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Looking at the variance as a single datapoint doesn't capture temperature information very well. A single rare outlier data will make a city look bad even if most days are milkd. I hacked together a little program to try something different. My rule was to look at the daily average temperature for a bunch of cities on a single year. Then count up the number of "good temperature" days which I defined to be within 60°F…
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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.
Two of the best places I've heard of that sound nice coming from people who are form there.
Monaco/Nice France. Summer can be quite warm but not winters are moderate about 15C (which to them was a cold winter). Really anywhere on the shores of the Mediterranean would be nice.
The other is Kigali, Rwanda I asked someone what it was like they said summer about 26C and winter about 15C - very stable, very little variation.
For both of those places no hurricanes, tornadoes, no snow, no wild temperature changes.
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I'd say any (regular) amount of snow disqualifies your city as having "nice weather".
If you don't have a snowy winter, you probably have a blistering hot summer. I can always get a beefier winter jacket for the cold but in the heat, there are only so many layers I can take off before being arrested.
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.…
> you'll feel your body complaining about your life choices pretty quickly. Beautiful landscape and super nice people but I was there in Spring and I struggled with modern clothing. All my time there I kept thinking how on earth did someone 1200 years thought that was a good spot for a settlement.
The island's lowlands were also densely covered in birch forest when discovered in the late 800s, so there was plenty of wood to be had which would have helped.
Grazing animals would have had an easy time, as can be seen with the size of the sheep population and the deforestation effect they had on the island. The wool produced was a big part of how the settlers survived winter.
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…
>I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate:
> > The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
He never said this.
I love it but any reason that gets people out of here is great for me.
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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I'm guessing "prawn" is local slang for some insect, because I'd only ever heard it refer to the seafood (like shrimp) or those aliens in District 9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn > The Parktown prawn or African king cricket The term used in District 9 also comes from this
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…
FTA: "The area of this plot I’m most interested in is the vertical slice around Toronto"
They were investigating cities with "average temperatures" around Toronto's. Which is going to be very cold, as you mentioned.