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View Poll Results: Which of the following locations would you rather spend today based on weather alone?
Barrow, Alaska 10 37.04%
Yuma, Arizona 16 59.26%
Amundsen-Scott Base, Antarctica 1 3.70%
Voters: 27. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-26-2017, 05:28 AM
 
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Barrow, 115F or -70F is just plain crazy.
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Old 06-26-2017, 06:30 AM
 
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Yuma. Barrow is a cold depressing hole and the other one is straight up unlivable.
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Old 06-26-2017, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Lakeside
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For the day?
Barrow.

I've lived in 120 degree heat in AZ and no thanks.

Antarctica? Never.
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Old 06-26-2017, 08:24 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Yuma, Arizona, because I would much rather live in a subtropical desert climate than a polar tundra or an icecap climate.
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Old 06-26-2017, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Rochester, NY
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Yuma. I've experienced that temperature and didn't mind it. 40s and rain is abysmal and -70 is unlivable.
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Old 06-26-2017, 09:47 PM
 
Location: White House, TN
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Yuma, only because it's the summer. It's close between Yuma and Barrow though.
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Old 06-26-2017, 09:52 PM
 
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Yuma, Arizona, because I would much rather live in a subtropical desert climate than a polar tundra or an icecap climate.
This isn't about year round climate but just a one day thing. Objectively, would you prefer to spend a single day in very cold just above freezing overcast drizzle under cloudy skies but daylight 24 hours or searing heat by day but balmy comfortable heat after dark. I prefer the heat as long as I could stay in an AC house during the daylight hours and then enjoy swimming in a pool after dark. However, some of the people on here who hate extreme weather would still pick Barrow in July even if they would pick Yuma over Barrow in a year round climate battle. Objectively, the forecast for Yuma is much more extreme than the forecast for Barrow but the winter cold in Barrow is far more deviant from room temperature than the summer heat of Yuma.

As for the Amundsen Base one, only the die hard cold enthusiasts would vote for that one and there are a couple of them who still lurk on here.
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