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How's the weather there though? Can we just stop comparing cities? Everyone loves to complain about the cost of living in SF and always brags about how they co
by toephu2 7y ago
How's the weather there though?
Can we just stop comparing cities? Everyone loves to complain about the cost of living in SF and always brags about how they could buy a mansion in the midwest.
No one cares. It's all about location. There is a reason why California is the most populous state in the union despite it being so expensive (weather and jobs). There is a reason the population in the midwest is so low (lack of jobs and weather mostly).
- lhorie 7y ago> How's the weather there though? Right this moment, they are almost the same (46F in SF vs 37F in Toronto). Toronto winter usually goes between 5F and 40F, but summer is way warmer than SF (between 75F to 90F vs 60F to 70F in SF)
- lotsofpulp 7y agoHumidity is just as big a factor as temperature, and anything East if the Rocky Mountains is more humid than west of Rocky Mountains, in my experience.
- refurb 7y agoAre you picking temperatures in the middle of the night? 46F is the nightly low in SF, versus being a record warm day in Toronto during the winter.
- crystaldev 7y agoThis is the clearance section of HN comments, there are no refunds or returns.
- lhorie 7y agoYes, that was around 9pm PST. Right now (9am PST) it's 47F in SF vs 38F in TO. Forecast for noon today is 53F in SF vs 38F in Toronto. It is an unusually warm winter in TO this year, though what I said about summers being warmer in TO holds true every year.
- ChoGGi 7y agoAs someone born in Toronto, the weather is crap. You're right by a great lake, so it's damp/humid all year (step out of the shower and start sweating humid). Downtown is a series of giant wind tunnels, which isn't bad in the summer, but is downright chilly in the winter. I moved to Calgary and the weather is great, nice and dry and Chinooks to warm you up during the winter.
- lhorie 7y agoI guess weather preferences are subjective. My wife prefers TO weather over SF weather. Her reasoning is that TO has "real seasons". I used to live in Sao Paulo. Great weather IMHO, if you're ok w/ 38C in summer. SF weather feels chilly all throughout the year IMHO. The weather inland in the Bay Area tends to be much better for my taste. YMMV.
- agilebyte 7y agoTry https://weatherspark.com https://weatherspark.com to compare different cities. They have a nice visual map of how comfortable it gets throughout the year and have lots of stats on humidity, wind, sunlight etc.
- toephu2 7y agoThere's plenty of snow in the forecast this week for Toronto. The same cannot be said about SF.
- ulfw 7y agoI can’t see why people would want to move to SF City for the weather. California? YES. Definitely. Even the Bay Area yup. But the City? Erm...
- ghaff 7y agoSF has it's "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" days in the summer and its share of grey and damp in the winter. On the other hand, it doesn't really get the heat that the valleys can get so it's a tradeoff. I live in a northern snow state and, other than the relative lack of seasons, SF city weather seems pretty nice to me and not even obviously worse than the South Bay.
- 52-6F-62 7y agoFrankly, it’s too warm in the winter these days. I grew up in this climate and I really enjoy winter. These days it’s been hard to peg a good day to go skating because it will suddenly warm up and render all the ice sluggish. It’s really disappointing. In short: a lot of us like our weather for the variations in it...
- oiasdjfoiasd 7y agoUhm... SF though? The weather there isn't really that great. And this is coming from someone who lived there for many years and have since relocated to NYC.
- throw0101a 7y ago> How's the weather there though? In Toronto it is roughly comparable to Chicago or NYC. Vancouver would be similar to Seattle. Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, etc, would be much colder.