Rate The Climate: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (storms, seasons, degree, normal)
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D for comfortable summer, the only redeemable thing. It is already getting too cold in October. Sunshine amount is nice in the summer but absurd the rest of the year. And along the same lines, the precipitation pattern in this region is awful. Where August and September should be the wettest time of year, in Pittsburgh they are the driest months (in precip days). So by the time the wetter season starts it is a 30 or 40 degree rain with cold and damp coats sticking to you. Truly miserable.
I would give it a B+. Been there several times, and love the comfortable summer with cold snowy winters. Points taken off as it takes too long for warming up in spring. 56 F and overcast feels nippy and annoying in mid may.
Problem is Boston gets approx. 2 Blizzard warnings a winter and has had as much as 107 inches of snow in a Winter. The suburb's get more snow..
Pittsburgh's record is 82.0" in 1950/51. Too far from the Lakes, and usually too far from the bands of Nor'easters, but I suppose its windward location and location along the track of storm systems trekking eastward helps.
The cloud cover never bothered me too much. Besides, cloudy days are literally easier on the eyes. From what I remembered growing up there, there was enough sunshine between Memorial Day and Halloween, and the only consistently cloudy period of time was between Thanksgiving and St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day to Memorial Day was widely variable, and it got cloudy in a hurry between Halloween and Thanksgiving.
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