Uh yeah, about the climate

Methinks from the comments on my last post that it's time to clear up a few misconceptions.

According to this page, the climate of Harrisonburg gives temperatures something like this:

January average high: 40 degrees F
January daily low: 20 degrees F

It also gives average precipitation around 3 inches per month which would give about 36 inches per year.


My city, here in "frozen Canada", from this site.

January average high: 44.6 degrees F
January average low: 37.4 degrees F

We get an average of 3.7 inches of rain in the month of January and it drops to a half inch in July--averaging out probably to around the same as your rainfall, although by the university it's under 30 inches and out towards Sooke--which is an hour out of town to the west, it is more like 50 or 60 inches.

I can guarantee you get more snow than us, although I haven't looked it up. Snow is rare here. We just don't get as hot in the summer--July 2004 we hit 96 but that's very rare.

How can you stand it?

;-)