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This one's pretty bad. No winters, no snow, small record range... yadda yadda yadda same tropicrap garbage. At least it has seasons, albeit very weak ones, which made it eligible to not get an automatic zero on seasonal lag, and a decent precipitation total, albeit penalized for the winter dry season.
Winter mean / Summer mean / Seasonal range / Precip / Seasonal lag / Snowfall / Record range*
ok i'll stop with the over dramatics. i'm starting to scare myself.
honestly though this is more like a test. because i find it fascinating how different everyone's perception of what a perfect climate should be. some like it mild, some like it hot. some like it cold. some like it retardedly cold. some like it windy. some like it dry. some like it wet.
but fundamentally doesn't everyone actually deep inside want the same thing? don't know what it is? you are probably there right now. somewhere climate controlled between 65°F and 75°F typing on a keyboard. why is that not perfect? forget about variety. thats what traveling is for. we are humans. we love to explore and no one is happy with the same thing forever. but surely some universal perfection must exist. maybe proven by science?
Sorry for bringing back an old thread but you're sorta right. Despite everyone's kvetching over this, every single body would be comfortable in this climate if they're normal BMI. It's not my idea of a dream climate, I like a little bit of variation but no doubt it's one of the best climates out there and I'd be happy year-round! You guys seem to forget the fact that we came out of the highlands of East Africa where temps are relatively similar to this. We get it, you love snow but you're kidding yourself if you wouldn't like this climate if you're a healthy weight.
Close to an optimum climate for " easy living" (for everyone) imo. Not too hot or cold. Reasonable rainfall and sunshine.
I'm convinced most people in this forum are purposefully contrarian in their viewpoints to the average person in the world. Snow might look pretty and cold temps can be refreshing but nobody actually feels comfortable in cold or very hot temps for long periods of time, as humans we aren't built for those temps and it makes sense because we originate from mild tropical/ subtropical highland climates.
I'm convinced most people in this forum are purposefully contrarian in their viewpoints to the average person in the world. Snow might look pretty and cold temps can be refreshing but nobody actually feels comfortable in cold or very hot temps for long periods of time, as humans we aren't built for those temps and it makes sense because we originate from mild tropical/ subtropical highland climates.
Too true. I've never heard any real life person here say winter isn't cold enough in England. Never heard any expatriate from South Africa, Australia etc say they prefer the greater seasonality. I wonder what causes this bias on the forum?
But back to Caracas, it's very good but I feel the dry season is a little dry. I prefer Medellin and Ibague.
...as humans we aren't built for those temps and it makes sense because we originate from mild tropical/ subtropical highland climates.
A popular but fallacious argument. It goes right out of the window once you remember that we aren't living hunter-gatherer lifestyles anymore and that we, as a society, have adapted to a domesticated, agriculture-based lifestyle now. This has allowed humanity to settle much farther north and adapt to much colder temps.
So nowadays the "average" person no longer thrives in a tropical place and many (if not most) tropical climates have substantial air conditioning to keep people comfortable.
Furthermore, despite originating from tropical places, humans (e.g. Inuits) have come to live in places as brutally cold as Nunavut, and their bodies have greatly adapted to it, making yours a blanket statement not applicable to all (by any means).
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