San Diego, CA, ranked by viewers as best city to experience summer; Mt. Washington, NH, ranked best winter location, but get this, our own Oswego, NY was right up there as for “normal” living areas – Best Winter location.
The Weather Channel (TWC) conducted a recent consumer poll of its television viewers and digital users to find what they choose as the best climates to experience winter, summer, extreme weather, rain and even isolation. TWC’s meteorology team provided multiple choice locations from which to vote, and each location was selected based on meteorological data and extreme weather statistics.
Find out what locations voters favored and what TWC chose as ideal climate locations–from a meteorological perspective. For more, tune in to TWC and log onto weather.com for complete poll results and related articles. This poll was conducted via TWC’s Facebook and Twitter channels over a one-week period. The results are as follows:
TWC’s Viewer Poll on the Best Climate Locations:
Best Winter Location:
1.Mt. Washington, NH
2.Oswego, NY - (TWC’s pick) Where else can you see snow fall at the rate of 6"
per hour? It can only happen in "lake-effect country”
3.Fargo, ND
4.Truckee, MI
Best Summer Location:
1.San Diego, CA
1.Maui, HI - (TWC’s pick) A summer climate that virtually guarantees 80s in the
day, without a trace of summer's stifling humidity
2.Traverse City, MI
3.Breckenridge, CO
Best Extreme Weather Location:
1.Oklahoma City, OK - (TWC’s pick) When it comes to extreme weather,
Tornado Alley is a landslide #1 on our "weather bucket list”
1.Death Valley, CA
2.Cannon Beach, OR
3.Scituate, MA
Best Location for Isolation:
1.Florida Keys. FL
1.Juneau, AK
2.Nantucket, MA - (TWC’s pick) This isolated island off southeast
Massachusetts may be about as close as you can safely get to feeling the fury
of North Atlantic storms and its Nor’easters
3.San Juan Islands, WA
Best Location for Rain:
1.Astoria, OR
2,Hilo, HI
3.Miami, FL
4.Houston, TX - (TWC’s pick) Even rain is bigger in Texas. Several factors help
make it one of the most flood-prone cities and set the stage for huge deluges
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