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Perhaps the moist, covered rainforest will provide a refreshing relief.
How was it like in the streets of Kuala Lumpur (the UHI effect may provide a different sensation)?
Very hot and humid as you can imagine, not comfortable but I didn't find it awful. It would have been hotter than being in the rainforest. I'm not sure what the temperatures were when I was in Bangkok in Nov but without any cloud cover it felt a lot more uncomfortable than KL.
Put another way, if say it was 2pm in an equatorial or inner tropical location, 32C and 75% humidity, I'd find it less uncomfortable if it was overcast than if the sky was clear.
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Seattle 'fer sure. Or as a friend once described it, "Living in Seattle is like being married to an extremely beautiful woman... who always has a 'headache'!" ;-p
Seattle 'fer sure. Or as a friend once described it, "Living in Seattle is like being married to an extremely beautiful woman... who always has a 'headache'!" ;-p
Seattle 'fer sure. Or as a friend once described it, "Living in Seattle is like being married to an extremely beautiful woman... who always has a 'headache'!" ;-p
IIRC, that January it rained for 30 days straight. I think here in Olympia we had 1 day more than Seattle. That wasn't the worst though. I think it was either 2016 or 2017 where we had something like 3 sunny days between October and March and it was very rainy during that period. That said, it's not a bad climate and definitely no where near one of the worst.
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I'm surprised no one has said St Petersburg. The Baltic doesn't make it quite as cold as UB and not nearly as hot in the summer. But there is no sun in the winter. It makes Seattle seem tropical. The average December in St Petersburg gets 13 hours of sunlight FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH! 27 in Nov and 22 in Jan. They only get 1635 hours of sunlight an entire year.
Seattle isn't the cloudiest/gloomiest city in the US either. They get 2165 hours. Pittsburgh is. They get 2020 hours of sunlight a year. Still 400 hours more than St Petersburg!
Seattle is far from the wettest US city also. At only 39.3" per year, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, and every other eastern seaboard city gets more. Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh all get between 39.3 and 41" while east coast cities get over 44" of rain a year.
Seattle isn't the cloudiest/gloomiest city in the US either. They get 2165 hours. Pittsburgh is. They get 2020 hours of sunlight a year. Still 400 hours more than St Petersburg!
In the lower 48 look at Forks, Wa...it has 1530 hrs and that's using Fosters which overestimates. Also Bellingham, Wa has 1866 hrs:
No clue how much lower it would using the CS system. BTW, Seattle doesn't represent all the rain out here. Seattle actually has a great climate in this region as it's protected by the rainshadow from the Olympic mountains. I'm an hour drive SW and we get 50"...20 minutes west of me 67" and the coast like Forks above they get over 100". It's also not just about annual rainfall amounts but also look at the number of days it rains...Forks for instance has over 200 rainy days a year. You won't find that number anywhere on the east coast. SE Alaska is even worse.
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I'm surprised no one has said St Petersburg. The Baltic doesn't make it quite as cold as UB and not nearly as hot in the summer. But there is no sun in the winter. It makes Seattle seem tropical. The average December in St Petersburg gets 13 hours of sunlight FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH! 27 in Nov and 22 in Jan. They only get 1635 hours of sunlight an entire year.
Seattle isn't the cloudiest/gloomiest city in the US either. They get 2165 hours. Pittsburgh is. They get 2020 hours of sunlight a year. Still 400 hours more than St Petersburg!
Seattle is far from the wettest US city also. At only 39.3" per year, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, and every other eastern seaboard city gets more. Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh all get between 39.3 and 41" while east coast cities get over 44" of rain a year.
Highly underrated post . Cold areas with no sunlight would be hard to get through, and for the fact I've never experienced polar day OR night, that is something to experience! . Usually, for where I am from, daylight lasts for 9 1/2 hours for November-January, then in summer, it's 14 1/2 hours. Also great point on Seattle, and in addition, it CAN have a few things like kale that survive throughout the whole winter with not much damage at all! .
I'd like to say Torshavn is one of the worst climates due to many things that people already know on this forum: barely any temperature changes, cloudiness, and snow is actually rare close to sea level. I find it funny that despite being so far north, Torshavn has only a couple of months of frost at most, then it gets out of that quickly, but it can have that for the vast majority of the year if it pushes hard enough.
I feel sad for Saint Petersburg though , such a great and beautiful city but nobody wants to live in that cold!
If only there was SOME incentive to get people up there, but it doesn't seem to be so. Also, it has more water than California and Arizona right now so there's that.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - pop 1.45M, average Jan temp -26C, with average lows at -33C - snows year round, considered the worlds most polluted city with levels 133x what is considered safe.
I'd like to say Torshavn is one of the worst climates due to many things that people already know on this forum: barely any temperature changes, cloudiness, and snow is actually rare close to sea level. I find it funny that despite being so far north, Torshavn has only a couple of months of frost at most, then it gets out of that quickly, but it can have that for the vast majority of the year if it pushes hard enough.
Must be because of it being such a small island it's more heavily influenced by the Atlantic cause if you look at SE Alaska which is oceanic they get quite a bit of snow. Pacific is also a colder ocean too though.
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. Cold areas with no sunlight would be hard to get through, and for the fact I've never experienced polar day OR night, that is something to experience! 
. Usually, for where I am from, daylight lasts for 9 1/2 hours for November-January, then in summer, it's 14 1/2 hours. Also great point on Seattle, and in addition, it CAN have a few things like kale that survive throughout the whole winter with not much damage at all! 
, such a great and beautiful city but nobody wants to live in that cold!
so there's that.
