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Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by nemo1618 »

silisili wrote: post #40
nemo1618 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hey thanks, nice work btw. As others pointed out, heat index is a decent indicator I think. Not to 'steal' ideas from the other site, but having that little year avg chart pop up on click is a really killer feature for showing which months are best. For example, I'd much rather live somewhere with 4 solid "uncomfortable" months and 8 solid comfortable, than somewhere with 2 on, 1 off.

Yep. Personally I'm interested in finding two locations: one with great weather throughout the summer, and one with great weather throughout the winter.

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by silisili »

nemo1618 wrote: post #41
silisili wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey thanks, nice work btw. As others pointed out, heat index is a decent indicator I think. Not to 'steal' ideas from the other site, but having that little year avg chart pop up on click is a really killer feature for showing which months are best. For example, I'd much rather live somewhere with 4 solid "uncomfortable" months and 8 solid comfortable, than somewhere with 2 on, 1 off.

Yep. Personally I'm interested in finding two locations: one with great weather throughout the summer, and one with great weather throughout the winter.

If I had the money... Spokane throughout the summer, central Florida during the winter.

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by mmckelvy »

I've found Weather Spark to be a useful tool for researching ideal climates: https://weatherspark.com/. It has detailed temperature breakouts by time of day and year, wind speed, humidity, rainfall, etc.

One thing I've started to pay a lot more attention to is rainfall. The temperature in Southern California (where I currently live) is certainly pleasant, but that comes with the tradeoff of very limited rainfall, which seems to be having an increasingly negative impact as the years wear on.

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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silisili wrote: post #42
nemo1618 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Personally I'm interested in finding two locations: one with great weather throughout the summer, and one with great weather throughout the winter.

If I had the money... Spokane throughout the summer, central Florida during the winter.

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Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by nemo1618 »

Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling with leaflet.js for a while and googling for climate data, I felt a bit lost. So I decided to try something new: I hired a contractor on Upwork who had experience with map visualizations. They built an MVP within a few weeks, and from there I was able to tweak and optimize the code to my liking. I think this is a great strategy for side projects that you're too busy for. :)

It's still mostly a toy at this point, but I'd like to add more knobs and data so that I can narrow down the best place to live (and hopefully help other people do the same). If you want to contribute, the code is open source: https://github.com/lukechampine/goldilocks

The site weighs about 1.6 MB (gzipped -- the full climate data is ~35 MB uncompressed!) and is hosted on a Linode, which seems to be holding up pretty well.

Also, a big thank you to those in the comments who shared links to similar projects! The "pleasant places" map is super close to what I want. Ideally this project would look something like that, but with the ability to select your own preferences for what constitutes a "perfect" day.

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by kfarr »

encoderer wrote: post #36
com2kid wrote: post #15

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".

I live in Berkeley now and would love to sell my house and move some place cheaper, but the weather here is just incredible. The only thing I would like is warmer nights but I can’t seem to find that without 90 degree days.

Live in SF and also wish we had warmer nights, but I figure in about 10 years with global warming it'll be about right...

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by com2kid »

nonameiguess wrote: post #32
com2kid wrote: post #15

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".

SF is windy and overcast. Almost all of California except the mountain peaks and deserts has better climate.

I'm in Seattle, we are the US definition of overcast. 62% of our days have heavy could cover.

SF doesn't even make the top 10 list of America's cloudiest cities. :)

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by ghostpepper »

krono wrote: post #21
shock wrote: post #14

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What's his loss, exactly?

Not having experienced the joy of dreaming about a new life in another place. What an odd question! Edit: My ideal temperature range left me with just Vancouver, Canada.

Vancouverite here - the temperature is quite moderate but you need to be okay with a lot of grey drizzly days. Summers are wonderful though.
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