American Carnage

[Doctor Phibes]

If ever there was a guy who was destined to live in Fergus Falls, it's you 89.

(All kidding aside, I would love to live there, except for the winters. We experienced enough of that in small-town Ontario)

[89th]

Fair, but after DC winters where you have 4 months of grey gray skies and temps hovering over a 35-degree freezing rain temp...I’d rather have winters where you know what to expect (cold and snow).

[Doctor Phibes]

In Canada, it wasn't actually the winter that was the problem - the extreme cold was kind of fun, in a weird way. What hurt was having to wait, sometimes until late May, for warm weather.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in American Carnage:

If ever there was a guy who was destined to live in Fergus Falls, it's you 89.

(All kidding aside, I would love to live there, except for the winters. We experienced enough of that in small-town Ontario)

Live in the Gulf South. I hear the winters are mild.

[George K]

@Jolly said in American Carnage:

@Doctor-Phibes said in American Carnage:

If ever there was a guy who was destined to live in Fergus Falls, it's you 89.

(All kidding aside, I would love to live there, except for the winters. We experienced enough of that in small-town Ontario)

Live in the Gulf South. I hear the winters are mild.

We were in NOLA between Thanksgiving and Christmas a few years ago.

It was miserable - just cold enough to make it miserable with the humidity. Rain...then, more rain.

I don't mind cold - at all. Just don't make it bone-chillingly humid.

Of course, the same can be said of heat. It was in the mid-90s in Chicago today, but low humidity. Kind of pleasant, actually.

[89th]

So a few weeks ago I ran the numbers. Downloaded the last 5 years of daily weather data, for 5 cities. DC (current home), Minneapolis (future), Savannah (my friend wants to move there), Miami and San Diego because a friend of mine was just curious. Spoiler alert, San Diego wins.

Anyway, I tallied up the number of days per month that met my criteria for “my kind of weather” day, and here you go.

Btw the criteria was a dew point of 60 or below, a high temp of 40-80, and precipitation less than a quarter inch.

[89th]

Here are the total days over 2015-2019

[Rainman]

San Diego is my favorite. Spent lots of time there years ago.
No longer. Too many people, and way too expensive in all respects.

I was in NOLA in April a few years back. Comfortable walking around, all of a sudden it was as if someone turned on the sauna. Then, came the tornado watch. It wasn't all that hot, but man, the humidity. Soaked in sweat, and really uncomfortable for someone visiting from the Northwest. But I did buy a voodoo doll, and I still think of people and stick pins in it. Best purchase I ever made.

[George K]

@Rainman said in American Carnage:

We go to NOLA once a year (except 2020, LOL) since 2015.

Times to go:

1. March to late April
2. Mid September to late October.

Otherwise...nah.

Come to Chicago.

[brenda]

@89th said in American Carnage:

Fair, but after DC winters where you have 4 months of grey gray skies and temps hovering over a 35-degree freezing rain temp...I’d rather have winters where you know what to expect (cold and snow).

And sunny winter days! The sky is quite beautiful on a sunny winter day. Big Al commented on how blue the skies are in Minnesooooooota in the winter.

[89th]

Absolutely! Plus, compared to DC at least, ya'll know how to handle snow. Snow removal... driving in the snow... heck, even indoor gold driving ranges!

[Doctor Phibes]

You need to be careful of the "Indoor Gold". It's just a posh name for yellow snow.

[89th]

LOL