Rate the Climate: Bodie, California

[Taipan001]

F-

Terrible, maybe the worst in California.

[tij]

A D, it escapes worse since days arent that bad, but brrr at those nights!

[Caleb Yeung]

C+. Would have given it a B- but too arid and sunny for my liking.

[Weatherdude123]

Originally Posted by snj90

B+ for me. Very interesting climate, for sure. Love the cold nights. Snowfall figures are excellent, but daytime highs in winter are too high. Daytime highs in summer are too high as well.

BTW, this video consists of pictures from Bodie. Good song, too, of course.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNt_2K5oUs0

are you a polar bear??

[cBach]

D, the only thing saving it from an F is summer days are decently warm and I bet at altitude feels great. Winter highs aren't that bad either. The altitude would probably be a killer for me though.

There's a reason this is a ghost town.

[alaskaflyer]

The only reason it existed at all was because of the gold. No other reason to live up there.

Also, no consistent source of water. Most water had to be brought in by wagon after spring finished melting. Pretty much everything else too:

Ranches and merchants in all of the surrounding valleys supplied Bodie with food and hay and water and timber and hardware, including my wife's family's ranch in Smith Valley (her grandmother still has one of the original copies of the Bodie District maps framed above her mantle.) Wagon trains moved back and forth constantly all year long and when the railroad spur was built in 1881 it only partially replaced them.

[zeppelin171]

Fascinating place, but I give it a D. I could live with the snow and even the freezing summer nights, but the extreme winds and lack of precipitation ruin it.

I've been here in real life, and the environment is incredibly desolate.

[error-404]

B- due to the winds; areas around Alamosa may also have such large diurnal variations, which I definitely enjoy.