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I haven't been to Vancouver, but people love it there.
I would have had different choices, like NE Ohio vs Phoenix. Day after day of cloudy skies with lush green summers, or day after day of sun baked desert.
Hmmm this is difficult. Vancouver has more interesting winters and Miami more interesting summers with those thunderstorms. In temperatures I prefer Vancouver.
Put it this way: Vancouver during the wet season is WYSIWYG: if it's cloudy and 40 F at 9AM it will be cloudy and maybe 45 F at 1PM and cloudy and 40 F after sunset at 5PM and some on and off light drizzle all day. Maybe a light snow accumulation 2-3 times each winter that melts the day afterwards. Sun is rarely seen.
Miami's wet season is highly variable within the same day: bright sunshine in the morning. Humid and sunny with a few clouds from a distance at 9AM. 80 F with a DP of 70 F. Some cumulus clouds start building up at 11AM: 85 F with a DP of 72 F Around 2PM, those cumulus clouds thicken and get darker. Winds which been perfectly calm until now start picking up; air temperature is 88 F with a DP of 73 F so the breeze feels good as it takes the edge off of the humidity. At 3PM, a very, heavy torrential downpour accompanied by thunder and lightning drops 2 inches of rain in less than an hour. Temperature drops from 88 F to 76 F in minutes while the winds blows at 30 mph. It's all over by 5PM and skies remain partly cloudy and the temperature rises back into the 80s (where on the West Coast can you see the temperature RISE in the evening hours?).
Sunset at 7:30PM is decorated by lots of pinks and reds as there are still some cumulus clouds on the horizon.
Clearly Miami's rainy season has much more variety to it than Vancouver's.
Not as much variety in daylight, temperatures or cloud cover though, season to season in Miami, and the summers would be miserable for me, due to the high heat and humidity.
Also, too much sunshine in Miami for my tastes. Some people find that boring.
At least Vancouver has a summer (if not that pronounced) and winter.
I actually think summer feels very pronounced in Vancouver. It's so warm and dry and sunny compared to the rest of the year that it really stands out. It's not hot or humid but it has its own California-esque vibe. I miss it.
Miami is more "Interesting" Doesn't mean it's BETTER though.
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