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Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by keerthiko »

hsn915 wrote: post #99
L_Rahman wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tokyo summers are miserable, as are the ones in Seoul and New York City. I have lived in all three and every July/August I wonder if this is the year I start cooling off in Bogota for a month.

I'm from the Middle East and I kinda love the hot summer. Tokyo's summers feel just right to me. Hot but not intolerable.

all my american friends find it ridiculous, but yes, having lived my childhood in heat that you can see rising off the ground in the middle east, i love the pleasant 30-35C summers of NYC where i live now, especially when combined with the daylight deep into "night", like 8-9pm in June-August

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by bpye »

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.

I’m absolutely with you. I moved from the U.K. to Vancouver, BC and I’ve decided it’s certainly at my upper bound for ‘warm’ summers.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by alkonaut »

Let’s zoom in on the interesting bit.

zooms in on Edinburgh, Dublin and Reykjavik

My gut feeling tells me high altitude southern cities are stable around “room temperature” (like Mexico City and La Paz) but if one doesn’t mind 30C for a few weeks, then of course a lot more cities in the Mediterranean, California, Australia etc are also in play.

I take it the person writing the article prefers anything, including a constant drab rain, to ever having -15C or +30C.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by bpye »

thih9 wrote: post #68

> We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc. If the author ends up moving to Edinburgh based on this, we can count on seeing a follow up analysis that doesn’t ignore rain.

And daylight hours…

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

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…

>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.

Or you have different opinions than most people, for example I tend to really dislike summer in most places because I dislike hot weather more than I dislike cold weather, even here in Denmark I dislike summer.

on edit: fixed spelling.

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by BloominOnion »

jupp0r wrote: post #72

Humidity is completely missing in this analysis. 80F (27C) can be either extremely pleasant or borderline miserable, depending on relative humidity.

100% I'm in Melbourne so summers are usually a dry heat that can go into the mid-high 30's often. Send me up to the Gold Coast where the humidity is much greater and I'll struggle in the high 20's low 30's

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by presentation »

bogomipz wrote: post #34
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…

Did you move there from SF? Do you work in tech? I'd be curious to hear how it is if so. My understanding is that they just announced they are going to let international travelers back in June.

I moved from SF, I work in tech, it is awesome (but don’t work for a Japanese company unless you want to get underpaid and overworked, foreign firms are much better).

Re: Cities with Nice Weather

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Post by t-3 »

Hamuko wrote: post #89
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…

I'd say any (regular) amount of snow disqualifies your city as having "nice weather".

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