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It's not cold at all in the winter -- in a typical winter, it hardly ever gets below freezing during the day, and rarely snows "down low". The mountains nearby
by pedasmith 10y ago
It's not cold at all in the winter -- in a typical winter, it hardly ever gets below freezing during the day, and rarely snows "down low". The mountains nearby do get lots of snow. Be aware that we get lots of clouds in the winter; some people can't stand not seeing the sun.
There's tons of good hiking in the seattle area along with boating.
170K is pretty good.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoThe latitude also means that in January, the sun rises at 10 AM, and it starts getting dark around 3 PM. It's pretty demoralizing to go to work and leave work in complete darkness for days on end. Meanwhile, the rain alternates between actual rain and misting constantly from September until May. I actually prefer the Pittsburgh weather with its four seasons.
- fixxer 10y agoI can think of few better places in good weather than Seattle. I can also think of few worse in bad weather (and I live in Chicago).
- chrystianv 10y agoYou are way off on your perception of latest sunrise and earliest sunset in Seattle: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/seattle?month=12&year=2016 https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/seattle?month=12&year=20...
- Hydraulix989 10y agoOkay, even if I play along momentarily with what you're saying, 8 AM and 4 PM is still pretty bad... 4 PM?! Ouch... But keep in mind that the definitions of sunrise and sunset here do not include dawn and dusk -- at 4 PM, the sun has _completely_ set, which means that at 3 PM, it's already well into starting to set.
- ci5er 10y ago> It's pretty demoralizing to go to work and leave work in complete darkness for days on end. Those are clouds. The sun is still there - you just can't see it.
- Hydraulix989 10y ago(A lack of) clouds are usually what designates a day as being "sunny" -- maybe also volcanic ash? It's not raining either, those are just water droplets condensing from the clouds.
- mrfusion 10y agoThis weeks forecast doesn't look that dismal.
- btgeekboy 10y agoIt's the transition period. We're moving from 9PM sunsets to 4PM, and moving from 90F days to 40F.
- mrfusion 10y agoThe op was saying sept to may is bad. It looks like all of sept was pretty nice though.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoNot sure how you can say that; the Weather.com 10-day forecast looks pretty bad. Only 1 out of 10 days is sunny: http://imgur.com/a/BhTbn http://imgur.com/a/BhTbn Here is San Jose, California's (8 out of 10 days are sunny): http://imgur.com/a/CPAbM http://imgur.com/a/CPAbM
- mrfusion 10y agoI consider partly cloudy glass half full ... The only bad days for me would be never seeing the sun at all.
- cli 10y ago>The latitude also means that in January, the sun rises at 10 AM, and it starts getting dark around 3 PM. No it does not. I grew up in Vancouver, and the latest sunrise is at around 8 am, and sunset at 4 pm.
- dasil003 10y agoYour description of daylight hours is more in line with Anchorage, AK on the winter solstice at 61°N, not Seattle at 47°N.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoSeattle sounds like London.