Cities with Nice Weather

Weather seems like the classic the grass is greener elsewhere. I see Edinburgh ranks well which I live near. Had also lived near Toronto and can vouch for the less extreme temperature variance in Scotland. The seasons are less well defined here, it's quite normal to have all 4 seasons in a day.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by grapeskin » Fri, May 13, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

onionisafruit wrote: post #3

deepnotderp wrote: post #2

Weather isn’t just temperature. Bogotá has perfect temperature but is cloudier than Seattle.

Seattle has pretty good weather too, if you only consider temperature.

Seattle has great weather. Less rain than Midwest and east coast US cities and never too hot or too cold.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by reactspa » Fri, May 13, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

Nice analysis, but...

...here's something I find astonishing.

The word "R" doesn't appear anywhere in this article.

He doesn't mention anywhere that he's using "R", and within "R" he's using the "tidyverse".

So much good work to write a tutorial, but a rank beginner will have a hard time figuring out how to replicate it.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by hughlilly » Fri, May 13, 2022, 4:39 AM UTC

reactspa wrote: post #7

Nice analysis, but... ...here's something I find astonishing. The word "R" doesn't appear anywhere in this article. He doesn't mention anywhere that he's using "R", and within "R" he's using the "tidyverse". So much good work to write a tutorial, but a rank beginner will have a hard time figuring out how to replicate it.

Yeah I had no idea what he was using til I read your comment. I thought it was Python but it didn't look enough like Python…

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by jaggederest » Fri, May 13, 2022, 4:41 AM UTC

Another interesting measure for these purposes is "heating degree days" and "cooling degree days", i.e. how much the outside temperature varies from indoor temperature.

One of my former coworkers who lived in San Diego said that people there complain whenever the temperature outside is different than the temperature inside, and sure enough, it's the lowest by summed heating and cooling degree days in the US.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by s0rce » Fri, May 13, 2022, 4:43 AM UTC

I grew up in Toronto and lived in Oakland for the past 6 years. Other than some smokey summers weather is near perfect. Very mild "winters", beautiful and sunny summers (much less fog than the coast or Berkeley) with only a few days >30C. Low humidity most of the year. I'm in Carson City now and its colder/hotter, still no humidity.