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MarqHusker

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13510 on: September 25, 2026, 08:35:57 AM »
Fun fact.  NYC gets 25+% more annual rainfall than Seattle.

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« Reply #13511 on: September 25, 2026, 08:38:42 AM »
heck, that's right there with Atlanta
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« Reply #13512 on: September 25, 2026, 09:21:52 AM »
Fun fact.  NYC gets 25+% more annual rainfall than Seattle.
never figured that so looked up and you're spot on. That includes snow


Seattle Average Annual Precipitation: 39.34 inches (measured at Sea-Tac Airport).

New York City Average Annual Precipitation: 49.5 inches (measured at Central Park)

However Seattle averages roughly 250 cloudy days per year, compared to just 183 cloudy days in New York City.

So that's where the myth comes from
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13513 on: September 25, 2026, 10:11:00 AM »
Seattle Average Annual Precipitation: 39.34 inches (measured at Sea-Tac Airport).

New York City Average Annual Precipitation: 49.5 inches (measured at Central Park)

Heck, Ohio gets 40 on average

We get 60.  Lucky me.  

I was always lead to believe that it's not so much that it rains hard in Seattle, it's that it drizzles all the damn time and you never get a break from some amount of rain.  But I don't know.  

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« Reply #13514 on: September 25, 2026, 10:18:47 AM »
Heck, Ohio gets 40 on average

We get 60.  Lucky me. 

I was always lead to believe that it's not so much that it rains hard in Seattle, it's that it drizzles all the damn time and you never get a break from some amount of rain.  But I don't know. 
That's correct.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13515 on: September 25, 2026, 01:04:55 PM »
There are beautiful rainless periods in PNW.  My brother lives rhere and constantly reminds his new Yorkers of the rain differences

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13516 on: September 25, 2026, 03:17:47 PM »
New York gets a helluva lot more snow
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13517 on: September 25, 2026, 04:15:59 PM »
They average more snow than Indy on average

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« Reply #13518 on: September 25, 2026, 04:19:42 PM »
Since im obsessing on this.

Indianapolis has never recorded a single day snowfall of 12 inches of more..  i remind people everytime when people here start touting. 10-18 inch storms coming!   

We dont have the moisture,  no great lake effect here, and generally dont have snowbelt type winters.  Northern IN?  Yes, not Indy.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13519 on: September 25, 2026, 07:22:38 PM »
never figured that so looked up and you're spot on. That includes snow


Seattle Average Annual Precipitation: 39.34 inches (measured at Sea-Tac Airport).

New York City Average Annual Precipitation: 49.5 inches (measured at Central Park)

However Seattle averages roughly 250 cloudy days per year, compared to just 183 cloudy days in New York City.

So that's where the myth comes from
we're over 50 inches per year here

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13520 on: September 25, 2026, 07:51:43 PM »
we're over 50 inches per year here
That's what she said.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #13521 on: September 25, 2026, 10:15:10 PM »
We only get 19 inches of rain per year, which somehow results in an average of 46 flash floods annually.

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« Reply #13522 on: Today at 08:34:09 AM »
Soil (rock) conditions make a huge difference in how flooding occurs.
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« Reply #13523 on: Today at 08:35:19 AM »
2 years ago today Hurricane Helene made landfall.

Lots of devastation came with that storm, mostly for North Carolina.
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