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I give a slight edge to Seattle because our summers are very sunny and you can plan any event outdoors in summer and be almost guaranteed it will be nice. Otherwise, these 2 are almost identical with virtually no deviation in high/low by month.
Probably seattle because it's close to mountains and has probably a greater chance of snow, while summers appear to have more stable sunny weather. Although I wonder how I'd deal with the constant gloom of winter.
Do Seattle and the pacific north west / british columbia get the strong winter storms that northwestern europe gets from time to time ? That's probably the only example of extreme weather in these areas.
For one, the Americans calculate their sunshine averages differently to the rest of the world - this making sunshine totals look much better than it would in London... Plus temperature wise, the maxes in summer are only a degree or half a degree higher - hardly much to go crazy about... Not in that my cousins who live near Seattle say that the British climate is very similar to theirs every-time they come here... So to be honest there's not much different between the two, at least notably... Seattle is probably about as sunny as Portsmouth if you take into account the way Americans calculate sunshine hours, and temps aren't wildly different... We all know both cities are oceanic climates (What I would call E/D/C climates), just Seattle is slightly better over London for slightly warmer and sunnier summers, and slightly more rain meaning more greener pastures!
Seattle gets longer days in winter. By percentage, London is sunnier.
Right, but in terms of actual hours it's not, though admittedly there's not much separating them in the winter either way (whereas Seattle runs away with it in the summer).
For one, the Americans calculate their sunshine averages differently to the rest of the world - this making sunshine totals look much better than it would in London... Plus temperature wise, the maxes in summer are only a degree or half a degree higher - hardly much to go crazy about... Not in that my cousins who live near Seattle say that the British climate is very similar to theirs every-time they come here... So to be honest there's not much different between the two, at least notably... Seattle is probably about as sunny as Portsmouth if you take into account the way Americans calculate sunshine hours, and temps aren't wildly different... We all know both cities are oceanic climates (What I would call E/D/C climates), just Seattle is slightly better over London for slightly warmer and sunnier summers, and slightly more rain meaning more greener pastures!
That's about the sum of it - Seattle is slightly warmer but it's fairly close year-round, the major difference being the lack of summer rain (and with higher rain the rest of the year). Though go a little further south as far as Portland and those summer highs really begin to climb.
Right, but in terms of actual hours it's not, though admittedly there's not much separating them in the winter either way (whereas Seattle runs away with it in the summer).
Seattle is much rainier than London, though. It rains in Seattle for almost twice as long as it does in London, 822 hours vs 430 hours.
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