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Basically sickly hot and humid to a dangerous degree most of the year, vs extremely bitter cold winters for 7 months of the year and mild-ish weather for the remaining 5. Which would you take?
During the hot months in Dubai, you can go out at night and be relatively comfortable. During a Yellowknife winter, there is NO time during the day or night where it would feel tolerable outside. I think you know my answer...
During the hot months in Dubai, you can go out at night and be relatively comfortable. During a Yellowknife winter, there is NO time during the day or night where it would feel tolerable outside. I think you know my answer...
I've checked July 2014 in Dubai. The lowest temperature was 29 °C. At 10 P.M. the temperature is usually around 35/40 °C (on July 6 and 7, for example, it was 40 °C). It's not really comfortable. I've also checked Yellowknife on January 2015. The warmest temperature was -11 °C, I know, it's very cold. Neither are comfortable.
Dubai is much worse for me. The period of comfortable weather is shorter and the summer is simply much worse than a Yellowknife winter to me.
I can at least dress for a Yellowknife winter - I can and have spent extended periods of time outside at temperatures comparable to an average Yellowknife winter day (and even colder) without a problem. But there's not much I could do about the extreme heat and searing sunshine of the Dubai summer. In Dubai I would be confined to heavily air conditioned buildings and vehicles at all times during the day and even at night it can sometimes still be too hot to do much except maybe go swimming or something. And I'm not much of a night-owl, so being restricted to night time for activities is not ideal at all for me.
In Yellowknife, when properly dressed, I could at least go for a walk in the city, go skating or cross-country skiing on one of the lakes, etc. Some outdoor activities are fairly do-able on average or above average days, it's mainly the colder days that would be truly immobilizing. In Dubai, however, even a summer day that was several degrees below average would still be oppressively hot for me and not very conducive to outdoor activities.
And even if I were stuck indoors in Yellowknife I could at least enjoy looking out at a nice winter landscape and the occasional northern lights at night Whereas Dubai's scenery just doesn't really do much for me, personally.
So I prefer Yellowknife by far.
Last edited by Morningrise; 03-09-2015 at 12:01 PM..
In Yellowknife, one can wear a nice thick jacket, thick pants, etc and be relatively comfortable even at -25C. Far better than an excruciating 40C imo.
During the hot months in Dubai, you can go out at night and be relatively comfortable. During a Yellowknife winter, there is NO time during the day or night where it would feel tolerable outside. I think you know my answer...
+1.
In Yellowknife, one also has to stand outside in the brutal cold to shovel snow.
In Dubai, with AC, you can minimize time spent outside on the hottest days just by simply walking quickly between AC buildings.
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Whereas Dubai's scenery just doesn't really do much for me, personally.
