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Hartford: 113
Aruba: 30
Aruba was 126 before the 70°F+ dew points in every month hurt it bad.
Same thing with Baranquilla, dewpoint over 71 every month brought it from 99 down to 3, and with Bangkok, dewpoints in the upper 60's in Dec&Jan and 72+ the rest of the year brought it from 69 to -23
I think this is a bad scale because it doesn't properly deal with variation across the extrema points. Case in point, hypothetical climate A has an average high of 69.5F every month, and gets a 10 every month (120 points), and climate B who scores 69.4F every month gets a 8 every month (96 points), in retrospect they are very similar climates, and your human body wouldn't tell the difference. Now imagine climate C which averages 85.4F every month, that also gets a 10 every month (120 points) but climates A and climates B are much more similar to each other than C, so we'd expect them to score more similarly on your scale but they don't.
You need to pick a value and calculate their deviation from said value. My personal preference is 85F average high, with 70F as an low. That's perfection I'd imagine for most people. A number of 0 would be the 'perfect' score, whereas the higher the number, the higher the deviation and hence forth the worse climate.
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I think this is a bad scale because it doesn't properly deal with variation across the extrema points. Case in point, hypothetical climate A has an average high of 69.5F every month, and gets a 10 every month (120 points), and climate B who scores 69.4F every month gets a 8 every month (96 points), in retrospect they are very similar climates, and your human body wouldn't tell the difference. Now imagine climate C which averages 85.4F every month, that also gets a 10 every month (120 points) but climates A and climates B are much more similar to each other than C, so we'd expect them to score more similarly on your scale but they don't.
You need to pick a value and calculate their deviation from said value. My personal preference is 85F average high, with 70F as an low. That's perfection I'd imagine for most people. A number of 0 would be the 'perfect' score, whereas the higher the number, the higher the deviation and hence forth the worse climate.
I am a heat lover myself, but most aren't, so I considered that most people prefer nights in the 50s-low 60s for perfect sleeping weather sans AC, and most people consider 70s to low 80s perfect afternoons
140 for here. I don't agree with this system though. I think there is only a handful of days in my climate, that normal people would call uncomfortable.
I am a heat lover myself, but most aren't, so I considered that most people prefer nights in the 50s-low 60s for perfect sleeping weather sans AC, and most people consider 70s to low 80s perfect afternoons
I'm pretty sure most are. When you say the word 'paradise' people immediately conjure up a tropical island in their head. Not a rainy cloudy cool British Isles one. But that's just a quibble with where you set the 'comfortable range', the big quibble is your system is flawed as stated by my example. That has nothing to do with preferences but your index can give widely different climates the same score compared to two rather similar climates.
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I'm pretty sure most are. When you say the word 'paradise' people immediately conjure up a tropical island in their head. Not a rainy cloudy cool British Isles one. But that's just a quibble with where you set the 'comfortable range', the big quibble is your system is flawed as stated by my example. That has nothing to do with preferences but your index can give widely different climates the same score compared to two rather similar climates.
If you noticed, Miami at 139, ranked better than London at 122, so the marine climates don't do better than middle of the road. The climates that seem to fare best are subtropical highland climates, southern hemisphere subtropical climates and of course mediterranean climates. Mexico City and Guadalajara scored towards the top, as did Sao Paolo and even Nairobi
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