Rate Rochester’s most oceanic year

B+; terribly wet, stable mid-late summer, with the usual poor-quality "storms". Very good winters, however.

Still too cold in winter with too much snow and summers are kind of weak. Low end of C-. It's still better than regular Rochester though, which is a D or D+.

C+ not cold enough but summers look quite pleasant.

C- the cool summer killed it for me but the summer rainfall looks awesome , must have been a record t-storm year

I can defintely stand a winter that cold and colder. It’s not the unpleasantness of cold that gets me it’s the loss of many fun activities . That and I’m as everyone knows a big plant guy and plants don’t like cold . It’s also why my “dream climate “ has winter averages from as low as 40 to about 65 so yeah that’s why I don’t have one dream climate .

sunshine though that’s a killer in winter . Rochester gets no sun which would kill me.

"T-storm"...funny joke! The NE US seldom, if ever gets proper supercell activity i.e. real t-storms—even Steeler himself confirms this. Mostly downpours and ugly marine-layer "storms".

Yahya Sinwar  An 80° F dew alone isn't going to aid Rochester with supercell activity, due to its poleward and somewhat coastal location; this one's from Temora, a very low-dew region in summer, yet this is what the common thunderstorm looks like—notice the absolute lack of marine-layer:



Does the NE US i.e. Rochester get storms like this? Rochester simply lacks the geography.

Speagles84  Pittsburgh closely borders the Midwest, thereby not even remotely comparable to Rochester.

Rochester gets about 35 t-storms a year on average.

However, most of these are weak t-storms with only a few rumbles of thunder that don’t last very long. Heavy downpours are more common.

There are usually 5-10 a year with sustained, loud thunder for close to an hour or more and heavy rain. There’s usually hail 2-3 times a year.

So to summarize, most storms are weak but we are usually guaranteed at least a few string, “proper” ones a year.