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.
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 almost on the beach.
I am planning a road trip this year from my home in Alabama across and up to Washington state in late August. I believe I timed it just right! Side note: I cannot stand the heat and humidity here in Alabama this time of year. When it's 98 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity is so high that as soon as you walk outside you are covered in water like you just jumped in a pool..... it's unbearable. I love the outdoors but due to the climate around here I can't do anything during the summer months.
Here's an idea for an app: a program that does this for any desired temperature range. Set it to 65-75F, and you probably don't have that big detour to Alaska. This ought to be a function in travel planning programs.
Nifty. You could probably turn this into a useful planning tool for RV camper types if you turned it into a constraint-solver or integer programming problem by using RV or camping locations and adding costs for relocation, to get a cost-effective set of trips up the coasts and back down over the year.
Original article:<p><a href="http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/10/70f-road-trip.html" rel="nofollow">http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/10/70f-road-trip.html</a>
The biggest issue with this, is that the average temperatures don't change that quickly, so you're treading pavement in most of these locations waiting for the temps to change. It's a year long road trip in the most agonizingly slow way possible. Neat premise though.
In the visualization video it looks like the 70 degree latitude is much more uniform in approximately the eastern half of the country than the western half. In the east it basically just marches northward in a line from winter to summer, but in the west it's all over the place. (And not just on the coast.) Does this have something to do with prevailing winds? Elevation?
I'm born and raised in the Bay Area (a native, of sorts). Between work and family, I've travelled more than a little bit the last few years. I live on the coast, we used to have some great storms in the late 90s, but nothing impressive in over 10 years.<p>For me, I need the change of temperature (sure it's between about 8 and 21-25C, but a variation). The lack of light in winter affects me more.<p>I've been through one Finnish winter and had visits to Tallinn (-30C), Stockholm (-12C) and Munich (0C) one work trip where 0c really felt like I should be wearing shorts.<p>What I can't deal with is hot and humid. Arrived in Germany about two weeks back, it was 33C and humid. Not enough showers would help not feeling "sweaty and dirty".<p>I think some variation is useful. I also miss rain.
This can be a nice calculation based on the contour lines. I'm sure there are several local optimal solutions (Bay Area, San Diego) but I'd be interested in working on an elegant "doable" solution (e.g. no more than 200 miles of travel a week)
Favorite part about this is June, July, August and September in Colorado. Summertime in the Rockies! Any startups needing an excuse to get away, come visit us :)
The video of a line of red dots moving northward reminded me of Cherry blossum front (桜前線) in Japan.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom_front" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom_front</a>
If you are in India, you could just stay the whole year in Bangalore. <a href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=bangalore+temperature" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.in/search?q=bangalore+temperature</a>
So here's the thing.<p>It starts in Brownsville, Tx.[1]<p>In January 2016, There were 2 days in Brownsville where the high was 70, the 13th and 28th.<p>Even if you say +/- 5 degrees is 'close enough' to 70, less than 1/2 the days in January 2016 fall into that range.<p>From the 3rd to the 4th, the high temperature jumped 15 degrees from 51 to 66.<p>On the 2nd, the high was 45 degrees. The 15th, the high was 83 degrees. That's a 38 degree high temperature spread in one month.<p>So if you really do need 70, spot-on to be happy, you may need to add standard deviation to your criteria.<p>Here's the chart:<p>[1] <a href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/brownsville-tx/78520/january-weather/331109?monyr=1/1/2016" rel="nofollow">http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/brownsville-tx/78520/januar...</a>
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.<p>Their summary of pros/cons was you may become bored.
Watching that youtube clip of the 70 degree temp moving up and down the US really puts thing in perspective, one small tip of the earth's axis and we are all f#$$ed
damn this would make a great motorcycle route, but keep it towards the higher side of 70 for the naked bikes. High temperatures and summer humidity can side line me as much as below freezing temperatures. I can do below freezing but I get leery of what I find on the road around the next corner. Summer heat can be dangerous as many will ride without jackets which is unsafe and dehydrating
I'm not sure the writer understands the project. The route is constructed so that the daily high temperature is 70, so most of the time is spent in sub-70 degree weather. If "69 degrees and below makes you shiver like a soaked kitten", you're SOL.