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Sweetheart, you have no leg to stand on....you live in Tallahassee!
Kidding. I can now see why neither option is particularly appealing to you.
Lol if only you knew what my "ideal climate" is.......you'd probably crap your pants lol. Tallahassee sucks climate-wise too in my opinion, far worse than London and DC
Washington by miles... Proper summers (no not too hot by any means, especially compared with other parts of the US), more sunshine, more thunderstorms, even if their winters are tame compared with Midwest standards, they can get the occasional Nor'easter. London can't hold a candle to DC imho...
People that tend to favor extreme temp swings from summer to winter would def prefer DC. London doesn't do the extremes like that.
I spent a winter living in DC, and though one year doesn't really prove much, it gave me a good idea of the winter weather. I was involved in vertical construction there, so was outside much of the winter. It is cold, no other way to describe it. The averages look decent in winter, but as usual you can always count on arctic fronts coming thru during winter and quickly dropping temps way down. The summer I spent there was to me warmer and more humid than Philly.
I like the mild winter climate of London, but I would miss warm to hot summers and the more hours of sunshine. I give the slight edge to DC.
As a Brit currently living in the Washington, DC area, I will say that I prefer London's mild summers but like the spring/fall/winter in DC. There is more weather variation in DC and the spring blooms are definitely prettier than in London proper. Also, it does not rain as much here.
Call me unpatriotic but I'm simply calling it as I see it
I think DC gets more rain, though it falls over less amount of time than London.
Is the difference in heat and humidity noticeable between NYC and DC during peak summer?
I've experienced NYC, which was nice but certainly not oppressively hot. Norfolk VA was much more humid though, certainly uncomfortable working outside.
As someone who has lived in both cities, I don't have an answer because it really depends, some summers you can feel a very slight difference while other summers they feel the same.
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Lol if only you knew what my "ideal climate" is.......you'd probably crap your pants lol. Tallahassee sucks climate-wise too in my opinion, far worse than London and DC
Haha...is this somewhere in the Middle East? Or the other end of the spectrum such as Alaska or Antartica?
Is the difference in heat and humidity noticeable between NYC and DC during peak summer?
I've experienced NYC, which was nice but certainly not oppressively hot. Norfolk VA was much more humid though, certainly uncomfortable working outside.
I spent a summer working outside at a DC construction site. It was noticeably more humid and hotter than Philadelphia, imo.
Washington, DC averages around 1,000mm of rain annually with 114 precipitation days while London averages around 600mm of rain with 109 precipitation days. So D.C isn't just wetter but receives more precipitation days than London. Weather and climate change - Met Office
I'm aware DC is snowier than London.
A typical summer precip day in DC is a hot, sunny day followed up around 6-7pm with a thunderstorm. Next morning dawns clear and warm. Maryland receives half of the summer precip via thunderstorms, so I'm sure DC is around the same.
DC having more days with precip than London may be true, but the perception is probably that London has more rainy days.
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How is the weather these days anyway?
