I’ve lived in Alaska, Seattle, Spokane, Michigan, and Texas. The rain and cloud cover doesn’t bother me at all, it’s just the super short days in the winter. In Alaska, it’s even more extreme, 20 hour summers in anchorage and 4 hour winters. It’s brutal. But places like Boston have more daylight during winter. So what gives? December and January are pitch black dark in Seattle. Michigan is the same just with less clouds, but both suck. It can be just as cloudy in Texas but it’s not dark at 3pm. Am I the only one who likes daylight >>> sunlight? TC: $280K
Idk I’m not a meteorologist
It’s true. The sun is only up from about 8AM-3PM for about a month in the winter. Super bleak.
Go to Florida. Endless summer and sunburns.
I live in Texas. I got all of that lol
but it also gets dark earlier in winter
Have you opened a map? Seattle is way further north than Boston. And yes… of course latitude is directly related to the angle to the sun and therefore the path the sun takes through the sky. Short path, less hours. This flips on the other half of the year no matter where you are.
It’s geography, latitude, jet stream direction, and topology. Seattle is the furthest north major city in the US at 47.6°N (metro area extends beyond 48°N), while Boston is at 42.3°N (plus it’s in a relatively flat area). The Seattle metro has a population of just over 4M, which dwarfs other cities at a similar latitude in the Americas. Vancouver BC is smaller, the entire population of Alberta is barely greater, and the list goes on. For comparison: Portland OR - 45.5°N, most of the metro is south of this, and there’s a mountain range between it and the ocean. Pop: 2.5M Minneapolis - 44.9°N, with slightly more of the metro north than south, but no mountains to concentrate clouds. This is the next most northern city of comparable size in the US. Pop: 3.7M Toronto - 43.6°N and Pop: 5.9M. Again, no mountains or ocean, but this is the most similar city and it’s 4° latitude south of Seattle. Ottawa - 45.4°N and Pop: 1.5M There are some other factors working against it, like where it sits in it’s time zone and being on Puget Sound, but you get the idea. If it wasn’t for logging, demand for a provisioning stop on the way to the Canadian gold fields, being a major protected deep water port on the west coast, and big tech, Seattle probably wouldn’t be much of a city at all due to the latitude.
Wow I was not aware of how far north it actually was. Seems like if it weren’t for the geographical features you mentioned it would probably be freezing cold and snowing all winter. That actually explains a lot. Seems like you’re very knowledgeable, thank you! Are you in Seattle yourself?
It would be much colder without the Puget Sound and less cloudy without the mountains. If both weren’t here, it would be much colder with more snow like far northern China or eastern Siberia at similar latitudes. I am, yes.
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