WHERE in the world is your perfect climate? (average, place, humidity)
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What are the similarities between Russia and Kenya? And whence do you know that New Zealand better than Russia? Maybe one should compare Kenya and New Zealand?
My favorite is the humid subtropical climate, where it snows every year.
I'm thinking you might be happy in some of the slightly inland coastal valleys of Oregon. Low to mid 50's high temps to mid 30's low in winter, with upper 70's highs to low 50's nightime in summer. Am thinking Myrtle Point, Broadbent, Powers. Further inland at Roseburg has similar winter with mid 80's in summer, mid 50's lows. Somewhere in between is your ideal. I was in Portland once in February and to me it was very mild. Roses in bloom, very green grass. Beautiful snowcapped Mt. Hood off in the distance.
Myrtle Point, Portland and Roseburg look like good fits temperature wise. The rainfall pattern would make it feel different I think. Coastal Oregon has a lot more rain days and is cloudier than here in winter, and is drier (very dry) and sunnier in summer. I think I would prefer the more evenly spread rain/sunshine here.
Northern California or Oregon would probably be my choice of places to live in the US, although some of the higher altitude climates in North Carolina and West Virginia look very nice as well.
The Atherton tablelands near Cairns are another contender for best climate in Australia for me personally. It's probably my favourite region on mainland Australia, Far North Queensland.
Fair enough. The higher humidity, and the intense midsummer sun, still puts me off though. Also FNQ suffers from a "dry" season whereas in Westland/Fiordland the rain is evenly spread throughout the year - with a few exceptions of course - and if it came down to a choice between these two, I would still go with the latter.
Australia-wide, I would pick the "higher" ranges of northeast Victoria/southern NSW.
I don't think of "perfect" climates, just of those that seem highly desirable, as all will have some kind of minor deficiency if one is to be realistic.
However - the nearest approaches for me would be the "classic" Mediterraneran type, or some desert variants where the sunshine is very high but the temperatures not particularly so. For variety, "wintering over" in tropical climates (even at some altitude) with a virtually rainless cool season is also very nice.
I don't think of "perfect" climates, just of those that seem highly desirable, as all will have some kind of minor deficiency if one is to be realistic.
I agree. That's why when I find climates that many would describe (at a similar level of match with ideal) as "perfect", I instead describe them as "near-perfect" or "near-ideal". Of course if you include all the planets in the universe or all the places on Earth I think it's possible to find a "fully perfect" climate, but obsessing over it gets me nowhere.
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