Why is Pennsylvania so humid?!

[Anonymous]

Isn't everywhere east of the Mississippi river humid?
And east of the Mississippi until you reach the high plains.

[Anonymous]

Pa is a miserable existence in so many ways and the humidity is just one of them. The best part of PA is leaving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. We've had one too many of these moronic generalization threads recently.

Can you not falsely extrapolate one day's weather to the entire annual climate of an entire state?

Is this truly beyond your intellectual capacity, OP? Can your critical thinking skills not stretch that far?

Perhaps YOU should learn how to read before insulting other people when YOU'RE completely WRONG.

IDIOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pa is a miserable existence in so many ways and the humidity is just one of them. The best part of PA is leaving.

I don't need much urban time in my life but there are things I like about Philly. I haven't been to PGH in about 30 years but it sounds okay.

The rest of the state is...I don't need it for anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you in the low lying areas near the Susquehanna River?

Well kind of yes. It's the river that makes in humid?

Yes. Anywhere with rivers and lakes will tend to be more humid. Whole northeast and Midwest are humid. Also - corn (and other farming areas). Rapidly growing plants put a lot of water into the air.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the mid-Atlantic states?

Seeing how this was originally posted on 10/3, I just wanted to point out it has been INSANELY humid in the DC region the last 2-3 weeks. Today 10/9 has been a blessing for all of us begging for fall to show just a glimmer!

Central PA starts maybe 50 -60 miles due north of the beltway. I'm not sure why someone would think that would have some big (or any) impact on weather.

Statistically Richmond will trend a bit warmer than DC, DC trends warmer than Baltimore, Baltimore than Philly and central PA, etc. But not surprising that on any particular day any of these areas could be hotter and/or more humid than all the other areas......

Hope this helps you adjust your future weather expectations!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the mid-Atlantic states?

Seeing how this was originally posted on 10/3, I just wanted to point out it has been INSANELY humid in the DC region the last 2-3 weeks. Today 10/9 has been a blessing for all of us begging for fall to show just a glimmer!

Central PA starts maybe 50 -60 miles due north of the beltway. I'm not sure why someone would think that would have some big (or any) impact on weather.

Statistically Richmond will trend a bit warmer than DC, DC trends warmer than Baltimore, Baltimore than Philly and central PA, etc. But not surprising that on any particular day any of these areas could be hotter and/or more humid than all the other areas......

Hope this helps you adjust your future weather expectations!!

Is part of it because the Atlantic is so shallow and draws warm water up along the coast from the tropics? That evaporates and winds draw it inland but trap it at Appalacians?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sigh. We've had one too many of these moronic generalization threads recently.

Can you not falsely extrapolate one day's weather to the entire annual climate of an entire state?

Is this truly beyond your intellectual capacity, OP? Can your critical thinking skills not stretch that far?

Perhaps YOU should learn how to read before insulting other people when YOU'RE completely WRONG.

IDIOT.

Wow.

Anyway, the PP is correct that it doesn't make sense to conclude "PA is more humid than DC" based on a limited experience in one part of the state. Even if it's more than a day. As the initial posters immediately pointed out, PA is a huge state (while DC is not). OP is in one tiny part of it for a short period of time.

Also it actually sounds like the weather in the two areas are comparable, not that PA is way more humid. OP likely just thought "North=cooler and drier" and was surprised to learn PA is still the Mid-Atlantic and has similar weather, especially if you are just due north of DC by an hour or two (the weather in, for instance, NW PA is noticeably different than DC throughout the year including being cooler and less humid in the summer but also being much colder and getting WAY more snow in the winter).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the mid-Atlantic states?

Seeing how this was originally posted on 10/3, I just wanted to point out it has been INSANELY humid in the DC region the last 2-3 weeks. Today 10/9 has been a blessing for all of us begging for fall to show just a glimmer!

Central PA starts maybe 50 -60 miles due north of the beltway. I'm not sure why someone would think that would have some big (or any) impact on weather.

Statistically Richmond will trend a bit warmer than DC, DC trends warmer than Baltimore, Baltimore than Philly and central PA, etc. But not surprising that on any particular day any of these areas could be hotter and/or more humid than all the other areas......

Hope this helps you adjust your future weather expectations!!

Is part of it because the Atlantic is so shallow and draws warm water up along the coast from the tropics? That evaporates and winds draw it inland but trap it at Appalacians?

Most of the country, ie from the Great Plains east, are humid either because of all the warm air coming in from the gulf or warm air from the atlantic. Cental PA is contiguous with the DC area and this whole area quite humid due to warm air from the atlantic. The depth of the ocean is irrelevant. It's the atmospheric conditions out in the atlantic, the Bermuda high. I'm sure the portions with the highest elevations have impact, but if you go camping or hiking in the summer in this area of the Appalachians it's still quite humid and imo, miserable.