To spare you a trip to that otherwise suspect website, here's the list of what they think are the cities where there are fewer weather risks.
Rochester, NY Caribou, ME Asheville, NC Lexington, KY Sault Ste. Marie, MI International Falls, MN San Diego, CA Honolulu, HI
I'd be interested in opinions of fellow FReepers, without a doubt the most intelligent collection of people on the 'net, far wiser than the liberal propagandists at the NBC-owed weather site. I've always heard that Salt Lake City is a relatively drama-free city when it comes to weather. I'm near Dallas where the weather is, ahem, eventful but it certainly does help build character! :-)
I would have thought Seattle would be on there. Yes, it is a little rainy, but so what? Mild winters and mild summers.
I would think anywhere in Maine would have interesting weather. Minnesota, too. But, I have never been to the 2 cities mentioned.
An average 115 inches of snow per year in Rochester NY doesn’t count as hazard?
San Diego, CA and Honolulu, HI... Tidal waves...
I have lived in San Diego and Hawaii
I would consider Lexington Ky,
I miss the mild yet changing seasons.
Best place I ever lived climate wise?
Herford Az.
Fla sucks
I once spent the night in a motel outside Salt Lake City and awoke to find a lake effect snow was dumping feet of snow. I managed to escape back to Idaho.
Although I don’t live there, I would think Boise would be a fairly boring weather city.
They did not mention Pittsburgh. If you stay away from flash flood areas you will be safe. Tornadoes are minuscule. Earthquakes are minor if at all. Blizzards can be a problem, but after a couple days cleared. I am surprised Pittsburgh did not make the list.
Doesn’t it rain alot in Hawaii?
Caribou ME?
Colder than a Bankers heart. Lots of nothing, but if you like hunting, skiing and hockey, you’re good. Oh. And...good potatoes.
I spent two years in Santa Barbara, Ca. The weather was amazing pretty much all the time.
New Jersey! A veritable weather Eden.
I have always thought the entire NYC metro area is very weather safe. Yes, you get some blizzards, but esp. in the city they don’t amount to too much. The one Christmas before last was quite bad and handled badly and I think some people even did die, but that is a rare thing.
The weather is miserable a lot of the time (like Summer!) but not dangerous.
Here in El Paso, while it can get hot in the summer, that’s about all that happens here. No tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or pestilence!
I’ve experienced some really awful storms in San Diego since 1960. Heavy rain that washes mobile homes 30 miles to the ocean. Huge fires that wipe out tens of thousands of acres. High winds that topple trees with ease after days of rain. Mudslides. It’s a real paradise.
Isn’t International Falls, MN one of the coldest places in the lower 48? I would say San Diego has about the best weather in the Lower 48.
How could anything be safer than Manhattan Beach, CA?
Considering that 30,000 people in the U.S. are killed by auto accidents every year (not to mention those that are seriously maimed and injured), that statistic really surprises me. I would have thought that many more people died in weather-related incidents, given the enormous media coverage every time a hurricane or blizzard heads up the coast.
It would seem that rather than find a place with tranquil weather, you are better off finding a place with no automobiles!
Lexington is a great town. Central KY tends to be far enough south to avoid the worst of bad Midwestern Winter weather, and because they’re south of the Ohio river, the rolling hills help keep down tornado activity that is worse to the north.
The overlooked Albuquerque, New Mexico as well as Santa Fe: no tornados, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no flies, mosquitoes.
Phoenix should be on the list. Hot in the summer, but no tornadoes, hurricanes, freezing, ice storms, or earthquakes.