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The aridity in Death Valley would make it equally bad. In low humidity I feel a lot of misery including itchy/watering eyes, difficulty breathing, and sometimes headaches. Equatorial heat like southern Thailand would win over Unalaska, but a desert is unlivable.
The aridity in Death Valley would make it equally bad. In low humidity I feel a lot of misery including itchy/watering eyes, difficulty breathing, and sometimes headaches. Equatorial heat like southern Thailand would win over Unalaska, but a desert is unlivable.
Death Valley gets more thunderstorms than Unalaska if that helps. They get the influence of the desert monsoons and almost always get more rain in summer than the coast or valleys.
Death valley is too hot in summer, but has pleasant, even cool temps in winter.
Unalaska is just boring cold.
Unalaska also has a wrong timezone, so even in midsummer I cannot see really bright mornings, as the sun doesn't rise yet at 6am even in the earliest, at 53°N. Thats add the misery.
For respite from the summer heat, a short one-hour drive from Death Valley leads up into the Panamint Mountains to the west. With a decrease in temperatures of roughly 4.5F for every 1000' gained in elevation, even when its 120F in the valley, the campround at Mahogany Flat in Wildrose Canyon in the Panamints at 8200' is probably going to be in 80s - very comfortable in the dry desert.
And outside of the hottest middle of summer, reasonably comfortable temperatures are even closer at hand in the Amargosa Range to the east.
On the other hand, when the weather is cold and unpleasant in Unalaska, warmer weather is a very distant and very expensive journey away.
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