Right where I am - just a few degrees below subarctic. The only change I’d make would be for it to skip the long, cold, muddy spring that happens between the snow melting and it getting warm.
I want to live in Costa Rica or parts of the Caribbean. That screams tropical wet/dry. I grew up in Louisiana and lived in New Orleans for a while. I didn’t mind it at the time but humid subtropical summers like New Orleans and Houston have are hotter than Satan’s crotch during a weiner roast.
Still, that is better than any place that gets consistent cold and snow like New England where I live now. Sure, the 8 weeks of summer and 5 weeks of Fall are perfectly nice but that still leaves a whole lot of the rest of the year that sucks especially January - April. My absolute nightmare would be some place like the Pacific Northwest though. Sort of cold and rainy with overcast skies does not agree at all with my sensibilities.
I’m the sole vote for “Humid subtropical.” Maybe I categorized it incorrectly. A few years ago I tried to determine my perfect year-round climate, and I got Buenos Aires, Argentina. Plus, the culture is pleasing to me, so that’s where I’d go if somebody told me I had to pick a drastically different place to move.
The ‘cool summer’ subtype of humid continental, or the warmer subarctic areas. I’ve lived in both. I enjoy both. I’m not so much digging that the summers are getting less cool, which edges me toward subarctic - I can deal with the harder winters better than the harder summers.
I think further south it’s Mediterranean, further north it’s Marine maybe. But Santa Barbara is in the Goldilocks zone. Not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, maybe a little too dry. But I like dry.
I voted subarctic. What I really want is inland Southern Norway back when we actually got snow and cold weather for a good couple of months in winter, but had nice cool summers. Not like now when we’re lucky if there’s a couple of weeks of snow in between periods of slush and summers threaten to become alternating weeks of too hot and too wet.
I voted for “highland” but that term means different things to different people, even among meteorologists. To me it means Köppen Climate Classification Cfb or Cwb. They are characterized by relatively mild weather year-round even though some areas have distinct warm and cool seasons with a modest amount of snow in some places. Those climate types are pretty rare in the US but are found in a few places like Volcano HI and Beckley WV. They include such world cities as Bogota, Mexico City, Nairobi, and Canberra.
I chose Mediterranean, but Amalfi Coast Mediterranean, not California Mediterranean. These humid NYC summers are really grinding me down.
But frankly I’d rather be someplace with no humidity that stays cool all year round and never goes above 75 degrees or so. I’d grow roses and apples and be happy there.
