How sunny is a Cleveland summer?

[Transplant99]

Just Google cloudiest cities in the US and Cleveland will be very close to the top right around Seattle and Portland. The cloud cover in the winter is, in fact, devastating to many people. It's constant and unrelenting. If you're from Seattle or Buffalo, it might be status quo, but relative to the vast majority of the country the cloud cover is pure insanity. Between the gray skies, the dirty piles of snow, salt stains on everything, you get to February, look around and start to wonder what you did in life to deserve this.

[216facts]

Originally Posted by Transplant99

Just Google cloudiest cities in the US and Cleveland will be very close to the top right around Seattle and Portland. The cloud cover in the winter is, in fact, devastating to many people. It's constant and unrelenting. If you're from Seattle or Buffalo, it might be status quo, but relative to the vast majority of the country the cloud cover is pure insanity. Between the gray skies, the dirty piles of snow, salt stains on everything, you get to February, look around and start to wonder what you did in life to deserve this.

Not much point to arguing over the weather. Some people like Phoenix, some people like Minneapolis, then there's the rest of us in between. Might as well argue over what the best color is. (Its green, BTW.)

[TechieTechie]

OP, IMHO the truth lies somewhere in the middle between the 2 extremes laid out in this thread.

CLE has a surprising amount of cloudy days, more akin to Seattle than most metro areas. If you are one that suffers from SAD and/or sunny days energize you, just know this going in and that you may have to make adjustments to get used to the maddeningly persistent cloud cover (and it is maddeningly persistent). Is it different than years past? Maybe. Will it change in the future? Perhaps. But right now, there are lots and lots time spent under cloudy skies (I feel it quite deeply as I just moved from the East coast).

Also, because of the positioning of CLE metro on the Lake, it is also fairly humid....similar to what you'd see in the middle south. Some folks like it, some don't. And it's DEFINITELY more hot and humid than Seattle, but then again, so is most of the country I definitely run the A/C more than I did in Boston....but I cannot compare it to TN, best to leverage the direct comparison by the previous poster.

As folks have noted in other threads, if you want the most mild temps, focus the housing hunt on the near West Side, close to the lake. For example, in summer, temps can be 5 degrees cooler on the Lakeview lakeshore versus Shaker Heights (and SH is only 5-7 miles inland)....trust me, I tracked this progression the day before yesterday

Best of luck.