Canary Islands are notably missing. It's practically between 22 and 27C all year long.
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, hours of daylight in winter is a factor. I was in Reykjavik for Christmas once and there was about 4 hours of sunlight each day. It confuses the body.
It's not really that confusing if you actually live there. Speaking from experience, since I grew up further north than 99% of the world population (Reykjavík would be down to the south).
I don’t find it confusing, but it’s dreary though. Especially in regions where there’s short days but very little snow.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
This problem is trivially fixed with blackout curtains. Dealing with lack of sun is harder.
Lack of sun is trivially fixed with lights. Blackout curtains don't form a good seal and always let light bleed through around the edges.
It actually isn't, because most home lighting is far less intense than the sun and the wrong spectrum to boot. Light therapy works but sitting in front of a big bright box is not terribly convenient or fun.
And if your blackout curtains don't work, get better ones. Many Nordic households have double curtains, one solid plastic to block the vast majority of the light and the other from cloth to diffuse/block the rest and look pretty.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lack of sun is trivially fixed with lights. Blackout curtains don't form a good seal and always let light bleed through around the edges.
“Lack of sun is trivially fixed with lights.” As someone who lives in Sweden, I can’t agree there. Lights can never fully replace sunlight. It’s not even close.
> As someone who lives in Sweden, I can’t agree there.
I've lived in Sweden my whole life, and in Norrbotten for a decade.
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#155If 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…
Yes - be warned - this is a trap.
We first named Greenland Greenland to trick people to go there instead of Iceland.
Now we want people to come - so we are manipulating math and logic on a scale never seen before.
Be vary of any data that points to Iceland as being a good place to live in terms of weather.
The truth is "in Iceland, the weather is trying to kill you!"
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#156If 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…
Having spent meaningful time in Reykjavik… hard concur. Seeing Dublin and Chicago in their target range simply reinforces the doubt. The bad assumptions start with average temp, but this is where it goes off the rails: > Let’s see the same plot, including only the cities within one degree of Toronto’s average temperature. So theyre really looking at “cities with an average temp similar to toronto, but lower variabili…
No wind is factored in this equation.
That kills Reykjavik.
From page: "Next Steps: It would be interesting to use detailed time series for each city and a utility function on temperatures (perhaps including wind chill and humidex) to determine which cities are truly mean-variance optimal."
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#157Johannesburg, South Africa. A city with many problems but everyone agrees the weather is great. Average temperature per month ranges from 10C to 20C. Extremes are normally between 0C and 30C. (It can feel very cold when it goes below 0C because the housing is not built for that.) Low humidity. It rains less than 90 days a year and most of that is in short, concentrated afternoon thunderstorms in the summer. I'd have…
> Johannesburg, South Africa. A city with many problems but everyone agrees the weather is great.
Johannesburg's rival, Cape Town, would also lay claim to "great weather".
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#158There is a strong correlation between rich and good weather. Amsterdam a city being rich for many hundreds years has pretty good weather. almost all milt weather cities are rich. Whereas warm climates are a recipe for poorness
I'd be careful making such statements without data. For example, one could wonder if what you observe is a correlation, but not a causation: cities that are close to the sea are rich, as seas allow easy trade. And cities that are close to the sea have a good climate, obviously.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Seattle has great weather. Less rain than Midwest
I know someone who had a depressive episode after moving to Seattle because, "it's raining. It's just a thick, settling mist. But it hasn't stopped, for 100 days"
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#160If 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 author's model doesn't really say that Reykjavik is a good option. From my understanding, the graph shows the cities which have less variation than all cities colder than them.