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A week-long vacation "for a couple hundred bucks"? That sounds highly dubious. I don't suppose you can back that up with a link to a travel agent's website that offers such a deal? Didn't think so.
My uncle went to Alaska (all the way from New Zealand) last year. However, this was mainly a hunting / fishing trip around the panhandle in July, which I have to imagine constitutes the majority of Alaska's tourism. I doubt you'd get many people tavelling to Barrow in January!
Incidentally, why does this board not have an 'ignore' function?
Departing FROM Miami it's dirty cheap.
But Miami is almost already in the Caribbean.
It costs a few hundred for someone from Toronto just to get to Miami.
It's been made clear several times on this forum by numerous members that year-long hot/humid weather is not favorable to Americans. Why are you making the repeated efforts to say otherwise? cease and desists!
How is a 1-2 week holiday = year-long heat?
Not favourable to Americans?
Americans are somehow less heat-tolerant than other nationalities?
(maybe this is true? )
Good thing there's almost nowhere in the USA with hot/humid winters.
Honolulu and Miami, I'd consider their winters warm and dryish.
I've been to Miami several times and never cracked a sweat without excersize.
US Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico probably have the only winters that could be remotely considered hot/humid.
To get back on topic, I just thought of a couple of other conflicts that I have.
I like lush, green scenery, but I don't like rainfall.
LOVE THAT!
My ideal scenario is that most plants would be fed from natural underground springs, not from precipitation.
I'd like a bit of rain once in a while to keep the dust away, but that's about enough imho.
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Also, I like it to be warm enough for t-shirts and shorts outside at midnight, but that usually means it's too hot during the afternoon (in the case of tropical climates) or too humid / cloudy / rainy (in the case of places like Sydney, Norfolk Island, etc.). This is why I love coastal SoCal in summer (although LA was blazing hot when I went there in August).
Me too.
I consider myself lucky that I can enjoy scorching sun and balmy nights equally well.
I can see why SW Australia is not your ideal place.
Even when it's hot in the day, it's often cool and breezy by 10pm and coldish just before sunrise.
It usually has to be very hot in the day for it to be warm at sunrise.
SE QLD is actually quite temperate in summer,
as far as humid subtropical summers go
and I can see why you like Brissie so much.
I might like Brisbane a bit better too,
but I was having fun teasing them about them being so rainy with this past La Nina.
SE QLD is actually quite temperate in summer,
as far as humid subtropical summers go
and I can see why you like Brissie so much.
Yes, and they seldom get dewpoints in the mid 20s. I've never been there in summer, but I imagine it would seldom be truly uncomfortable for me.
It also helps that the rain mainly occurs during summer. And even then it's not overly rainy (about 130 mm and a dozen rain days per month Dec - Feb, last summer being an exception).
I'm trying to find a San Diego homoclime in Aus, but it doesn't seem to exist. Eucla seems to come closest in terms of averages, but when you look at the day-to-day variation the difference is striking: Climate statistics for Australian locations (note the difference between the decile 9 and decile 1 max temps).
I love the sound of rain hitting vegetation and the sight of water dripping down leaves...
I like really warm (>80*F) water temperatures but cooler weather (70-85*F).
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