why the frick do people like the summers here. It's just hot and humid with zero clouds. There's no summer thunderstorms or nice and interesting cloud cover, no cool rain, nothing. It's just a blank blue sky with a hot as shit sun. The rocky mountain's summers are 1000% better than whatever the frick is here
Not remotely humid. And no ocean in the Rockies.
yet
People up there like the summers because it finally quits raining, and they can break out their summer clothes, work on their tan, dine and play outdoors, etc. There are plenty of shady trees, and the rivers are cool and refreshing on the hottest days.
PNW summers - humid? Even the most humid days in the PNW rarely top 60 F dewpoint. By comparison, Southern California coastal regions regularly see mid/upper 60s dewpoints in late summer. The humid portions of America - Midwest and Southeast - see dewpoints exceeding 70 F virtually all summer long. Even New England regularly sees dewpoints around 70 F, which bring stifling muggy nights. PNW summer nights are nearly always refreshingly cool.
The PNW does see heat waves, but summers west of the Cascades are significantly cooler than most of the interior states, especially when elevation is taken into account.
>Rocky Mountain summers
I live at 8000 feet in Colorado, and our July average high temp was about 86 F this year due to a persistent dry hot weather pattern. We had multiple days top 90 degrees. The monsoon finally arrived a couple days ago, but daily high temps around 85 F are likely to return shortly. Most of the Intermountain West is lower than 8000 feet, therefore significantly hotter. Also drier, with less shady trees. Additionally, the Pacific coast is nearly always cool in summer, even chilly - a great escape during heat waves.
>humid
lmfao anon please come to the southeast
does some autist have a chip on their shoulder about the pnw or something? i keep seeing threads like this. just dont fricking go idiot. literally no one wants you to.
go to ranier during the summer. that shit is special.
>humid
Holy frick, you are moronic. Also, I could give you a laundry list of towns up and down the PNW better than any place you've ever parked your shitty RV.
I was just in Seattle for 4 days. It was 82 for a high, slight breeze, daylight from 530am to 915pm. Absolutely perfect weather.
anyone that says california's weather is great is a lying homosexual and a trust fund brat living on the coast or more specifically in LA. Summer is fricking horrible, it doesnt rain until mid october, fire season erupts in late august, and all the nature turns into hideous yellow grass while you bake in 105F heat
this is the worst summer we've had by a mile. i have no idea whats going on. this state just gets worse and worse even the weather is leaving
Oh don't worry. It's everywhere. Its over fricking 90°f in brazil and other south of the equator countries. For some context. It's fricking winter right now. Seasons are inverted in the south. How the frick is this happening.
Italy too is probably having another 110°f world record this year again. It's not just cali. Its the world.
Seattle summer is god's gift to weather.
it's not humid either. it tops out at like what? 40% for the year?
The winters are humid in Seattle. Like 80-90% humid. It signed because the damp cold soaks in through clothing
>The winters are humid in Seattle. Like 80-90% humid. It signed because the damp cold soaks in through clothing
Oh ya. My friend visited from NYC while I was living in that dump (left within 1 year).
I remember him turning to me, shivering and saying "this is my heaviest jacket in new york"
Does any anon here like seattle?
Is there any reason to be there if you aren't doing on-site gayMAN engineering?
I guess there's the occassional hot fob japanese girl at meetups, but tons of dudes want em
Black person im in the rocky (inter) mountains at 5200 feet and its blazing hot everyday and the sun burns my white skin. if you go higher the sun is even stronger and theres no oxygen. i would love to move to the PNW
Same here in SLC. At least the 100 degree days are almost over and before you know it, we'll be in fall.
Even though SLC is a cultureless Mormon shithole, it is infinitely better than the liberal wastelands of Portland and Seattle. It's no walk in the park over there bro, the weather may be better but there's a good reason why downtown Portland is entirely empty of regular people.
Who would have thought that allowing open air drug markets to thrive in your downtown business areas would drive everyone away? Because that's the humane thing to do of course. It's not a crime, it's a mental illness. Don't criminalize a disease. Fricking joke, people get what they vote for.
i plan on coming down to salt lake in early October to do some hiking and then go down to canyonlands. decent time of year? because it seems way too hot now.
October can see blasts of arctic wind from the north. Utah never has "perfect" weather: it is either too hot in daytime, or too cold after dark. Pick one and learn to enjoy it.
i don't plan on camping, so it being cold at night won't matter. just day hikes and drives with hotels at night.
Do yourself a favor and cowboy camp under the stars for a night. Also that guy was lying, Utah has 1-2 months of perfect weather split between spring and fall
I guided in Utah for years and slept outside with no tent from May to October everyday, and was just fine with a 35 degree bag.
I should add to that, for clarification, because of the various climates in Utah, that was in alpine and canyons.
we'll see. i see what the nights are like when i get there. im not sleeping outside if its 40° and i wont have enough room to bring really warm camping gear.
>im not sleeping outside if its 40° and i wont have enough room to bring really warm camping gear.
For 40 degree weather get a 30 degree bag, a sleeping pad, and a sweater/long johns. You don't need a ton of gear/it can be rented in Moab
I've got a sleeping bag that says 52° comfort rating and 23° extreme rating. I used it in Colorado when it was like 40° at night and it was fricking horrible. So should I be looking at the comfort rating then?
essentially, yes. idk why they choose to make the shit so confusing. nothing else gets labeled by the operational limit.
>if you use it like this it probably wont kill you but itll suck
dumb.
nigglet you guys have so few homeless and druggies in comparison to the PNW it's insane. I went to walmart back in washington and everytime it was full of tweakers and batshit crazy people. Your walmarts are full of white families and wealthy browns buying food for their families, it's like heaven
>Black person im in the rocky (inter) mountains at 5200 feet
life is pretty good up there, especially if your housing is sorted. don't fall for the PNW meme
i visited Olympia in like 2015 over the summer and it was absolutely brutal out. kinda scared me off summers over there.
>why the frick do people like the summers here. It's just hot and humid with zero clouds
wat, it's all of those things
none* aka cold, moderate tons of clouds, nice breeze. nowhere better except maybe glacier national park
I live here, and I kid you not just got home drenched from a thunderstorm that jumped me while biking.
>80f is hot
Can anyone tell me some cool stuff to do while in the Tahoe area? Going to the Donner Party museum. Like to know some other places in the area that aren’t the lake. Anything western heritage/historical Native American ect. Prob wrong thread sry in advance
not necessarily tahoe area but coloma is where gold rush started, they have gold panning stations. Colfax area has a rustic old timey railroad town thing going for it. It s mainly jsut a haven for buttholes from the bay area or coast to come up and rent a cabin in
oh, we also hosted the olympics in the early 60's, there should be a museum or something about it in squaw valley
>No cloud cover
>Blank blue sky
That actually really bothers me and I was born and raised here in Northern California
Clouds are nice
Summer time sucks because we hardly have any and if we do - they're extremely high up, sparse and scattered
Starting to become smoke/ wildfire season. This wasn't a thing in the past. It really sucks.