Hills, valley cold and snow on Waterbury rooftops
Waterbury sits in a bowl of hills along the Naugatuck, so the valley neighborhoods hold cold air and fog while the hillsides take wind and heavier snow. Inland winters are hard: snow sits on flat roofs and builds ice at the eaves of houses whose attics were never insulated, and freeze and thaw works at every old chimney and membrane seam. Street trees shade the hillside neighborhoods and fill gutters, while the dense flat-roofed blocks have little shade and bake in summer, aging their membranes.
