It's a common experience when we decide to get away on a weekend to start
seeing the sun as soon as we've traveled 30 miles or so, in any direction. My
wife and I always joke about it ("as soon as we leave Pittsburgh, the sun comes
out...")

Syracuse is like that, too. It is supposedly the rainiest/snowiest city of its
size (150,000) in the country. I'm sure Pittsburgh is better than Seattle.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)