Best place in US weatherwise.

[renigademaster]

Where do you think the best place in the US is weatherwise. I would love to move to a place where the coldest it gets is 20 above zero, and it doesn't get above 90 and without a ton of humidity. Where could I find such a place?
Ben

[Big Kahuna Burger]

The West Coast Bay Area and northward fits your criteria. I hope you don't mind rain.

[Grelby]

New England!









If schitzophrenic weather and ridiculous humidity are your bag, I mean...


Well, I like it here...

[AWB]

Western Colorado's not bad. Summer temperatures range from 55 at night to 100 in the day. Winter temps are 0 to 40. The humidity is usually quite low. And the views are terrific.

[happyheathen]

san francisco - in 22 years, I've seen ice once.

record high 90-something

record low - 30-something

[elfkin477]

Originally posted by Grelby
New England!

If schitzophrenic weather and ridiculous humidity are your bag, I mean...


Well, I like it here...

I'm worried about you. ;)

My answer was going to be "not New England," and I think I'll stand by that.

[TVGuy]

Portland, OR.

Can't beat it. I grew up in New England. I've never been happier with a climate than here.

(the idea that it rains all the time is planted to keep the Californians out:D)

[Jenner]

I'll second the Pacific Northwest. It's beautiful if you're willing to put up with some above-average rainfall (mostly in the winter).

[techchick68]

Nice thing about western Colorado or Eastern Colorado is there aren't many earthquakes like they have in California.

Yeah, occasionally we get bitter cold but over all (especially in my neck of the woods) it's pretty pleasant. It can be snowing and cold and two days later people are at the park playing frisbee or on the golf course.

Heck, the day after Christmas in 1992 I was up in the foot hills with my new camara taking pictures with a short sleeve shirt and jeans on.

I love Colorado.

PS we get on average I think, 270 days of sunshine a year, much better than other other places...oh and the humidity in my house right now is 19%.

[techchick68]

Oh I forgot, it doesn't often get above 90º here in Colorado Springs...you just have to deal with conservative political climate.

[Ukulele Ike]

Santa Barbara, California, is said to have a climate quite similar to Italy's Amalfi coast. Never too cold, and when it's warm, there's no humidity.

I couldn't stand that sort of thing myself (although, suffering through the 26th day this summer of over-90 with high humidity, I'm tempted to try).

[OxyMoron]

In agreement: the entire North American continent is completely unfit for human habitation, save that narrow strip from about Monterey north to Vancouver, BC.

I reiterate a solution I proposed in another thread that I'm too impatient to find: dig up the Dakotas, Nebraska and the Prairie Provinces (everyone's leaving and the ag. output's all surplus these days anyway), creating a nice inland sea. Use the dirt to build mountains around the Gulf of Mexico.

Then we'd have a lovely climate, with beach homes in Missouri.

[UrbanChic]

The best place is *not* Maryland. Specifically Baltimore. Hubby and I prefer the cold and we're thinking of moving to Alaska.

Well, not really, but the summers here are brutal! How people live south of Maryland is beyond me!

[Fern Forest]

Bah, it's Hawaii. 90 is very hot and even then we usually have the nice steady trade winds. Although we do have lots of humidity. 65 is very cold. It's quite sunny. We don't have tornados and rarely get hurricanes. While some parts can be quite rainy it's easy to find places that aren't. And the water is warm enough you can actually swim in it. I remember reading a "Places Rated" thing and the only bad thing they could say about Honolulu's weather was "monotonous." Basically our daily forcast is "Highs in the mid 80s, lows in the mid 70s with scattered showers in the mornings and evenings." And that's pretty much every day of the year.

And the air we breath is very clean since we have no large cities up wind. Oh and I can see a rainbow from my patio almost every other day.


Of course living here costs extra.

[Fern Forest]

Hmmm, I meant to delete that bah. Made the post sound to dismissive. Nuts!

[Stana Claus]

The whole southern Appalachian Mountains area (eastern TN, western NC, southwestern VA) comes pretty close to the requirements in the OP with the added benefit of having 4 distinct seasons. The winters aren't too harsh, the summers are tolerable, and the springs and falls are SPECTACULAR!

I spent most of the first 35 years of my life within 30 miles of Interstate 10 (i.e. Deep South, hot & humid 9 months of the year) and since I moved to east TN I feel like I am in Heaven. Or at least within local calling distance.

I see the OP is from Wisconsin. This area has a rather large population of what we call "Halfbacks". That would be a northern "snowbird" who moved to Florida to escape the snow, discovered that Florida is hellishly hot, then moved halfway back to where it is just right.

[OldBroad]

San Diego

Even though the water's not as warm, I described it as Hawaii with jobs. And you don't get island fever.

It has everything: ocean, mountains, desert. In winter you can theoretically ski and surf on the same day. As long as you're near the coast, weather is mild but it does get VERY hot inland.

[capybara]

I'm gonna have to confirm Uke Ike's ideas about Santa Barbara. Before this I lived in Portland and Eugene, which were ok during the summer, but in the winters were just too. . cloudy. Here it is always between 50 and 80, rarely too hot, due to the temporarily east-west coastline right at this spot, and summy almost all of the time, save for quick bursts of rain in the fall and spring-- when it rains it means it, but rarely does it mean it. Boy, and it smells like flowers and eucalyptus all the time-- night-blooming jasmine. And it's not humid, which means a lot to me. It's actually ANNOYINGLY nice. I really desperately want some thunder or hurricane or something soon.

I have this theory that the local weather-guys don't actually have a satillite map hook up. They just have a single color xerox that they stick up in front of the camera: "Oops, well today it looks like high of 78, nightly low of 55, and clear!"

[elf6c]

Another vote for San Diego.

[vanilla]

I'm looking for a place that doesn't get lower than 40 degrees in the winter!
And not above 85 in the summer.

[lawoot]

That might be a hard one to fill.

Might I suggest Sequim (pronounced skwim) Washington? All the benefits of Pacific Northwest Living, plus it's in the rainshadow of the Olympic Mountains, so not as much rain.

[Cat Patrol]

San Diego has cool(not cold)winters, and warm(not hot)summers.

[heresiarch]

I'd second Hawaii.

But since you specified a min temp of 20F, maybe you were thinking of someplace that has some seasonal variation. How about the Pacific Northwest? Proximity to the ocean tempers the cold weather.

The downside is frequent rain.

[renigademaster]

I am actually looking for variation in the seasons. I like the idea of Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Call me old fashioned, but when its haloween, you need yellow, orange and red leaves on the trees.
Thanks,
Ben

[Intaglio]

I also like San Diego.

But, an alternative is Savannah Ga.

[racer72]

Originally posted by lawoot
That might be a hard one to fill.

Might I suggest Sequim (pronounced skwim) Washington? All the benefits of Pacific Northwest Living, plus it's in the rainshadow of the Olympic Mountains, so not as much rain.

I lived there for about a year. You may be in a rain shadow but you are not in a cloud shadow. From the end of November to the end of February, the sun did not make an appearance. And it does get cold there, I had to scrape ice off my windshield most winter mornings. It is also nice if you don't mind isolation. Seattle is a 3 hour drive away and it takes a floating bridge that can be open for traffic when you arrive (minimum 20 minute wait) and then you must take a ferry across the sound. You can drive down through Tacoma to avoid the ferry but that adds another hour. The choice of radio stations is limited, most are Canadien. That was back in 1984 though but I have heard they now have a Wal-Mart and a Mcdonalds now.

[Johnny L.A.]

I lived in San Diego until I was 15. People who live there say its weather is perfect. Codswallop! In the winter it was never cold enough, and in the summer it was too hot. It didn't rain enough.

In short, San Diego "weather" is boring.

I like the northern coast of Washington. It rains a lot (which I like), and the sunny days are usually not too hot. It's often cold, and I like it that way.

I'm still sending out résumés, and as soon as I can get a job up there I'm moving!

As for L.A., it seems to me that most people who like the weather here are from someplace else.

[plnnr]

Another voite for Southern California. Mediterranian climate as long as you don't venture too far inland.

[lawoot]

Originally posted by racer72
...That was back in 1984 though but I have heard they now have a Wal-Mart and a Mcdonalds now.

And a BYPASS!

[Intaglio]

I love San Diego, and San Francisco.

When I was in U.S. Naval Reserves, we went to Active Duty in both, San Di & San Fran, so when I went active duty, I decided San Diego, or San Francisco, was were I wanted to be stationed.

Got stationed on board ship in San Diego, and have been to San Francisco many times, have been to Hawaii three times.

Have been to Seattle - Bangor/Bremerton Wa, and Victoria BC.

[LolaCocaCola]

I'm a change-of-seasons kinda gal, so I'll say NYC. :)

[fizgig]

Hmm, perhaps Santa Cruz?

The closer you get to the coast, the less you'll be dealing with extremes. My parents lived in Florence, Oregon (on the coast west of Eugene) for a few years. It would often be sunny and 60 there in January while it was cold and drizzly in Corvallis.

Also lived in Port Angeles, about 15 miles west of Sequim. Some winters, you can be in for a decent bit of snow, but for the most part, it's pretty temperate. Downside, IMO, is that it's not warm many days out of the year. Being acclimated to southern New Mexico, I find it very cold there, even in May. They do have WalMart and Costco, now though it does have a rather isolated feel to it.