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Here are 6 climates that have four distinct solid seasons, but in different ways. Rank them from your most to least favorite (optionally grade them as well). Also vote for your favorite in the poll
South Lake Tahoe is first for me by a considerable distance, it is better than most of the eastern United States at that. It even gets a lot of sun, even when compared to the annual average in the US.
1. South Lake Tahoe: A
2. Boston: B-/C+
3. Helsinki: C
4. St. Louis: C-/D+
5. Turpan: D (Insane range!)
6. Yakutsk: F+ (The summers look very nice but those winters are brutal!)
1. St. Louis (very close as its too rainy, and has too much humid heat, and too cloudy)
2. Turpan (too dry and snowless even for me, also too hot and summer)
3. Boston
4. Lake Tahoe (poor choice for western us, awful Mediterranean climate)
5. Helsinki
6. Yakutsk
Pretty much a toss-up between the top 2. Very poor choices for the us, anything between St. Louis and Lake Tahoe should have won easily.
Boston... but would actually rather live in Toronto which is a better four-season climate IMO
Since I live in Scandinavia, albeit in south-east-ish Sweden I fully understand the premises of the Helsinki climate. However, our climate is better, albeit still hard to live in. Daylight is also an issue on these latitudes. It is in general a bit milder where I live than in Helsinki, so it's the second best after Toronto. I don't really like cold or intense heat.
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