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Originally Posted by Icelander
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Summer seems to be a time to avoid the US altogether.
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Meh. It depends on where you visit. Colorado has summers that approach perfection, if for no other reason than that you can pick your own altitude for a suitable temperature range, and "high relative humidity," here, is 40 percent.
Seriously, the altitude and latitude and proximity of water (or not) makes a huge difference and we wind up with a much wider range of climates than you'll find in most places, in Europe.
You'd probably find the Pacific Northwest cool, cloudy and mild enough to suit you, and the shores of the Great Lakes are awfully nice, in the summer. The Upper Midwest, near the lakes, would have any number of Scandinavian surnames you'd immediately recognize, and those families moved there for a reason.
The mosquitoes up there approach stirge-class hazard categories, though, so take lots of Deet.
If you ever get a chance to visit Colorado in the summer, take it. Most people find it delightful. Warm days, but not too hot, low humidity, and cool nights.
The winters on the Front Range are also much milder than most of the East Coast. Storms seldom last more than a day or two and, while the snow piles high in the mountains, it melts quickly, down here.
As for winters in the South, they're about as miserable as the summers, for most people. It's cold
and humid, which chills to the bone. The snow is heavy and wet, which makes it hard to get dry and stay dry. It's awful.
In the spring, it rains (and rains and rains...). The autumn, however, is beautiful.