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Puerto Santa Cruz in Patagonia (50°01′00″S) has a semi-arid (BSk) climate with less than 200mm of precipitation and more than 2000 hours of sunshine a year.
I think Tatlayoko Lake has the best climate in Canada. Here's why:
1) 2 km past the weather station is the lake. The Chinook winds blow up the lake and valley almost every day, so there is never any snow on the lagoon at the head of the lake. The lake has only ever frozen over once in my lifetime (1997), but the lagoon remains frozen all winter long. This creates the best skating ice anywhere in Canada. Nature Zambonis the ice every night. Further down the lake, say about halfway down, you enter the snowbelt, and you have lots of snow. This means you don't have to live in the snow, but the snow can be nearby.
2) It's in a rainshadow. This means a very nice dry climate. No mildew. Lots of sunshine.
3) Unlike further east, winter is the wet season and summer is the dry season. This means more snow, especially further up the valley (to the north), and less rain the summer.
4) If you really like cold, you can simply drive 20 km north to Tatla Lake where the temperature will often be 20 degrees colder in the winter.
5) Nice cool nights in the summer. This means there's no need for air conditioning.
I think Tatlayoko Lake has the best climate in Canada. Here's why:
1) 2 km past the weather station is the lake. The Chinook winds blow up the lake and valley almost every day, so there is never any snow on the lagoon at the head of the lake. The lake has only ever frozen over once in my lifetime (1997), but the lagoon remains frozen all winter long. This creates the best skating ice anywhere in Canada. Nature Zambonis the ice every night. Further down the lake, say about halfway down, you enter the snowbelt, and you have lots of snow. This means you don't have to live in the snow, but the snow can be nearby.
2) It's in a rainshadow. This means a very nice dry climate. No mildew. Lots of sunshine.
3) Unlike further east, winter is the wet season and summer is the dry season. This means more snow, especially further up the valley (to the north), and less rain the summer.
4) If you really like cold, you can simply drive 20 km north to Tatla Lake where the temperature will often be 20 degrees colder in the winter.
5) Nice cool nights in the summer. This means there's no need for air conditioning.
Far too cold to be considered the best climate north of 50°. Unlike Kamloops et al., it's not even redeemed by warm summers. Doesn't even seem much better than Calgary...
Far too cold to be considered the best climate north of 50°. Unlike Kamloops et al., it's not even redeemed by warm summers. Doesn't even seem much better than Calgary...
Kamloops is too hot. Couldn't handle the heat in summer when I lived there. Average daily maximum of 22 - 23 is about perfect for me.
The other problem is the valley cloud. It's downright depressing in Kamloops with such cloudy winters. It's a lot sunnier in Tatlayoko in the winters, though the mountains do block some light.
I was going to put Scilly Isles but I think they are at 49.9 degrees north so I say Cornwall or perhaps Torquay in Devon.
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