Coastal LA - the only place in the US with a liveable climate that doesn't have hurricanes.
Define "livable climate". Are Seasons too much to handle? Also, aren't you at risk for an insane 9.0 earthquake (was so when I live in Seattle I believe).
Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
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Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#132Hi 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…
Please add a Celsius / Fahrenheit toggle :)
done!
Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#133I love it. Some more dimensions that would be nice to have: precipitation and unfortunately, air pollution index, especially in the west during summer.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Temp in Celsius doesn’t need getting any extra data :)
Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile. If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C = (F-32) * 9 / 5.
Uuuhhh, no? More like freezing is 0C and there are 1,000 meters in a kilometer
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#135There should be two sliders, for Fahrenheit and Celsius and dragging one would drag the other as well too...
At a minimum, cycling through the 2 standards should be idempotent (or at least I think that's what it's called...)
Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#136I 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…
https://weatherspark.com/ has great data, too. Excellent graphs for temperature, humidity, clear skies, etc.
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#137Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#138Hi 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…
This is awesome. You'll probably want to at least cross-reference this with the dew point, as temperature is only part of the story when it comes to being a comfortable human. Humidity has a large effect on how we perceive a given temperature.
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#139Those finding fault in this may be better served by the B6ppen climate classification, which is a global index that takes into account not just temperature but also rainfall and whether the rain is strongest in summer or winter. Notably, it shows that the idyllic Mediterranean/Californian climate can also be found in parts of Western Australia, South Africa, and Chile. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_cl…
Is there a good dataset for getting the Koppen classifications of different regions? I can find a lot of pictures of the map, but I'm having trouble finding shapefiles or another GIS format.
Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
#140I 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.
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology calculates apparent temperature like this
AT = Ta + 0.33×e − 0.70×ws − 4.00
where:
Ta = Dry bulb temperature (°C)
e = Water vapour pressure (hPa) [humidity]
ws = Wind speed (m/s) at an elevation of 10 meters
The vapour pressure can be calculated from the temperature and relative humidity using the equation:
e = rh / 100 × 6.105 × exp ( 17.27 × Ta / ( 237.7 + Ta ) )
where:
rh = Relative Humidity [%]