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And this is why SF is so popular. It is a shame Florida never developed a huge tech hub, but Miami has plenty of other stuff going for it. (besides hurricanes) People don't get it, SF will be always popular because the climate is just that good. Seattle is a close #2 IMHO, but you have to be able to put up with 8 months of grey, which is a huge "but".
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When I travel outside the US and have to discuss temperatures with people, or I'm talking to foreigners in the US, I convert to C in my head and use that. It probably isn't that hard for you to just convert in your head.
There's never a need to use anything else than Celsius, in Europe. Ok, we do learn Kelvin in school but you wouldn't really use it in a normal conversation.
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I hit the "back" button when I saw it's only in F units, and I didn't feel like doing conversions.
When I travel outside the US and have to discuss temperatures with people, or I'm talking to foreigners in the US, I convert to C in my head and use that. It probably isn't that hard for you to just convert in your head.
200-366 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?
I 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 comp…
btw, thanks for reminding me of the pleasant places map -- I think it must have been an unconscious influence on this.
I must say, it's frustrating clicking this link and landing on a page narrowed to the USA, and, to top it off, in Fahrenheit… Maybe a title change would be welcome.
I 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 comp…
Hmm, I can probably incorporate humidity data without too much trouble. Is there a standard way to calculate a "feels like" temperature using humidity? btw, thanks for reminding me of the pleasant places map -- I think it must have been an unconscious influence on this.
Given an air temperature (T) in °F and a relative humidity (rh).
Indexheat = − 42.379 + (2.04901523 × T) + (10.14333127 × rh) − (0.22475541 × T × rh) − (6.83783×10−3×T^2) − (5.481717 × 10−2 × rh^2) + (1.22874 × 10−3 × T^2 × rh) + (8.5282×10−4 × T × rh^2) − (1.99×10−6 × T^2 × rh^2)