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Cities with Nice Weather

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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by ezzaf »

rgmerk wrote: post #87
liamwire wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

Fair enough, and that's a reasonable question for the broader topic of "livability" (which as I'm sure you know there are global rankings for), but I personally wasn't considering "crime rates" as part of "weather".

I can just see the forecast now:

"Partly cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of burglary, most likely later in the evening. Light winds becoming south to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h during the morning."

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by cush »

angarg12 wrote: post #59

> We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc. I chuckled at this. Ignoring factors like humidity, rain, wind, and number of sunny days gives you a very distorted vision of the weather in a given place.

> we'll ignore the weather

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by rootw0rm »

jaggederest wrote: post #9

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.

that may be true...but as someone who's lived in San Diego before, I can say that the weather and pretty much everything else there, except the traffic, is pretty awesome.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by prpl »

I’ve lived 12 years in the bay area and spent quite a bit of time in Chile (mostly Santiago, but other places too). Both are great and pretty close to ideal.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by twelvechairs »

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…

The starting point for temperature and humidity should be the thermal comfort zone on a psychometric chart [0]. Wind can be considered in this too (see the 'natural ventilation' section). Hours of sunshine and rainfall should be separately measured.

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RABRuDIpRt8NxvGqB-Zu...

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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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.

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