How much is enough 70 F-plus weather? (averages, temperature, day, degree)

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by Nameless

See, I wish the people down here were more like that. All summer despite the temperature it's hot and all winter it's considered cold. So it could be 100 or 80 during the summer but it's hot both ways and 20 or 50 in the winter but it's still cold. Get a scale people!

I think one of the differences is that we don't get very much stability in any of our seasons. A typical summer has plenty of days in the 70's and 80's with at least a day or two with the afternoon only reaching the low 60's and a day or two passing 90 F, usually with mugginess.

But I see what your saying, it sounds like it's pointless for you to ask most people what the weather will be like when they only have one answer for any given season.

For me 50 F is always cold, (because of my finger's cold sensitivity), so I would describe 50 F as "a little cold" around the winter months but in summer I'd probably describe 50 F as "quite cold," since people aren't accustomed to needing jackets for enjoying the outdoors. However in winter I'd consider 60 F-plus warm, spring and fall 70 F-plus is warm and summer about 80 F-plus is warm. Does that sound reasonable?

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

3 months of 70+ is more than enough for me. I dont like anything to be consistant and here in Chicagoland we get a perfect mix of everything, I love it!

Cool! I wish I could feel that way, especially while living around the Great Lakes.

I like some variation too...

Sometimes I'm in the mood for mid-high 90's or low 100's, sometimes I prefer mid 80's to low 90's, sometimes mid-70's/low 80's, occaisionally mid 60's to low 70's and on rare occaisions I might prefer mid 50's to low 60's.

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

Cool! I wish I could feel that way, especially while living around the Great Lakes.

I like some variation too...

Sometimes I'm in the mood for mid-high 90's or low 100's, sometimes I prefer mid 80's to low 90's, sometimes mid-70's/low 80's, occaisionally mid 60's to low 70's and on rare occaisions I might prefer mid 50's to low 60's.

You sound like me! I also love the sub-zero days, as long as there isnt too many of them. Those are the strangest days to be outside, it feels so weird, yet awesome. lol <--- thats not the best description, but I dont have any other way to put it.

[Ohiogirl81]

Last week when it was 88 degrees I would have said that it was enough already.

Now that it's in the low 60s, I want the 80s back! It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

Last week when it was 88 degrees I would have said that it was enough already.

Now that it's in the low 60s, I want the 80s back! It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

That's part of how I handle high heat indexes; by remembering how hard the cold was in comparison,
it helps me realize how much easier the high temps are to handle, even with high humidity making me all oily.

Our forecast is warming up a bit for a week. Perhaps you'll be getting some 70's, as we're set to get some highs in the 60's up this way.
It was warmer at 11 pm that it was at 1 pm today.

[dullnboring]

My gut reaction is to say 365 days but then I remember living in Los Angeles, how surprised I was by the fact that I started becoming sick of the perfect warm weather day after day and was longing for a little rain or snow or something different. I'd say six months of t-shirt weather (i.e. 70+ degrees) is good for me, preferably with most of those days not too far above the 70 degree mark. I wouldn't like six months straight of temperatures in the 80s or 90s.

[wawa1992]

I would say about 5-6 months per year would be ideal, between about late April and early October.

[Patricius Maximus]

Ideally no more than 20-40 days per season, with the first 70F reading appearing in early May and the last in late September. Also I would want only 1 or 2 days per year at most to be 80F, with nothing above 85F. There should be low humidity and a moderate sunshine figure (changeable between sunny and cloudy).

I could do very well with zero days above 70F, but I'd like some for the sake of variety.

[sulkiercupid]

Ideally I'd also like to see around 5-6 months of the year averaging max temperatures above 70F / 21C. What's more important though is that summers are reasonably hot (max temperatures around 85F) and winters fairly cold averaging a few degrees above freezing.

[Infamous92]

I'd like 7-8 months to average 70 and above (for highs). If I didn't like snow I'd probably want all months to have average highs above 70.

I can't picture myself growing tired of comfortable temperatures.