Thanks to global warming you can soon drive anywhere you want in 90 degrees.
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
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing he lives within a few miles of the American border. It gets a lot colder than that up here. I remember in college trying to find a kitten on a farm that escaped the house for a girl I was into. No idea what the temperature was, it only had markings to -50c (-58f) and all the mercury was in the reservoir. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long to freeze a little kitten in those temperatures.
Yep, Calgary, Alberta. I wager that the folks from northern Montana have the same weather as us.
I grew up in Edmonton and you have to be honest, -35C is an extreme temperature that is only rarely reached. Almost every winter gets to -20C or -25C but -35C can happen but isn't an every winter let alone every day occurrence.
And anyways... it's a dry cold :-) Winters here in southern Ontario are fairly mild but they feel worse to me than where I grew up. A damp -10C is just awful, so hard to get rid of the cold feeling everywhere.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't people travel? I have lived all over the country and currently love living in San Diego because I can visit areas of the country enjoying the seasons for a week at a time. A week of raking leaves, a week of shoveling and scraping windows. And even in LA, the mountains are less than an hour dive away. They can experience all 4 seasons in less than an hour drive.
I loved living in San Diego but nothing in the mountains compares to the lush spring, deep winter, hot summers with water temperatures warm enough to not wear a wetsuit, or crisp fall you get in other parts of the country you've undoubtedly visited. Southern California is wonderful for a variety of reasons but the "I can drive to all 4 seasons" disregards some of the important details you don't get anywhere in semi-a…
I personally find California weather unbearably arid. When I travel for work etc. I miss the lush leafy vegetation and throbbing humid summer of my great lakes basin home...
Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
#84Needs to be a loop so you can just keep driving the route till you die.
Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
San Diego is pretty much 68 to 72 year round. In the summer it might get a little warmer and in the winter a little colder on select days, but it's a pretty tight range.
Speaking as a San Diego native, it does get colder than 68 and it definitely gets warmer than 72. Summers can get a little hot when the Santa Anna winds kick in. However, compared to vast majority of places on earth, our weather is better.
Ok, fair enough, the range is more than 68-72, but still pretty tight as far as places on earth go:
https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/Places/san...
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can go to the beach whenever you want, but even in July the water is friggin freezing.
A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in San Fransisco, and it was a warm, sunny day (to my friend's surprise). We were hanging out at a beach when we see a guy in a speedo walk by, towards the water. Before anyone could warn him, he jumped in the water, immediately jumped out, then ran back to the parking lot. My guess is he was European - people from the West coast would know not to go in the water, and American…
Yours and the parent comment are really amusing. The best time to swim in the Los Angeles area is December to March. I try to hit up the Dolphin Club whenever I am in San Francisco. And no, you don't need a wetsuit.
Re: Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing he lives within a few miles of the American border. It gets a lot colder than that up here. I remember in college trying to find a kitten on a farm that escaped the house for a girl I was into. No idea what the temperature was, it only had markings to -50c (-58f) and all the mercury was in the reservoir. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long to freeze a little kitten in those temperatures.
Yep, Calgary, Alberta. I wager that the folks from northern Montana have the same weather as us.
North Dakota and Minnesota are colder than Montana (at lower elevations too). Take a look at the climate data for Fargo, ND for instance, significantly colder than Calgary. It's colder because it's more continental, and you often see a big bubble of arctic air dipping down on the weather map.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the conversion. Whoah, that's cold.
A true northern winter redefines your sense of cold if you are from a more mild climate. The ambient temperatures sting any exposed skin and freeze any moisture (like the inside of your nose or condensation as your exhale) almost instantly. Add in a strong wind and you can feel the heat being sucked from your body even if you have a good winter coat on. Visually, everything changes. Snow piles up so high you can't se…
As an Angeleno, that last sentence does not follow from the rest of that horrific description.
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#89Too much free time and money on hands, eh? Good for you mate.
If you work from home or are retired, that would be a good opportunity to be able to get an RV and do it... but destinations would be more important to me then temperature... and as others have pointed out, multiple locations have this kind of temperature all year long anyways...
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#9021ºC 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.
You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate
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