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Honestly I think most American cities are underrated by Americans in a Global scheme globally. Places like Madrid, Amsterdam, or Milan would be midsized American cities. Yet nobody in America puts Boston, Dallas, Seattle or Atlanta on that level.
And I said most of the lower 48 (including Seattle) has "great" Summers.
The fact that New England sees a lot of tourists in the Summer doesn't change that, nor does it make Summer weather in New England particularly unique.
Coastal New England has better summers than most of the lower 48. The tourism is evidence to support this.
Ugh. I’m done making the same post over and over.
Honestly I think most American cities are underrated by Americans in a Global scheme globally. Places like Madrid, Amsterdam, or Milan would be midsized American cities. Yet nobody in America puts Boston, Dallas, Seattle or Atlanta on that level.
Nah. I think Americans tend to overrate domestic cities, especially on City-Data. Most of the world only cares about or even knows only like 7 or 8 cities. The rest are totally obscure.
If you prefer short but gray autumns, that's fine. But that doesn't make them "lovely."
Now, the sunny but mild autums in the Piedmont region are what I would consider "lovely."
Summers are decent in most of the lower 48 (even Seattle), but then there's the long and cold winters where you're frequently snowed in for 3 months of the year that you also have to deal with.
I dunno, but "gray" is the word I'd use to describe the skies over Seattle about half the year rather than the skies over New England in the fall.
But as for this snowed-in-for-3-months stuff: Winters in New England differ from those in the Mid-Atlantic mainly in the shorter daylight hours (my main beef against winter; I can deal with all the other aspects of the season, but the darkness tends to trigger my depression). Temperatures are not that much colder in Boston than in Philadelphia, and of late, snow has been a more erratic phenomenon than it once was in either city. We had a nearly snowless winter about three or four years ago followed by one where it snowed every third day or so from late December on into January. But it takes a lot more than an inch or two or three or four to get "snowed in" in either city; it doesn't really become immobilizing until you get up past 8 to 12 inches, and that usually happens at most once a season. There are the occasional "nor'easters" — the "winter hurricanes" that produce high winds, lots of snow and whiteout conditions, I'll grant, and those aren't all that common in the rest of the country.
But in terms of bitterness, winters in the interior of the country, on the Arctic side of the jet stream, are IMO rawer than those on the coasts. They get colder in January, the winds blow fiercer, and the snow stays on the ground longer when it falls.
The tourism doesn’t mean anything. Many of Orlando’s visitors arrive during the summer. But its summer weather is miserable.
I have to agree. Summer is not the best time visit Orlando. Last year I even push up my trip by two weeks in May but it was too late. Highs in the 90s, full sun, high humidity, and lots of traffic...horrible.
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