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I would like to get an idea anyone's opinons of which climates would have most summer weekends being rainless, normally.
Say a minimum of 2/3rds of all summer weekends are rainless in a normal summer.
Toronto often has nice summer lows,
but we rarely get an abundance of dry weekends, unless it's an unusually dry summer with periods of drought.
Most of California except the places right on the coast would be unlikely to get rain, the average is 0-1 day of rain per month for July and August. This would probably be true of most Mediterrean climates, but California is a bit more extreme than most.
Usually in the Northeast, the rain we get is for a couple hours not a whole day thing so it's less of a bother.
Victoria, BC might also work. about 5 days with rain above 0.2 mm, but only 1-2 days above 5 mm, so at most a few sprinkles but you won't get soaked.
Honeydew, California off of Coastal Northern California averages about 100 inches of rain a year but gets 0-1 days of rain above 0.25 mm per month in July and August. The winter months are bit different...
This topic is not sounding "promising."
Are plenty of rainy summer weekends a fact of life for most people?
The last few summers Toronto's had rain on Saturday, Sunday or both days, maybe 3/4 of all weekends.
This summer it's at least 1/2 of all weekends...
which made me wonder about climates that would be a noticeable "improvement" to here.
Obviously deserts would suit,
but the point of this thread was to find places other places that might also suit.
Victoria BC sounds fair; though their temps are not my preference.
I'm sure someone else would like hearing how dry their summers are without being hot.
Perth would fit the bill, certainly the 2nd half of summer and usually until late March, there is no rain to speak of.
February in particular, has had numerous "zero" readings of rain for the month in Perth.
I have spent 3 summers over there, so can vouch for it.
Sydney on the other hand, you can never plan a week-end for no rain - any time of the year.
Actually the Deep Deep South (Florida, very far south SC and GA) could fit the bill (pulse thunderstorms, then clearing after that). Even here often when we get rain its clearing or ending after a half hour to two hours sometimes. Some days are exceptions though. Those days I like. One day it was just a deck of clouds all day and it failed to get above 85 in my area. Another day we somehow managed to have steady rain all day and it once again failed to get above 85. On some days when we have the pop up thunderstorms after it ends, clouds stay on top of us and the temp never recovers.
However, do you like clouds? On a typical summer day by afternoon, whether there is a chance of thunderstorms or not tall thunderclouds are building. Unless a ridge sits on us we always have thunderheads whether there is a chance or not.
My ideal summer would be like a Caribbean winter. (sun and rain patterns)
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(17 inches/446 mm of annual rain)
