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I lived in Seattle and Tampa Bay area. I didn't love the weather in either, but I'd prefer the overall temps of the NW. Just looking at the rain - idk. Where I lived in FL, there were frequently heavy afternoon storms, for what I feel were several of the months I was there. It was impractical to plan all-day or afternoon activities outside. And the air was steamy and gross afterwards. You can do most things in cool drizzle though, and people in Seattle do. I got used to it.
Many prefer to deal with the storms and have more sun the rest of the time. The grey gets to people more than the drizzle.
If we’re just talking urban areas, then imo the Southeast is worse because you have to deal with things like lightning, high winds, and flash floods which are not really common in Seattle or Portland.
As someone living in the Southeast (Specifically Mobile) and currently in Alaska for work; Southern rain is much more intense than anything I’ve seen in the Pacific Northwest produce so far
However I still very much prefer Southern rain way more than Pacific Northwest rain. There’s literally no dynamic to PNW rain, it’s either a drizzle or light rain. In the Southeast it’s much more varied, from drizzle to rain to heavy shower to thunderstorms. I love rain but the multiple days in a row of non stop drizzling gets quite depressing real quick
Pacific Northwest has an infinitely superior climate without the disgusting levels of heat and humidity along with a torrid sun angle that the Southeast has.
I'll take the dry rain shadow side of the rural Olympic Peninsula.
Towns included are Port Townsend, Sequim, and Port Angeles. They all average less than 25.00'' of precipitation a year.
When basing my opinion soley on annoyance of rainfall I gotta say that the PNW is worse. The drizzle is no fun but the constant overcast would really bother me after a couple winters. Rainy winter days in the PNW are made worse IMO by the fact that it gets dark around 4:00pm and does not get light again until about 8:00am.
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90% plus of the rain, at least in SoFla, is in the form of passing rain/thunderstorms (30-40 minutes) before it clears up and becomes sunny again. Only rains all day or 2-3 days when there is a disturbance in the area. To correct one poster, humidity is lower after the rain—not higher…..6-8 months of gloomy, cloudy, rain/mist in the Northwest would depress me. In the meantime, there is a dry season in SoFla—from November through the end of May (7 months) it rains infrequently.
Above pertains to most of the time…on its worst days and during some King Tide situations, SoFla will experience street flooding in some areas (though water does recede on the same day—often within a few hours, even during an infrequent hurricane).
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