Roxanna, you're right, I deleted my comments, lol!

^^^ Too late, Oly - they are already moving here in droves!! The word has gotten out. 😑

gardengal, delete yours, too! lol

Highs in the low to mid 80s and lows in the low to mid 50s. Light breeze and low humidity. I love this place!

NIMBY ?

3 H's here, outside of Philly

getting worse later this week, heat advisories for the next 3 days...

ready for Fall!.

Our 10 day forecast looks like the binary code. No rain in the forecast. 100+ is the norm.

I live in 'steamy South Florida.' Horrible, you can barely breathe outside.

I know why there are so many 'snow-birds.' Which I could afford two places to live.

Summer in S. Florida is a horror.

Jane

Ontario is in a drought. It was the driest June in 15 years and we haven't had any rain in July. The crops are withering, the corn leaves are "pineappling" where they curl to try and conserve any moisture. This will surely affect our grocery prices, as if we need more added costs.

Hot. 30C with the humidity feeling like 38-40C. 40 is 104F.

Jasdip - My area of Missouri is also going into drought. Most of the state to my north is OK and the counties just to the south as well. The last several good rains have just missed my area to either the north or south. I have farmer friends that are worried about their corn and their late planted soy beans never came up.

It's only supposed to be 95F today but then the next four days are showing 101, 102, 104, and 100. Next week it is supposed to 'cool' a bit with only one day above 94F.

LoneJack, our corn and soybeans is affected. The wheat and barley look good though.

Charleston, SC : the usual temps in low to mid nineties here most days. Only this summer there have been lots more of these days. We were in a drought, but recent storms brought much needed downpours. So much so that lightening caused power to go out for a couple of days. I am just thankful for any rain that we get, as this year, our flowers are not so pretty as usual. I'm so looking forward to fall (with the exception of coastal hurricanes).

Jasdip - the wheat around here was harvested several weeks ago and the crop was pretty good because we had good moisture over the winter. My farmer friends tried to plant soy beans in the same fields after the wheat crop was harvested and that will be a failed crop.

Hot in AZ

I think this summer has been pretty typical - sunny with mild temperatures (high 70s-mid 80s) and only a few instances of very hot 2-3 day stretches. We always have low humidity, not quite desert-like but very comfortable. We're in our annual 7-8 month long dry season, no rain to be expected until mid-Fall.

Before packing up your household and moving to the Pacific Northwest, check out the weather and spend some time there. Clear summer days are beautiful all around Puget Sound, and winter temperatures (compared to other parts of the US so far north) are cool but mild. For many, the issue is how many damp and rainy days happen after and before the 3-4 best weather months in the summer. I experienced this on numerous trips over the years up there - I knew to expect rainy days. Same was true of my time at Army boot camp at Fort Lewis one year from May into early August.

From info I found, there are +/- 7 months of the year when it rains on average half of the days. That's a lot. There are other areas in the US with more annual rainy days and greater precipitation amounts but for those who prefer fewer wet days, the dampness there is something to expect.

It's 89 here, but with heat index feels like 101. Out in the garden an hour ago picking veggies, not too fun. Heat pump guy came around 1:00 and looked like a drowned rat, poor guy. Luckily he didn't have to do much here since they pretty much took care of things last week. Was told to keep the maintenance appointment today but apparently it wasn't needed. I feel bad for anyone working in this weather.

Yes, listen to Elmer. It’s horrible here. Don’t move here.

Not to worry Olychick. I'll stay right where I am. I enjoy all 4 seasons for the most part but the extremes on both ends can get annoying if they last more than a few days. I would get grumpy if it rained half the time.

Having lived here all my life, it doesn't rain half the time. In fact, it actually rains very little - less than you receive annually, LoneJack. But it can be overcast and gray for a good part of the time, especially in winter and much of the spring. But when the sun does shine, it can be breathtaking!

When it does rain, it is often not hard enough to even require a raincoat. More of a misty drizzle than actual rain.

The stats I found, from a few credible sources, says that the national average is about 100 days per year of precipitation. Where I live is about 60. Rainy places with 150 days or more include Seattle, other locations in the PNW, and some locations on the southern shores of lower Great Lakes - Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo. These latter areas have more predictable summer precipitation, unlike Seattle that has a relatively drier period of sorts in the summertime. To get in the same number of precip days as this latter group, it rains more often during Seattle's more rainy period from Fall through Spring.

So, it has 50% more rainy days than the national average, totaling nearly 1 out of every 2 days through the course of a year. If there are other sources with different information, I'll be interested to hear of them. My visits to the PNW, including my Army time but pretty numerous in addition, gave me this impression too.

Edit to add:

Another source, a list of US cities and how many sunny days per year. Sunny is defined as days with 30% or less of cloud cover during daylight hours. On this list, only one city has fewer sunny days than Seattle's 58 - it's Buffalo with 54.

Average Annual Sunshine for US cities

I never want to move to Washington state either! I love Vancouver, but I don't like Seattle. In fact, I like Portland better than Seattle, but I would never move to PNW, except if I could move to BC. I would also be happy living in Italy.

I get tired of people in Washington telling others not to move there - it gets old very fast and I've already heard it way too many times, starting with the Frugal Gourmet. One thing I particularly like about California is that it is a very welcoming place.

I guess living here for a entire lifetime does not make one a credible source. I find that a little bit of a patronizing attitude :-)

The above data has been recorded on a very generalized basis. The PNW covers a lot of territory, geography here is not uniform and that has a huge influence on weather patterns. Seattle is not the only city in the PNW. Its weather just tends to get reported/recorded most frequently but that does not mean those same conditions are reflected throughout.

I can pretty much guarantee my weather is better than that of Olychick - milder overall and with less rainfall and more sun. That's because I live on the Sound and in a rain shadow cast by the Olympics, I live almost directly across the Sound from the Puget Sound Convergence Zone, which means it can be clear and sunny at my house but gray and rainy slightly less than 6 miles away.

Not all of the PNW is wet and gloomy most of the time. And it must be appealing because folks are moving here in droves. And a great many from California!

ETA: Lars - I wouldn't live in California if you paid me to!! It's all a matter of personal choice. Seattle is a wonderful, simulating and entertaining city but if you don't like it, feel free to stay away. You seem to badmouth it every time the topic comes up. It's not appreciated.

It's been a bit warmer than usual, but that seems to be a usual trend, lol. A bit less than usual rain, and that's been going on for a few years now. We could use a good steady day and night of rain a couple times this time of year. The sunlight from spring yellow to summer white is noticable- so is the shortening of daylight hours already.

Yes, listen to Elmer. It’s horrible here. Don’t move here.

I believe Elmer, about the rain, but I think rainy days may impact some less than horrible heat and the possibility of death due to grid faiiure. My son and his family absolutely adored Vancouver, Washington State the year they spent there. In addition, the state is truly beautiful, gorgeous scenery and well kept parks. I would certainly consider moving there to escape the terrible Texas weather. I do think California is gorgeous also from pictures and accounts I have seen.

Lol, Lars! "I never want to move to Washington state either!"

Well, that makes both of us happy!

I have lived in the PNW all totaled 37 years. I liked it so much the first time I moved back here just over 25 years ago. I used to live Up valley-being up a river valley into the Cascades. There it rained 80+ inches a year. Because of the way the mountains split it could rain there when it wasn't raining any place else. I have known it to rain, a nice steady light rain, for six weeks without letting up. February broke people who couldn't adjust. Where I live now we get about 40 or so. Same river valley but down valley. Seattle is about 35 inches. But it does come down in a drizzle most of the time. I find it soothing. Location is everything. We all seem to get the same summer dry spell that people persist in calling a drought. July and August are dry. Not soon enough to save your June antique roses though. I have lived a lot of places and many places have dreary winter weather like the SF bay area. It is supposed to make you feel grateful for good weather when you get it. This year we have had a wet spring and even rain up until a couple of days ago here. heartbreaking if you garden anything other than cold weather stuff. When it is still getting down into the 40'd and 50's at night your plants get the dwindles.

San Jose (not exactly where I live but close) has 257 sunny days a year (US average is 205) and 62 days of precipitation (this second one seems high). Seattle's numbers are 58 sunny days and over 150 rainy days. SJ averages 17-18 inches of rain annually, Seattle more than 35 inches.

From these data points, which is dreary?

(I honestly don't like debating/comparing weather because I know where I am is particularly mild and comfortable. People pick or wind up where they live for many reasons, weather not being the only one. But, for many, it is an important factor.)

The PNW sounds like the best place in the country to live. That is my kind of weather. I hate day after day of sun and humidity. I love rainy days. I have never lived anywhere else except PA where I was born. It's a beautiful state full of great history but I despise the summers. My ancestors on both sides settled here in the very early 1700s and no one ever left. If I had my druthers, I'd live in Upper New England or the PNW.

I’m in Italy at the moment. It’s 100f with no likelihood of rain for weeks. Luckily, I do not have to work here Or perform any exertion. I love visiting the country but I would not want to live here. I couldn’t take the heat, the lack of rain or the inordinate time and ramfications it takes to get things done. My sil, born and bred in Rome, is of the same opinion. He now lives and works in the UK and has taken citizenship. He’s got used to our weather and our strange habit of walking in any version of it. His family really don’t understand him. Why would you leave the house if it’s wet, or windy, or chilly? Why would you walk when you could drive? Why would you own stout shoes or rubber boots?

LoneJack, this was posted on my local farmer's blog that I follow on Facebook. He's wondering what else he needs to do to get rain. He washed the tractors, watered the flowers, hung clothes out on the line; still no rain.

The he went on to say "Our stunted corn has tasseled and if I could could make it rain by cutting hay I would but my hay fields are burnt off."

Lily, I love our PA summers. Of course I'm on the western side of the state and we don't get as hot as the eastern side. Summers we can get out and enjoy the outdoor activities. I agree I wouldn't like the weather being the same all year, but IMO the winters could be shorter. By mid February I'm over it and get cabin fever.

Function. We are the opposite. I count down to winter and the days getting shorter. I absolutely cannot wait for chilly fall weather when I walk the trail, It's the longest in over 2 1/2 years I haven't been to the trail since it's over 93 each day. So I do eight laps around the airconditioned mall like a lab rat for my 3.5 miles but it's cool.

Lily we haven't seen a 100degree day in 25 years and average 7 days a summer over 90. This coming Sunday I see philly is going to be 100 and we are going to be 93. Next week looks awesome, mid to low 80s all week. I desperately need to get some gardening done since I've haven't been home for 2 weeks.

Function...my granddaughter lives in your next of the woods and my grandson's girlfriend just moved out there so I know that the western part of PA isn't so horrible as the central and eastern parts.

Just reading this thread now -- my own summer has been quite nice so far. Two or three days with peak temps into the very low 90's but that's nothing compared to the heat waves many others are suffering. Most days have been mid-80's, nights into upper 60's, variable humidity. And decent rainfall. Knock on wood it continues!

I spent years living in NW PA. I hated summers there because we seldom saw the sun and had mostly rainy and overcast days. Living right under Lake Erie we got every storm of rain and snow that blew in from Canada. We called it "lake effect snows." When we would drive south to Pittsburgh, suddenly the skies would clear and we would be treated to sunshine.

This pretty well sums up this part of Texas.

Rusty

Don't even ask. It's 96 and will hit 100 tomorrow. It's exhausting to even step outside and I need to keep my pond and koi alive. I seriously despise summer and live for the day it's over for the year.

98 here at 2:00 pm so it still has time to hit triple digits.

We are forecast for a break starting Monday with only one day over 90 of the next 8 days. Pretty close to average.

"I seriously despise summer and live for the day it's over for the year."

Me too. But it's never really 'over' here.

Rusty

I'm back in L.A. now, and it is quite delightful. It is 75° at 2:30 PM, feels like 75.7°, but I am fine with that. Low temperature will be 64°.

As for Seattle, I would not feel the way I do about it if the people there had not been so hostile and insulting to me. I really got tired of their attitudes. The Black community was friendly to me, however, and so I will say that for it. Maybe it has changed since I was there, but I still hear people there saying not to move there, and that in itself is hostile and unwelcoming.

I would never tell someone that I was happy that they do not want to live where I live, but I would tell them to do whatever makes them happy without trying to add an insult to it.

Lone Jack it made it to 100 officially at the airport. I wish the official recording station was back at the downtown airport rather than out at MCI where it has been surrounded by fields.

Maifleur - Yes it can be a very different temperature at MCI than it is downtown in the concrete jungle. It peaked right at 100 today here in the sticks but I bet the temp at my downtown office was 102-104.

We had an high wind storm come through yesterday and noticed today our beautiful large maple in the front yard trunk split. I really hate to have it cut down, but it must go. It gave our home shade from the summer sun and was home to 7 bird house.

Hubby straped it until we can get someone out to cut it down and are keeping our fingers crossed that the storm we are expecting tonight doesn't bring it down on the house.

Hot and humid.

function, sorry about the tree. It's always sad when the big ones have to go. :(

Schoolhouse, I really really hate losing it. It is the last of the big trees in my yard. When we moved in (2014) we had to have 48 Dutch elm trees taken down and then 3 years ago we had to have a blue spruce taken down. All I have left is some small trees and green giants 😞 Well, on the bright side, less leaves to pick up in the fall.

Oh, Lars, I hope you aren't referring to my comment about moving to Seattle. I didn't mean to insult you, was only commenting that you will be happy to not move to Seattle, because you seem to hate it so and the fewer people who move here, the happier that makes many of us in the PNW. Housing and traffic are atrocious already and more people moving in are not going to help. Used to be people who moved here did so because they loved it and embraced it. Now, it seems that so many are moving in and have no regard for what it was that drew them here.
I can only imagine what might have happened to you on a visit to Seattle that branded a whole city as rude. That obviously hasn't been the experience of the majority of people or else we wouldn't be struggling with rampant growth and have been since the success of Microsoft started a lot of it.
My apologies to you if I offended you.

Like Lars, on my many visits to the Puget Sound area, I often sensed attitudes and outlooks different from what I would have expected, that are so common in the West (and many other places elsewhere too, of course). For me, it didn't have to do with anyone saying "don't move here, we don't want more Californians" though that's heard far too often. Maybe that's consistent with something else, sensing that a lot of people there seemed to be reserved and not so outwardly warm and accepting of others. That, as Lars described, contrasts with what he and I (and I'm sure many others) are accustomed to down here.

Everyone is different, experiences vary, situations encountered can always be anomalies. And my experiences and those lars had may be unrepresentative. But I don't think so.

Early Saturday morning we had a torrential storm! lightening and thunder that went on for a couple of hours, and reported 6+” of rain! 7” north of us! Underpasses, streets, yards were flooded. My neighborhood was okay, but we did get a little water in the unfinished part of the basement.

Storms and straightline winds were predecitd again for Saturday night, but it all stayed well south of us. But today all that humidity is still in the air. It’s only in the 80s but ugh.

Thankfully the coming week is 75-80, so very nice actually for late July.

A storm front is supposed to move through here overnight but I think the heaviest rains will stay to the north. I hope for the local farmer's sakes that we get more than the 1/2" forecast. It is getting to be do or die time for the local corn crop.

Upper 70s tomorrow which will be a nice respite from the heat.