Acclimation anecdote: I'm from Montreal, so it took some time for me to get used to shirt-sleeve weather the day after Christmas. In Vancouver, there are a few

Acclimation anecdote: I'm from Montreal, so it took some time for me to get used to shirt-sleeve weather the day after Christmas. In Vancouver, there are a few days a year where there is snow, and everyone is almost as surprised as you would be by it, every time. Other than that, it's very unpredictable, even within a single day. It's normal to have multiple periods of drizzle and sunshine in the same day. If you require heat, go elsewhere. We had some anomalous heat this summer but it pretty much never gets truly hot. By east coast standards it's sort of in perma-spring.