[HN Gopher] Goldilocks Zone Finder - Find your ideal climate
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Goldilocks Zone Finder - Find your ideal climate
Author : nemo1618
Score : 150 points
Date : 2022-03-11 17:06 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (lukechampine.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (lukechampine.com)
| nemo1618 wrote:
| Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house
| someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an
| interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling
| with leaflet.js for a while and googling for climate data, I felt
| a bit lost. So I decided to try something new: I hired a
| contractor on Upwork who had experience with map visualizations.
| They built an MVP within a few weeks, and from there I was able
| to tweak and optimize the code to my liking. I think this is a
| great strategy for side projects that you're too busy for. :)
|
| It's still mostly a toy at this point, but I'd like to add more
| knobs and data so that I can narrow down the best place to live
| (and hopefully help other people do the same). If you want to
| contribute, the code is open source:
| https://github.com/lukechampine/goldilocks
|
| The site weighs about 1.6 MB (gzipped -- the full climate data is
| ~35 MB uncompressed!) and is hosted on a Linode, which seems to
| be holding up pretty well.
|
| Also, a big thank you to those in the comments who shared links
| to similar projects! The "pleasant places" map is super close to
| what I want. Ideally this project would look something like that,
| but with the ability to select your own preferences for what
| constitutes a "perfect" day.
| ghostly_s wrote:
| hugged to death it seems.
| gotaquestion wrote:
| Great job! Very responsive.
|
| I thought about making something like this too, years ago. I
| wanted to converge data from tornados, fault lines, flooding,
| and hurricaine probabilities. But then I got sucked into EVERY
| parameter I might want to consider, like air traffic (vortac
| lines), distance to power grid, UPS coverage, internet
| coverage, cellular coverage... and eventually the amount of
| data crushed my brain and the project never even made it to a
| NextJS boilerplate. :) So if you want to add more data... hint
| hint hint. :)
|
| How did you "bend" those hexagons? What's going on there as I
| go from coast to coast? Is that to map them to a sphere?
| nemo1618 wrote:
| I honestly have no idea how the heck grid works haha. Maybe
| someone else can chime in.
|
| The MVP site took >1 second to rerender when you dragged the
| slider. I got it down to a few dozen ms, which makes it a lot
| more fun to use. Pretty proud of that :)
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| The responsive, low-latency controls are definitely a
| pleasure!
|
| Thank you for not making it a typical CRUD app that queries
| an overloaded 35MB database for a couple round trips every
| time you want to move a slider....
| tony_cannistra wrote:
| Not the dev, but these are probably hexagonal bins that were
| computed in spherical/conic space (e.g the Albers Equal Area
| or Lambert Conformal projections [0], which happen to also be
| the projections that NOAA distributes a lot of their data in)
| and projected to Web Mercator (which is the web maps
| projection). Usually when you do that you get bendy things.
|
| [0]: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/narr/format.html
| bumblebritches5 wrote:
| mempko wrote:
| Really cool. Does this have a climate change model? Without one
| this is useful for maybe a 5 to 10yr window.
| alhirzel wrote:
| You have a great idea, hiring out someone on Upwork for an MVP
| that you could then run with or not. Wondering, what was the
| cost?
| nemo1618 wrote:
| About $800 IIRC. I didn't shop around at all though.
| 404mm wrote:
| Thank you for this!!!
|
| I went through scraping weather averages and graphing them in
| elk, then finding https://weatherspark.com/map and now this.
| Best option yet.
| pengaru wrote:
| Neat project! Would be nice if it integrated data like
| wildfires, mudslides, floods, storms/winds, crime, mosquito
| populations, to be a truly useful aid in home site locating.
| pharmakom wrote:
| Please add a Celsius / Fahrenheit toggle :)
| ledauphin wrote:
| this is cool - i've spent way too much time just sort of
| synthesizing this sort of data in my brain with no hard
| evidence.
|
| One knob I'd love to have is the ability to tune the # of days
| ranges - "above 200" is a pretty large bucket depending on how
| you tune the other numbers. It looks this is changeable in the
| code, but maybe it's tied tightly to the available data?
| oh_sigh wrote:
| Well...did it work for you? Did you find some spot where you're
| going to build a house?
| nemo1618 wrote:
| Ha, no, not yet. Looking more closely at NC though. I want to
| have a nice mountain view, so maybe I need to incorporate
| topological data too somehow.
| jkelleyrtp wrote:
| NC is a very temperate and beautiful place. Good prices and
| jobs too. If you live in the middle, both the ocean and
| mountains are 3 hours away.
| ghaff wrote:
| Temperate is in the eye of the beholder :-) Pretty hot
| and humid in summer for my taste. That said, Asheville in
| particular often gets pretty highly ranked among small
| cities to live in and it's probably more comfortable in
| the summer than many other locations in the state.
| wk_end wrote:
| 200-366 days at the top end is an enormous range (substantially
| larger than all the others, for some reason) - nearly half the
| year. I hate hot weather, and this didn't really help me filter
| out places that have horrible summers, because the summer is,
| yes, less than 166 days long. I assume people who dislike cold
| weather would feel similarly. So this is...kind of useless?
| nemo1618 wrote:
| Good call! I hate hot weather too. I'll try breaking up the
| range a bit more. btw, you can also view on a month-by-month
| basis.
| wk_end wrote:
| I totally missed the month-by-month drop down. That helps, a
| lot, thanks.
|
| Sorry for the overly critical tone of my comment, BTW.
| Sometimes the internet makes it hard for me to remember that
| real people work on stuff and are reading what you're saying
| about it.
| jakear wrote:
| Those finding fault in this may be better served by the B6ppen
| climate classification, which is a global index that takes into
| account not just temperature but also rainfall and whether the
| rain is strongest in summer or winter.
|
| Notably, it shows that the idyllic Mediterranean/Californian
| climate can also be found in parts of Western Australia, South
| Africa, and Chile.
|
| [1]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classifica...
| odiroot wrote:
| I pretty much only get southern California and southern Florida
| with my ideal range.
|
| I wish this website supported Europe and Asia.
| smeej wrote:
| Reading the comments makes me wonder if I'm the only one who
| would even be interested in this, but I really like _variety,_ so
| I 'd love to be able to be able to layer semitranslucent layers
| on top of each other.
|
| It's probably way too much customization, but if I want somewhere
| that has at least 30 days that _don 't_ get over 30 degrees, as
| well as maybe 15 days above 90 degrees, I'd kind of have to have
| it open in two windows and compare locations myself, as opposed
| to being able to set which end of the color spectrum would be my
| "green" for each filter, layer them on top of each other, and
| just look for the greenest places.
|
| But it seems like most people have a preference for consistent
| weather, so you're probably nailing your target market's wishes!
|
| I already know I love where I live, too, so it'd be fun to look
| at where else might suit me, but I'm not making plans to move
| based on a hope of weather improvement.
| kevmo314 wrote:
| I also like variety. I would've liked to see how closely the
| temperature distribution in a cell matches a normal
| distribution parameterized by the slider instead of how many
| days fall in that bucket. That would reward closer matches over
| places that just maintain one temperature.
| paxys wrote:
| One thing that isn't very intuitive - on a map dealing with
| temperature you'd immediately expect a range of red to blue
| colors to represent hotter/colder regions. In this case, maybe a
| different color scheme would help in representing # days more
| clearly.
| triumphantomato wrote:
| Is it possible to limit the search to daytime temperatures? I
| care much more if it's 40*F during the day than during the night.
| nemo1618 wrote:
| Not sure if NOAA provides a dataset for that, but I totally
| agree!
| disillusioned wrote:
| Do you really need a tool to just tell you "San Diego"?
|
| (I'm kidding, this is really neat.)
| rosetremiere wrote:
| I must say, it's frustrating clicking this link and landing on a
| page narrowed to the USA, and, to top it off, in Fahrenheit...
| Maybe a title change would be welcome.
| nemo1618 wrote:
| Sorry! I'd love to extend this to other countries, but I wasn't
| sure where to get the data.
| tony_cannistra wrote:
| The ECMWF Reanalysis is a great option!
| https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/dataset/ecmwf-
| reanalysis-...
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| Temp in Celsius doesn't need getting any extra data :)
| daotoad wrote:
| Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone
| used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and
| there are 5280 feet in a mile.
|
| If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C =
| (F-32) * 9 / 5.
| rosetremiere wrote:
| My turn to be sorry! I had to blow some steam off and hadn't
| thought about the fact that the person behind the page might
| read my comment. Cheers on your work :)
| Aeolun wrote:
| Don't feel bad. I had exactly the same reaction. "Who uses
| fahrenheit for something like this?", "Oh, it's US only."
| Animats wrote:
| Coastal LA - the only place in the US with a liveable climate
| that doesn't have hurricanes.
| not2b wrote:
| A site like this should use the heat index or the wet bulb
| temperature.
|
| The reason is that 35 degC (95 degF) is fatal to humans within
| hours at 100% relative humidity, but relatively comfortable at
| 10% humidity for people who are drinking enough water and have
| sun protection.
| octoberfranklin wrote:
| If anybody knows how to search the USA (or elsewhere) for the
| place with the highest [*] _mixing height_ , I will give you all
| of my internet points and sing your praises for the rest of
| eternity. Here is what the mixing height looks like for a random
| spot in Washington State:
|
| https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?w3u=1&w13=mhgt&w13...
|
| NOAA doesn't seem to publish any data on _actual_ mixing height,
| and even these forecasted mixing heights are only available for
| some areas (I can 't find them for anyplace in Northern
| California, for example).
|
| I am extremely sensitive to air pollution and this is, by far,
| the number one factor that correlates with my well-being. You'd
| think that coastal areas mean "clean ocean air", but they also
| tend to have very low mixing heights (Los Angeles is an extreme
| example) so when the wind isn't blowing in from the ocean it's
| pretty bad. Desert areas have spectacularly high mixing heights
| during the day, but near zero at night.
|
| [*] Technically I'm trying to optimize for the highest height of
| the lowest Nth percentile (for something like N=5%).
| paxys wrote:
| San Diego is already now the more unaffordable city in the
| country. We don't need this.
| fortysixdegrees wrote:
| I did a more comprehensive version of this analysis many years
| ago, and ended up moving to Guanajuato, Guanajuato Mexico as a
| result.
|
| And the climate was... Perfect.
| upnick wrote:
| Any chance this can be made to work in countries besides the
| United States? The weather over here in Malaysia has been going
| insane - imagine 2 months worth in rain happening in 2 days.
| carry_bit wrote:
| -10F isn't that cold. Maybe extend the bottom of the range (or
| provide a number input) for those of us who like the cold?
| freedomben wrote:
| I've become a little obsessed with the history of the US in the
| 19th century, and this map does an _amazing_ job at helping
| visualize the seriousness and difficulty that frontier livers and
| westward migrators faced back then.
|
| It's also just damn interesting as an interactive climate map!
| [deleted]
| OrlandoHakim wrote:
| This is an awesome visualization.
|
| A couple feature requests that would improve this
|
| - have an option to show the reverse of Min/Max days. i.e. Show
| me places where the temperature is below an extreme for a minimum
| number of days.
|
| - better accessibility, this color scheme doesn't work for the
| color blind
|
| - what about wet vs dry days? i.e. Precipitation
| om3n wrote:
| Even though it's possible to deduce, I think it would still be
| helpful to indicate temperature units (C/F).
| dr_orpheus wrote:
| Had to do a quick sanity check too. My ideal climate is
| definitely in a place where the temperature remains below the
| boiling point of water.
| 4ndrewl wrote:
| "Show me this was written by an American, without telling me it
| was written by an American"
|
| It's still pretty neat though. :)
| electroly wrote:
| The fact that it only shows America is, perhaps, the most
| obvious tell ;)
| roter wrote:
| Except for the isolated hex in Ontario, Canada. Note that
| this was probably built from the USCRN network [0] which
| has a research station in Egbert [1].
|
| [0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/crn/ [1]
| https://www.atdd.noaa.gov/u-s-crn-groups-map/
| chestnuttrees wrote:
| Dang. This is why it's fun to read HN. Thanks!
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| I hit the "back" button when I saw it's only in F units, and I
| didn't feel like doing conversions.
| krono wrote:
| Your loss, it's pretty neat
| shock wrote:
| What's his loss, exactly?
| krono wrote:
| Not having experienced the joy of dreaming about a new
| life in another place.
|
| What an odd question!
|
| Edit: My ideal temperature range left me with just
| Vancouver, Canada.
| ghostpepper wrote:
| Vancouverite here - the temperature is quite moderate but
| you need to be okay with a lot of grey drizzly days.
| Summers are wonderful though.
| jedberg wrote:
| When I travel outside the US and have to discuss temperatures
| with people, or I'm talking to foreigners in the US, I
| convert to C in my head and use that.
|
| It probably isn't that hard for you to just convert in your
| head.
| odiroot wrote:
| There's never a need to use anything else than Celsius, in
| Europe. Ok, we do learn Kelvin in school but you wouldn't
| really use it in a normal conversation.
| jedberg wrote:
| There's never a need to use anything else than Fahrenheit
| the US either, but I still learned how to use Celsius.
| gpvos wrote:
| No, it's not, because it's not just a multiplication but
| also an addition. If I would live in the US for some time
| maybe I would develop a knack for it, but for now it's too
| much effort for something that only a few places use.
| jedberg wrote:
| I don't use multiplication or division. I just know 0=32,
| 10=50, 20=68, 22=72(aka room temp), 30=86, and 40=104
| (aka really hot). I just estimate from there.
| com2kid wrote:
| And this is why SF is so popular. It is a shame Florida never
| developed a huge tech hub, but Miami has plenty of other stuff
| going for it. (besides hurricanes)
|
| People don't get it, SF will be always popular because the
| climate is just that good. Seattle is a close #2 IMHO, but you
| have to be able to put up with 8 months of grey, which is a huge
| "but".
| nonameiguess wrote:
| SF is windy and overcast. Almost all of California except the
| mountain peaks and deserts has better climate.
| carapace wrote:
| Yeah, this. The folks above almost certainly live in the lee
| of Twin Peaks. Out here in the Western part of the city we
| have Winter and what I like to call the "Season of Cold
| Winds".
| com2kid wrote:
| I'm in Seattle, we are the US definition of overcast. 62% of
| our days have heavy could cover.
|
| SF doesn't even make the top 10 list of America's cloudiest
| cities. :)
| carapace wrote:
| But the clouds up there are _gorgeous!_ Here we just get a
| grey blanket.
| nharada wrote:
| It's very neighborhood dependent, if you want to live
| somewhere sunny you definitely can.
| pengaru wrote:
| So true. Driving up to SF from San Mateo often caused us to
| question the sanity of people paying so much to live in such
| a terrible micro-climate. We'd often be leaving clear and
| sunny, t-shirt and shorts weather, to enter what looked like
| an apocalyptic storm-chasers situation of cold, wet, doom and
| gloom.
|
| Makes for great sailing year-round on the bay though!
| s0rce wrote:
| Oakland is also great, arguably better.
| dehrmann wrote:
| Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test
| Xcelerate wrote:
| I lived in Redwood City for a few years. It was fantastic. We
| moved there from Tennessee, and after the first week we were
| like "wow, it has been clear blue skies every day this week!"
| After another four months with barely a cloud in the sky, it
| dawned on us that the climate really was quite incredible
| (although there are two seasons, "green" and "brown", and the
| months are swapped from what they are in the southeast).
|
| 30 miles north in San Francisco it's quite a bit cooler and
| less sunny though. I would drive into the fog every Saturday
| morning to visit the farmers market.
|
| We're back in Tennessee now and I forgot how bad my seasonal
| affective disorder gets. Apparently I crave sunshine.
| tigen wrote:
| What I find is that a total lack of clouds can make the
| sunlight feel overly bright and intense. The dryness can
| also lead to a bit of dust in the air.
|
| This is pretty minor nitpicking overall, but the middle of
| the day can feel a little harsh for these reasons. The
| landscapes also get dried out.
|
| This is more noticeable in the south bay than SF and
| thereabouts
| bicx wrote:
| I moved to SF recently from Tennessee. It's been wonderful to
| have such pleasant weather year-round. Granted, it's not a
| tropical paradise, but you will survive with an optional light
| jacket in your backpack nearly all year.
|
| The only other place that is now tempting me is San Diego.
| asdff wrote:
| San Diego weather might be the best in the world. It feels
| like its physically impossible for it to be above 85 degrees
| from the prevailing ocean winds.
| encoderer wrote:
| I live in Berkeley now and would love to sell my house and move
| some place cheaper, but the weather here is just incredible.
| The only thing I would like is warmer nights but I can't seem
| to find that without 90 degree days.
| kfarr wrote:
| Live in SF and also wish we had warmer nights, but I figure
| in about 10 years with global warming it'll be about right...
| at_a_remove wrote:
| In the lightning-unlikely chance that I had my druthers, I would
| go for something like a Koppen Cfb climate, probably near the Hoh
| rainforest: moderate temperatures, _highly_ overcast, and quite
| damp. But not near a great number of people.
| Floegipoky wrote:
| Haven't seen USDA plant hardiness zones mentioned. Definitely
| less detailed but still very useful:
| https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/pages/view-maps
| ianbicking wrote:
| Plant zones seem very primitive to me, AFAICT based only on the
| maximum sustained cold. So for instance Duluth has a relatively
| higher hardiness zone rating than some areas around it, despite
| having a very narrow growing period, simply because in the
| depth of winter it doesn't get QUITE as cold due to Lake
| Superior. But most of the year it's quite a bit colder places
| around it due to that same lake!
| photochemsyn wrote:
| Such zones won't necessarily be very stable. Current climate
| trends point towards an increase in hot humid conditions in some
| areas, increased aridity and drought in others, and associated
| extreme weather conditions. If there's any one culprit to point
| to, it's the water vapor increase (forced in turn by the increase
| in atmospheric fossil CO2 and CH4). This also affects wet-bulb
| temperature (which sets an upper limit on outdoor activity):
|
| https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3151/too-hot-to-ha...
|
| Climate-resistant design and construction is going to be a
| booming field in years to come. Termite-type underground
| construction, fire-resistant bunkers in dry zones, maybe flood-
| resistant floatable housing in flood zones, solar-powered AC
| units, etc. A lot of climates are more tolerable if you have a
| refuge to escape to.
| svilen_dobrev wrote:
| i have found some places that i like as climate... tried living
| there for some time.. but disliked the people. And moved away.
|
| so there are even less places that i feel compatible with, if
| measuring climate AND people ..
|
| anyway, YMMMV.
| silisili wrote:
| I like data like this - it reminds me of the pleasant places
| maps[1].
|
| That said - you have to be wary of both types of maps because it
| doesn't take into account other potentially annoying factors. The
| biggest being humidity - there's a huge difference between 90
| degree phoenix and 90 degree miami. Then there's rainfall, and
| one a lot of people don't think about - wind.
|
| To add - if you're thinking about seriously comparing two
| climates, check out this comparison tool [2]. Has any metric you
| can dream of charted together.
|
| 1 - https://kellegous.com/j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/
|
| 2 - https://outflux.net/weather/noaa/index.php
| nemo1618 wrote:
| Hmm, I can probably incorporate humidity data without too much
| trouble. Is there a standard way to calculate a "feels like"
| temperature using humidity?
|
| btw, thanks for reminding me of the pleasant places map -- I
| think it must have been an unconscious influence on this.
| Symmetry wrote:
| You could use the dew point to combine humidity and
| temperature?
| silisili wrote:
| Hey thanks, nice work btw. As others pointed out, heat index
| is a decent indicator I think.
|
| Not to 'steal' ideas from the other site, but having that
| little year avg chart pop up on click is a really killer
| feature for showing which months are best. For example, I'd
| much rather live somewhere with 4 solid "uncomfortable"
| months and 8 solid comfortable, than somewhere with 2 on, 1
| off.
| nemo1618 wrote:
| Yep. Personally I'm interested in finding two locations:
| one with great weather throughout the summer, and one with
| great weather throughout the winter.
| silisili wrote:
| If I had the money... Spokane throughout the summer,
| central Florida during the winter.
| [deleted]
| ghaff wrote:
| Don't know about Spokane, but summer would probably be
| _somewhere_ on the West Coast, northern New England, or
| higher altitudes in the Southwest (e.g. Santa Fe). Winter
| is harder but, assuming I was trying to _avoid_ snow,
| probably somewhere broadly in the desert Southwest.
| gav wrote:
| The calculation from the NWS:
| https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_heatindex (see the linked
| PDF[1])
|
| Given an air temperature (T) in degF and a relative humidity
| (rh). Indexheat = - 42.379 + (2.04901523 x
| T) + (10.14333127 x rh) - (0.22475541 x T x rh) -
| (6.83783x10-3xT^2) - (5.481717 x 10-2 x rh^2) + (1.22874 x
| 10-3 x T^2 x rh) + (8.5282x10-4 x T x rh^2) - (1.99x10-6 x
| T^2 x rh^2)
|
| [1] https://www.weather.gov/media/epz/wxcalc/heatIndex.pdf
| theli0nheart wrote:
| It would be nice if that document cited sources or provided
| a methodology for how these values were derived.
| oh_sigh wrote:
| Ultimately derived from here: https://journals.ametsoc.or
| g/view/journals/apme/18/7/1520-04...
|
| The equation came later - the output of that article is
| just a table, and the equation was derived to be a nice
| fit over the table's values.
| [deleted]
| db65edfc7996 wrote:
| If taking comments from the peanut gallery...any chance on
| also limiting to "waking hours"? I mostly do not care what
| the temperature is at 3am, but it likely dramatically pushes
| down the low temperatures for a day.
| lifebypizza wrote:
| I came to comment for this very reason. I care a lot about
| humidity. Ideally you could include both humidity (dew point
| is the best measure of humidity, btw) and feels like, but
| just the humidity would be enough.
|
| But yeah, as others mentioned, rainfall, storms, cloudiness,
| etc, are all things that would be great to include.
| brimble wrote:
| Yeah this paints most of the Southwest as having a worse
| climate than where I live, which... yeah, for anyone who hates
| humidity (which is most people, I think?), that's not remotely
| true. I'd take 95F and bone dry over 82F and soaking-wet air,
| any day. Happily.
| silisili wrote:
| Same. I'm moving from FL to the SW this year. People see our
| summer weather - 88hi, 78 low almost every day and think it's
| perfect. It's not, and it feels gross down to about 72
| degrees because of the suffocating humidity.
| antupis wrote:
| Same with cold I would take dry non windy -10F over humid
| windy 30F any day.
| birdman3131 wrote:
| Moved from Colorado (down to -40 in the winter) to east
| Texas as a kid. Went outside and was told it was mid 30F's.
| Did not believe they because it felt way colder.
|
| These days I am used to it and wear short sleeves down to
| about 0 to -10F and watch the minds of everyone go WTF is
| he on. Had I don't know how many people try to donate me
| jackets while out walking. (Western AR now but it is the
| same as east Texas for climate.)
| amarshall wrote:
| See also https://weatherspark.com/
| Nzen wrote:
| tl;dr This is a USA map to visualize average or min-max
| temperatures for areas roughly the diameter of Chicago. It colors
| the tiles based on the proportion of the selected interval
| (annual or a specific month). The data is from a US agency [0].
| This way, you can see that Los Angeles, CA is 40-80deg F 75% of
| the year and Salt Lake City, UT is in that range only 10%.
|
| [0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/us-
| cli...
| spuz wrote:
| I must be using the tool wrong because literally everywhere in
| the US is my Goldilocks zone which I'm certain is not the case. I
| set it to give me places where the minimum winter temperature is
| -5degC (23F) and max summer temperature is 35degC (95F) and every
| part of the map is coloured purple.
| nemo1618 wrote:
| You are very tolerant, haha. I can't stand anything over 80F or
| so.
|
| btw, you can also view individual months if you only care about
| a particular season.
| spuz wrote:
| I think I just don't understand what to input to give the
| answer I want. I entered the typical minimum and maximum
| temperatures that I experience where I live now which is
| London, UK. Given that, I wouldn't expect the tool to tell me
| that the entire US has the same climate as London. I think
| it's because I'm used to a place where the extremes only last
| for a few days in each year and the rest of the time the
| temperature is pretty mild. Tolerating a 35degC day in the
| summer is not that hard when it only happens once every 5
| years and you can go and drink cold drinks in the park.
|
| I think it would be interesting to see the same map of the US
| but showing areas that _never_ reach above or below the
| limits that you set.
| bee_rider wrote:
| You could probably pick a summer month in the month drop-
| down, at least for a pretty good approximation of 'areas
| that never go over X temperature,' since purple indicates
| 25-31 days inside your range.
|
| This told me that I should live in Alaska, or on Mt.
| Washington. Unfortunately my ancestors came from your
| cloudy islands and we never adapted to all this horrible
| sunlight I guess.
| mrep wrote:
| Lol, as someone from Chicago, I thought the same. Then again, I
| like seasons so it doesn't seem that useful.
| f0e4c2f7 wrote:
| Another site you can use for this sort of thing is nomadlist[0].
| Maybe get a general idea from this site and then use nomadlist to
| narrow it down to a city.
|
| [0] nomadlist.com
| kevinsundar wrote:
| And this my friends is why I live in San Diego! I really do think
| tech will take off in this area soon. Its (relatively for CA) on
| the cheaper side for housing and great for remote work.
| romanhn wrote:
| While still somewhat cheaper than prime Bay Area real estate in
| absolute sense, the price edge in San Diego and North County
| has rapidly diminished in the last couple of years. Bidding is
| extremely aggressive and many homes in the more desirable areas
| go pending within a few days, frequently with many offers
| multiple $100k's above asking price. Saw one go $1M above
| asking recently. It's pretty bonkers.
| dartdartdart wrote:
| Why is it great for remote work? The land is already developed
| and the undeveloped areas get the sweltering sun of socal
| without the cooling ocean breeze to balance it out. The "good
| climate" only lasts for a mile or so from shore from
| mLuby wrote:
| Feature request: bugs!
|
| Don't know what kind of data sources there are for this but
| voracious insects can make an otherwise lovely climate
| unbearable.
| therealmarv wrote:
| Countries which use Fahrenheit: the United States, the Bahamas,
| the Cayman Islands, Liberia, Palau, the Federated States of
| Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands.
|
| Please add a Celsius switch! Thanks from the rest of the World.
| paxys wrote:
| Countries whose temperate data this site has: United States
| Synaesthesia wrote:
| Living in Pretoria I thought we had an ideal climate. It gets a
| bit chilly in winter but it's mostly quite a moderate and dry
| climate.
|
| Then my friend told me about the Kenyan Highlands, which he
| thinks has the best climate. It's basically 23C year round!
| mmckelvy wrote:
| I've found Weather Spark to be a useful tool for researching
| ideal climates: https://weatherspark.com/. It has detailed
| temperature breakouts by time of day and year, wind speed,
| humidity, rainfall, etc.
|
| One thing I've started to pay a lot more attention to is
| rainfall. The temperature in Southern California (where I
| currently live) is certainly pleasant, but that comes with the
| tradeoff of very limited rainfall, which seems to be having an
| increasingly negative impact as the years wear on.
| dartdartdart wrote:
| Currently SF is in a more severe drought than LA
|
| Src:
| https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...
| renewiltord wrote:
| Hawaii. Gorgeous place. Loved living there. People don't like
| working that much, though. Missed the buzz of the Bay Area.
| laweijfmvo wrote:
| Very useful! Thanks!
|
| If you could somehow incorporate sunshine (examples: # sunny
| days, daily hours of sun, % cloud cover, or something similar),
| that would be a phenomenal addition.
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