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I'd take a wider variety of temperatures if it meant more variations in Seattle's weather. I hate snow, but I'd take it if we got more sunny days. We only get cloudy, cloudy with drizzle, cloudy with true rain, and freak sunny days except for 0-5 months of the year (depends on the year).
2006 would be the 5 months, 2007 would be 0 months, 2008 would be about 2 months.
For metros over 1 million people in the U.S. it looks like Seattle wins the title of cloudiest with 226 days average cloudy days per year.
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA - 226 average cloudy days
Portland, OR - 222 average cloudy days
Buffalo, NY - 208 average cloudy days
Pittsburgh, PA - 206 average cloudy days
Cleveland, OH - 202 average cloudy days
However for all metros, the winner is Anchorage, Alaska at 239 average cloudy days
I try not to have my mood driven by the weather (my dad was severely affected by cloudy days), but would not want to live where there was a severe limitation of sunshine.
might depend on each individual country's definition of "cloudy" (i.e. full overcast, or 75% of the day obscured by clouds, days with less than X number of sunshine hours etc).
might depend on each individual country's definition of "cloudy" (i.e. full overcast, or 75% of the day obscured by clouds, days with less than X number of sunshine hours etc).
We should compare by percentage of sunshine. There's no ambiguity there.
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