Question For Americans

[Delta Vega]

Watching the news of late, this year and more frequently every other year, there seems to be no end of natural weather horror events, or forest fires etc.
If it's not hurricanes or extreme heat leading to scorched forests, its mountains of snow during winter.
Are there any States in the USA, or any localised areas where the weather is more predictable, more temperate ?
Any places where you don't regularly have to board up your belongings and escape, praying your house is still there when you return ?
You know, places that have normal seasons, that aren't oppressively hot in summer or frozen in winter etc.
I just can't imagine the resolve it must take to live in parts of Florida for instance, or more recently on the West Coast.

 

[StarCruiser]

There used to be - before Global Climate Change (there, I said it).

There have been severe weather events all over the world in recent years. In Asia - they've had truly insane monsoon rains in places. China, in particular, has been hit hard with several major rivers overflowing their banks...

 

[BillJ]

Little warmer than normal here in Northern Kentucky, but the weather is still mostly decent.

 

[Oddish]

Western Washington, here, is pretty temperate. When we get any snow at all, we close our schools because our drivers don't know how to deal with it. Hurricanes don't reach us, droughts are rare, and we're not central enough for twisters.

We ARE overdue for a big quake, but that's not weather.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Hawaii... about 80-90 deg F year round. An occasional hurricane scare, that’s about it.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Damian]

I live in Pennsylvania. Nothing really to report here. We were above normal for rain by quite a bit last year, though it was spread out over the year so no issues with flooding or anything like that.

This year it's closer to normal. July was really hot, and a good part of August, but that's gone away. The next couple of days will actually be abnormally cooler before picking back up to normal.

But compared to hurricanes, floods and wildfires, it's downright boring weather wise in my part of the neighborhood. And in this case boring is good. When it comes to weather exciting is probably not such a good thing (though I admit to liking a good thunderstorm from time to time).

 

[think]

so yeah here in jersey we get lots of weather -- seems the town I live in gets these flash floods going on with rain now and then lightning and stuff--
out my window I recorded the rain and thunder going on-

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it seems they have predicted the flash floods but yeah not really to bad the water out my window can get halfway to my window... for a moment or two of mad rushing water across the street there === I live at a bus stop and such-- out my window very convenient -- we get snow and hurricanes sandy was a power outage hurricane and we get winds on the wire connections causing power loss --- but I guess other places are similar not a big thing.. the weathermen don't know what is going to happen --- might as well look at the clouds to tell what is going on-

it was hot this summer but I stayed in air all the time going out with sunblock 50 on all the time-

 

[galleywest]

Ohio: no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no forest fires (at least none like the ones in CA). It's cold in winter but not that cold, it's hot in summer but not that hot, and aside from the Great Flood in 1913 that washed out what remained of the canal system, we don't tend to get extreme weather events. Generally we get a few tornadoes per year, nothing like Tornado Alley, however. Yeah, people may make fun of my state, but it's not so bad to live here.

Having said that, every year with the first snow everyone acts like it's the first time it's ever snowed and all drive like idiots.

 

[Damian]

Having said that, every year with the first snow everyone acts like it's the first time it's ever snowed and all drive like idiots.

Yeah, same here in PA. It's like people were pithed or something.

 

[BillJ]

It's cold in winter but not that cold, it's hot in summer but not that hot, and aside from the Great Flood in 1913 that washed out what remained of the canal system, we don't tend to get extreme weather events.

Don't forget Xenia in 1974.

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[valkyrie013]

Alls fine here in central Florida, except for New York and New Jersey Drivers.. but thats not weather. Average 89-94 with 1000% humidity, rains most afternoons in summer, nice in winter.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

New England doesn’t have extreme weather. Hurricanes are usually weak by the time they get here. No forest fires or tornadoes. I remember one earthquake my entire life which wasn’t strong enough to damage anything.

Most extreme temps you tend to get are like 100 and -10 but mostly you don’t get higher than 80s or highs under 20 except a week or two a year.

We get some bad snow storms, but usually only a couple times in a winter and plows are really good.

 

[Delta Vega]

Thanks for the replies
Its always fascinated me how people could live in areas where extreme weather events were commonplace, places that were prone to floods, hurricanes or extremes of temperature.
Its tragic as well, watching those dudes in California, Washington State and Oregon who've been burned out of their homes.
California, Arizona and Texas were always the places that intrigued me, I suppose I've watched too many Westerns.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Arizona’s on my list of “Retired but still healthy” options for 30 years from now. Maybe Sedona, or somewhere closer to the GC.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

^ Sedona is truly a gorgeous place. You have my vote, FWIW.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[think]

This is a typical day this time of year,...

 

[Starbreaker]

I live in central Alabama. The only thing I have to worry about is the occasional tornado or once a generation blizzard.

 

[Finn]

Watching the news of late, this year and more frequently every other year, there seems to be no end of natural weather horror events, or forest fires etc.
If it's not hurricanes or extreme heat leading to scorched forests, its mountains of snow during winter.
Are there any States in the USA, or any localised areas where the weather is more predictable, more temperate ?
Any places where you don't regularly have to board up your belongings and escape, praying your house is still there when you return ?
You know, places that have normal seasons, that aren't oppressively hot in summer or frozen in winter etc.
I just can't imagine the resolve it must take to live in parts of Florida for instance, or more recently on the West Coast.

I don’t think one needs that much “resolve” to live in Florida.

Much of the country is pretty much pleasant to live in.

 

[BillJ]

Arizona’s on my list of “Retired but still healthy” options for 30 years from now.

Hopefully they still have water then.

 

[Delta Vega]

I don’t think one needs that much “resolve” to live in Florida.

Much of the country is pretty much pleasant to live in.

Every time I see it on the news its getting prepared for, or suffering the aftermath of a hurricane
And then there's the gators and the pythons