Battle of the Office Climates...San Diego vs. Iquique, Chile (tornadoes, snowy)
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An "office climate" is a climate with average highs ranging from 65 F to 80 F year round with small standard deviations, under 10 inches of rain per year, no "dramatic" weather such as severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, or tropical cyclones. Being outdoors should feel like being inside a climate controlled office with the only difference being feeling the warm (but not too hot) sun smiling down on you when outside.
I know many of you prefer more eventful weather whether (pun intended) it be cold snowy weather, scorching heat waves, humidity and thunderstorms, wind, etc, but if you HAD to live in an office climate, which would you pick?
Iquique averages about 2790 hrs sun, a little lower than San Diego's nominal 3000 though an adjustment for US data would probbaly leave them about equal. I might prefer Iquique's almost nil rainfall.
Average daytime highs are very similar with Iquique having slightly warmer nights and their seasons in reverse of San Diego. So Iquique's average temperature is higher year round.
The main difference is Iquique has less standard deviation (all time record high is 88F and all time record low is 45 F) while San Diego's all time record high is 111 F and all time record low is 25 F (both obviously taken inland)- Those are both outliers though as in a typical year, San Diego's lowest temperature is 38 F and highest temperature is 97 F (both still lower and higher than Iquique's all time records though).
The main difference is that San Diego, while still being considered semi-arid gets about 300 times as much rain in a typical year than Iquique does. I know you're a cold-hater but I also know you like rain so my guess is that you'd put up with San Diego's slightly colder overnight lows year round and occasional winter cold snaps in exchange for guaranteed rain each winter.
Last edited by AdriannaSmiling; 05-27-2013 at 10:16 PM..
Average daytime highs are very similar with Iquique having slightly warmer nights and their seasons in reverse of San Diego. So Iquique's average temperature is higher year round.
The main difference is Iquique has less standard deviation (all time record high is 88F and all time record low is 45 F) while San Diego's all time record high is 111 F and all time record low is 25 F (both obviously taken inland)- Those are both outliers though as in a typical year, San Diego's lowest temperature is 38 F and highest temperature is 97 F (both still lower and higher than Iquique's all time records though).
The main difference is that San Diego, while still being considered semi-arid gets about 300 times as much rain in a typical year than Iquique does. I know you're a cold-hater but I also know you like rain so my guess is that you'd put up with San Diego's slightly colder overnight lows year round and occasional winter cold snaps in exchange for guaranteed rain each winter.
Oh yes you're right, sorry. I was thinking of summer. Last time I checked the stats for Iquique I noticed the summers weren't as warm as San Diego. Unless I'm thinking of another clime...???
San Diego for me. A climate with no rainfall could never be a good climate for me, even with nice temps.
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I know you're a cold-hater but I also know you like rain so my guess is that you'd put up with San Diego's slightly colder overnight lows year round and occasional winter cold snaps in exchange for guaranteed rain each winter.
