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Okay the cold I can understand but who the hell would wan't it to be clouider and rainier, if that happened here I can't think of what people would do to themselves/
Moderator cut: Your sentence was removed Melbourne had 156 hours of sunshine in July, vastly more than any part of the UK would have in a midwinter month even allowing for daylength. Only a tiny fraction of NZ averages this much sun in July, and adjusting for daylength would change that very little.
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Kansas City is very cold in winter,very hot in summer.Can be Very humid in spring and summer. Can be very windy. Severe storms, blizzards, tornadoes, microbursts, and unamaginable heavy rain. I think that Kansas City is one of the worst cities to live in weatherwise. Infact there was a rare microburst in KC very recently. The weather in Kansas can change just like that.
Of the cities I've lived in... I'd have to say Chicago.
Wickedly cold in the winter (first winter I spent there it hit -26F without wind chill) and horribly humid in the summer (except for this year when I visited and the weather was great).
Okay the cold I can understand but who the hell would wan't it to be clouider and rainier, if that happened here I can't think of what people would do to themselves/
Seems like virtually everyone who inhabits the Australian weather forums.
I lived in NE Illinois for 60 years and I would not classify Chicago as the worst! I can think of many places I'd hate to be other than Chicago especially places where the weather is the same day after day for weeks on end! Boring!
I lived in NE Illinois for 60 years and I would not classify Chicago as the worst! I can think of many places I'd hate to be other than Chicago especially places where the weather is the same day after day for weeks on end! Boring!
You'd HATE Melbourne then.
Nothing but the same crappy stratocrapulous overcast and the same cold temps for 6-7 months at a time
Putting temps aside the darkness of an Alaskan winter can be depressing. Although in Anchorage we don't suffer any period of complete darkness during the winter (the shortest day is probably about 5-6 hours of daylight) but it can be sad. We just covered the house with white lights to make it appear lighter. The neighbors probably hated it but you gotta do whatcha gotta do! The dryness can be a problem as well. Coming from the land of heat and humidity, my skin was in a state of shock for about a year after moving due to the severe dryness. I've learned to adapt and have become a bit of a lotion addict but that would be my only complaint about cold weather climates. It's not really a complaint though as I've learned to deal with this new life. Every city has pros and cons about it and Anchorage is no different but it is a very beautiful and unique place to live in and feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to live in such a place. I'm planning on moving to another city listed on this discussion (Chicago) and am excited about that as well. If I can live through an Alaskan winter and still have a smile on my face, then I think I'm ready for pretty much anything!
I live in central Scotland. In winter its not too cold (average temp range of -2 ~ 5 degrees celcius) and in summer it ain't too hot (anything above 24 degrees is rare). Everyone always goes on about how its always raining. Check the average annual rainfall stats for Edinburgh - a lot lower than people would have you believe.
However the problem we have here is that the weather is so completely unpredictable. It makes it very difficult to organise family barbeques or any outdoor activity. And there are a lot of grey and dull days which can be a bit depressing.
The worst places are those that are at a southern non European latitude. I can't take harsh direct sunlight well at all. One must remember that London, England is located further north in latitude than any city in the lower 48 and much of southern Canada.
The worst cities: London, Amsterdam. Hardly any sunshine from September to early April and partly cloudy from April to August. Just 1600 hours of sunshine a year. In Summer, it is only 22 degrees Celsius. And people are so stupid to complain when it is 25 degrees.
Death Valley, Calif..
they call it Death for a reason!!!
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I can think of many places I'd hate to be other than Chicago especially places where the weather is the same day after day for weeks on end! Boring!
