Which is worse, a Pacific Northwest winter or Northeast winter?

[grega94]

Originally Posted by Cloudy Dayz

It is literally the first sentence of the first post.

If you actually read the OP, you would see that he was talking about upstate NY specifically, so actually not coastal.

Originally Posted by DagsNJ

Pacific Northwest winters are mild but cloudy and drizzly, whereas Northeast winters are cold and snowy (lately, bone-chilling arctic blast ****ing cold).

Where I live, I would honestly take a winter in the Pacific Northwest in a ****ing heartbeat, no contest.

So tired of single digit temperatures, month after month. So tired of snow literally every day (thanks lake-effect). The sun has been out probably two weeks worth of time since ****ing November.

There is snow. Every. Single. Day.

Every. Single. Day.

Seriously, **** Upstate New York.

I may just quit my job and by a plane ticket somewhere warm for the next 600 years.

I can't fathom how some people think a Florida summer is worse than an Upstate NY winter. No way. I feel amazing when its 90 and humid.

[grega94]

Originally Posted by mhays25

Seattle's coldest month, December, averages 47 highs and 37 lows per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Seattle.


I'd have guessed more like 42 highs. And I didn't know December was colder than January. Guess we're already in the transition to spring!

IDK how long you have lived in Seattle, but the last couple years were La Nina meaning it was much colder than typical.

Here are the average highs for December for the past 10 years at SeaTac airport.

2013: 44.6F
2014: 50.3F
2015: 47.1F
2016: 41.9F
2017: 45.5F
2018: 48.9F
2019: 48.2F
2020: 49.8F
2021: 41.9F
2022: 43.2F
Average: 46.1F

Source: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=sew

[Thealpinist]

Originally Posted by grega94

If you actually read the OP, you would see that he was talking about upstate NY specifically, so actually not coastal.

Yup OP is from Buffalo. A city with localized lake effect snows. Him living there is completely different from my experience in Baltimore and NYC. Reality in the Wash-Bos corridor (50 million people) is nothing like Buffalo.

[mhays25]

Originally Posted by grega94

IDK how long you have lived in Seattle, but the last couple years were La Nina meaning it was much colder than typical.

Here are the average highs for December for the past 10 years at SeaTac airport.

2013: 44.6F
2014: 50.3F
2015: 47.1F
2016: 41.9F
2017: 45.5F
2018: 48.9F
2019: 48.2F
2020: 49.8F
2021: 41.9F
2022: 43.2F
Average: 46.1F

Source: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=sew

Good info, thanks. BTW it's Sea-Tac...the airport is hyphenated though the city isn't.

[Cloudy Dayz]

Originally Posted by grega94

If you actually read the OP, you would see that he was talking about upstate NY specifically, so actually not coastal.

I read the post. The OP was comparing Upstate New York to the Pacific Northwest coastal areas. The area that most people think of as the PNW.

[GraniteStater]

There has been practically no snow even in southern areas of Vermont and New Hampshire this winter, one of the warmest starts to the season ever. There was only that brief period in December with the arctic front.

[grega94]

Originally Posted by Cloudy Dayz

I read the post. The OP was comparing Upstate New York to the Pacific Northwest coastal areas. The area that most people think of as the PNW.

Ok, then I misunderstood you, I thought you were saying that we are to only compare coastal NE with coastal PNW.

[Thealpinist]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

There has been practically no snow even in southern areas of Vermont and New Hampshire this winter, one of the warmest starts to the season ever. There was only that brief period in December with the arctic front.

Yes this season has really been sad in the Northeast. Pretty much no snow at the ski resorts, even in Vermont. South of the Daks there is literally no snow in the Appalachian’s. But honestly most seasons are not that great. The major advantage PNW has is that there is always plenty of snow in the mountains even in the worst of the worst seasons.

Todays snow depth coverage map via NOAA.