Breaking News: Buffalo Has the Best Weather in the Country

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There's no doubt about it.

Have you ever been trapped in a wild fire? Or thought that the spread of the fire would engulf your home?

Think San Diego and Malibu.

Mud slides?

Again, California...where they also have earthquakes on a routine basis.

We don't have fires, or mud slides or earthquakes here in the weather capital of the world:

Buffalo, New York.

Are you ready for the hurricanes?

I'm talking to you, Florida, and Georgia and Carolina and Texas and Louisiana.

The only way we get water in our basements is if we overflow our portable pools while we enjoy our beautiful summers.

Yeah, beautiful summers... are you listening Maryland and Georgia and all the rest of the places where you burned your asses off this week.

We were mostly in the 80's and low 90's.

That's February in Arizona.

No threats of tsunami, no hurricanes, no rainy season, no mud slides, no tornadoes.

Do you hear that Nebraska and Kansas and all those other places where all you do for fun is chase cyclone cones.

And it's funny but as I travel I usually get a crinkled nose when I say I'm from Buffalo.

"Aren't you cold?" people ask.

"It didn't snow at all last year," I say.

But some things never die. Buffalo has a reputation. We are the armpit of the weather world, according to everyone else, but here in the hub of all things great, we know the real truth.

We're the best.

So what?

We lost four Super Bowls in a row.

Big deal!

We are the second worst in poverty stats.

It's 80 and sunny!

We have more days of sunshine per year than Miami, Florida.

Come on, everyone else, come on up to Buffalo for vacation!

We can go bowling and eat wings.

Comments

Larry L said…
Yes you do have the best weather all summer long. Unfortunately it only lasts one week.
10 July, 2012
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