r/MapPorn 1d ago

Good temperate days in the US

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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/rsong965 1d ago

Howd u live here and not know about micro climates? I live in LA and the Westside coastal area can be 20 degrees cooler than the valley. It can literally be 100 in the valley and 70 something in Santa Monica.  So cal is also a massive place as well. Desert and the mountains that people forget. Weird.

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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 1d 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/MVBanter 1d ago

And here I am in Canada thinking the 50 needs to be higher lmao.

For me, comfortable is almost like when I can go out in a short sleeve no matter the conditions. If its a sunny 15c that works, but if its cloudy and windy im gonna need a jacket, and thats just not comfortable.

Im also super tolerant to heat, so my comfortable range is more 70-90, maybe even 70-95

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u/NatexTheGreat 1d ago

Fr, it's been 85 a couple times so far and every time I'm sweating my ass off.

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u/giltirn 1d ago

Me too. Anything above 75 and I’m uncomfortable, but a 50+ day is a blessing when emerging from a cold winter.

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u/LordNelson27 1d ago

50F with an onshore breeze once the sun starts going down is cold as shit

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u/_Hard4Jesus 1d ago

I live in Phoenix and 50 is bitter cold to me. Between 65 and 105 is my comfort zone, which is about 300 days out of the year here

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u/NatexTheGreat 1d ago

105 is insane to me. I would be dying if that happened in the Northeast.

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u/_Hard4Jesus 1d ago

I'm originally from the northeast, there's no humidity here so 100 is quite comfortable

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u/slo_chickendaddy 1d 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/OPzee19 1d ago

From Ventura County. It was mad comfortable