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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by acchow »

thefringthing wrote: post #77
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…

My personal preference is definitely for colder temperatures than most other people would like. I didn't include humidity, precipitation, wind, etc., mostly because I threw this together in an hour or so and didn't intend for it to be a "serious" analysis, just a novelty.

> My personal preference is definitely for colder temperatures than most other people would like.

You should really check out San Francisco...

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by quesera »

munificent wrote: post #339

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…

This is interesting. It doesn't capture humidity / heat index, which would drop at least five cities (FL, SC) out of the top ten.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by l8arrival »

james_pm wrote: post #311
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.

I think being near the lake is definitely nicer in the summer, and probably winter too, as it moderates the temperature. On the other hand in the spring and fall, since the water temperature can be so much colder than the air, it can be quite cold and breezy by the lake, and nice and warm away from the lake.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by acchow »

pb7 wrote: post #344
Steltek wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Or you're in the San Francisco Bay Area.

100% this.

You want to look for fingerprints with no blue (and ideally no dark green) and no red: https://weatherspark.com/map

South Africa and parts of Chile looking real good

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by igorstellar »

rcpt wrote: post #285
chrsw wrote: post #206

San Diego has the best weather I've ever experienced. I've been there at different times of the year too. I don't live there and don't have any motivation to say that other than just being honest. I don't have any data to support my claim but it's not even mentioned in this analysis. I wonder what criteria ruled it out.

Hawaii Big island you can decide your weather by simply driving to a higher elevation

It's interesting, since it could be very dry east, but it has most humid/rainy area in US (Hilo). One of the most fascinating islands in my opinion.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by ravi-delia »

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 model is clearly simplistic, but if you made me write out my ideal range of temperatures through the year, Reykjavik is perhaps a few degrees too cold month by month. Centering on freezing for the winter, just warm enough for a jacket during the summer, it's just about ideal. Wind isn't great though, I'll give you that.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by munificent »

nullgeo wrote: post #341
munificent wrote: post #339

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…

Bob, are you using the same data as the OP?

No idea. I just searched for "average city temperature CSV" and ended up downloading some file from Kaggle.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by irrational »

acchow wrote: post #349
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 title is "Cities with nice weather" but in the writeup they didn't even look at cities with nice weather. 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.

Yes, the title was clearly click bait. It got me to click, but had nothing to do with the cities with the nicest weather.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by asdff »

rcpt wrote: post #283
asdff wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anywhere on the southern californian coast has perfect weather. The seabreeze keeps things from ever breaching 85* even in the strongest heat waves.

Long Beach gets the most sea breeze south of Ventura

But you also get all the air pollution from the port of LA/LB, so thats why prices don't necessarily reflect the access like they do over in redondo beach or down in OC. Can't do anything about much of it either. When the city wanted to remove that breakwater recently that pins water pollution to the beach and killed the surf scene when they erected it decades ago, the navy said no, should they ever need to load explosives into battleships near downtown long beach.
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