![]() While not at the top of the list of danger zones for hurricanes, New Orleans is high on that list, and even tropical depressions can cause dangerous flooding. As we noted in 2002 when New Orleans made our Top Ten Worst list: Spend a summer here and you will very quickly learn why it’s not easy to live in the Big Easy without air conditioning! Tropical storms are a definite concern to residents and visitors to New Orleans. Temperatures rarely reach much higher than 90☏, but because of high humidity, it can get exceedingly uncomfortable. In other words, hot days tend to begin very warm and sultry and end that way. New Orleans has a subtropical temperate climate and generally sees little variation on any given day. Finally, it ranks tenth on the list of the ten wettest cities, averaging 59.55 inches but nearly 44 of those inches typically fall between May and October, chiefly in thunderstorms. Among the top ten cities most prone to the effects of a tropical storm or hurricane, Miami ranks ninth. Taking into account temperature and humidity, it ranks sixth among the 10 most uncomfortable cities. It ranks second (behind Key West) as the nation’s hottest average/mean temperature, 75.6☏ annually. Miami’s climate is subtropical marine, so think hot, humid, and showery. There’s probably no better place to spend a winter vacation than “The Magic City.” But between May and October, the overall climate is anything but pleasant, and the thing that becomes abundant is precipitation. Let’s make one thing clear: During the winter months, Miami ranks high in terms of great weather, with abundant sunshine and warm, pleasant temperatures. ![]() Here are our listings for 5 cities with the worst summer weather in the United States. Interestingly, from our original “10 Worst” list of 2002, two cities, Syracuse and New Orleans, made it onto our Worst Winter Weather lists. We set a limit of a population of at least 50,000 people. The following list took a number of meteorological factors into consideration, as well as the population size of the cities. To compile this list, we looked at: temperatures, sky conditions, precipitation, humidity, and wind. So instead of picking perfect weather, we’re picking far-from-perfect or “worst” weather. The consensus seemed to be for clear blue skies, low humidity, temperatures around 75☏, and a light wind. To help us answer the question of perfect weather, we polled our Facebook fans. The funny thing about weather is that some people enjoy what most of us consider the worst weather-snowstorms, thunderstorms, hurricanes-we’ve even had people ask us where to move to for the best place to see tornadoes, believe it or not. ![]() One person’s ideal weather is another’s worst day. The idea of perfect weather is as crazy as the idea of a perfect world or a perfect anything.
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