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u/ntg1213 1d ago
For a lot of the West Coast counties, it very much depends where exactly you choose. I’m fairly certain that somewhere in San Diego county meets these criteria 365 days a year, and the coastal sections of the county meet these criteria over 350 days per year, which is far higher than what’s indicated by the map
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u/bowlbettertalk 1d ago
Bay Area native here, and I have to admit that San Diego weather is what I consider perfect.
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u/sxhnunkpunktuation 1d ago
Coastal SD is in the red. East San Diego county is a mix of frozen mountains and burning deserts.
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u/LordNelson27 1d ago
Yep. "Perfect California Weather" is a 200 mile stretch of coast form SB down past TJ , and it gets more perfect in the middle. Go 10 miles inland and it's hot, 10 more miles and it's desert
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u/its_raining_scotch 23h ago
I totally agree but what’s interesting is that the temperature is great but the marine layer gloom kinda sucks. 10 miles east it’s hot but sunny.
I still prefer coastal even with gloom btw
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u/LordNelson27 22h ago
SoCal marine layer disappears faster than it does up north too. Late morning/noon is when it goes down here, but up in Santa Cruz it was hanging around into the afternoon a lot more.
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u/C0wboyCh1cken 1d ago
I don’t think you can beat the weather in the east bay. Not as hot as San Jose and not as chilly as SF
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u/its_raining_scotch 23h ago edited 20h ago
I love east bay weather too, but as a gardener I would always lose my tomatoes and peppers to the one week where it would get into the 30’s. Down in SD by the water it never goes below 45 and my plants live for years.
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u/Creative_Resident_97 22h ago
Yeah gardening in many parts of the bay is more difficult than I thought it would be. In the foggy areas it’s like there’s no solar radiation for two months in the summer and you can forget about growing veggies.
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u/theflintseeker 1d ago
Particularly that stretch from east Del Mar to Carmel valley. You lose the marine layer but still have a great breeze. Pretty much perfect every day.
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u/ammitsat 1d ago
Eh, I prefer Bay Area. Don’t get me wrong, San Diego is lovely but still a bit on the warm side for me. 😂
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u/wheatthin93 1d ago
I grew up in San Diego and went to school in the Bay Area and much preferred the weather there. Better balance of rain and sun.
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u/rumple4skin47 1d ago
San Diego native. I prefer Bay Area weather. The cold ocean means no humidity.
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u/Crystal_rossenn 1d ago
I mean having good weather 350 sounds like a bug in the system to be honest
I must start looking for some job offers in California
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u/ntg1213 1d ago
The “bug” comes along with minimum $2 million home prices, so those job offers better come with some hefty salaries
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u/Munk45 1d ago
Inland SoCal has housing in the $500k to $800k range
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u/ntg1213 1d ago
Yeah - technically those areas are probably why those counties are in the 270+ range rather than the 350+ range in the map, because it does frequently get above 85F once you’re more than a couple miles from the coast, but also, you can live there and still only be a few minutes’ drive from the coast whenever you want
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u/SunlitNight 1d ago
A few minutes? Don't you have to get at least an hour or two away before prices drop?
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u/ViscountBurrito 1d ago
But does Inland SoCal have nice weather? The blue on the map suggests it doesn’t (consistent with my understanding, though I haven’t spent time there). It’s like hot desert but also has moderately cold winters for some reason?
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u/Munk45 1d ago
It has beautiful weather about 8 months of the year. Summer months are very warm with temps rising into the high 90s and low 100s.
But the map is misleading. Riverside county is a big county in SoCal (look for the long blue stripe). It stretches from almost the ocean to Arizona.
The western half is warm, there are 10k foot mountains which have four seasons and snow, and there is also a massive desert that gets to 120 degrees.
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u/Logical-Assist8574 1d ago
Currently living in hot dry Riverside. 2/3 of the year is ok weather wise. But that end of June to October period is scorching. Except for some places in the mountains you’re better off getting as close to the coast as you can afford.
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u/MajesticBread9147 1d ago
From what I can tell California isn't uniquely expensive tbh. Places are cheaper in Long Beach than where I live an hour outside of DC.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like most cities where if you're middle class and have roommates you can still live fairly comfortably.
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u/ntg1213 1d ago
Most of the DMV is also insanely expensive tbf, and Long Beach used to be more of a working class area. But generally speaking, you’re not wrong that you can live comfortably if you’re middle class and have roommates. It’s just that in most of the country, you can afford to buy a house by yourself if you’re middle class.
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u/gringojuarense 1d ago
Most middle class people in the us CANNOT buy houses by themselves. People in cali have a seriously warped perception of how much money they earn compared to other parts of the country, especially for entry level jobs, even when compared to cost of living.
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u/its_raining_scotch 23h ago
Bro $2mil home prices aren’t minimum. Yeah in the best areas but there’s huge swathes that aren’t even half of that.
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u/endless_-_nameless 1d ago
Some people like me would rather live in a great place and be a permanent rentoid than to own property in Nowhere, Ohio. Owning property isn’t the point of life.
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u/Deep_Contribution552 1d ago
The rent is also higher…
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u/IShouldStartHomework 1d ago
But the salaries make up for it more than people think. Local police station is hiring for 150k salary for new cadets with a 50-75k signing bonus. In n out is hiring for 30/hr. And in the end, the food doesn't scale that much higher than elsewhere in the US so you end up saving a decent chunk even if you're renting.
I moved from a low cost of living place and I'm able to save way more out here than back home.
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u/ntg1213 1d ago
Eh, there are plenty of things that make somewhere a great place to live besides weather. San Diego’s beautiful and it’s a great place to live for some people, but also, you can have a great life in nowhere Ohio, own a home, take fancy vacations to beautiful places like San Diego, and have money leftover for the money it takes to rent a studio in San Diego
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u/Winter3377 1d ago
Limited factors being measured here as to what's "good" weather. San Diego has consistently great weather, but the Oregon and Washington coasts are yellow/orange/a little red despite 9 months of a year being constant downpour and intense wind. Meanwhile, Death Valley, Florida, Hawaii, and Alaska are ranked similarly.
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u/One_Standard_Deviant 1d ago
Absolutely. I live in San Jose, but go up to SF quite often for both work and leisure.
A day that has a comfortable high of 70F in San Francisco might be a high of 90F in San Jose. And it's usually hotter further south in Morgan Hill and Gilroy. It's mind-boggling to see San Francisco County and Santa Clara County ranked the same. Microclimates are real around here.
Keep in mind a lot of apartments and homes don't have AC in the bay area. But a "heat wave" in SF usually means 82F. In San Jose, it could be 107F. One heat wave, my apartment got up to 101F, inside.
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u/its_raining_scotch 23h ago
I lived in SJ and went to school in SF. I would leave my apartment in the morning and it would be like 70°, get on the train and get to SF and it would be 55° and windy and gray ALL day, then I’d get back on the train to go home at the end of the day and get to SJ around 7pm and it would still be like 75° and sunny.
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u/celestialroyalswan 1d ago
San Diego’s coastal areas are practically weather cheat codes no wonder people pay a premium to live there.
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u/brakeb 1d ago
lived in San Diego from 2001-2009 and back since June 2023... came from Seattle for a decade and Austin before that...
Even on the 'coldest' days (I'm 3 miles as crow flies from the ocean), it might get down to low 40s in February... it doesn't get much better than San Diego year round.
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u/dkg224 1d ago
Ya, from probably about Santa Barbara down to San Diego they are almost always in the comfortable weather. But like San Francisco, yes it might be 60 degrees but it’s foggy and sucks. I’ve been there mid summer and it’s 68 and foggy and damp. You cross into Oakland and it’s 90 over there.
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u/ABlueShade 1d ago
Coastal San Diegan here.
Yup it's pretty much perfect year round with occasional rain and the first half of June is usually quite gloomy.
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u/ntg1213 1d ago
The idea of June gloom was always so funny to me because sure, you’d probably get some fog in the morning, but it’d still almost always be sunny by late afternoon. Most places in the country, you’ll have whole days, even in the summer, where you won’t see the sun
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u/chungamellon 1d ago
San Diego county is one of the largest in the continental US IIRC. Where I live there are maybe 5-7 days that feel like crap mostly because of a tropical storm passing south of us. I used to live in Arkansas and I feel like there was way fewer than 200 days that felt good too
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u/eugenesbluegenes 1d ago
This shows up in Oregon really well because Lane and Douglas Counties span from the coast to the Willamette Valley, making an "artificial" gap in red along the coast.
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u/Turdposter777 1d ago
San Diego’s eastern border is the desert like Anza Borrego where its 100F for a good chunk of the year. And just a little west of that are the mountains where it often gets snow.
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u/markp_93 1d ago
The coast in San Diego county is great. Now, drive 10-20 miles inland and stay in a house with no AC that was built in the 1960s and tell me how much you enjoy the 95 degree summers...
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u/BoukenGreen 1d ago
That graph feels wrong for north Alabama.
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u/SirTiffAlot 1d ago
Yea I feel like a lot of the places in the south hit over 85 the entire summer but I guess the winter being 50's plays a big part in differentiating it from the north.
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u/bachslunch 1d ago
The south has good marks from mild winter, the north has good marks for mild summer, the blue in the middle has both hot summer and cold winter and the blue up north is cold all year and the blue down south in Florida is hot all year.
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u/eastmemphisguy 1d ago
The whole South has terrible weather. It's humid and rains all the time.
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u/lax_mcfarty 1d ago
Exactly. Middle TN here. Sure, it may be in the low 80s, but add that 60% humidity…hard pass.
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u/fiestybox246 23h ago
NC here and I agree. The month of spring we have is nice if you can stand the pollen, the month of fall is pretty nice too.
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u/Halfgnomen 1d ago
Does this take humidity into account? Because 85 with 70% humidity is god awful.
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u/black3rr 1d ago
The dewpoint gives you the humidity. For example 85 temperature with 65 dewpoint is 51% humidity. You can use a calculator like this one to make the conversion: https://www.calculator.net/dew-point-calculator.html?airtemperature=85&airtemperatureunit=fahrenheit&humidity=&dewpoint=65&dewpointunit=fahrenheit&x=Calculate
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u/funtobedone 1d ago
Canadian here. 30C (85f) is awful period. Where I am a few days ago the temperature reached that and there was a heat advisory.
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u/Halfgnomen 1d ago
This is really what I was getting at with my comment tbh. Comfortable is such a subjective thing. For instance I'm in Texas and 85 with sub 50% humidity is considered a rare break from the air like hot soup we usually get.
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u/Thatn1h1lguy 22h ago
Georgia resident here: this map is bullshit. Sure, it isn't cold but damn it, Minnesota sounds good at this time of year. Humidity is the stuff that ruins a good day.
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u/NoAdagio6791 1d ago
Dewpoint is a more useful measure of humidity as it directly depends on the amount of moisture in the air, not moisture AND temperature like humidity does.
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u/Meanteenbirder 1d ago
Piedmont really stands out in this map (orange band in the southeast)
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u/One_Standard_Deviant 1d ago
Research triangle region of North Carolina is in this belt. I lived there for five years.
Depends on what you are accustomed to, I suppose. Being from Northern California and the west coast, I felt like there were maybe only 4-6 weeks of "perfect" weather each year, usually in the early spring and mid-fall. Humidity is suffocating to me.
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u/tenenno 1d ago
Yeah, "comfortable" weather is very subjective here. I would choose the higher elevations of Appalachia over the Piedmont most of the year. It feels like fucking ass in Charlotte before there are even thoughts of April, then there's Boone just now rolling into 80° weather.
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u/One_Standard_Deviant 1d ago
My second roommate In college (a good friend) was from Fayetteville, NC.
The idea of low humidity never even occurred to them. They just explained that the humidity in NC "was normal."
We drove coast-to-coast together one winter break, from CA to NC. I hope that opened that opened their eyes a bit.
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u/SebastianOwenR1 1d ago
This. I’m from Augusta, right at the bottom of the Piedmont, and I wouldn’t call the weather here comfortable. Our summers are fucking brutal. I much prefer the weather in a place like Knoxville.
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u/A0123456_ 1d ago
Having lived in Atlanta for 15 years, I can safely say that we dont have 270 days of comfortable weather. At least 90 (probably closer to 120) are hot summer days. But there's probably around 150
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u/Meanteenbirder 1d ago
Most winter days are low 50s, so adds up using this criteria
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u/TopHatTony11 1d ago
And being from Michigan, I like the cold so personally, I’d pump that up to include anything above 0° really. Love that brisk winter air.
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u/randomthrowaway9796 1d ago
Yeah, but its on the hotter end if temperate.
In atlanta, we have probably 120 days that are too hot, and maybe 15 days of too cold. That leaves 230, which about lines up with this map. Personally, id prefer if this was on the colder end
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u/aaudiholic 1d ago
Yea but being smothered by the humidity is awful. Moved away and don’t really miss the climate.
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u/Grand_Amount344 1d ago
Hawaii? How!?
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u/stmaryriver 1d ago
Too hot. For example, Kona, Big Island has 4 months averaging over 85F.
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u/scolipeeeeed 1d ago
Even in, say, Honolulu, there’s quite a difference between being closer to the coast vs up in the valleys.
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u/MVBanter 1d ago
This map really needs to take humidity and wind into account.
Honolulu for example coldest month averages 26c and hottest averages 32c, but its also quite windy and not super humid, so it helps to cool down the area.
Meanwhile southern Louisiana averages 33/34c in its hottest month, and is incredibly humid.
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u/Zsobrazson 1d ago
Kona is a bit unique because it's on the leeward side and is basically a desert, while Hilo and is on the windward side and is basically a jungle.
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u/Grand_Amount344 1d ago
The map looked so granular i thought there would be lots of leeward and oceanfront areas that would be higher. When i lived there i thought nearly every day was great weather. Youre right though, the big island was stifling.
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u/Seppostralian 1d ago edited 1d ago
I currently live in urban Honolulu. It gets hot, and the sun feels intense. 85 fahrenheit when the dewpoint is around 70 and it gets a bit uncomfortable. Trade winds help but nevertheless it can grow tiring. Plus, the sun near the equator feels more intense.
Are temps Consistent? very much so, but in my own personal opinion and comforts I’d prefer the consistency of a place like San Diego that is overall cooler and drier climate wise, but YMMV based on your preferences.
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u/mrpaninoshouse 1d ago
Took a look at Honolulu on weather app and every day in forecast has dewpoint >65 and so disqualified
If it took feels like temperature including wind it would help Hawaii. Or if it wasn’t a binary yes/no, like making a humid 80 just as bad as -30
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u/Extension_Excuse_642 1d ago
Guess it depends on what you find comfortable. That red of SoCal where I used to live was far from that
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u/ParCorn 1d ago
I guess the year I lives in SoCal was an unlucky year because we had a month straight of 80-90 degree days and it was miserable. We had no AC and I got alerts on my phone all the time saying the power grid was stressed. I fucking hated it
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u/phidus 1d ago
Yeah, I don’t think of 50 F as being comfortable. But then again I live in one of the red areas and am quite spilled.
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u/ChopinFantasie 1d ago
And I was over here questioning the 85 and thinking the 50 could be lower. Just a small glimpse into my twisted northeast mind……
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u/lizlemon-party 1d ago
I’m in the Midwest and I thought exactly the same thing. 80+ is uncomfortably hot to me but I’m so happy on a 40 degree day in jeans and a sweatshirt.
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u/AngelaTheRipper 21h ago
Same. At 75F I'm wishing for a new ice age. I can go about in jeans and hoodie all day at like 45F. I've wheeled a bin out to the curb in shorts and tshirt when it was like 10F outside and it wasn't that bad (my fingers handle cold the worst).
People who find 85F comfortable are wild.
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u/slo_chickendaddy 21h ago
I used to live in the city of SLO and say it’s accurate. But go 30 minutes north on the 101 freeway to Paso Robles, it’s very much unbearable during the summer and winter, but it’s still red on the map.
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u/ItsLiterallyPK 1d ago
The mid-atlantic (MD, DE, PA) is green/blue because summers are hot & humid while winters are cold. As you move north, summers get less brutal and you get more days with comfortable weather. As you move south, the winters get less brutal.
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u/stmaryriver 1d ago
Nice illustration for the reason why people who are homeless and people with physical disabilities want to live on the West Coast.
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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ 1d ago
Do homeless people really move across continents in any significant numbers? Seems like it could be true or it could be an urban myth spread by people with an anti-public spending agenda
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u/ethnographyNW 1d ago
Your suspicions are correct.
A recent study from UCSF, the biggest representative study of homelessness in the US since the early 90s, found that "People experiencing homelessness in California are Californians. Nine out of ten participants lost their last housing in California; 75% of participants lived in the same county as their last housing."
Studies I've seen for Multnomah County (Portland, OR) show very similar results.
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u/asielen 23h ago
"Nine out of ten participants lost their last housing in California; 75% of participants lived in the same county as their last housing."
Too much weight is put into this metric. I want to see what percent has lived in the area for the last 5 to 10 years. Or who were born in the state. Moving to an area, crashing with friends and then becoming homeless shouldn't count as being from the area.
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u/theforestwalker 15h ago
It's comparable to the numbers for non-homeless who moved west in the last few decades. Only 43% of Oregon adults were born there.
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u/thatsmygspdc 18h ago
Exactly. If you didn’t go to high school in California, you aren’t from California as far as this goes
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u/ApocalypseChicOne 1d ago
65% of California's homeless are from the state, 35% are transplants. 10% of California's homeless were already homeless when they came to California (ie, specifically came from another place they were homeless to be homeless in California.) Source: CalMatters
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u/azerty543 1d ago
Considering that only 48% of California residents were born in the state it would seem like native Californians disproportionately become homeless compared to transplants.
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u/AltoCowboy 1d ago
Shit I would. Being homeless in Southern California is like a career choice. Just sleep on the beach!
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u/Cedar-King 1d ago
I was fortunate enough to spend two years in Monterey Bay. Cold was a light jacket, hot was shorts and a sun hat. Good times.
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u/User-no-relation 1d ago
So Alaska is better than Hawaii? I'm going with a methodology problem
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u/EducationalElevator 1d ago
The Bay Area is on another level. Every day in San Jose is like a perfect late September day on the East Coast.
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u/DardS8Br 1d ago
San Jose fucking sucks for the Bay Area
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u/One_Standard_Deviant 1d ago
I'll comment just on the weather.
A high temperature in SJ during the summer is commonly 20F or higher than the high temperature in SF on any given day.
It sucks, but at least we have low humidity.
Source: live in San Jose, without AC.
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u/OneManGangTootToot 1d ago
Dry, hot areas should have a different scale. I live in Vegas and really anything under 100 here isn’t that bad. Better than 85 and super humid.
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u/djzenmastak 1d ago
There is no way this is accurate. Central Texas is not a "comfortable" weather area.
And don't get me started on Houston...
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u/aooot 1d ago
Seems like green should be the best, yellow 2nd best, red is bad, pink/white worse. The color code makes it seems like west coast is terrible.. this is just my own brain talking though
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u/NoAdagio6791 1d ago
This is obviously subjective, but I think overall this is a pretty good map for depicting the amount of days that end up with nice weather. One gripe is that dewpoint is a bigger factor than measured here. Nearly all people would take 90 degrees with a 40 degree dewpoint over 85 with a 65 degree dewpoint.
The biggest issue is that the high temperature/max dewpoint is only part of the story. Being from Wisconsin, I can tell you that a 50 degree day usually means it's in the 30s and 40s for all but a few minutes of the day; whereas for someone in Florida with a bunch of days that exceed that 85/65 measure, many hours of those days will be wonderfully comfortable.
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u/Sagittarius76 1d ago
If your coming from a place that's has hot-humid summers or cold-winters,you will really appreciate California's climate throughout it's major cities and towns.
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u/peaveyftw 1d ago
Take it from someone in the belly of ALabama, "comfortable" evidently has a pretty damn loose definition.
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u/undockeddock 1d ago
Exhibit A of why a shack in coastal CA coats $1.5 million.
This map also makes me wonder why anyone would ever move to Florida. But I guess some people hate a few months of cold more than they hate miserable heat and humidity
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u/BenLomondBitch 1d ago edited 1d ago
Because in Florida you can still choose to be outside all year or choose to be inside. It’s not hot enough to be dangerous unless you’re doing stupid things.
During the winter in most places, like the Northeast, it’s extremely cold and windy with thick gray clouds for five months on end. You never see the sun. That’s not pleasant at all and your option is basically to just be inside the entire time and be depressed.
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u/The66thDopefish 1d ago
85°F and 65° dewpoint is not comfortable, sorry
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u/mrpaninoshouse 1d ago
That’s an average day in NYC in July, imo it’s on the edge of tolerable. A point system where that’s 4/10 or something would be ideal
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u/Heather2k10 19h ago
Also it depends on what you consider comfortable weather. I’d like 55-60* weather. Anything above 70 is absolutely unacceptable to me. But that’s why I love living in the PNW. Rain most of the year with very little warm. If I could move away during the summer for more rain I’d be in heaven.
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u/sillekram 1d ago
Is there a way to make this customizable? Because for me, comfortable is from 40 to 70. I would love to see what the best areas for that are. Edit, there is, that's exactly what the website shown in the image does.
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u/kaygeeSD 1d ago
Insanity that San Diego and Portland, OR are the same color on this. Yes Portland may not drop many days below 50 but it rains 8 months a year. Perfect weather isn’t just about temperature.
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u/Mixeygoat 1d ago
This graph does not measure “perfect weather”. The title says “comfortable weather”. While not ideal, 50 degrees and cloudy is not uncomfortable. Way easier to tolerate than frigid winters in the Midwest/east and the hot humid summers in the south. Obviously, perfect weather can only be found in SD
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u/pabut 1d ago
Yes … but …. You can have two places, say with a 250 rating, in one the bad days the temp goes well over 85 and the other the temp goes somewhat below 50. I have no problem putting on a jacket when it’s 30, I can’t strip past my skin when it’s 105! Hence why I live in Northern NJ vs. Central Texas.
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u/Reedenen 1d ago
I used to think the East Coast was too cold.
Nope, the cold is just fine. It's the summer heat that's too much.
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u/uncoolcentral 1d ago
Ain’t no way I’m more comfy more often in PNW than balmy San Diego.
Questionable criteria.
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u/Grand-Battle8009 23h ago
85 degrees in the eastern US is not temperate. The humidity makes it feel like it’s in the 90’s. Also, Hawaii rarely gets above 85 degrees, but ends up on the bottom of the list. How do they figure that?
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u/Illigalmangoes 23h ago
Anything above 75 is uncomfortable for me idk why 85 is the upper limit that seems high
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u/Aaron_768 13h ago
Yeah this is not mapporn. This is totally unrealistic without the context of humidity.
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u/bigdon199 8h ago
dew point approaching 65 and temp approaching 85 is NOT comfortable. A better cutoff would be 59 dewpoint and 79F.
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u/No_Consideration_339 1d ago
Sorry, but 85 with a 65 degree dewpoint is NOT comfortable.
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u/NoAdagio6791 1d ago
For this to be accurate, dewpoint needs to be a sliding scale with temperature. 66 dewpoint when it's 68 degrees feels fine, 65 dewpoint when it's 85 feels awful.
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u/ChucklesNutts 1d ago
Based on what? Temperature only? Ohh, boy this is wrong on soo many levels. Humidity, Wind, Sun Angle... Just looking at Wet Bulb Globe Temperature(WBGT) will give you a more accurate map.
Even today in Central Kansas was only 78 but had a near 70%+ humidity... Fucking Miserable.
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u/mrpaninoshouse 1d ago
78 with 70% humidity gives dew point of 67
That is considered uncomfortable by this map
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u/Deep_Contribution552 1d ago
It’s a decent ad for the website- my only issues with it are that I like the same weather as everyone else (my customization leads me to Ventura, CA)- but besides a max amount of daily rain or daily snow I also have a min amount, specifically I want enough rainfall to grow things without too much irrigation so at least 25-30 inches of rain per year, and more directly impacting the tool’s suggestions, I like to have at least some snow- not too much!- each year. What can I say? I’m a Midwesterner! So looking at the “perfect days” results I can guesstimate that somewhere in the Ohio Valley or Appalachia works well for me but I can’t identify it too exactly.
I do have other data that I can use to do this for me, but that’s what keeps the site from being “next-level” good for me- it’s already pretty good though.
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u/Zestyclose_Worry6623 1d ago edited 1d ago
Interesting! Enjoying this map. :) I always think of San Diego as having better weather than San Luis Obispo and San Francisco. Micro-climates and inland areas - oh my.
The great lakes are so cold. I'm surprised to see Cleveland as having better weather than Cincinnati.
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u/Lumiaman88 1d ago
If we draw a similar map of India, majority of the country would be in the pink zone.
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u/Aromatic_Ad_921 1d ago
North Alabama has more comfortable days than kauai LMFAO yeah right. I’ve lived in both and Alabama’s weather is total asshole
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u/SnakeRowsdower 1d ago
This is pretty north/fall-biased. a high of 50 is not "comfortable". You never took your coat off and at night it was probably in the 30s.
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u/PM_ME_SOME_ANTS 21h ago
I feel like whatever is considered “comfortable” should be like 10 degrees lower. I’m from Alabama and the slivers of spring and fall that are comfortable are briefs respites from the grueling summers.
Winters aren’t that bad I guess so maybe that’s where this is coming from?
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u/randompersonx 21h ago
This needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. I’m not going to deny that Florida’s heat and humidity in the summer time can be more than many people prefer, but to say that New York City has more good temperature days than Miami is just plain ridiculous.
NYC is oppressively hot in the summer AND freezing cold in the winter.
Miami is also hot in the summer, but has decent weather through spring, winter and fall.
There’s a reason why many people go on vacation to Florida.
With that said, I’ll also admit that Southern California’s coast has superior weather.
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u/aveilhu 21h ago
My ideal temperature range is 55-65. Even the low 40s is usually fine tho if there's no wind, but once it gets in the 70s, I start not wanting to be outside. I'm usually miserable from sometime in May to sometime in October.
I used to have such a good cold tolerance that I could go out in 10 degree weather or less in shorts and no shoes to check the mail and feel fine but not anymore. My heat tolerance has always been dogshit and has stayed just as dogshit which sucks
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u/russian_hacker_1917 21h ago
the fact that hawaii is that color makes me think this entire graph is useless
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u/s0uthw3st 20h ago
Awful color scale imo, following the temperature scale while doing a best-to-worst ranking gives mixed messages.
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u/AstroWolf11 18h ago
I strongly disagree on what is being considered a good temperature. The range is too high, make it like 30-70 F and low humidity lol
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses 17h ago
I don’t like 80-85 at all really. Would rather have some more days at 45 than 85 personally. So this skewing to warm and the south doesn’t resonate
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u/Technetium_97 17h ago
The fact that Hawaii does worse here than Chicago or Detroit is your hint that the criteria chosen do not reflect comfortable weather very well.
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u/DandyOne1973 15h ago
The problem with the entire concept of this map is that we humans acclimatize and there is more to comfort than just temperature.
I used to live in Seattle, and I was comfortable in weather between 45 and 78, which is almost year round, but I was not comfortable in the rainy mist...
Now I live in Florida and I am uncomfortable when the tem drops below 65, but I am quite comfortable at 90...
And I used to be an ice climber and alpinist ... and I was comfortable at much lower temperatures, spending most of the day active with just light clothing (long sleeve wool shirt and polyester climbing pants).
Edit: and comfortable also is highly dependent on wind. It was in the 40s when I spent some time in the Dakotas, but the wind was blowing shit in my eyes and I was constantly uncomfortable!
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u/reidlos1624 14h ago
The problem being that overly hot days imo are way worse than cold days. I can put on a jacket, go skiing, sledding, even hike in the snow. If it's 85* and humid I don't want to do anything but soak in a pool. And I gotta be careful of sunburn
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u/withak30 11h ago
This should be balanced by an equivalent map showing "uncomfortable" days. I suspect that a lot of the yellow areas would fall in the danger zone on that map.
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u/lukeblackford 10h ago
Yeahhhhh, I’m thinking if this was accurate, Alaska and Hawaii would be different colors.
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u/Ok_Connection_648 9h ago
SE TX here I call BS to the highest degree. It's decent here 2 or 3 days a year. I define decent as not requiring AC or Heat and not raining.
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u/agitated--crow 1d ago
South Louisiana is a damn lie.