Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It’s the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don’t know to drive.
Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst
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Vespair@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Nah drivers in my state don’t know how to drive either
Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
SoCal here. Nope, weather is consistently great. Also, Arizona’s drivers are much worse.
bulwark@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I was going to say everywhere but San Diego. I would describe the weather there as room temperature.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
NorCal here. Weather here isn’t great but it’s very predictable.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Speak for yourself. Love and miss that cooler, predictable weather. Sick of this shit where I send my kids to school in 30 degree weather and pick them up in 70-80 degree weather. ALSO…IT. FUCKEN. WIMDY. And to top it off stank ass Bradford pears spaffing into the breeze through spring and summer. Oh and lots of tornados every year. Oklahoma weather is bullshit.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
A buddy of mine helped his sister move from AZ to Socal, he comes from a family of city-planner types, so he’s constantly going on about roadway designs. He told me that while my area has better constructed roads, and our drivers are terrible, that Socal had worse roads, but great drivers (road discipline wise, at least). Probably sample bias but neat trivia.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The main thing I noticed about Socal drivers is frequent horn use.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Missouri here. Most of this area is valid in making the weather statement. Because we’re right where weather fronts live to meet up at to fight we will literally get times when the high is 35f one day and then 70f the next. I think last year we had a day that went from 78f to 19f over the course of like half a day.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Washington has the worst drivers on the west coast.
Oregon has the best.
CA and AZ are both pretty average.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Arizona is not on the West Coast
idunnololz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
“SoCal weather is so bipolar like one moment it could be hot and sunny and 10 minute drive later it could be cold and cloudy” /s
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Just looked it up and apparently my state actually has a remarkably low rate of traffic deaths, so apparently we’re actually pretty good drivers
makyo@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
EonNShadow@pawb.social 4 hours ago
Yea Colorado is peak “four seasons in one day” territory sometimes
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Nobody in California ever said that shit.
Having rain 3 days a year isn’t bipolar weather
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Yeah but weather over there fluctuates a lot between on fire and not on fire
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
A couple years ago I was back in Florida visiting my parents and I forgot how weird shit was there sometimes. About 75+ degrees outside and out of nowhere sudden hail/downpour. Hail of all different sized, one piece was like half a soft ball. Went on for maybe 60 seconds. Was long enough for me to open the door, acknowledge I could no longer see shit, and then pick up that giant piece of ice and the storm cloud passed. A bit over 2-3" of rain I emptied out of the rain gauge.
Everywhere has weird weather moments, but that one will always stand out to me.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
“If you don’t like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes”
I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it’s a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it’s unique to where they live
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s not, though. People from LA will say the exact opposite.
That saying pops up anywhere where there’s a large range of weather. Which is most places, but not everywhere.
sydd@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
What do people in LA say then? “Well if you don’t like the weather… Get used to it?”
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 2 hours ago
I have heard this almost exclusively for Florida and not any of the surrounding states.
kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Nah, Florida’s gone from bright, clear, and sunny to “holy fuck, did we forget about a hurricane hitting land?” In the time it’s taken me to go to the bathroom.
Not use the bathroom. Just getting there.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I don’t think I’ve ever heard this in Ontario
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
Down by the lake you would.
Aneb@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
People say it abt New England, Great Lakes, the South, the Midwest. Literally everywhere I’ve lived, if you don’t like the weather… wait.
CidVicious@piefed.zip 5 hours ago
Living at altitude, this is actually true. Very low atmospheric buffering. Temperature swings of 40 degrees within a few hours.
realitista@lemmus.org 2 hours ago
Yeah in Colorado it can be 60 degrees and sunny and snowing in the same day
TaterTot@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Well, guess it’s nice to know I’m not giving away my location when I complain.
Aeao@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I worked for a dollar branded store they would monitor the companies Reddit for employees that were being saying something bad.
They’d look thru the account for pictures of the store layout or anything identifiable. Like the weather on certain days were specifically helpful yes.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Are you willing to name and shame? Which company was it?
TaterTot@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Sure, but I was talking about general complaints. Things like, “the drivers here are so bad”, “the winters are too cold and the summers are too hot”, “the government sure is poorly run”, “the yellow sports car parked out in front of the fast food place I work looks so stupid”, “I hate my boss and his stupid name, like seriously, who is named Methuselah Honeysuckle”, and “If they don’t give me a raise this time, I’m going to start a union, I’m serious, working a Chipotle sucks”.
You know, the kind of stuff that could never be traced back to me.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No Californian would say that. The weather is stable and nice 9 months of the year and cloudy and nice the sun the other 3.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Unless it’s a little bit too hot and too dry
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
No one in the southwest say this lol
spacesatan@leminal.space 28 minutes ago
I assume you mean about the drivers. In monsoon season it’s absolutely ‘the forecast cannot help you. It might rain here, it might rain 50 yards away’
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Per my experience, Oklahoma has the dumbest drivers, Texas and California are tied for the most aggressive drivers (but simultaneously skilled just enough to not cause mass genocide), and Virginia has the worst road layout.
There’s a lot of different flavors of shit.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I used to be a trucker. Drive everything east of the Mississippi.
Indiana has the dumbest drivers. Never have I been to a state with a lower average i.q. Idk, it might be an environmental thing, like in the water, or too many generations of cousin fucking. But something ain’t right there. They make poor choices and have a lack of self preservation.
New england the rudest, but they’re at least predictable. When they do something rude and reckless its always in pursuit of a goal. E.g. making the next exit, turn, lane ect.
The south has the most lackadaisical drivers. They just don’t give a fuck. They’re doing what they’re doing and that’s that.
The Midwest has the nicest most considerate drivers, and as a result traffic jams are far fewer, everything just flows smoother.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I can confirm that Texas drivers are the worst drivers in Kansas
merc@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
There’s a big difference between drivers who only drive in rural areas and drivers who drive in crowded rush hour traffic in big cities. And, different big cities have their own challenges. As a visitor, trying to navigate LA’s freeway hell was awful, and the drivers who were used to it were not at all accommodating. But, I think LA drivers would find driving in Boston and its Masshole drivers to be hell, because it’s all about squeezing down narrow streets that come from a time before automobiles.
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
California I believe has the statistically worst drivers. New York id say has the most insane but skillful enough to somehow not die drivers.
mikezane@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
moneygeek.com/…/states-with-the-worst-drivers/
New Mexico has the worse drivers, Texas is fifth. California seems to just be average.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Call me weird but I enjoy driving in Manhattan. People drive at a reasonable pace.
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I witnessed a right turn from the left lane in utah. Except the street was 4 lanes wide.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Went to Texas once. Made it to Paris, was there for a couple minutes, decided to leave after almost being involved in a fatal car crash right in front of me
Wammityblam@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
In central Indiana it was 70 with tornados and then 20 and snowing two day later.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I was gonna say the same. I’m middle east coast, and one day will be 85f and the next can be below freezing, and alternate each day for a week after, and that’s before precipitation/wind.
tyler@programming.dev 10 hours ago
In Colorado those changes can happen same day within a few hours. No need for multiple days. It will be 14f in the morning, snowing, then by lunch it’s all melted and 60-70 then by dinner it’s incredibly windy and raining.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
1st Feburary, 2026 it was nearly as cold in Miami Florida (35 F [1.7 C]) as it was in Chicago Illinois (30 F [-1.1 C])
Starski@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Nah, when I say this I’m referring to when my temperature goes from (in fahrenheit) -5, to almost 50, to 10 degrees in only 4 days. Got rain one day and snow the next.
rumba@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
The real issue is being temperate enough to freeze, but not cold enough regularly to have good road maintenance or drivers experienced with ice/snow.
skiguy0123@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Yeah well in [insert location] we have two seasons, winter and construction.
PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Construction isn’t a season where I’m at, it’s a constant. Our seasons are hot, wildfire, mudslide, and earthquake.
merc@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I’m guessing wherever you live doesn’t have lots of snow and frozen ground.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Florida is hot and construction
Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Here in New England we don’t talk about rain and shine, we talk about how yesterday was 60f and today it’s 17f with getting 3ft of snow.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
All the drivers in my state are the worst, and all the drivers from other states are the worst too.
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Its raining in Oregon. We’ll see the sun in July… Hopefully.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Sonic the Hedgehog
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It’s raining in Oregonmbp@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
We’ve had a rather fucky winter on the west side so far, admittedly.
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
We’ve streaky… The rains finally came, but they were gone for so long that I was worrying a bit about fire seasons. Still am honestly.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
PNW here, nope, it’s just a light rain, sometimes some sun, but that’s seasonal. Rarely there’s a storm.
The Midwest on the other hand, nah it typically gives you fair warning when it’s about to do something crazy
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Living in Seattle there weren’t like extreme weather swings but there are days where you get to see several types of weather softly cycle through. Sometimes in the winter I’d get snow and rain and sun and fog all in a single day, or days where I look in one direction and it’s rain and can’t see the sky and look the other direction and it’s blue skies and sun. Seattle has such stellar rainbows because of this
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It is a scientific fact that Tennessee has the worst drivers. Not my state, btw.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
In Houston, some days there isn’t a cloud in the sky, then it rains like 2 inches over 30 minutes and then it goes back to clear skies and the water evaporates making the air sticky. Goes from perfect to drenched to perfect to a totally different kind of drenched in an hour’s time. Also the drivers all lose their minds when the weather changes. So all the time… I guess.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It is like this in Missouri. Our weather is insane because we get hit by tornados, hurricanes, floods, snow, and ice storms. These can happen in the same month sometimes. My hometown got hit by two tornados in the same month last year.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
Everyone in the midatlantic agrees delaware drivers are the worst.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
That’s a crazy way to spell Maryland, famous for its awful driving.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
not a real state
13igTyme@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Few years ago I moved to Oregon. Because of the Willamette valley and mountains, it never gets to hot or cold though out the year. Like a perfect year round average.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
New Mexico - uhh, no? It’s just sunny…
karashta@piefed.social 11 hours ago
NJ legitimately has some of the worst, most aggressive drivers
CombatWombat@feddit.online 9 hours ago
This use of bipolar has very little to do with the experience of most bipolar people. Bipolar rapid cycling is defined as four episodes per year, much closer to the change of the seasons than the change of weather from day to day.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
The all time record high temp and all time record low temp for my area are set on the same day about ten years ago. I’d say the weather here is a little wild
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I think the most extreme and consistent bipolar weather I’ve seen was in Nevada where during the night it’d get down to 30°F (-1°C) and then almost as soon as the sun came up the frost would evaporate as daytime temperatures rose to 113°F (45°C)
In terms of chaos, I’d say Utah takes the cake. Not just because it can go from snowing to 90°F weather and back repeatedly in a week, but because during those chaotic weeks you can drive less than an hour in any direction and find completely different weather.
If violence in the chaos is desired, the southern Midwest probably wins. Tornadoes and golf ball sized hail will fuck up your day and then everything is unbearably sunny again. The east is a close second since it gets wrecked by hurricanes occasionally, but less frequently than tornadoes hit the midwest
I doubt Californians think their state is bipolar. Same with other temperate states.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
In my state, it was 70° last week; now it is 28°.