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Find Cities with Similar Climates
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Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates
#42I tried to search for my city and got back: EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA LONDON AIRPORT, CANADA I would have thought London (UK) might have got a mention.
When I type "København" it responds with an empty page. It seems like any non-ascii character makes the page crash. It doesn't have "Copenhagen", only "Koebenhavn" which nobody uses.
One of the cities it gives for Estonia is "Pjarnu", for Pärnu.
But then it also thinks the capital is "Tallin", rather than Tallinn.
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#43Trying to figure out the point of this. It's counter intuitive to how most people think. If I want to move, chances are, I want to move somewhere different than the climate I'm already in. Same thing for vacation. I'm still trying to find a reason I want to go somewhere with the same climate as the one I'm currently in.
Perhaps a better idea would be to show places which are completely opposite of the one you're already in.
Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates
#44Trying to figure out the point of this. It's counter intuitive to how most people think. If I want to move, chances are, I want to move somewhere different than the climate I'm already in. Same thing for vacation. I'm still trying to find a reason I want to go somewhere with the same climate as the one I'm currently in. Perhaps a better idea would be to show places which are completely opposite of the one you're alre…
For me it was the opposite: I choose where I live and I prefer mild climates like southern California in the fall, or Chicago in September. I'd love to see a fully-blossomed climate-view during the year, to city-jump during the most liveable seasons (avoid Chicago Nov-April or July-August for example)
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
No results for Prague and Dublin. For Vienna, if found Vienna, VA, USA, not Vienna, Austria.
Try the local names. Praha, Wien, and some unknown mystical name the Dubliners use.
Praha and Wien work, Baile Atha Cliath (local mystical name for Dublin) doesn't.
Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates
#46I must confess I didn't expect the number of curt "the search is inadequate" responses; I posted this because it solved a particular problem I've been curious about for some time, and does a great job of displaying the data in a way that's useful to me. I found the graph display quite handy--using the same scaling on all pages allows me to easily compare different locations in different browser tabs, but the data is displayed simply enough that I'm not overwhelmed with sparklines like I am at other climate sites.
That said, I'd love to see more details about the underlying dataset; given the way the search works it appears to be a SQL database, so I assume it's public data from somewhere?
Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates
#47I must confess I didn't expect the number of curt "the search is inadequate" responses; I posted this because it solved a particular problem I've been curious about for some time, and does a great job of displaying the data in a way that's useful to me. I found the graph display quite handy--using the same scaling on all pages allows me to easily compare different locations in different browser tabs, but the data is…
If you can't find any cities how are you going to evaluate the rest of the features? I'm not going to play "guess the city".
Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates
#48I must confess I didn't expect the number of curt "the search is inadequate" responses; I posted this because it solved a particular problem I've been curious about for some time, and does a great job of displaying the data in a way that's useful to me. I found the graph display quite handy--using the same scaling on all pages allows me to easily compare different locations in different browser tabs, but the data is…
I put this site together, glad it's useful for you. The graphs are my take on climatographs.
The data is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center, see http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/. The dataset has good coverage of the US, but as people have pointed out, there are gaps in many places, such as the UK. The comparison is based on the monthly average max and min temperatures.