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Poll
Question: Which of these inscrutable combinations of letters represents your ideal climate?
Option 1: Af votes: 0
Option 2: Am votes: 0
Option 3: Aw/As votes: 1
Option 4: BWh votes: 0
Option 5: BWk votes: 0
Option 6: BSh votes: 1
Option 7: BSk votes: 0
Option 8: Csa votes: 0
Option 9: Csb votes: 6
Option 10: Csc votes: 0
Option 11: Cwa votes: 0
Option 12: Cwb votes: 0
Option 13: Cwc votes: 0
Option 14: Cfa votes: 3
Option 15: Cfb votes: 10
Option 16: Cfc votes: 0
Option 17: Dsa votes: 0
Option 18: Dsb votes: 0
Option 19: Dsc votes: 2
Option 20: Dsd votes: 0
Option 21: Dwa votes: 0
Option 22: Dwb votes: 0
Option 23: Dwc votes: 0
Option 24: Dwd votes: 0
Option 25: Dfa votes: 1
Option 26: Dfb votes: 1
Option 27: Dfc votes: 0
Option 28: Dfd votes: 0
Option 29: ET votes: 0
Option 30: EF votes: 0
Title: Best climate
Post by: Grinning_Colossus on May 23, 2019, 12:24:08 AM
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification)
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 23, 2019, 12:28:00 AM
You've got to be joking.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 23, 2019, 01:15:05 AM
Has to be Cfb  :cool:
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 01:34:06 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 23, 2019, 01:15:05 AM
Has to be Cfb  :cool:


Yeah. It seems nice.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Grinning_Colossus on May 23, 2019, 01:41:40 AM
60% of people so far enjoy getting drenched in sweat when they take a short walk on an unbearably humid summer day.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 23, 2019, 01:48:35 AM
Take your walk in the morning in the summer.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Josquius on May 23, 2019, 01:49:34 AM
Dfb.
Real winters are nice.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: garbon on May 23, 2019, 01:58:10 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 23, 2019, 12:28:00 AM
You've got to be joking.

+1
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: celedhring on May 23, 2019, 02:03:22 AM
Csb, which is a slightly milder version of what I have right now (csa). But Med climates rule.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 23, 2019, 02:04:31 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on May 23, 2019, 01:41:40 AM
60% of people so far enjoy getting drenched in sweat when they take a short walk on an unbearably humid summer day.

Not my reading of a Cfb climate  :hmm:
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Syt on May 23, 2019, 02:07:40 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on May 23, 2019, 01:41:40 AM
60% of people so far enjoy getting drenched in sweat when they take a short walk on an unbearably humid summer day.

That's Cfa, not Cgb. :P
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Sophie Scholl on May 23, 2019, 03:58:45 AM
Dsc = Mediterranean-influenced subarctic climate; coldest month averaging below 0 °C (32 °F) (or −3 °C (27 °F)) and 1–3 months averaging above 10 °C (50 °F). At least three times as much precipitation in the wettest month of winter as in the driest month of summer, and driest month of summer receives less than 30 mm (1.2 in).
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Razgovory on May 23, 2019, 04:12:37 AM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on May 23, 2019, 01:41:40 AM
60% of people so far enjoy getting drenched in sweat when they take a short walk on an unbearably humid summer day.



That's what it's like in Scotland?  I live in area where you get drenched in sweat when you walk on a an unbearably humid summer day.  You walk out side and it feels like someone just threw hot soup in your face.  Glasses fog up immediately.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Maladict on May 23, 2019, 04:36:11 AM
Quote from: celedhring on May 23, 2019, 02:03:22 AM
Csb, which is a slightly milder version of what I have right now (csa). But Med climates rule.

This, first choice would be Csb. The climate I have (Cfb) suits me fine, though.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on May 23, 2019, 05:24:04 AM
Med climates are great and were my favourite when I was younger; the downside is that things get a bit dessicated in summer, I love all the beautiful green and cool shade we have here in Lancashire in summer.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Duque de Bragança on May 23, 2019, 05:42:59 AM
Bragança's micro-climate is not on the map so at best, a guess.
No tropical climate for me, dry heat, if not too high is fine during summer. Can't understand why people travel thousands of km to endure unhealthy climates.
I actually like a bit of snow during winter. Bit irregular in Bragança nowadays, but used to be a given a couple of generations ago.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: The Larch on May 23, 2019, 06:41:46 AM
Quote from: celedhring on May 23, 2019, 02:03:22 AM
Csb, which is a slightly milder version of what I have right now (csa). But Med climates rule.

Csb is what we have here, come visit some day. :cheers:

It's actually rather lovely weather during the summer.  :cool:
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: mongers on May 23, 2019, 08:01:57 AM
The one we all had?
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Grey Fox on May 23, 2019, 11:30:11 AM
BSh motherfuckers.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Iormlund on May 23, 2019, 01:49:53 PM
The climate here is pretty shitty (CsA summers and cold windy winters).

Of those climates I've experienced CsB was best. Temperate winters, cool summers.

Top place though probably goes to some Highland CfB microclimates. My Venezuelan gf grew up in the Andes, and the weather in that town is basically like Spanish late spring the whole year round. The downside is people who grew up there are always too cold or too hot anywhere else.  :P
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:01:35 PM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on May 23, 2019, 03:58:45 AM
Dsc = Mediterranean-influenced subarctic climate; coldest month averaging below 0 °C (32 °F) (or −3 °C (27 °F)) and 1–3 months averaging above 10 °C (50 °F). At least three times as much precipitation in the wettest month of winter as in the driest month of summer, and driest month of summer receives less than 30 mm (1.2 in).

:yes:

I was trying to find out Whitehorse's climate, which I generally enjoyed.  I think it's DSC.

Properly cold winter, with summer highs around 15-20c.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 02:07:18 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:01:35 PM
:yes:

I was trying to find out Whitehorse's climate, which I generally enjoyed.  I think it's DSC.

Properly cold winter, with summer highs around 15-20c.

You are one sick motherfucker BB :lol:
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:11:50 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 02:07:18 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:01:35 PM
:yes:

I was trying to find out Whitehorse's climate, which I generally enjoyed.  I think it's DSC.

Properly cold winter, with summer highs around 15-20c.

You are one sick motherfucker BB :lol:

If you're hot, there's nothing you can do to cool down.

If it's cool out, you can always put on a light jacket or a sweater and be warm.

:)
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 23, 2019, 03:23:51 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:11:50 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 02:07:18 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:01:35 PM
:yes:

I was trying to find out Whitehorse's climate, which I generally enjoyed.  I think it's DSC.

Properly cold winter, with summer highs around 15-20c.

You are one sick motherfucker BB :lol:

If you're hot, there's nothing you can do to cool down.

If it's cool out, you can always put on a light jacket or a sweater and be warm.

:)

Air conditioning. Or water + fan.

If you go somewhere that's never too hot, it's almost always too cold. I prefer balance.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 03:25:48 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on May 23, 2019, 03:23:51 PM
Air conditioning. Or water + fan.

If you go somewhere that's never too hot, it's almost always too cold. I prefer balance.

That only works if you never go outside.

And I like going outside.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 03:27:12 PM
If I am living in Whitehorse I am staying inside 9 months out of the year  :ph34r:
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Malthus on May 23, 2019, 03:29:11 PM
Come to Toronto, where you can get the best of both worlds - way too hot in summer, way too cold in winter.

Perfect balance!  :D
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: viper37 on May 23, 2019, 06:40:54 PM
it's so cold now, that I think I'm ready for Aw/As or Am.  All freaking year long.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: KRonn on May 23, 2019, 06:46:22 PM
I voted cfb as that's what I have where I am so accustomed to it, but also would vote secondly, or even preferably, for csa or csb for warmer and less humid in the summer. A Mediterranean climate seems a more comfortable year round climate. Hmm, maybe I should move. :)
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Caliga on May 23, 2019, 07:31:33 PM
Csb is my favorite by far, of all the ones I've been to.  I believe all of coastal southern California is in this climate zone?

I also like tropical climates such as Am/Aw (e.g. Miami Beach, Turks and Caicos, Punta Cana).
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Caliga on May 23, 2019, 07:32:50 PM
Quote from: KRonn on May 23, 2019, 06:46:22 PM
I voted cfb as that's what I have where I am so accustomed to it, but also would vote secondly, or even preferably, for csa or csb for warmer and less humid in the summer. A Mediterranean climate seems a more comfortable year round climate. Hmm, maybe I should move. :)
Did you move to the Vineyard or the Cape KRonn?  I thought suburban Boston was solidly humid continental? 
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: KRonn on May 23, 2019, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 23, 2019, 07:32:50 PM
Quote from: KRonn on May 23, 2019, 06:46:22 PM
I voted cfb as that's what I have where I am so accustomed to it, but also would vote secondly, or even preferably, for csa or csb for warmer and less humid in the summer. A Mediterranean climate seems a more comfortable year round climate. Hmm, maybe I should move. :)
Did you move to the Vineyard or the Cape KRonn?  I thought suburban Boston was solidly humid continental?

That may be the weather type and summer here has its humid days, but we also have many warm, drier days.  Last summer though was very humid over long stretches, but that's not really the usual. Usually we get one to a few days of heavy humidity then it changes to cooler/drier.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 08:07:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 23, 2019, 03:29:11 PM
Come to Toronto, where you can get the best of both worlds - way too hot in summer, way too cold in winter.

Perfect balance!  :D

Actually I would be alright with that. I like pronounced seasons. You do have a Fall and a Spring right? :hmm:
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: PDH on May 23, 2019, 08:21:39 PM
Central Coast California, Csb with foggy mornings and warm sunny afternoons is ideal for me.  Things stay green (other than open grasslands) because of the fog (lots of redwoods in the coastal mountains), it warms up most days, and it never gets too cold (but it does cool down every night).  Also, outside of rainy winter, it is not too humid.

Other than the fact that every other idiot wants to live here, and most of those are making way too much money in Silicon Valley, it is ideal for me.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: mongers on May 24, 2019, 07:23:35 AM
Quote from: PDH on May 23, 2019, 08:21:39 PM
Central Coast California, Csb with foggy mornings and warm sunny afternoons is ideal for me.  Things stay green (other than open grasslands) because of the fog (lots of redwoods in the coastal mountains), it warms up most days, and it never gets too cold (but it does cool down every night).  Also, outside of rainy winter, it is not too humid.

Other than the fact that every other idiot wants to live here, and most of those are making way too much money in Silicon Valley, it is ideal for me.

:cool:

Yeah it's always other people who cause the problems.  :P

'Embrace the solitude'.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Malthus on May 24, 2019, 08:50:24 AM
Quote from: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 08:07:42 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 23, 2019, 03:29:11 PM
Come to Toronto, where you can get the best of both worlds - way too hot in summer, way too cold in winter.

Perfect balance!  :D

Actually I would be alright with that. I like pronounced seasons. You do have a Fall and a Spring right? :hmm:

We do - and they are the best seasons here, weather-wise. Fall is truly spectacular in southern Ontario (tourists come just to see the foliage colours), and spring is lovely. Only, they are short!
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: HVC on May 24, 2019, 08:54:08 AM
Springs going all the way to the end of may, if not further, this year ha
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Malthus on May 24, 2019, 09:09:38 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 24, 2019, 08:54:08 AM
Springs going all the way to the end of may, if not further, this year ha

That's because winter refused to leave!  :lol:
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: viper37 on May 24, 2019, 09:25:43 AM
Quote from: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 08:07:42 PM
I like pronounced seasons. You do have a Fall and a Spring right? :hmm:
we also have pronounced seasons in Quebec.  There's winter, almost winter, something not really winter, close to winter.   :)

Every year or so, we alternate between very hot summers and extremely cold&rainy summers. That is so pronounced!
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Malthus on May 24, 2019, 09:31:01 AM
One thing I learned from the climate map descriptions: apparently Toronto sits in its own little climate zone bubble, one classification warmer than the surrounding bits of southern Ontario. You can actually see the difference if you drive north toward Barrie in the winter.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: HVC on May 24, 2019, 09:41:49 AM
Quote from: Malthus on May 24, 2019, 09:09:38 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 24, 2019, 08:54:08 AM
Springs going all the way to the end of may, if not further, this year ha

That's because winter refused to leave!  :lol:

True. And at least his year the island didn't flood as much
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Malthus on May 24, 2019, 10:01:04 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 24, 2019, 09:41:49 AM
Quote from: Malthus on May 24, 2019, 09:09:38 AM
Quote from: HVC on May 24, 2019, 08:54:08 AM
Springs going all the way to the end of may, if not further, this year ha

That's because winter refused to leave!  :lol:

True. And at least his year the island didn't flood as much

Apparently, it's bad ...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/flooding-toronto-island-1.5147890
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Maladict on May 24, 2019, 12:15:08 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 24, 2019, 09:31:01 AM
One thing I learned from the climate map descriptions: apparently Toronto sits in its own little climate zone bubble, one classification warmer than the surrounding bits of southern Ontario. You can actually see the difference if you drive north toward Barrie in the winter.

I went up to Barrie from Toronto in 1997. I don't recall any climate change, but I did have some terrible coffee there.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: viper37 on May 24, 2019, 01:48:36 PM
Quote from: KRonn on May 23, 2019, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 23, 2019, 07:32:50 PM
Quote from: KRonn on May 23, 2019, 06:46:22 PM
I voted cfb as that's what I have where I am so accustomed to it, but also would vote secondly, or even preferably, for csa or csb for warmer and less humid in the summer. A Mediterranean climate seems a more comfortable year round climate. Hmm, maybe I should move. :)
Did you move to the Vineyard or the Cape KRonn?  I thought suburban Boston was solidly humid continental?

That may be the weather type and summer here has its humid days, but we also have many warm, drier days.  Last summer though was very humid over long stretches, but that's not really the usual. Usually we get one to a few days of heavy humidity then it changes to cooler/drier.
For having visited once in the spring, I thought Boston had a lovely climate.  I think I could get used to live there, if I had to move to a city.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Valmy on May 24, 2019, 01:57:51 PM
The New England fall is amazing. I love it. The only problem is everybody who lives there is really gloomy because they know what is coming: the Red Sox offseason...er....winter.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: KRonn on May 25, 2019, 10:22:38 AM
Spring here can be nice, or cool and rainy, such as it is this year, and yes, Fall is usually a very nice season.
Title: Re: Best climate
Post by: Sophie Scholl on May 26, 2019, 03:30:51 AM
Quote from: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:11:50 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 23, 2019, 02:07:18 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 23, 2019, 02:01:35 PM
:yes:

I was trying to find out Whitehorse's climate, which I generally enjoyed.  I think it's DSC.

Properly cold winter, with summer highs around 15-20c.

You are one sick motherfucker BB :lol:

If you're hot, there's nothing you can do to cool down.

If it's cool out, you can always put on a light jacket or a sweater and be warm.

:)
Apparently we're two sick motherfuckers.  I was wondering who else joined me in the voting for the correct answer.  I should have known it was the guy who lived in Whitehorse.  I'd love to move to an area where that weather was the norm, but I'm a silly American so my choices are limited.  I also use the line of reasoning you put forth quite often to explain why heat and humidity are awful and the cold is awesome. :hug: