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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by messe »

rowanajmarshall wrote: post #144
Simon_O_Rourke wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the thing about Dublin at least, you're unlikely to get six foot snow banks, or Chicago style freezing winds. But it's got the most bland weather both summer and winter. Never been to Iceland, but I guess the clue is in the name there!

Assuming Dublin is pretty similar to the UK, it's the blandness that gets you. I'll take inconvenient variety over months of grey, dark dampness anytime.

Similar enough, but tends to be ever so slightly more bland than even the UK. If I remember rightly Ireland has the highest lows and lowest highs of anywhere in Europe.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by extrememacaroni »

anilgulecha wrote: post #142

Great weather, but Bangalore (tshirt all year around) doesn't make the cut? makes me suspect something is off with the data or analysis. (Perhaps it's the anchoring on 9 celcius? that's chilly.)

From what I see in the news India will soon be 60 degrees and death all year round because of global warming so it should probably not make many lists :(

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by gspr »

the_origami_fox wrote: post #129

Johannesburg, 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…

As a Norwegian, I'm rather used to cold and wind. I was once in Johannesburg in late-winter-early-spring. It's one of the coldest experiences of my life! Indeed, the outdoor temperature wasn't too bad, but the wind was constant and what the fuck why are there like centimeter-wide gaps around doors where the wind just comes howling in so that you have to wear a jacket indoors?!

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by MrDresden »

A Reykjavík local here.

Apart from not taking into account for wind and precipitation (as has been mentioned in other comments) the analysis should also look into the average amount of sunshine (or the average amount of cloud cover) as well as look into seasonal exposer to the sun based on latitude.

Reykjavík can go weeks without a break in the cloud cover, with howling winds shacking the concrete bunker you live in.

Sure its probably not more than -10°C outside with windchill, but you'll feel your body complaining about your life choices pretty quickly.

And then there is the winter darkness.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by this_is_not_you »

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.

It says "This page was generated from an R markdown file." under Tools at the top.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by basicform »

abofh wrote: post #166
basicform wrote: post #155

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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!"

Not sure if true, or just a new trap laid by iceland to keep me away...

Both.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by _Wintermute »

raister wrote: post #25
adnmcq999 wrote: post #16

>>> nice weather >>> Scotland You need more variables

This is so very true... Funny anecdote: whilst deciding where to pursue a PhD, the Univ. of Edinburgh website stated: "If you are deciding based on weather, don't come here."

The Scottish weather jokes are really tired at this point, I come from Manchester and when I lived in Edinburgh I got the "How do you like the Scottish weather?", but the weather in Edinburgh is pretty great compared to a lot of the UK, especially the western parts.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by vintermann »

thematrixturtle wrote: post #134
Simon_O_Rourke wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the thing about Dublin at least, you're unlikely to get six foot snow banks, or Chicago style freezing winds. But it's got the most bland weather both summer and winter. Never been to Iceland, but I guess the clue is in the name there!

Oddly, Iceland rarely if ever gets really cold and even snow is mostly transient. Temps mostly hover between 0 and 10 C (30-50 F), and it rains quite a bit. It has often been suggested that the names of Greenland and Iceland should be reversed, and/or that "Greenland" was thus misnamed for marketing purposes to entice Viking settlers.

With the amount of sunlight Reykjavik gets, "Greyland" might be more appropriate.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by vintermann »

cpach wrote: post #149
Nullabillity wrote: post #139

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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.

Why can't those damn coelux things become mass produced?
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