I know people from New Hartford, NY.
I lived in Lansing, NY for three years before we moved to Orchard Park, NY.
I lived in Syracuse during college at SUNY ESF/SU for two years.
The weather all around those Great Lakes is gray and overcast all the time. A buddy’s wife is from Green Bay. He calls it Green Blaw because every time he visits it is grey and cloudy.
The worst weather is really around Syracuse up to Watertown. Oswego, NY was the absolute worst of any place.
When we saw the sun at all, it was a partly cloudy day. We never once saw a cloudless sky. And it was rate to see any sun all day long. You might get a few hours of partly cloudy skies, but then the clouds moved in again.I lived in the area 15 years.