Detailed calculations regarding difference in sunlight between Seattle and Los Angeles. The conclusion is... (rent, neighborhoods)

[Seacove]

Originally Posted by seattlenextyear

Hey, did you guys know that Alaska is colder than Texas? IT'S TRUE!

No way. Prove it. We're gonna need some pie charts.

[PollyGlott]

Originally Posted by seattlenextyear

Hey, did you guys know that Alaska is colder than Texas? IT'S TRUE!

Originally Posted by Seacove

No way. Prove it. We're gonna need some pie charts.

Here's the proof-by-pie-chart:
TEXAS: HOT


ALASKA: COLD

[texastrigirl]

Take today for example. It's lovely at 74 degrees and the sun is shining high in the sky. But it will show up as a partly cloudy day in the weather books because there are clouds in the sky!! And as OP said, sometimes you just have to experience it for yourself. Seattle isn't for everyone but for the 3.5M people who call it home and keep moving here, somebody likes it well enough to stay!

[Seacove]

Polly, your proof looks delicious. That's what I call statistics

[RotseCherut]

Today its pouring rain and the sun has not been shining.. But I am near Tacoma.. I have lived enough years in the Pacific Northwest to know the that we don't get 8 months of sunshine. We get 8-9 months of solid cloudy, overcast, drizzly days. Usually we get 3 months of solid sunshine, but depends on the decade and weather systems. As of late, we have had very wet rainy Junes extending to middle of July. Today was lightning , thunder , downpour, non-stop.. I have noticed October has been a bit sunnier than usual, but it depends. There are many years where you will only get 2 months of sunshine and the rest of year will be overcast.

That is the price we pay for this nice greenery and temperate climate. We don't have beautiful paradise weather year-round, but also lack hurricanes, tornadoes, heat and humidity and snow. But, nobody should deceive themselves thinking that the clouds go away after February.. I cannot recall in my 15 years of living in Oregon (and Washington) where I remember seeing the sun shine for more than 3 days straight in Spring and it wasn't consider a special occasion. We had two weeks of sun this May, only to get an entire rainy month (not 1 day of solid sun) in June. Spring is the most rainy time in Pacific NW, whereas Winter we get a mix of drizzle, fog and rain and snow. Pick your poison.

Autumn becomes drizzly and dreary by November, whereas early Autumn can be very nice, especially with the 70F sunny days and the changing color leaves.

Summer from mid July to mid September is usually quite nice, although July-August can be very hot, as not many people have adequate A/C, including businesses. Southern Oregon and Eastern Washington/Oregon and Southern Idaho can be considerably hot and hit the 90s and 100s. This is the time you want to go out in the mountains and take advantage of the non-stop sunny weather.

[swerver]

Originally Posted by RotseCherut

We had two weeks of sun this May, only to get an entire rainy month (not 1 day of solid sun) in June.

How do you figure that this June equals "an entire rainy month"? It didn't rain at all until a few days ago, and there's been lots of sun and near perfect temps. Some of you folks have very selective memories.

[certsevtxert]

Originally Posted by swerver

How do you figure that this June equals "an entire rainy month"? It didn't rain at all until a few days ago, and there's been lots of sun and near perfect temps. Some of you folks have very selective memories.

Wrong. So far it's only been a few days of actual sunlight. The rest has been overcast. Yea, the temps are always fine in Seattle. We're not arguing about temperature. The issue is sunlight. You must be a seattlite.

[Steve Bowen]

Originally Posted by certsevtxert

Wrong. So far it's only been a few days of actual sunlight. The rest has been overcast. Yea, the temps are always fine in Seattle. We're not arguing about temperature. The issue is sunlight. You must be a seattlite.

Do you have any data to support that assertion? Because it looks pretty decent to me. Way better than our typical Junuary weather.

If you think this June's weather is bad, you obviously haven't experienced many Junes in Seattle.

[JBVirtuoso]

If the past week and a half that I've lived here is any indication (I'm guessing it isn't), then the days that are "cloudy" actually aren't. I've always thought of a cloudy day as one where the sun never comes out at all, and if you looked in the sky, you'd have no idea where it is. That's been maybe one or two days during the past week. The rest of the days have either been sunny or partly cloudy. Even today, there was plenty of sun to go around in the afternoon between rainstorms.

And even when it's cloudy, the clouds here are beautiful and fun to watch. I was expecting a flat dull gray sky, like what you see in the Great Lakes area during the winter, and that just isn't what I've seen here. At least not yet. Maybe that's coming during the fall and winter.

[baba_yaga]

The only bad weather days are when I can't easily see the mountains.