Clouds? (Austin, Spring, Howe: living in, moving, rated)

[Jezahb]

So me and my husband have now lived here for almost 2 years, and frankly we are getting a little bit depressed with all the cloudy weather. I feel like everybody always talks about Texas being sunny, and it is sunny in the summer. I feel like June July August and September are pretty much consistently sunny every single day with the occasional thunderstorms. However once you pass September, the majority of each month will be cloudy days. Even worse, it's cloudy days with no rain. Just an oppressive blanket of dreary clouds that never produce any precipitation (Just tons and tons of humidity). I don't understand why this is not something that people talk about. Have we just been very unlucky and experienced two exceptionally cloudy years (mid 2019 to now)? I also find it a lot colder than expected for a lot longer, again summers are blazingly hot but it seems to be taking a long time to get there. We are in mid-May and it's still not what I would consider hot. We are from Boston originally and right now Boston is warmer than the Austin area, it's going to be consistently sunny and in the 80s in my hometown whereas Austin is going to be struggling to break out of the 70s with near constant cloud cover the rest of this week.

[Need4Camaro]

After a slew of 100* days I personally enjoy seasons of overcast. Plus I used to live in Seattle so those days were pretty much year round occurrences. Doesn’t really bother me.

[ashbeeigh]

You can always go back to Boston if our weather doesn’t work for you? There will be four people moving here to replace you.

Sarcasm and snarkiness aside...what we’re dealing with right now is tropical weather. We are only a few hours away from the coast. The pattern we’re in right now is caused by a blocking high so the jet stream is stuck in its position and storms from the west are riding the jet stream and hitting the tropics. Also, the dreariness in the mornings is tropical, the heat just burns it off and then it gets hot and sunny. I haven’t checked the temperatures yet to see, but the weather was “average” last month and I feel like it could be “average” now too. You’re right, there are years where we are in the 90s, consistently by now, but don’t complain too much. You’ll regret it mid July.

[Austin97]

Originally Posted by Jezahb

So me and my husband have now lived here for almost 2 years, and frankly we are getting a little bit depressed with all the cloudy weather. I feel like everybody always talks about Texas being sunny, and it is sunny in the summer. I feel like June July August and September are pretty much consistently sunny every single day with the occasional thunderstorms. However once you pass September, the majority of each month will be cloudy days. Even worse, it's cloudy days with no rain. Just an oppressive blanket of dreary clouds that never produce any precipitation (Just tons and tons of humidity). I don't understand why this is not something that people talk about. Have we just been very unlucky and experienced two exceptionally cloudy years (mid 2019 to now)? I also find it a lot colder than expected for a lot longer, again summers are blazingly hot but it seems to be taking a long time to get there. We are in mid-May and it's still not what I would consider hot. We are from Boston originally and right now Boston is warmer than the Austin area, it's going to be consistently sunny and in the 80s in my hometown whereas Austin is going to be struggling to break out of the 70s with near constant cloud cover the rest of this week.

I think austin is still mostly sunny. Even today it rained for a bit and was sunny all afternoon

[10scoachrick]

Our first five years here(starting June '08) were nothing but record-setting heat and drought.
I don't mind one bit having clouds(convertible weather) and mild temps. We hit 90 degrees F twice in the first February we were here...and was told that was pretty normal.
Careful what you wish for

[Trainwreck20]

Sunny days are generally defined as days with <30% cloud cover
Partly sunny days are 30% to 70% cloud cover
Cloudy days are >70% cloud cover.

Austin is:
115 Sunny
114 Partly sunny
136 Cloudy
2644 sunny hours per year

Boston is:
98 Sunny
103 Partly Sunny
164 Cloudy
2634 Sunny hours per year

Those are averages, of course, so there are deviations during any given year. Both have similar total numbers of sunny hours, but Boston's appear to be more 'concentrated', with more completely cloudy days.

[CosmicAries]

I just moved back to Austin and loving this weather. I'm not looking forward to the summer heat. I had enough of that while living in Vegas.

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by CosmicAries

I just moved back to Austin and loving this weather. I'm not looking forward to the summer heat. I had enough of that while living in Vegas.

As a bicycle rider, I often found May to have MANY more hot days with the occasional 50-degree morning thrown in. This year has been a flip-flop with hardly any days one would call 'hot'...most not even reaching the average high temp.

Give it a week and let's see how it goes. So far, our first month of "summer" sure has been mild to cool.

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

The op is a 1st time poster. Possible troll alert.
Proceed with caution.

[R1070]

I'm loving the longer Spring weather we've gotten this year.