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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by L_Rahman »

hsn915 wrote: post #24

The SF Bay Area has the nicest weather year round, which is probably a strong contributing factor to why the area is so rich. I'm currently in Tokyo. The temparetrue is not the nicest year round, but it feels very natural. There are four seasons. Winter is tolerable and it rarely goes below 0C. It snows about once a year. Summer is hot, just like it should be, but it hardly goes above 32C. The only thing that bothers…

Tokyo summers are miserable, as are the ones in Seoul and New York City. I have lived in all three and every July/August I wonder if this is the year I start cooling off in Bogota for a month.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by holler »

Fatnino wrote: post #57
dkasper wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main problem with the California coast is that the water is so cold. Between NorCal and SoCal there is pretty much an ideal weather zone for everyone.

The water is indeed cold most places here. But once you get down to Santa Barbara or better yet Long Beach you can find the occasional beach with warm water. It's some combination of the very deep water being rather near shore and beaches that get directly blasted with the cold water streaming down the coast from Alaska. Remove/minimize those 2 factors and you can start finding warm water.

In San Diego around late August / early Sept you can find some really warm water relatively speaking. Particularly I used to enjoy going down to La Jolla cove and snorkeling around that time, with temps reaching up to 75f, which feels like bath water for the Pacific Ocean. Fairly certain I've experienced warmer than that a few times growing up.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by L_Rahman »

soared wrote: post #21

I always love to see data analysis on tolerable weather. I've done a lot of research on weather in the US and its a perpetually challenging problem. There are a small list of cities where its consistently nice (Solely in california and miami), and a larger list of cities that are have 4 nice seasons. But the data will never tell you the full story - Denver doesn't rank incredibly well in the data but the winters are…

Miami is gross and sticky even in March and I'm surprised it's listed next to Californian cities.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by freeqaz »

cheeze wrote: post #12
grapeskin wrote: post #6

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

Except the part where it's May and it's still raining this year, damnit.

Hopefully that helps the fires this year when it eventually gets hot, at the very least! It's nice to not have to worry about drought, as well. (That's a huge reason why I moved to Seattle from SF.)

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by Loic »

foota wrote: post #45
seizethecheese wrote: post #40

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Sounds like Seattle weather, except summer is dry here.

I think Tokyo is quite a bit warmer in the summer. Compare https://weatherspark.com/y/143809/Average-Weather-in-Tokyo-J... and https://weatherspark.com/y/913/Average-Weather-in-Seattle-Wa...

WeatherSpark is wonderful both for the data and the quality of the visualisation.

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Post by thefringthing »

rgmerk wrote: post #65

If your methodology for identifying "cities with nice weather" returns Reykjavik in its top ten, either your sample only includes places with terrible weather, or your methodology is completely whacked. Reykjavik is a wonderful little city, but it's cold, extremely windy, and often very miserable. The place with the most pleasant weather I've ever experienced is probably the area around the Gold Coast, Queensland, Au…

My personal preference is definitely for colder temperatures than most other people would like.

I didn't include humidity, precipitation, wind, etc., mostly because I threw this together in an hour or so and didn't intend for it to be a "serious" analysis, just a novelty.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by liamwire »

rgmerk wrote: post #65

If your methodology for identifying "cities with nice weather" returns Reykjavik in its top ten, either your sample only includes places with terrible weather, or your methodology is completely whacked. Reykjavik is a wonderful little city, but it's cold, extremely windy, and often very miserable. The place with the most pleasant weather I've ever experienced is probably the area around the Gold Coast, Queensland, Au…

As a Queenslander, the crime rate on the Gold Coast, particularly around Surfers Paradise, subjectively feels a bit higher than other cities of a similar size. (It’s still nothing too bad, nor am I looking at objective data currently.)

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

aliz64 wrote: post #54
hsn915 wrote: post #24

The SF Bay Area has the nicest weather year round, which is probably a strong contributing factor to why the area is so rich. I'm currently in Tokyo. The temparetrue is not the nicest year round, but it feels very natural. There are four seasons. Winter is tolerable and it rarely goes below 0C. It snows about once a year. Summer is hot, just like it should be, but it hardly goes above 32C. The only thing that bothers…

I live here in South Bay and while I do love the weather, it is a bit colder than ideal. I think SoCal especially San Diego definitely has better and more consistent weather. San Diego is an amazing city apart from weather as well! Meanwhile my childhood hometown is not dipping below 30C this week, and the highs every day are above 43C…

Currently in San Diego with the windows and doors open, enjoying the slightly cool air coming in. Great place to live and seems like more tech companies are moving down. Sadly the housing and rent are becoming increasingly inaccessible.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by freeqaz »

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.

I was wondering if it was R or Datalog. Thank you!

I did something similar to this with SQLite once. That was fun.

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