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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by james_pm »

annexrichmond wrote: post #302

> I live near Toronto. It’s springtime, and currently about 30 °C I don’t think this is true. It’s been around 20° at most in the Toronto area this past week. https://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/toronto/m5h/may-weather/55...

Correct. Hasn't been near 30C in Toronto this week (source: me, Toronto resident). This person could solve a lot of his problems with Toronto weather by moving close to the lake. It's generally a few degrees cooler in the summer, and warmer in the winter. Having four distinct seasons is nice, although fall (the best season, IMO) is way too short and winter is a bit too long.

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Post by dam_broke_it »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #31
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…

Santa Fe springs: glorious temperatures, murderous winds for 6 weeks or more.

SW Colorado -- same :/

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Post by tintedfireglass »

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.)

The cyclone is also bringing a 20C May this time. The past few days were pretty damp and cold. This week was expected to be the hottest on record for bengaluru but rain saved us :)

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Post by closeparen »

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…

The Bay Area was only marginally more expensive than average 10 years ago, whereas now it’s at least 3x. Did the weather get that much better?

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

You're never going to find a perfect city. If it's not the weather that bugs you, it's something else. Don't spend your time trying to find the perfect fit. Rather, spend your time on accepting the world as it is and adapting to it. Then you'll be happy anywhere, anytime.

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Post by el-salvador »

bogomipz wrote: post #42
deepnotderp wrote: post #2

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

Isn't it Medellín though thats known as the "city of eternal spring" because of the weather?

Guatemala has nice spring weather too because of altitude.

It ranges from +13C to +23C. With extremes being +7C or +28C depending on the time of the year.

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Post by eitally »

gnulinux wrote: post #276
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 personally find SF Bay Area weather terrible, terrible. SF has the same weather year round and it is as follows: * Uncomfortably warm during the day * Uncomfortably cold during the night * A lot of unpredictable and long-running showers, rain and fog * A lot of cold wind year-round (especially summer, see below) I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate: > The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer…

It's disingenuous to conflate SF's micro-climate with the entirety of the bay area. I agree that SF weather is insufferable, and I live in San Jose, which is entirely different ... and different again that the mid/upper-peninsula, or the Santa Cruz Mountains, or Marin, or Berkeley.

I think what a lots of folks don't understand until they're living here is exactly how different things are in different areas around the bay.

Generally speaking, I think south bay weather is approximately ideal, if it wasn't for fire season, which can ruin entire summers & falls depending.

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Post by swasheck »

thefringthing wrote: post #268
basicform wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!"

My takeaway from reading Grænlendinga saga and Eiríks saga rauða was that Iceland is where you went when you got kicked out of Norway for killing too many people, and Greenland is where you went when you got kicked out of Iceland for killing too many people.

“fall of civilizations” podcast episode 4 (https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/03/26/episode-4-...) has an interesting, and alternative, take on this but to distill it, like so many other episodes in the series:

climate change, man-made or otherwise, and the need to adapt pushed humans beyond the conventional borders of their tribes/clans. however, the precipitating event on the move from the mainland was a lot of murder.

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Post by danenania »

gnulinux wrote: post #276
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 personally find SF Bay Area weather terrible, terrible. SF has the same weather year round and it is as follows: * Uncomfortably warm during the day * Uncomfortably cold during the night * A lot of unpredictable and long-running showers, rain and fog * A lot of cold wind year-round (especially summer, see below) I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate: > The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer…

It doesn't really make sense to talk about "SF Bay Area weather" given that most days there's a 10-30 degree difference between the coldest and warmest parts of the region. If you're near the coast in the summer, a typical "warm day" is mid-to-high 60s, while it's 75-80 in Oakland/Berkeley and 90s in Walnut Creek.

I lived in west SF (near Golden Gate Park/Presidio) for 2 years and I can count the days it was "uncomfortably warm" on one hand.

It's not really the same year round either. Summer is by far the windiest and foggiest season, which is why it feels cold despite a higher base temp (but again, depends where you are).

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