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Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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I was looking to relocate a while ago and found a website that gives year round weather for places. Apparently Hawaii is consistently 74 and sunny. Their summary of pros/cons was you may become bored.

The boredom has nothing to do with weather.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

#133

If you are in India, you could just stay the whole year in Bangalore. https://www.google.co.in/search?q=bangalore+temperature

As someone who lived in Bangalore, no. You missed April's average temperature being 95F.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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It is almost a cliche but my friends who moved to LA truly do miss the seasons, especially leaves changing colors. It is like living in a giant open-air mall all year long. When nothing changes but the store displays, the seasonal heartbeat is lost. Living in LA, of course, means they can go to the beach all-year long with a short commute though. Snapchat is particularly smart for having its corporate headquarters al…

I live in LA (somewhat new, but I have been in CA for years), and I do not miss seasons at all. It has been many years since I have seen snow, and I plan to keep it that way. I cannot recall the last time I was in below freezing weather. I am an avid cyclist, and it is amazing to bike year round. My tan lines are very prominent from the amount of cycling I do in sunny weather.

I think youd be surprised at the number of people that bike year round in places with snow like Minneapolis and Chicago. I did a year of part time bike delivery in Chicago and had many days of 50 miles in the snow.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

#136

Or they could just stay in San Diego all year round....

I was gonna say... the trip to Alaska seems unnecessary. Average highs never surpass 70°F in San Francisco: http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/san-francisco/californi...

Careful, there -- many historical average charts are no longer particularly useful, and you really do need to look at current data. In June of this year, San Francisco had a high temperature over 70F on one out of every 6 days, including a high for the month of 79F.

Rising temperatures in a city where nothing was built anticipating the rise is a recipe for a bad time. Plus, the instant you get beyond the city limit of SF and a few adjacent suburbs you head right into temperatures typical of summer in many other parts of the country (the NOAA station at the airport in San Bruno, for example, reported a high of 87F in June, with daily highs over 70F for the majority of the month).

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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21ºC for us non-Americans. That would be a pleasant year's worth of weather for me, given that the winter temperature in my Canadian city can reach -35ºC in the deepest part of winter.

21ºC for us non-Americans Funny you said that:) "By the end of the 20th century, Fahrenheit was only used as the official temperature scale in the United States (including its unincorporated territories), its freely associated states in the Western Pacific (Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands), the Bahamas, Belize, and the Cayman Islands." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit

To continue the curiosities, the º sign that was used is the spanish ordinal marker of masculine gender. The degree sign is °.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Cycling is fun. Skiing is orders of magnitude more fun.

You are just doing it wrong. :) Since you ski, you probably mountain bike. Mostly downhill. Boring. I am a climber (road bikes of course). The longer the climb, the better. California has great climbs.

I ski, I do not ever mountain bike, mainly because it's the same terrain I ski on without the snow to protect me from the rocks, stumps, and fallen trees. Downhill mountain biking is insanity. Cross country mountain bikers go up the hills and down fire roads. Downhillers go up gondolas.

Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cycling is fun. Skiing is orders of magnitude more fun.

You are just doing it wrong. :) Since you ski, you probably mountain bike. Mostly downhill. Boring. I am a climber (road bikes of course). The longer the climb, the better. California has great climbs.

Climbing on skis is a lot more fun than climbing on a bike, and you have access to much more interesting terrain, as they don't generally build roads over mountain peaks, and certainly they don't build them on slopes nearly as steep as what skis let you access.
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