I was referring to Pittsburgh's coin-flip weather. Edited OP for clarity.
Yes, it really is that bad.
Pittsburgher who moved to Seattle here - would agree. As bad as Seattle weather is, Pittsburgh hits both extremes (ice and heat) and isn't predictable.
Re:How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
by dalanmiller on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:06AM
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As a Seattite who lived in PGH for a year, I agree with you. I found the winter to be quite difficult.
I'm a PhD student at CMU right now. We just went from 75-degree "wow, we skipped spring" weather a few weekends ago to snow last weekend. Who knows what next week will bring.
Keeps things interesting as long as you remain indoors!
There's plenty to complain about regarding Pittsburgh's gray, gray weather, but this up-and-down spring is wildly atypical for the area and not localized to southwestern PA. The same thing is happening in Ohio, across the rest of Pennsylvania, through New Jersey, and into the NYC area - and I'm sure in neighboring states as well.
This has just been a bizarre year. In New England, I swear someone mixed up the March and April buttons. March is usually crazy (but was pretty nice this year) and we're getting snow and gold grey days in April.
Really? I like a lot about the California climate (and terrain) but this seems a level of geographical determinism that wasn't true until pretty recently. And arguably, even today, is influenced mostly by a fairly specific class of mobile/social/web companies.
For example, there's a huge amount of pharma/genomics and other forms of tech in the Boston area (and most of the big SV companies are adding or have added offices there as well). And Boston isn't exactly known for its weather--not that I actually mind it all that much most of the time.
By that logic, the desert southwest should be booming in tech. The weather is admittedly not to everyone's taste but a lot of people like it.