drewbaccaAWD t1_j1tbtrp wrote on December 27, 2022 at 5:53 AM

Reply to comment by FarLeftGoon in PA Loses 40,000 Residents in a Year, Among Largest Declines in U.S.: Census by byzvntine

It still gets plenty hot/humid here in the summer.. spring is wet, fall is nice, winter is cold. Just fair warning and I say this as someone who lived in San Diego for a couple of years.

If you don't mind the increased rainfall, the thunderstorms are fun.

There's no mass exodus.. I moved back here from Seattle and a pair of friends moved back from San Fran. Another couple of friends moved down to DC for school... there's a healthy flow back and forth. Also had an uncle/aunt and two kids move back from Tahoe, another uncle/aunt and three kids move back from Lake County, CA.. one of those kids married a woman who moved here from San Diego. It's not like there's some net outflow, many people who leave find their way back but at the same time I still have three high school friends from PA living in LA because that's where they found work.

The decline is mostly high deaths and low births; the population here is fairly old overall.

IWANNAKNOWWHODUNIT t1_j1usizn wrote on December 27, 2022 at 3:46 PM

Since you’ve lived in Seattle, how is the gloomy and wet weather like in Pittsburgh compared to Seattle?

Nite_Boat t1_j1vakqa wrote on December 27, 2022 at 5:47 PM

I've spent some time in Seattle and now am in Pittsburgh and I'd say the frequency of gloomy and wet weather is comparable betweent the two cities, with hotter more humid summers in Pittsburgh. Very cloudy here often, in fact i think it *might be the cloudiest city in the U.S. (or in the top 3 IIRC)

drewbaccaAWD t1_j1wf2ms wrote on December 27, 2022 at 10:17 PM

It's gloomy and wet but it's a different sort of gloomy and wet. In Pittsburgh you get downpours and thunderstorms while Seattle is more of an endless haze for months at a time. In Pittsburgh an umbrella is useful while in Seattle it wouldn't make much of a difference.

Another big difference is that Pittsburgh in January will have its fair share of blue skies even if it's cold while in Seattle it's just grey from November until sometime in May. I first moved to Seattle in December and my wife never once saw Mount Rainer until late April or early May because it was always hidden by clouds. The summers, generally May into October, tend to have few clouds and mostly blue skies while the temperature hangs around a moderate 70°-ish for most of that (but with an occasional heat wave). Likewise the winter months tend to stay in the 30° area and rarely dip down low for extended periods.

Overall the total gloom between Pittsburgh and Seattle is similar but it's more sporadic in Pittsburgh and a bit bunched together in Seattle. Plus this is further exaggerated by Seattle being further north so those bright blue summer days last longer and those dark dreary winter days have even less day time light.