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Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by JimDabell »

chockchocschoir wrote: post #141
nemo1618 wrote: post #46

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, an…

As someone who is considering my next place in the world to live for a 5-10 year period, it would be amazing if this website could support world data, not just the US. If needed, I'm ready to help fund the expansion to support more parts of the world :)

Check out Climate Finder: https://nomadlist.com/climate-finder

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Post by foolfoolz »

photochemsyn wrote: post #62

Such zones won't necessarily be very stable. Current climate trends point towards an increase in hot humid conditions in some areas, increased aridity and drought in others, and associated extreme weather conditions. If there's any one culprit to point to, it's the water vapor increase (forced in turn by the increase in atmospheric fossil CO2 and CH4). This also affects wet-bulb temperature (which sets an upper limit…

they will be stable enough for your life time

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Post by muzani »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #152

This is absolutely amazing but can I beg you to include an option to filter by dew point? I don’t care about hot but I cannot handle humidity!

Having stayed in Australia and the Middle East for a while, high temperatures like 40 C are very livable when it's dry. While 32 C can be terrible indoors where it's humid. My home/office is loaded with dehumidifiers.

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Post by bagels »

asdff wrote: post #65
bicx wrote: post #63

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I moved to SF recently from Tennessee. It's been wonderful to have such pleasant weather year-round. Granted, it's not a tropical paradise, but you will survive with an optional light jacket in your backpack nearly all year. The only other place that is now tempting me is San Diego.

San Diego weather might be the best in the world. It feels like its physically impossible for it to be above 85 degrees from the prevailing ocean winds.

Yes, best weather in the country.

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Post by bagels »

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.

Coastal Southern California

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Post by smcl »

liversage wrote: post #127
lotsofpulp wrote: post #125

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Cape Town South Africa, Coastal Southern California/Mexico, and Pacific Northwest Jun to Sep are as good as it gets in my opinion. Nairobi is up there too, but I have not spent enough time there to know about year round.

Medellín in Colombia sometimes described as the city of eternal spring is known for its perfect climate. In addition it's a very vibrant city.

Ha I didn't know it had a special name, I found out about Medellin's climate when I was looking for a place which had the consistency of Singapore's climate but about 5C cooler. I found that Addis Ababa and Kigali are pretty similar, and though it's a couple of degrees cooler Quito's climate seems quite appealing too.

I've been to none of these cities so I've no idea what they're like to visit or live in, but when I'm walking my dog in the morning and it's -1C on the 12th of March my mind wanders :-)

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Post by chockchocschoir »

alecbz wrote: post #144
chockchocschoir wrote: post #143

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I guess people are different? I'm from a place where the difference between winter and summer is a lot, and as soon as I could moved to a place where the seasons are as even as possible. No need for change of clothing depending on the season and no risk of freezing in winter. Never been more happy, and the main reason for the move was indeed the weather.

Interesting, so this is something that you were like, actively conscious of as a source of unhappiness in your life? Like if someone had asked you, “what would you do to most improve your life?”, how high on the list would avoiding winter have been? I live in New York, the delta is fairly significant, though I’m sure there’s worse places. I have heard of places in like e.g. remote Canada where it seems like life kind…

Indeed. Between the end of autumn and middle of spring, my life basically shut down and I became borderline depressed for that period every year, until the sun started showing up and you no longer only had 4-5 hours of sunlight per day anymore.

And when I moved to a place with more even seasons (and more sunlight overall), I no longer experience this seasonal depression, so yeah, I'd definitely put "good weather" close to the top on the list on how to improve my life, and subsequently, it's a strong indicator on where I can live in the world.

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Post by sokoloff »

Very nice and, like other commenters, I really like the responsiveness.

Small bit: on an iPhone XS Max, the slider couldn’t be set to 20°F or 85°F. Making the control box slightly wider would probably allow that, but it took nothing away from the practical usability, of course.

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