Sunny Days in Pittsburgh: 145 (Not 59) (Rochester, Penn: area, cities, counties)

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by reddesertfox

I am a retired climatologist and Pittsburgh is cloudier than London or Dublin.

A retired climatologist, who, according to your other post on another thread, was required to live in all 50 states.

Interesting career, very interesting. After being forced to live in so many great weather states, you prefer to spend retirement complaining about the weather in Pittsburgh?

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by doo dah

What a gloomy cloudy day it is today!

Oh, for Pity's sake! Every time it's sunny in Pittsburgh, someone posts something like the above. It's like protesting too much. Only someone truly ignorant would think that Pittsburgh has NO sunny days. But whether you measure the sunshine in hours, days or whatever, Pittsburgh is always near the bottom. Nothing will change that. Please note I am not attaching a value judgement to the Pittsburgh sunshine.

[UKyank]

Originally Posted by reddesertfox

I am a retired climatologist and Pittsburgh is cloudier than London.

Disagree

And when did you retire; just a few posts back you were complaining that your day job & daylight savings time = you never seeing the sun...,

[EveKendall]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Oh, for Pity's sake! Every time it's sunny in Pittsburgh, someone posts something like the above. It's like protesting too much. Only someone truly ignorant would think that Pittsburgh has NO sunny days. But whether you measure the sunshine in hours, days or whatever, Pittsburgh is always near the bottom. Nothing will change that. Please note I am not attaching a value judgement to the Pittsburgh sunshine.

It's to counteract the people who post every time it is NOT a sunny day. And you underestimate the truly ignorant.

[gortonator]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Oh, for Pity's sake! Every time it's sunny in Pittsburgh, someone posts something like the above. It's like protesting too much. Only someone truly ignorant would think that Pittsburgh has NO sunny days. But whether you measure the sunshine in hours, days or whatever, Pittsburgh is always near the bottom. Nothing will change that. Please note I am not attaching a value judgement to the Pittsburgh sunshine.

And since this zombie thread was revived today by an ignorant comment by a deserty carnivore, no one else has asserted anything that goes against what I bolded in your comment above. So I'm not quite sure why you posted? There's actually been many sunny days recently and no one has posted anything. You're not here so you don't know that unfortunately.

I have a genuine interest in understanding why sunshine hours does not seem to be measured by NOAA, and the other poster made some well balanced comments. I just asked .... and as Evekendall says, don't underestimate ignorance ...

Back to my dark dingy conference room ....

[_Buster]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Oh, for Pity's sake! Every time it's sunny in Pittsburgh, someone posts something like the above. It's like protesting too much. Only someone truly ignorant would think that Pittsburgh has NO sunny days. But whether you measure the sunshine in hours, days or whatever, Pittsburgh is always near the bottom. Nothing will change that. Please note I am not attaching a value judgement to the Pittsburgh sunshine.

Note that the thread had no posts since July of last year, and then two people suddenly found it today and replied just to say that Pgh is gloomy. One actually said all four seasons are gloomy.

Why would you NOT expect someone else to reply with sarcasm, especially when today is sunny in Pgh? The reality is that people post about sunny days BECAUSE of the constant negative drumbeat of others - it is the opposite of what you are saying.

[greg42]

It matters how you feel, not how you measure. And don't feed the ^!*#&$ trolls.

[doo dah]

Um. -> <- It is bright and sunny here, Katiana. note the sunglasses!

[EveKendall]

I like the weather here. And in my mind a HUGE advantage we have over sunnier part of the country is that we don't have to worry about droughts. We have terrible problems with this in my home country and people try to move away from drought-impacted areas. Here people are moving to Colorado and Nevada and California. Americans do not seem as worried about this as they should be, in my opinion.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by gortonator

And since this zombie thread was revived today by an ignorant comment by a deserty carnivore, no one else has asserted anything that goes against what I bolded in your comment above. So I'm not quite sure why you posted? There's actually been many sunny days recently and no one has posted anything. You're not here so you don't know that unfortunately.

I have a genuine interest in understanding why sunshine hours does not seem to be measured by NOAA, and the other poster made some well balanced comments. I just asked .... and as Evekendall says, don't underestimate ignorance ...

Back to my dark dingy conference room ....

So the thread got bumped. I posted because the weather is a topic that interests me. Mind you, people in Pittsburgh are so sensitive about their weather, as I found out when this thread was started back in 2007, that I would never "bump" it myself, but if someone else does, I'll post. I posted b/c I'm tired of seeing posts like, "Gosh, sure is gloomy today. I had to wear my sunglasses just to pick up my paper", as if to prove to the rest of the world that yes, the sun does shine in Pittsburgh. It's trying just a little too hard to "prove" that Pittsburgh is a sunny, bright place, not a gray place.

Re: the bold-I beg to differ. doo dah had to post about how sunny it is in Pittsburgh today, just to counter someone saying it's always gray there. This thread was started by someone trying to claim that Pittsburgh is sunnier than the NWS says it is.

Originally Posted by _Buster

Note that the thread had no posts since July of last year, and then two people suddenly found it today and replied just to say that Pgh is gloomy. One actually said all four seasons are gloomy.

Why would you NOT expect someone else to reply with sarcasm, especially when today is sunny in Pgh? The reality is that people post about sunny days BECAUSE of the constant negative drumbeat of others - it is the opposite of what you are saying.

Disagree.

Originally Posted by doo dah

Um. -> <- It is bright and sunny here, Katiana. note the sunglasses!

Yeah, yeah, yeah! You couldn't just post about that once this morning, you had to explain it, now for a second time!

Originally Posted by EveKendall

I like the weather here. And in my mind a HUGE advantage we have over sunnier part of the country is that we don't have to worry about droughts. We have terrible problems with this in my home country and people try to move away from drought-impacted areas. Here people are moving to Colorado and Nevada and California. Americans do not seem as worried about this as they should be, in my opinion.

Gosh, you guys just had a drought 1 1/2 years ago.
Drought soaks dairy farmers | TribLIVE

I remember a particularly bad drought in the area in the late 80s/early 90s, and my parents were always talking about droughts when I was a kid growing up there.

National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA -- Drought 2012
Scroll down for "13 driest years in Pittsburgh"

Lack of rain, harvest of pain (Video) - Pittsburgh Business Times
(Reference to 1988 drought)