Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
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Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
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#2Even though it’s possible to deduce, I think it would still be helpful to indicate temperature units (C/F).
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#3I like data like this - it reminds me of the pleasant places maps[1].
That said - you have to be wary of both types of maps because it doesn't take into account other potentially annoying factors. The biggest being humidity - there's a huge difference between 90 degree phoenix and 90 degree miami. Then there's rainfall, and one a lot of people don't think about - wind.
To add - if you're thinking about seriously comparing two climates, check out this comparison tool [2]. Has any metric you can dream of charted together.
Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#4Even though it’s possible to deduce, I think it would still be helpful to indicate temperature units (C/F).
"Show me this was written by an American, without telling me it was written by an American"
It's still pretty neat though. :)
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#5tl;dr This is a USA map to visualize average or min-max temperatures for areas roughly the diameter of Chicago. It colors the tiles based on the proportion of the selected interval (annual or a specific month). The data is from a US agency [0]. This way, you can see that Los Angeles, CA is 40-80° F 75% of the year and Salt Lake City, UT is in that range only 10%.
[0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-cli...
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#6Even though it’s possible to deduce, I think it would still be helpful to indicate temperature units (C/F).
I hit the "back" button when I saw it's only in F units, and I didn't feel like doing conversions.
Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#7Even though it’s possible to deduce, I think it would still be helpful to indicate temperature units (C/F).
"Show me this was written by an American, without telling me it was written by an American" It's still pretty neat though. :)
The fact that it only shows America is, perhaps, the most obvious tell ;)
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Show me this was written by an American, without telling me it was written by an American" It's still pretty neat though. :)
The fact that it only shows America is, perhaps, the most obvious tell ;)
Except for the isolated hex in Ontario, Canada. Note that this was probably built from the USCRN network [0] which has a research station in Egbert [1].
[0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/crn/ [1] https://www.atdd.noaa.gov/u-s-crn-groups-map/
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#10200-366 days at the top end is an enormous range (substantially larger than all the others, for some reason) - nearly half the year. I hate hot weather, and this didn't really help me filter out places that have horrible summers, because the summer is, yes, less than 166 days long. I assume people who dislike cold weather would feel similarly. So this is...kind of useless?