Where and when were you in Israel!? Because unless you were in the Rift Valley someplace (Eilat, Tiberias, points between), this just doesn’t normally happen!
I really wanted to say “Tel Aviv” until I read you had apparently tried it and not liked it – winter hardly ever below 10C (50F) daytime, summer up to 30-32C, true, but everything is A/C-ed, and it’s a lovely temp for the beach. And no rain, none, from May to October
And anyway, if you don’t like the weather where you are in Israel, just drive 15 miles and you’re in a different climate. Our little inky-dinky country has as much climate variation as the state of California.
Dude, have you lived there? If you have, don’t you remember the pervasive black mold caused by the constant unrelenting damp? The fact that a single day, any time of year, likely ranges from “I better grab the wool coat” to “I wish I was wearing shorts and wasn’t lugging this damn wool coat around” and back again in a few hours? Trying to look festive around a beach bonfire wearing gloves and earmuffs in July? Waking up in your poorly insulated house to seeing your breath hang in the air? The constant, dreary rain for five months of the year punctuated only by fantastic storms that tear your umbrella out of your hands and cause your power to go out twice a day, leading you to rely on battery operated alarm clocks? Thinking about what a sick joke it was that somebody put a California beach town somewhere so cold, drizzly, damp and grey?
If thats what you like, more power to ya. But for me, never again.
I liked the weather in Santa Cruz. But then, I’m originally from San Francisco, that sort of weather is homey and pleasant for me. I love cool foggy days. Bonus points if it rains.
But I like the wild changes of weather we have here in Chicago. In the last six months alone, we’ve had a temperature variation of 114 degrees F/63 degrees C (and when you add in the humidity and windchill indices, it’s even greater). I can’t say that I was really happy that one day it hit 104 (it was 107 with the humidity; that’s 40/42 Celsius), and I called in sick a few weeks ago when I woke up and the radio announced it was -14F/-26C with the windchill (I really had been fighting a budding cold and couldn’t deal with waiting for a bus in that). But either way, you know it’s not going to last long. Wait a little while, and it’ll change.
I guess I’m just not picky. I think the only weather I really wouldn’t like would be desert-style heat. (I lived in Jerusalem for awhile, but it’s so high above sea level that the desert location is mostly negated.) The couple days I spent in Las Vegas were unbearable.
Nah, Jerusalem just isn’t “desert” – it gets well in excess of 500mm/20" of percipitation a year. I believe definitions of “desert” vary around “less than 200-250mm/year.”
I’ll grant you that it can get pretty hot and dry in the summer (when there’s no rain); but real desert-like condition only happen during Khamsin (dry, hot Easterly wind; sort of like a scirocco), and generally only for a few hours – Jerusalem cools off nicely in the evening and night (Tel-Aviv not so much)
I definitely like a bit of seasonal variation, some summer sun and winter snow, though probably not as much of either as Ontario has been getting over the past year or so.
But overall… say 23 or 24, nice t-shirt weather, not particularly sunny with a fair bit of cloud cover, and no precipitation.
We had a hamsin when I was there, it was hideous. It started on the morning of Shavuot, and I was at the kotel all night. Had to walk all the way back to Har Hatzofim (we’re talking…maybe three miles or so, all uphill). After having been awake all night, wearing a long skirt and dress shoes, and all of a sudden it’s eighty bajillion degrees…horrible.
I know from Tel Aviv-style weather, since I lived in Haifa for two months in the summer. The humidity - and the fact that it never cooled down at all - was unbearable.
I complain a lot about the winter, but I actually rather like Northeast Weather. We have three distinct seasons (spring gets a little run together with winter & summer). And I’m rather proud of my ability to get into the car during a raging blizzard and drive without a second thought.
The only thing I’d like is a little bit longer of summer. It doesn’t get really hot until July, and then we only have two months.
Autumn here is stunningly beautiful though. 70 - 85 degrees every day, blue skies, and a warm breeze.
Yep, I’m in NH/VT now and I do like it because the four seasons aren’t equal. Short summer, yay, long winter, yay, but I’m with you on fall being too short (the rains come in Nov and give way to COLD in January, and then mud till May).
Best day is around 65, breezy, a few clouds in an otherwise brilliant blue sky.
We should work out some sort of time-sharing arrangement. I would like to live in the northern hemisphere from April-September, and the southern hemisphere the rest of the year, just to get away from the short days and long nights. Ideally, I would live in a California-like climate in both, without rain in the summer (though thunderstorms would be OK, but there wouldn’t be steady, drizzly, depressing rain).
Now, if that was with high humidity, that would be my idea of hell. How can anyone stand to live in Bangkok (35C, 95% relative humidity, all the time)?
Do you guys insulate your houses?
In Toronto, that’s nice late-spring weather, before the summer heat and smog hit.
London, England, is cold? Ever? Unless you mean London, Ontario?
My idea of perfect climate: warm and dry. Every spring and fall, if we are lucky, we here in Southern Ontario get one or two precious perfect days: 28-30 degrees Celsius with low humidity. The sun is warm but you don’t sweat much and it’s just a joy to be outside. (Most warm weather here has varying degrees of too much humidity, from sweaty to wretched, as the warm moist air heads north from the Gulf of Mexico.)
My other favourite weather is winter weather when it’s cold enough (below around -8 to -10) that snow lying on the ground in the sun does not melt. This means the roads are dry and clear, and there is no slush, and no new treacherous ice where snowbanks have melted and refrozen. In such weather, the snow sparkles and is beautiful in the sunshine.
My absolute least favourite weather: just above freezing, drizzly/rainy/wet, and windy. This kind of weather makes me think of relocating to Victoria.
Perfect climate? Perfect climate! Mother of GOD woman! There’s no central heating in any of Auckland’s infinate villas because we cling desparatly to the belief that we’re some sort of polynesian metropolis. ‘Sub-tropical’ we say through winter, huddled next to the fitful fire, swaddled in duvets. ‘S-s-sub-tropical’, we nod to each other, ‘coudn’t pay me to live in some c-c-cold climate, Wellington, ugh’ as our noses ice over and our breath hangs in the living room.
There’s a lot of things I love about this city, but the weather, and the terrible way that we deal with it i.e. those chiseling bastards charging an arm and a leg for balsa-wood kindling, isn’t one of them. I’ve become fond of the way the weather refuses to pick a mood, hour to hour, but I’ve given up on, say, outdoor picnics.
My ideal climate consists of sharp cold winters, blazing hot summers and not a lot inbetween. And I want to be able to say ‘it’s a dry heat’, and mean it. And I never want to have to say ‘oh, it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity’ again.
That is true. Warmer BECAUSE of windier houses, imagine the draught in your average Auck house if it actually snowed! We would have frostbight by midday! It ISSSSSSS colder in Welly then Auck, just Auck is rainier and less weatherproof
I don’t remember the 80’s being too much hotter than any other time, but, good Og, woman, the Negev in the summer!? Of course that’s an unbearable climate. That’s why Tel-Aviv isn’t in the Negev!
– winter hardly ever below 10C (50F) daytime, summer up to 30-32C, true, but everything is A/C-ed, and it’s a lovely temp for the beach. And no rain, none, from May to October 
