Posted on 08/09/2012 8:52:35 PM PDT by re_nortex
Virtually no location in the U.S. is 100% safe from dangerous weather.
According to the National Weather Service, the combination of flooding, lightning, tornadoes, tropical cyclones, snow/ice storms, extreme heat, extreme cold, high winds, and rip currents claims almost 600 lives each year in the U.S., on average. Of course, catastrophic events in any year (Hurricane Katrina, spring 2011 tornadoes) can skew the averages.
However, there are locations in the U.S. where the weather is generally "safer."
(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...
Pittsburgh usually fares well on lists not because of its superlatives but because of what it lacks. Back in the 80's Pittsburgh was always near the top of the Places Rated Almanac and was the champion in 1985 and again in 2007. In the 1985 rankings, Pittsburgh didn't excel in any one of the metric but avoided the negatives -- notably crime and cost of living.
I was born there and spent my youth in the 'Burg. As far as the weather is concerned, the only real downside as cited in the Almanac was the number of cloudy days. They (Rand McNally) applied positive points for regions with a lot of sunshine.
s/Burg/Burgh/ ...as one who knows just how important that trailing 'h' is!
Lots of people back there complain of SAD’s.(Seasonal Affective Disorder)
It never bugged me.
Honestly? Texas Sun takes the tar out of me.
I think most of the taters are in Arastook Co.”
Caribou is the second largest city in Aroostook County. Its population was 8189 at the 2010 census.
1. That’s spelled “Aroostook” and pronounced “THE County”
2. Caribou is in Aroostock County.
3. You are correct about the potatoes.
4. I guess they did not consider freezing one’s ever loving seat end off a hazard...
Shows you what I know of Maine! LOL
Ive been up there but it aint in my blood.
beat me to it by 20 seconds.
you are awarded a victory ice cream cone...
A pleasant place to visit, as a visitor when the weather is nice.
New Jersey! A veritable weather Eden.
Last year when the high pressure dome sat over Texas for months on giving us a case of severe clear and a streak of 100-plus days, I didn't whimper. Why? I have a long memory. I just thought back to those days of shoveling that Pennsylvania snow and then the plow undoing all my work an hour later!
108 degrees felt pretty good. :-)
Yep, the 2d of August is indeed usually pleasant....
Yep, the 2d of August is indeed usually pleasant....
Yes it does - which makes it normal regular weather and not dangerous.
Very funny.
I agree. The metrics are suspicious. The only thing that is questionable about the weather safety is the “grey” in winter. Maybe it is better that people don’t know.
“Aroostook” May as well be in New Foundland! It’s above Nova Scotia
I have been in woods in Maine in the snow in July LoL
I have always thought the entire NYC metro area is very weather safe. Yes, you get some blizzards, but esp. in the city they don’t amount to too much. The one Christmas before last was quite bad and handled badly and I think some people even did die, but that is a rare thing.
The weather is miserable a lot of the time (like Summer!) but not dangerous.
It just whoops my ass buddy.
I used to get heat exhaustion when I lived up thar. LoL
I am adjusting after 20 years.
Here in El Paso, while it can get hot in the summer, that’s about all that happens here. No tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or pestilence!
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