As a Python user I feel envious every time R folks use the pipeline operator. It'd be so nice to have one for data mangling!
Cities with Nice Weather
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#52Nice analysis, but... ...here's something I find astonishing. The word "R" doesn't appear anywhere in this article. He doesn't mention anywhere that he's using "R", and within "R" he's using the "tidyverse". So much good work to write a tutorial, but a rank beginner will have a hard time figuring out how to replicate it.
The code blocks blending in with the rest of the post and the code itself is very aesthetically pleasing. I thought it was julia at first glance.
I'd prefer if the `tufte` theme would render the "|>" pipes as "▷" but I wasn't prepared to do that level of tinkering.
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#53San Diego should rank highly on this list.
I traveled there for work once in February and it was sunny and high 60s the entire week. I could only think of how grossly unfair it was that people were allowed to live like that. I saw a guy rollerblading with no shirt on.
As a kid, I used to visit my cousins in San Diego, and two summers in a row we had heat waves.
Even though I loved my cousins, the humidity/heat was enough for me to beg to go home.
I remember feeling the fog on the Golden Gate bridge going north, and I was just relieved.
I helped a friend move from Joplin, MO. ten years ago. I actually brought my bicycle because daily exercise helped with my anxiety/depression.
I got off the plane, and that thick moist hot air hit me. I knew there will be no exercise.
My best buddy had a big 7-11 Big Gulp drink in his hand for me. I asked if it's always this hot.
He said this is actually mild.
We were both very broke, and figured I'd get used to the heat. My job was to move him from Joblin to San Rafael. We were beyond co-dependants, and best friends for years.
He took me to his house. It was a small home his father had build in the 40's. He didn't have money to air condition the entire house, but he put up sheets on the kitchen in place of doors. He had one window air conditioner, and that is where we lived for two weeks.
He was getting over his mother's passing.
In the morning he said, "Just trust me on how to survive the heat.".
We would basically just hydrate all day, and look for air conditioning. He smoked heavily, and was just better with the heat than me. He was much older than me, but I was a fat boy.
(I noticed the successful, productive Missourian's went from air conditioned homes, to air conditioned cars, to air conditioned offices. The poor just sweltered.)
I miss you Robert. You were a good friend.
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#54The 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…
I live here in South Bay and while I do love the weather, it is a bit colder than ideal.
I think SoCal especially San Diego definitely has better and more consistent weather. San Diego is an amazing city apart from weather as well!
Meanwhile my childhood hometown is not dipping below 30C this week, and the highs every day are above 43C…
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#55I live in Tel Aviv and the weather there is ideal (for me). Sunny about 300 days a year and doesn’t get too hot because of the sea.
Coming from the NE US the winters were brutal and the summers were so humid you could cut the air with a knife.
Wonder if this is one of the reasons TA is one of the most expensive (and successful) cities in the world.
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#56Weather seems like the classic the grass is greener elsewhere. I see Edinburgh ranks well which I live near. Had also lived near Toronto and can vouch for the less extreme temperature variance in Scotland. The seasons are less well defined here, it's quite normal to have all 4 seasons in a day.
In the high desert of the US southwest (6000'/1800m and above), it is not unusual to see diurnal temperature swings of 30F/16C or close to it. It's completely normal for at least 2 seasons a year to need an insulated jacket in the morning and evening, a light sweater just after and before the jacket is removed/added, and a t-shirt or similar for the middle of the day. Of course, the chance of rain is close to zero ou…
I'm in the southwest at 5000', and if anything you're understating it. To choose convenient arbitrary samples: Tomorrow 40°F low / 82°F high (42°F delta); Saturday 45°F low / 90°F high (45°F delta). Even 60°F swing isn't unheard of.
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#57The 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…
The main problem with the California coast is that the water is so cold. Between NorCal and SoCal there is pretty much an ideal weather zone for everyone.
The water is indeed cold most places here. But once you get down to Santa Barbara or better yet Long Beach you can find the occasional beach with warm water.
It's some combination of the very deep water being rather near shore and beaches that get directly blasted with the cold water streaming down the coast from Alaska. Remove/minimize those 2 factors and you can start finding warm water.
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#58This reminds me of Kelly Norton’a Pleasant Places to Live, where you can search by ZIP code:
https://kellegous.com/j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/
I wrote to him to try and get the places listed in table form, sortable CSV, but never received a reply.
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#59> We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc.
I chuckled at this. Ignoring factors like humidity, rain, wind, and number of sunny days gives you a very distorted vision of the weather in a given place.
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#60See also The Well-Tempered Traveler (1), code (2) with prior discussion (3). (1) https://www.google.com/welltemperedtraveler/ (2) https://github.com/lmanul/welltemperedtraveler (3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841209
This is a neat tool/visualization!