NationStates Jolt Archive

What climate would you like to live in most?

I like Sweden's climate. Warm summers, cold winters, rainy autums, short springs. Just like it should be.

One of pure evil.

Cold, cold, cold, cold...rainy rain rain rain....

I'd like to live in a climate that wasn't in the process of being destabilised by human activity.

Sub tropical, where I currently live. (You missed a big chunk of the world off the poll there)

Sub tropical, where I currently live. (You missed a big chunk of the world off the poll there)

The actual word should not have been tropical, it should have been "humid equatorial." Subtropical would either be in this category or the "humid temperate" which I called Temperate.

Here's (http://www.harpercollege.edu/~mhealy/geogres/maps/worldgif/wwclimat.gif) the climate for your neck-of-the-woods, if you're interested.

I'm curious why northern Australia is labled 'short dry season' when the dry season is six to eight months long and is only broken by monsoons, where as the east coast of Australia is listed as 'no dry season' which is also untrue.

As long as it's not so warm that the water's contaminated with all sorts of parasites and disease carrying mosquitos and not so cold that I freeze my ass off more than 6 months of the year (I can deal with 6, I live in Ontario) then I'm good.

I like rain, I like sun, I like snow.

I like Sweden's climate. Warm summers, cold winters, rainy autums, short springs. Just like it should be.

Sounds like New England, except it rains in the spring and the autumns are short.

I'm curious why northern Australia is labled 'short dry season' when the dry season is six to eight months long and is only broken by monsoons, where as the east coast of Australia is listed as 'no dry season' which is also untrue.

I dunno, I didn't make the map. It may be that it (incorrectly) focuses on total rainfall rather than total rainy days, but I don't know that for sure.

I would guess though that it's because of summer thunderstorms. Some places get them, and that probably cancels out the "dry season" at least somewhat.

Here in western Oregon, we don't get summer thunderstorms (rarely), which is why we are labeled as "dry summers."

Polar, obviously :D

EDIT: But I wouldn't mind living on a warm and moist Earth where palm trees grow in Greenland and Antartica is a huge swamp. :)

68 degrees Fahrenheit year round, low humidity. In other words, not too far from San Diego, CA.

A climate that's constantly warm, but not overly hot. Some place like Hawaii. It'd have to have scenery from southern Italy for it to be perfect. Oh, and I don't want to be able to die from a plethora of horrible diseases and parasites. I want Michigan's relative lack of horrible diseases along with my tropical climate.

*sigh*


once a New England boy, always a New England boy...


although, the south pacific would be spectacular

I chose where I live: temperate w/ dry season.

Although I live in the windiest and second most humid city in the US, I plan on retiring to Aruba. So.... I guess Tropical w/dry season. *shrugs*

Alaska.

Although I live in the windiest and second most humid city in the US, I plan on retiring to Aruba. So.... I guess Tropical w/dry season. *shrugs*

Yeah, Corpus Christi should be called the "Windy City", but Chicago gets that title due to its fame! Baah!

Anyway, I like a Warm climate. Subtropical? Perhaps...

Being a boy from Louisiana, I'm more used to humid sub-tropical.

Being a boy from Louisiana, I'm more used to humid sub-tropical.

Guh. Being in Louisiana for almost a week, I don't see how people can stand it!

Guh. Being in Louisiana for almost a week, I don't see how people can stand it!S'not that bad to me. But I lived there for like 18 years so I'm biased. :p

S'not that bad to me. But I lived there for like 18 years so I'm biased. :p

I guess it's not that much worse than my area. But, the gross towns and hamlets are more of a turnoff than anything else... Wow.

Texas has them, too, of course. They're nothing to be proud of, that's for sure :p.

I guess it's not that much worse than my area. But, the gross towns and hamlets are more of a turnoff than anything else... Wow.

Texas has them, too, of course. They're nothing to be proud of, that's for sure :p.Houston, right? That ain't too far from a town I lived in. Lake Charles. Not the greatest place to live in. I've lived in better places. V_V

Houston, right? That ain't too far from a town I lived in. Lake Charles. Not the greatest place to live in. I've lived in better places. V_V

Thirty miles North of Houston, to be precise. And yeah, I've been through Lake Charles a few times... Refineries are gross, no matter where they are.

I am of the firm opinion that, if you hate snow, then the central area of North Carolina is the most ideal climate in the world.

Summers are not too hot due to increased elevation in the Appalachain foothills. No excessive amounts of precipitation. Most importantly, however, no major disasters...no tornadoes, no landslides, no earthquakes, and no direct damage from hurricanes. The hurricanes may ravage the coast, and bring heavy rains/flooding, but the wind and storm surge are no factor.

But then again, I like sledding and skiing...so I'd never live there. :p

Thirty miles North of Houston, to be precise. And yeah, I've been through Lake Charles a few times... Refineries are gross, no matter where they are.Lake Charles = Cancer City. My aunt and some people a few of my friend knew died of some sort of cancer that was brought on by the plants there.

Lake Charles = Cancer City. My aunt and some people a few of my friend knew died of some sort of cancer that was brought on by the plants there.

Yeah. They call the whole area the "Cancer Corridor". Terrible.

I like Sweden's climate. Warm summers, cold winters, rainy autums, short springs. Just like it should be.

What he said. I've tried a tropical climate (Florida) and became really tired of it after a while. Temperate is best. (Note that I live in southern Sweden, btw.)

Cold, cold, cold, cold...rainy rain rain rain....

amen, amen, amen, amen.

Always great to see others' opinions on the matter.

So, nobody wants to live in Indonesia or the Sahara, eh?

Ya know, if you live in Phoenix or Tucson you should be choosing "Arid" (if you like it, that is). :D

i like the ol' north european climate, tbh. its not too hot (as southern europe can be... like Greece), not too cold (though it does often get a little nippy) and doesn't rain that much on balance. main reason for this is i can't think straight when it gets too warm, so a cooler climate is for me!

OK. I have lived in the UK. This is temperate without a dry seaon, I will grant you that, but the map you linked to back on page one of this thread shows the region of Brazil where I currently live as being the same category. It is not. I assure from experience. The categories simply do not represent the differences in climate.

The UK is temperate, Here, in South Brazil we are sub tropical, not temperate. We have an average temperature some 10 degrees celcius higher, humidity is twenty to thirty percent higher. We have tropical electrical storms which temperate zones do not. It is a completely different climate. It is not, however tropical, as we still have defined seasons, other than wet or dry.

I know that the map you posted comes from some academic position, I am simply saying that the climae where I currently live is different to the climate where I grew up, despite the map showing them to be the same.

OK. I have lived in the UK. This is temperate without a dry seaon, I will grant you that, but the map you linked to back on page one of this thread shows the region of Brazil where I currently live as being the same category. It is not. I assure from experience. The categories simply do not represent the differences in climate.

The UK is temperate, Here, in South Brazil we are sub tropical, not temperate. We have an average temperature some 10 degrees celcius higher, humidity is twenty to thirty percent higher. We have tropical electrical storms which temperate zones do not. It is a completely different climate. It is not, however tropical, as we still have defined seasons, other than wet or dry.

I know that the map you posted comes from some academic position, I am simply saying that the climae where I currently live is different to the climate where I grew up, despite the map showing them to be the same.


You're right, they're not the same.

But, to put every type of climate on one global map would have been way too much. Besides the poll only allows up to ten options ;)


There is a difference between Southern Brazil and the UK climate-wise. What this map is doing, is putting these climates in to groups. Though the average temperature of the area you're living in now may be 10C higher, it still falls in the "temperate" category as according to the guidelines set for this map.


For example, let's say this is what the map assumes (it's not actually, but just for arguments-sake):

Climate Type, Average Temp
Polar, Below -5C
Continental, -5C to 10C
Temperate, 10C to 25C
Tropical, Above 25C


So, if the average temp in the UK were 11C and the average temp in Southern Brazil were 21C, they would be in the same category.

Unbearably hot, humid and sunny in the summer, windy, cold and alternating between icy rain and snow in the winter. New Jersey Rocks!

I Picked Arid. In where I live it rains quite alot : 6 month with rain, 2 of them with hard rains, the rest divides between 2 relately sunny months and 4 sunny-but-cold months.

"In the winter, it's easy: if it gets colder, put more clothes on. But imagine a nudist camp in the summer..."

I hate sweating and hot weather you can't escape. You can always escape cold by staying inside, but there's nowhere to go when it gets too hot. Air conditioning dries your throat.

Thus, cold-winter, not-too-warm-summer climate.

There are: 1) cyclone storms 2) tornadoes 3) cockroaches 4) tropical diseases 5) scarcity of drinkable water 6) wayward, hot-tempered Southern folks in a hot climate. That's 6 good reasons to avoid them.

Semiarid, of course.

I'd live where everyone else was living. Not for the climate. For the conversation.

One that stays cool and/or cold as much of the year as possible, and is cloudy often.