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I live near Wichita, KS and I am fed up with the brutal winters here. For half the year, it is cold, snowy, rainy, windy and cloudy almost every day. If I have to deal with four seasons which includes brutal winters then I would like to be in a place with more sunny days throughout the year.
I'd be curious about the stats on that. I've lived in a cold weather state my whole life and I've definitely seen way more shovelers than snowblowers, especially among the elderly. Snowblowers are far more common in the nicer, upscale suburbs.
I lived in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota which is as far from upscale as a suburb can be in Minnesota... and many of my neighbours had snowblowers.
In general, I would prefer a place with hot summers to cold winters. Given the ideal temp is like 72 degrees, hot places generally don't get as hot as cold places get cold. Temps of 22 degrees (especially at night) are pretty common in cold weather cities, while temps of 122 degrees are extremely rare in warm weather cities. Plus, a hot city like Atlanta will have better weather than a cold city like Minneapolis 8 or 9 months of the year.
Are you REALLY comparing temps of 122 to temps of 22??? One is extremely hot, like even for the desert... the other is just moderately freezing. Even the Deep South can get to 22 in winter and its not the end of the world, but 122 is hot for anywhere, even Death Valley.
Btw to compare how different these temps are.... while one is obviously hot and one cold, one is so hot there's very little you can do to keep yourself safe in those temps. Your cell phone will easily overheat. Your car is likely to have a lot of trouble and could overheat. You would have to be very hydrated. Swimming may not be safe. The water will likely be too warm. Hell, water would be evaporating at that heat.
In comparison... at 22, you may have to bundle up but you can safely go sledding, if a lake is frozen solid you can skate on it. Your car should be fine. If you keep your phone in your pocket, it will stay warm enough to function. Those temps will only be dangerous if you were naked out in the snow.
Are you REALLY comparing temps of 122 to temps of 22??? One is extremely hot, like even for the desert... the other is just moderately freezing. Even the Deep South can get to 22 in winter and its not the end of the world, but 122 is hot for anywhere, even Death Valley.
Btw to compare how different these temps are.... while one is obviously hot and one cold, one is so hot there's very little you can do to keep yourself safe in those temps. Your cell phone will easily overheat. Your car is likely to have a lot of trouble and could overheat. You would have to be very hydrated. Swimming may not be safe. The water will likely be too warm. Hell, water would be evaporating at that heat.
In comparison... at 22, you may have to bundle up but you can safely go sledding, if a lake is frozen solid you can skate on it. Your car should be fine. If you keep your phone in your pocket, it will stay warm enough to function. Those temps will only be dangerous if you were naked out in the snow.
That was kinda the point I was making. If we assume 70-72 is the perfect temp, it only gets 50 degrees warmer in extreme cases, even in hot weather cities. While, it often gets 50 degrees cooler in cold weather cities.
That was kinda the point I was making. If we assume 70-72 is the perfect temp, it only gets 50 degrees warmer in extreme cases, even in hot weather cities. While, it often gets 50 degrees cooler in cold weather cities.
yeah but perceived changes in temperature are not equal because of clothes
yeah but perceived changes in temperature are not equal because of clothes
Yeah, but in practice hot weather is less common than cold weather. In a city like Atlanta it only gets above 90 like 45 days per year. That's a day time high, so morning and night temps are better. But in contrast in a cold city like Minneapolis there are 72 days on average where the temp never gets above freezing, let alone night time temps.
Or to put it another way, Atlanta is above 85 degrees for about 6 hours of the day across 2 months, while Minneapolis is typically below freezing for 24 hours of the day across 3 months of the year.
Getting warm here, but at least I won’t have to shovel it….
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One is extremely hot, like even for the desert... the other is just moderately freezing. Even the Deep South can get to 22 in winter and its not the end of the world, but 122 is hot for anywhere, even Death Valley.
