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greentea1985 t1_j6ea694 wrote

Lake Erie + Appalachian mountains. The jet stream picks up a lot of moisture over the Great Lakes and dumps some of it when it rises over the Appalachian mountains. Pittsburgh is in the western foothills of the Appalachian mountains so we are on the windward side of the mountains. That’s why we have so many cloudy and wet days.

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Bonfire412 t1_j6hwbaq wrote

And so few days of huge lake effect snow. Those same mountains also repel hurricanes. I heart the mountains.

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Novel_Engineering_29 t1_j6jnp8u wrote

And the Cumberland Valley/Central PA area is in the rain shadow of the Appalachians and it can get really really dry there in the summers.

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