Really great! In addition to humidity which others have mentioned, average sunny days per year might be another good metro. From a temperature standpoint it looks like Seattle is ideal for me, but I’m fairly certain I couldn’t handle that few sunny days.
Ha, don't tell 'em about Seattle, remember its cold and wet and the sun never shines up here!
On a more serious note, after spending a few weeks in SoCal with the SO, I have no intention of ever moving to such a hostile climate. No onshore breeze + sunburns from driving for 40min = No bueno. At least it takes more than 40min to burn on a sunny day in Seattle :P
>even if mist and dark skies envelop the scenery for much of the year.
Obviously written by someone who doesn't live in Seattle. Seattle is a beautiful city in a very beautiful location. Today it's sunny, 70 degrees, with spectacular views of the lakes, trees, and snow-capped Olympic mountains.
"Grey for a couple of months"? Are you an Amazon recruiter? Seattle had nine sunny days over a five-month period last year. It's objectively one of the grayest places in the US. Without the perfect summers we'd be fools to live here.
BTDT. I lived in Seattle 15 years, and while I loved it, and learned to love the rain, when I moved to Colorado I realized that sun and light and dry can be more than pretty nice too. (There's moss growing on the roads in Seattle, fer cryin' out loud.)
For some of us, sun and light make a huge difference. And yes, the sun does come out in Seattle, and when it does it's especially beautiful, but in a way that's like saying that you're hitting yourself on the head because it feels so good when you stop. (But I still miss Seattle.)
People make that joke about Seattle quite a lot during certain seasons.
Seattle has a few months of near-uninterrupted sunshine and a few months of near-uninterrupted drizzle, but the intervening months interpolate by changing the weight of their random switches between the two.
Exactly! And with the high humidity, at 40-degrees in the winter, Seattle feels more comfortable than 40-degrees of dryness out here in the desert. Here in the high desert, when the sun goes down, you go from baking to cold very quickly.
Hopefully that helps the fires this year when it eventually gets hot, at the very least! It's nice to not have to worry about drought, as well. (That's a huge reason why I moved to Seattle from SF.)
Yeah but 242 of those days are too hot to do anything. So it's kind of a wash you know?
EDIT TO ADD:
Look I'm not saying that Seattle's weather is perfect, nor that there is a perfect location, but whatever Austin is doing with its weather, it sure as hell aint winning.
Rain was never my problem with Seattle's weather. It was the lack of sun and the darkness in the winter that forced me out. Living there when I was younger I didn't know any different. It wasn't until I moved and lived somewhere else for a bit that I realized there was a better place for me out there.
Sun has such a positive effect on my mood I don't know how I did it there for so long.
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