That is, I simply disagreed with nodaisho's supposition that below-zero coastal cities can be humid (neither of us was sure, we were just thinking out loud.)
I was assuming that you still get moisture blown off of the sea, since it doesn't freeze due to there being so much of it keeping the rest warm. I haven't been to any coast much, though, and not at all during the winter, so I could be wrong.
It probably has more to do with humidity where you are. Cold and wet is a lot worse than the same temperature in dry weather. I personally quite like cool wet days, but humid and below freezing would be awful, and I don't expect that winter dries out the air too much when you live in a coastal city.
Welcome to Atlanta where the playas play.
I don't think it's possible to be humid and below freezing.
Hiya.
From my experience, Atlanta in the last weeks of December and first weeks of January is what I was thinking of when I said cool and wet. I played basketball on new years day until the sun went down there last year, I just needed a light jacket. I sat out on the screen porch for quite a bit of my time there, enjoying the weather. Sure, it seems miserably cold when that is what you are used to, but when you are used to temperatures that have highs in the teens, temperatures that are above freezing for most of the day seem wonderful. My mother is an Atlanta native, and she had to admit that after 20 or so years of CO winters, Atlanta wasn't nearly as bad as she remembered. Liz would probably go around in Atlanta in the winter in a t-shirt and shorts, and wonder why everyone was acting so strange.
I'm going to move to California and be Bryan's neighbor.
Frozen hellhole to burning hellhole. Interesting decision.