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View Poll Results: Which climate do you prefer?
Chicago 41 39.42%
Seattle 63 60.58%
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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I'm not forgetting anything, I'm just showing you stats, not hearsay. Seattle may well be very sunny during the summertime, but if it were sunny and dry 80% of the time Seattle would be on fire like the rest of the West Coast because you'd have a serious drought issue (maybe you do?).

Did you search the link? I think it showed sun stats for all seasons too.
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Oregon
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I'm not forgetting anything, I'm just showing you stats, not hearsay. Seattle may well be very sunny during the summertime, but if it were sunny and dry 80% of the time Seattle would be on fire like the rest of the West Coast because you'd have a serious drought issue (maybe you do?).

Did you search the link? I think it showed sun stats for all seasons too.
We do get some forest fires occasionally. Grass turn yellow during summer, becoming dormant.
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:07 PM
 
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I'm not forgetting anything, I'm just showing you stats, not hearsay. Seattle may well be very sunny during the summertime, but if it were sunny and dry 80% of the time Seattle would be on fire like the rest of the West Coast because you'd have a serious drought issue (maybe you do?).

Did you search the link? I think it showed sun stats for all seasons too.
Silly argument. Seattle gets its share of rain and grey days. But the weather year round is mild. Few extremes be they cold or got and humid (Seattle's humid months are the colder ones)
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:07 PM
 
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Average Annual Sunshine in US Cities - Current Results

Seattle: 47% sunshine
Chicago: 54% sunshine
nobody is talking about year round weather, we are talking about the summer months.
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:08 PM
 
Location: roaming gnome
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I'm not forgetting anything, I'm just showing you stats, not hearsay. Seattle may well be very sunny during the summertime, but if it were sunny and dry 80% of the time Seattle would be on fire like the rest of the West Coast because you'd have a serious drought issue (maybe you do?).

Did you search the link? I think it showed sun stats for all seasons too.
the rest of the west coast, i.e., california is sunny for about 10 months...or almost year round really, a lot of california is desert, where as seattle is surrounded by rain forest.
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:11 PM
 
Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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Using the same source.....Total days with Sun (partly sunny or totally sunny):

Seattle:
June - 15
July - 22
August - 20

Total - 57 days

Chicago:
June - 18
July - 20
August - 20
Total - 58 days

Close one!
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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Silly argument. Seattle gets its share of rain and grey days. But the weather year round is mild. Few extremes be they cold or got and humid (Seattle's humid months are the colder ones)
I'm not being "silly", since I have backed everything I've said. The argument that Seattle is sunny 80% of the time or sunnier than Chicago is silly though.
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:15 PM
 
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Even at the most granular level Seattle is not sunnier than Chicago.
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Old 04-10-2011, 08:50 PM
 
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I'm not being "silly", since I have backed everything I've said. The argument that Seattle is sunny 80% of the time or sunnier than Chicago is silly though.
Never said that Seattle is sunny 80% of the time. That's also a silly argument.

For what it's worth, I love Chicago. Big time. But the weather question really isn't a question.
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Old 04-11-2011, 03:31 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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hahahah.....you have two seasons -- rain and no rain. "Winter" is 40, and summer is 75. That has to be one of the LEAST dynamic weather cities in the country. You should embrace this instead of pretending you have seasons. In fact, Seattle's recent growth has a lot to do with the fact that people there go for the weather (or lack of weather).
Spring


Summer


Fall


Winter
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