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Upstate summers can get extremely hot.
Most of the time "muggy" is the best description for an upstate summer.
Heat and humidity is still quite a bit lower than further south. Daily summer high is barely above 80°F and there are many days when it is not very hot.
Heat and humidity is still quite a bit lower than further south. Daily summer high is barely above 80°F and there are many days when it is not very hot.
True. People that bring up places like upstate New York, northern New England, Maine etc in a discussion about hot summers are obviously cold lovers. These places don't have hot summers. Period.
Summers in these places are humid and quite warm, if not hot. Anyway when these places get truly hot it's usually humid as well, so don't pretend that heat and humidity are nonexistent in the American Northern tier. Is it present to a lesser degree than the South? Yes, but obviously it is still present, at least during a good part of the summer (the cooler sub-70F periods certainly can be excepted).
I remember in 2010, Philly had 76 inches of snow, followed by 55 days of 90+ degrees in the summer. Both were records. It was crazy but certainly not boring!
Absolutely, I remember years where we'd get snowstorms with accumulations up to a foot with bitter, icy cold air, yet in the summer we'd have droughts and continual heat waves.
Summers in these places are humid and quite warm, if not hot. Anyway when these places get truly hot it's usually humid as well, so don't pretend that heat and humidity are nonexistent in the American Northern tier. Is it present to a lesser degree than the South? Yes, but obviously it is still present, at least during a good part of the summer (the cooler sub-70F periods certainly can be excepted).
Not really, no. 80F highs and 55-60F lows are far from hot. I live in a place with 80F average summer highs and 60F lows, and let me tell you, our summers suffer from many cold days of 70F or less, afternoon seabreezes that make it feel chilly and cool mornings that may feel warm by perhaps midday, and that is only if the seabreeze holds off. No one in their right mind would consider this "hot".
New England, upstate NY etc all have crap summers by US standards, just like how Melbourne has crap summers by Australian standards. Even the upper midwest has better summers than northern New England, Maine, upstate NY etc.
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