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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by wolverine876 »

RC_ITR wrote: post #322
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 universal criticism of things like this is 'you just codified your preferences and tried to make it seem scientific' What's scary about that is 99% of social science is just that.

What data do you have regarding social sciences beyond a trendy take?

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by wolverine876 »

dam_broke_it wrote: post #296
t-3 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snow isn't bad compared to rain. At least it looks nice and lights up the night.

Try shoveling 6-9 inches of snow per storm--storms every 4-6 days during the winter in the Rockies....

Where do you get 6-9 inch storms weekly?

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by wolverine876 »

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…

Those Florida cities get pretty hot in the summer, no?

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by smugma »

danenania wrote: post #320
gnulinux wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 "uncomfo…

The Wikipedia page the post's author linked to has weather by month. I confirmed that SF had the coldest average temp in June and July. Mark Twain's apocryphal quote is backed by data.

I live in SF, and agree, it's quite rare when it is too hot during the day. It seems like the gp poster was referring to the SF Bay Area rather than SF. I work in the South Bay and while I hated the pre-pandemic commute, the warm spring/summer/fall weather (and Asian food) were the two redeeming factors. SF's winters were slightly milder than the mild South Bay winters.

As someone else pointed out, the South Bay of Los Angeles has better weather than pretty much anywhere else, at least in California (it is similar to the Mediterranean and Redondo Beach is known for its "Hollywood Riviera").

Supposedly Stanford was founded in Palo Alto after Leland Stanford Jr. hired a cartographer to look around the US to find the city with the best weather (maybe it was most sunny days). A bit too warm for my liking but it's pretty darn nice.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by downut »

bogomipz wrote: post #287
downut wrote: post #254

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Basically quite a few places in Mexico. La Ciudad de México or Ensenada for me. I intensely love Mexico City but Ensenada is where I'm moving to. Entirely for health insurance reasons. I will be there tomorrow hooray. There's Guanajauto, but also Querétaro, San Mig, León. The central highlands are big and agreeable. People here love San Diego... I know San Diego really well, and I think Ensenada beats it in every way…

What's the connection between Ensenada and health insurance?

Proximity to the US border. Medicare, particularly. I am no expert even though I have spent a lot of time on it. It seems a double cancer survivor with partner much the same is going to have a hard time getting insured any other way.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

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…

> A more appropriate methodology would take into account wet bulb temperatures,

Are there any recommendations for accurate API accessible wet-bulb temperatures across the world?

I've been looking at this website for India[1] during the heatwave and I'm not sure whether its accurate. Also, is there any reproducible DIY project to measure wet bulb temperature with a digital output for daily use.

[1] https://meteologix.com/in/observations/wet-bulb-temperature....

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by animal531 »

yakubin wrote: post #194
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…

Different people like different weather. For me e.g. Edinburgh has the perfect weather (I'm planning to move there). Where I am currently (Poland), I'm miserable in the summer, when humidity drops as low as 40% and temperatures get above 25°C (up to 33°C, or even 42°C in some godforesaken parts of the country). For me to feel comfortable, 22°C is the max (-5°C is the soft min, but will also take -20°C over 30°C), hum…

Definitely, I live in South Africa which is probably a bit warmer than you'd like. When it hits low 22°C's in the evening then its about time for me to go and find a jersey.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

dbetteridge wrote: post #379
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #240

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Cool rainy winters and hot dry summers are characteristic of the Mediterranean climate, which is often seen as "pleasant". I thought you would mention that it can be hot in CT in Jan-Feb, in the 30-40C range. But it's a dry heat. > Winter is very very cold Since it does not freeze in CT, not that cold. Not even as cold as JHB. > it rains every single day It does not typically constant rain every day in CT in winter (…

> I thought you would mention that it can be hot in CT in Jan-Feb, in the 30-40C range. But it's a dry heat Thought you were talking about Perth, Australia there for a sec! The running joke is 'it's a dry heat' when referring to the week long runs of 40+ degrees

"But it's a dry heat" is an old saw:

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/69689/yeah-but-it...

I've been in Cape Town on 40+ Degrees C days.

It is dry there in summer. Parent comment about the mountain catching fire is "joking but also true(ish)".

There's sea on 3 sides of Cape Town but somehow, the summer heat is bone dry. I suppose it would be worse if it was damp.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by lotsofpulp »

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

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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.

Or west of Cascade Mountains.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by joaonmatos »

Weird standards for “nice weather”.

I would use: - temperatures around 15 degrees, so a place that went from lows of 5 in the winter to highs of 25 in the summer - rarely overcast. Growing up in Porto I don’t really have a problem with sunny days or days where it is actually raining. The bane of my existence are the misty, damp, sprinkly, overcast days - no snow

It’s a shame that I have to go to Berlin to get a good start on my career, otherwise I’d love to stay here

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