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I prefer Yuma by far due to the hot, sunny and dry climate all year-long. For me, it's nearly the perfect climate but that's a shame the climate isn't hot enough during wintertime and I'd like it better if the climate was drier because it receives more than 80 mm of rain annually all the same!
Yuma's weather is probably about as boring as Torshavn to be honest, but at least it is never COLD. I am sick of COLD, and damp, so I would choose Yuma.
Torshavn is just too cloudy and drizzly/cool for me, similar to Buxton. Basically the same, except they average about 0.4 days with thunder a year, 10x as much as we do.
Neither are ideal for me. But it would be far too depressing to live in a place where it isn't even warm enough for trees to grow (except for sheltered gardens) and there was never a warm day. I know that it's hard for much to grow naturally around Yuma either, because of the intense heat and very low rainfall...but at least with intensive irrigation, you can have a beautiful and varied garden.
I'd definitely get more fed up with persistent cloud than with persistent sunshine.
Yuma all the way. One can escape the extreme heat by going into an AC building yet still look at bright sunshine from the inside of an office or home building with the AC set at 80 F. Summers days are too hot to comfortably do outdoor activities (maybe even too hot to swim during the afternoon!) but winters are very pleasant and comfortable. Spring and fall, as well as summer nights, are good pool weather as well. They also get a couple of thunderstorms every summer and a little bit of cold rain midwinter even if it's a very arid climate.
In TornShaven, you cannot simulate the sun by going into a heated building and there is NO warmth or even hope of warmth whatsoever to look forward to in summer. Not even an odd heat wave once in a while.
Very feeble sunshine hours and 35 to 55 F and either raining or overcast when its not raining most of the time all year round.
I bet it gets fewer thunderstorms than Yuma too despite having 15 times as much rain per year. Yuck, Yuck, and YUCK @ TornShaven.
Even Seattle gets 3 months of comfortable weather with lots of sun in summer even if it's not warm enough for my summer standards.
Yuma is a solid C
TornShaven is an F- almost on the par with Siberia.
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