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I live in the Bay Area that has the most boring weather in the world...
No rain in summer for 3-5 months.
Light rain in winter always in the form of showers in cool but not cold weather. Snow is nonexistant at sea level and happens maybe once every 50 years.
Thunderstroms are RARE and happen only once every 2 years or so.
Winter temps daytime in the upper 50s and summer in the low 80s. Occasional frost on colder clear winter nights but always warms up to the 50s by noon.
Summer humidity is nonexistant.
I want to LIVE in the Bay Area for the rest of my life cuz my family is here and I appreciate the pleasent weather and conveience and not having to worry an event being rained out in summer, let alone destructive storms that the rest of the country gets. I also apprciate NOT having to worry about driving in snow or shovelling it like those N'Easters do.
HOWEVER, I want to travel and experience other climates as a vacation to combine with sightseeing:
Here's my bucket list:
A blizzard.
Temps of -20 F or colder
A very strong thunderstorm with thunder so loud it hurts the years.
Marble size hail
Temps of 120 F or higher
Temps of 95 F with high humidity (we've had temps over 100 F here but ZERO PERCENT HUMIDITY).
A tropical storm or category 1 hurricane
My plans are to combine off season travel season like to Minneapolis in January and Florida in September in HOPES of a low grade hurrricane hitting. I'd stay in each place for 2 weeks and combine sightseeing and hope to experience the weather and still do stuff...
Good idea or stupid?
Last edited by AdriannaSmiling; 03-05-2013 at 10:31 PM..
Not crazy at all. I'd love to go to a place like Minnesota in the winter. I'm not a fan of excessive heat and sunshine, but it would be interesting to visit Las Vegas or Phoenix at the height of summer.
I've experienced hot and humid weather here at home and in the deep south, as well as thunderstorms and tropical systems, so I've had that fix. Lowest temperature I've experienced is around -15 F. Would be interesting to experience extreme arctic air.
Death Valley in July!
A full Mediterranean summer (or as much as possible of one) in one of the sunniest climes there.
Campbell Is for a day visit in "summer".
The bay area is one area I will not visit out of my way.16c in july is just like northern ireland.
No thanks.
That's San Francisco you're thinking about. Here in the San Jose area, it warms up into the low 80s F (upper 20s C) as an average high in July through September.
Spend 1 year in Melbourne and you'll likely experience:
Days with Phoenix-like heat
Days with Miami-like humidity
Days with humidity under 5%
Smoke haze
Fog
Frost (as long as you're inland)
Severe thunderstorms
large hail
Winds over 100km/h
20C and sunny winter days
cold blustery stormy winter days
40C one day and 20C a couple of hours later
The only thing missing are snow and winter lows under 0C.
Great thread idea. Weather events I'd love to experience (or have a repeat experience with) are:
- a year in Yuma to see what around 4,000 hrs of sunshine is like
- a winter in Siberia to experience real cold
- a summer in tornado alley, US
- experience intense lightening strikes in equatorial Africa - capture the activity on slow time exposures
- spend a year in some of the most continental climates with high seasonal variation - utilize a four season wardrobe!
- several months in the Faroe Islands to remind myself how much I appreciate and desire sunshine
England gets every type of weather imaginable except really hot or really cold temperatures and the weather (thunderstorms, heat, cold, snowstorms) is usually quite "tame" compared to other parts of the world. But we certainly get alot of variation from year to year/month to month.
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