What cities/places have the worst weather?

[mvd]

Of course, this is subjective. I would hate extreme climates like Buffalo and New Orleans have Also, I would hate to live in tornado alley.

[Beeker]

1. Worst weather places

You know, I really can't stand summers in Washington, D.C. Spring and fall are nice, but the summers are very hot, with heavy, humid air clinging to you with breezes as infrequent as an honest...republican.

[bigwillq]

4. Welcome to DU!

You made the most of your first post!

[DrWeird]

2. Any city in the PNW.

Don't move here. Life here is horrible. You can come and visit. It's a beautiful place to visit. Be sure to spend lots of money. Just don't move here.

[SOteric]

8. Absolutely. What he said.

Rain, pestilence, earthquakes and volcanoes. And more rain.

Unless you're just coming out for a visit. Then it's gorgeous year round. Y'all come. Bring your wallets.

[SmileyBoy]

3. Winnipeg, Fargo, Saskatoon, Havre, MT

Cold as a witch's tit, and wind blowing like crazy. Makes me wonder why human beings built a city of 700,000 people up near the end of the Red River, and another city of 100,000 towards the source.

[roguevalley]

5. Barrow, Alaska. 6 weeks of total darkness in winter. -60 below

a few times. Polar bears in the garbage dump. Of course, there is the 6 weeks of complete daylight in summer ...

[ikojo]

6. St Louis Missouri has the absolute WORST

summer weather. If you like a sauna then STL is for you!

Sometimes it is 85 degrees at 5AM, along with the attendant HUMIDITY.

Of course as they say around here, it's not the heat it's the humidity.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Chicago!

Temperature here today plummeted from about 60 degrees at noon to 43 by 1 p.m.

Did I mention that 29 years ago yesterday, we had a 10-inch blizzard driven by 50 mph winds?

[wryter2000]

9. I was going to say Syracuse

But Buffalo is about the same thing. Miserable, cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers. And very little sun.

Of course, the best climate is in my own, dear Oaktown.

[salvorhardin]

10. Yep, and rule out Central New York too!

Imagine the worst of all the comments above all rolled into one and add that between November and June the sun shines so infrequently and the sky is so perpetually overcast that you basically lose the will to live. Also, we don't get a whole lot of snow (average 100" per year) but it snows constantly, 1 inch here, 1 inch there and it all adds up.

Cooperstown area is the worst, but you can basically write off anything from Syracuse east through Utica to perhaps Canajoharie.

To be fair though, we don't get much below 25 below zero during the coldest month (February).

[Cursive_Knives512]

13. Syracuse?!?!

What, are you saying you don't like the gray, overcast skies and prefer the gosh-awful sun? How weird! :P

[BlueJazz]

11. Minnesota

I lived in the twin cities for 8 years and the winters are just disgusting. Ice constantly built up on the roads for 5 months...
Traffic speeding along at 7 M.P.H.
People doing "Wheelies" that are not trying to do "Wheelies"
The terrifying Rush when you start slowing down for a red light and feel your car start losing traction and you see the next insurance bill going up another 100 bucks... Yuck!!

The terrifying feeling of seeing some poor bastard having the same thoughts as he is s l i d i n g into you!

[kitkatrose]

12. I am going to nominate Memphis, TN for that honor.

On second thought, let's put most of the southeast in that catagory. There's only two true seasons. Hot and Hotter and wet. And then there's Hot and Humid. Let's not forget Hell. Yes that is a season--hundred plus weather with humidity as high as possible w/o rain. Oh, let's not forget the mold spores and pollen. It's an experience to be sure.

[DemoTex]

14. Dallas between July 4 and Labor Day.

There are weeks of 100-degree+ (F) days. You can't do anything outside between 10 am and 9 pm. We have walked the dogs at 9 pm in 101-degree heat.

[youngred]

15. Rochester/upstate NY

fewer sun days than Seattle, cold, snow, snow, snow, humidity, snow, and lots of ice

[northofdenali]

16. I'm not going to even try to compete.

It was 20 below yesterday, 40 above today, snowed last night, and I will still wait two weeks for breakup.

But Fairbanks is home.

[shanti]

17. seattle

i HATE nonstop rain.

[HuckleB]

18. Phoenix. Don't believe the dry heat crap.

The summer is miserable. With the heat island effect the lows are often in the '90s. There simply is no relief for six months of the year.

Next up would be Houston, New Orleans and all of Florida.

[neverborn]

19. Peoria, IL

Here's why:
In the winter, we get snow, temperatures under 0, and wind chills lower than that. When it's not snowing, it's got some god-awful freezing rain crap falling while the temp hangs around 30. The roads suck. As usual.

In the summer, it's HOT. HOT and extremely humid. It's rediculous. We'll get heat indices of over 120F if it's really hot that summer. Last summer we had a mild one, no temps above 90. Year or two before that we had stretches of 95F with heat indices way over it.

Hot AND cold :/

[MichaelUK]

20. Aberdeen, Scotland

On the positive side, if you don't like the weather, wait 2 hours and it'll have changed.