The difference doesn't lie where you think it does. It rains a lot less here, it's a lot cooler, the humidity is a little higher, and there's way less sunshine.
Port Angeles gets
25.57 inches of rain a year.
The annual average high temperature is 56.6 degrees,
and the annual average low is 42.4 degrees.
Nice table here tells us the average relative humidity by seasons
spring 77 %,
summer 74 %,
autumn 84 %,
winter 86 %.
and the average number of hours of sunshine per day
spring 8 h,
summer 10 h,
autumn 5 h,
winter 3 h.
Fort Lauderdale gets
62.44 inches of rain a year.
The annual average high temperature is 83.7 degrees,
and the annual average low is 67.2 degrees.
Same table for Fort Lauderdale's relative humidity by seasons
spring 70 %,
summer 76 %,
autumn 76 %,
winter 73 %.
Hours of sunshine per day
spring 10 h,
summer 11 h,
autumn 9 h,
winter 8 h.
You simply can't imagine how many people over the past few weeks asked me, "It rains all the time in Washington State, right?" Wrong.
2 comments:
Rains all the time in Washington, doesn't it?
I get the same thing about Oregon.
"Oh, why do you live in Oregon? How can you stand all that rain?"
It hardly ever rains where I live and I live right in the middle of the state. People do not seem to understand that 2/3 of Oregon is very, very dry to the point of being considered desert.
Ha..ha...but I'd rather live in Oregon than Washington...better weather here.... :0)
Glad you're back, Mir.
welcome back!
you are likely drier there than seattle. i get the same comments from friends and family, but it does seem like it drizzles most of dec-may to me. i just don't happen to have a problem with the rain, but i despise the heat and high humidity of the south.
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