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Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Post by WildUtah »

cesarbs wrote: post #61
pacofvf wrote: post #31

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You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate

Wow, I had no idea about that. TIL. I always thought all of Mexico was very hot year round.

They say that Cortés returned to the Spanish Court to report to the King on his conquest of México. King Carlos V asked him to describe the lay of this new land adjoined to his kingdom. Cortés asked for a piece of paper (still an expensive luxury at the time) and, instead of drawing on it, he shocked the court by crumpling it into a wrinkly chaos. That is the topography of México.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Post by WildUtah »

pacofvf wrote: post #31
mmastrac wrote: post #8

21ºC for us non-Americans. That would be a pleasant year's worth of weather for me, given that the winter temperature in my Canadian city can reach -35ºC in the deepest part of winter.

You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate

It gets pretty hot in the springtime, though. The low summer temperatures are because the monsoon pours up from the ocean and peters out over El Águila's 4000 m peak (14000 ft) into light rain showers every day in the early afternoon in the Valley of Mexico.

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donretag wrote: post #107
stephencanon wrote: post #94

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Cycling is fun. Skiing is orders of magnitude more fun.

You are just doing it wrong. :) Since you ski, you probably mountain bike. Mostly downhill. Boring. I am a climber (road bikes of course). The longer the climb, the better. California has great climbs.

Showshoeing is the road bike climb of the winter months. You just have to get them to stop plowing the roads.

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Post by mannykannot »

newmanships wrote: post #62
poink wrote: post #22

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You can go to the beach whenever you want, but even in July the water is friggin freezing.

Water got up to 75F at a lot of beaches in Orange County, CA last summer, not exactly the 80 of Belize, but pretty enjoyable.

We visited in September, and the warm clear water was a very pleasant bonus.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Post by huherto »

pacofvf wrote: post #31
mmastrac wrote: post #8

21ºC for us non-Americans. That would be a pleasant year's worth of weather for me, given that the winter temperature in my Canadian city can reach -35ºC in the deepest part of winter.

You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate

True, the climate in Mexico City is ideal. If it wasn't for the traffic. ... and the dramas in erremexico ;)

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Post by bkeroack »

azernik wrote: post #88
knz wrote: post #66

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A true northern winter redefines your sense of cold if you are from a more mild climate. The ambient temperatures sting any exposed skin and freeze any moisture (like the inside of your nose or condensation as your exhale) almost instantly. Add in a strong wind and you can feel the heat being sucked from your body even if you have a good winter coat on. Visually, everything changes. Snow piles up so high you can't se…

As an Angeleno, that last sentence does not follow from the rest of that horrific description.

He left out SAD and a general sense of having to live a full year's worth of life condensed into the three months where it's tolerable being out of your house.

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Post by krallja »

bobwaycott wrote: post #91
thebent wrote: post #37

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Thanks for the conversion. Whoah, that's cold.

70/21 is cold?! Damn. That's pretty much the top end of my comfort zone. I'd trade this humid, oppressive southeastern US summer every day of the week for that.

     the winter temperature in my Canadian city
     can reach -35ºC in the deepest part of winter.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Post by quickquicker »

knz wrote: post #66
thebent wrote: post #37

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Thanks for the conversion. Whoah, that's cold.

A true northern winter redefines your sense of cold if you are from a more mild climate. The ambient temperatures sting any exposed skin and freeze any moisture (like the inside of your nose or condensation as your exhale) almost instantly. Add in a strong wind and you can feel the heat being sucked from your body even if you have a good winter coat on. Visually, everything changes. Snow piles up so high you can't se…

Do not let these other less hardy commenters make you think you are alone in appreciating winter – there's literally dozens of us!
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