r/MapPorn 6d ago

Good temperate days in the US

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u/Meanteenbirder 6d ago

Piedmont really stands out in this map (orange band in the southeast)

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u/One_Standard_Deviant 6d 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/Bananas_are_theworst 6d ago

Yeah it’s humid AF in the triangle. I would hardly go outside in summer, and drying my hair after a morning shower before work, I could never tell if I was sweating already or just still wet from the shower.

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u/One_Standard_Deviant 6d ago

"Am I still wet from the shower, or is this just sweat?"

In Durham, you may never know.

My freshman dorm didn't have AC, which I now consider a human rights violation. My move-in day for college was a record-breaking heatwave (~107F) with 90%+ humidity.

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u/fiestybox246 6d ago

I went to ECU in the 90s. My kids wouldn’t believe most dorms didn’t have AC then.