes, often occur there during the spring and summer months.
The reason: too hot, humid and rainy. I like to see rain but not the humid subtropical weather that lasts for months. And I'll also add to this list Yuma, Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City. They are so hot in the summer that you may get burned and fried
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Funny thing is my parents plan on retiring to Upstate New York. 
