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I was gonna say Victoria for more sun and more snow, but the summers are really cool, and also, 27% of possible sunshine in January seems a bit difficult to deal with.
I only saw snow in Victoria once when I lived there so I don't know where you're getting the "more snow" bit!
Those sunshine hours for Victoria seem high to me. Are they based on the same method as the UK I wonder. Seems only a little less cloudy than here, when in reality everything I've heard is that Vancouver is quite cloudy.
Victoria is significantly drier and sunnier than Vancouver (and most other parts of coastal BC) due to being located in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains. It's actually one of the driest and sunniest cities in Canada outside of the prairies.
a 14 miles distance inland from the coast.... It's a different ballgame
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Depends on which US standards you are talking about. The west coast is quite cool in summer.
Yeah true, but for those who live in SoCal, cool summer temps are directly on the coast. If you go literally a couple miles east of Pacific Coast HWY, it becomes much warmer. Most people do not live directly on the coast. So say Los Angeles for example, the "norm" isn't what someone experiences at Laguna or Newport Beach. There are 18 million of people who live a couple miles or more inland and experience much warmer conditions than coastal communities during the summer.
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