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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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No, it's not, because it's not just a multiplication but also an addition. If I would live in the US for some time maybe I would develop a knack for it, but for now it's too much effort for something that only a few places use.

I don't use multiplication or division. I just know 0=32, 10=50, 20=68, 22=72(aka room temp), 30=86, and 40=104 (aka really hot). I just estimate from there.

As a continental climate dweller I also know 0f = -18c, -20f = -30c, -40f = -40c.

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Feature request: bugs! Don't know what kind of data sources there are for this but voracious insects can make an otherwise lovely climate unbearable.

Another reason multiple temperature ranges are needed. Winter is lovely for variety and especially for killing the bugs. But too much winter can get tedious.

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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.

Sorry! I'd love to extend this to other countries, but I wasn't sure where to get the data.

Upvote for other countries. Try this for Australia :) http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml#xml

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Reading the comments makes me wonder if I'm the only one who would even be interested in this, but I really like variety, so I'd love to be able to be able to layer semitranslucent layers on top of each other. It's probably way too much customization, but if I want somewhere that has at least 30 days that don't get over 30 degrees, as well as maybe 15 days above 90 degrees, I'd kind of have to have it open in two win…

Yeah, big +1 on seasons and variety. I grew up on the east coast so I guess I'm just kind acclimated to it, but I never got being so obsessed with the weather. Like when I go outside and it's freezing, am I like "yay"? No. But there is a coziness to the winter I appreciate, getting to go inside and warm up. And then warmer weather starts to come, and you feel relieved by it, you get to actually be like "yay, Spring i…

I've lived in NE all my life, and I certainly enjoy all the seasons, but the summers are just a bit too long and hot and the winters are just a bit too long and cold. I think the perfect climate would be something like "New England, but spring/fall last as long as summer/winter, and vice versa."

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You have a great idea, hiring out someone on Upwork for an MVP that you could then run with or not. Wondering, what was the cost?

About $800 IIRC. I didn't shop around at all though.

Leveraging the global brain. Love it.

I can imagine a day where we can do this in our heads and we become a loose super organism.

But I digress, massively!

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