I must be using the tool wrong because literally everywhere in the US is my Goldilocks zone which I'm certain is not the case. I set it to give me places where the minimum winter temperature is -5°C (23F) and max summer temperature is 35°C (95F) and every part of the map is coloured purple.
Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
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#52And this my friends is why I live in San Diego! I really do think tech will take off in this area soon. Its (relatively for CA) on the cheaper side for housing and great for remote work.
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#53I must be using the tool wrong because literally everywhere in the US is my Goldilocks zone which I'm certain is not the case. I set it to give me places where the minimum winter temperature is -5°C (23F) and max summer temperature is 35°C (95F) and every part of the map is coloured purple.
You are very tolerant, haha. I can't stand anything over 80F or so.
btw, you can also view individual months if you only care about a particular season.
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#54Hi 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, an…
Great job! Very responsive.
I thought about making something like this too, years ago. I wanted to converge data from tornados, fault lines, flooding, and hurricaine probabilities. But then I got sucked into EVERY parameter I might want to consider, like air traffic (vortac lines), distance to power grid, UPS coverage, internet coverage, cellular coverage... and eventually the amount of data crushed my brain and the project never even made it to a NextJS boilerplate. :) So if you want to add more data... hint hint hint. :)
How did you "bend" those hexagons? What's going on there as I go from coast to coast? Is that to map them to a sphere?
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#55I must be using the tool wrong because literally everywhere in the US is my Goldilocks zone which I'm certain is not the case. I set it to give me places where the minimum winter temperature is -5°C (23F) and max summer temperature is 35°C (95F) and every part of the map is coloured purple.
You are very tolerant, haha. I can't stand anything over 80F or so. btw, you can also view individual months if you only care about a particular season.
I think I just don't understand what to input to give the answer I want. I entered the typical minimum and maximum temperatures that I experience where I live now which is London, UK. Given that, I wouldn't expect the tool to tell me that the entire US has the same climate as London. I think it's because I'm used to a place where the extremes only last for a few days in each year and the rest of the time the temperature is pretty mild. Tolerating a 35°C day in the summer is not that hard when it only happens once every 5 years and you can go and drink cold drinks in the park.
I think it would be interesting to see the same map of the US but showing areas that never reach above or below the limits that you set.
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#56A site like this should use the heat index or the wet bulb temperature.
The reason is that 35 °C (95 °F) is fatal to humans within hours at 100% relative humidity, but relatively comfortable at 10% humidity for people who are drinking enough water and have sun protection.
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#57Hi 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, an…
Great job! Very responsive. I thought about making something like this too, years ago. I wanted to converge data from tornados, fault lines, flooding, and hurricaine probabilities. But then I got sucked into EVERY parameter I might want to consider, like air traffic (vortac lines), distance to power grid, UPS coverage, internet coverage, cellular coverage... and eventually the amount of data crushed my brain and the…
I honestly have no idea how the heck grid works haha. Maybe someone else can chime in.
The MVP site took >1 second to rerender when you dragged the slider. I got it down to a few dozen ms, which makes it a lot more fun to use. Pretty proud of that :)
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#58200-366 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?
Good call! I hate hot weather too. I'll try breaking up the range a bit more. btw, you can also view on a month-by-month basis.
I totally missed the month-by-month drop down. That helps, a lot, thanks.
Sorry for the overly critical tone of my comment, BTW. Sometimes the internet makes it hard for me to remember that real people work on stuff and are reading what you're saying about it.
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#59I 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…
Yeah this paints most of the Southwest as having a worse climate than where I live, which... yeah, for anyone who hates humidity (which is most people, I think?), that's not remotely true. I'd take 95F and bone dry over 82F and soaking-wet air, any day. Happily.
Same with cold I would take dry non windy -10F over humid windy 30F any day.
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#60And 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.
It's very neighborhood dependent, if you want to live somewhere sunny you definitely can.