Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America

Wow, I had no idea about that. TIL. I always thought all of Mexico was very hot year round.

Pretty similar to the bay area: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mexico+city+2016+tempe...

Spent a month in Mexico City ("DF"!) about a year ago. I was surprised to enjoy it as much as I did. I'd seriously consider living there if it weren't for the pollution.

It's similar to Medellin with an average high around 22ºC all year.

It gets pretty hot in the springtime, though. The low summer temperatures are because the monsoon pours up from the ocean and peters out over El Águila's 4000 m peak (14000 ft) into light rain showers every day in the early afternoon in the Valley of Mexico.

True, the climate in Mexico City is ideal. If it wasn't for the traffic. ... and the dramas in erremexico ;)

That is quite tempting. I think that's my optimal temperature zone!

Bangalore has similar temprature range on average.

A true northern winter redefines your sense of cold if you are from a more mild climate. The ambient temperatures sting any exposed skin and freeze any moisture (like the inside of your nose or condensation as your exhale) almost instantly. Add in a strong wind and you can feel the heat being sucked from your body even if you have a good winter coat on. Visually, everything changes. Snow piles up so high you can't see over it, humans travel down narrow lanes where the snow has been cleared, everything gets caked in this dirty grey powder of ground up snow, ice, and grit, sun dogs appear in the sky, plants are stripped to skeletons of their summer mass, and you start to see a side of nature that is often invisible (specifically animal trails). I've lived in Minnesota for 10 years and still love the winter and the excitement of a good snowfall!

I'm guessing he lives within a few miles of the American border. It gets a lot colder than that up here. I remember in college trying to find a kitten on a farm that escaped the house for a girl I was into. No idea what the temperature was, it only had markings to -50c (-58f) and all the mercury was in the reservoir. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long to freeze a little kitten in those temperatures.

70/21 is cold?! Damn. That's pretty much the top end of my comfort zone. I'd trade this humid, oppressive southeastern US summer every day of the week for that.

To continue the curiosities, the º sign that was used is the spanish ordinal marker of masculine gender. The degree sign is °.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator

+1. I absolutely do not miss seasons in Southern California. On the contrary, I'm much happier when I (almost) constantly have great weather.

See, I too am a fairly avid cyclist, and I too hate any weather that prevents me from doing it.. but when I lived in LA, it was hard to find good cycling routes. It's a very car-centric area.

I think youd be surprised at the number of people that bike year round in places with snow like Minneapolis and Chicago. I did a year of part time bike delivery in Chicago and had many days of 50 miles in the snow.

Cycling is fun. Skiing is orders of magnitude more fun.

I loved living in San Diego but nothing in the mountains compares to the lush spring, deep winter, hot summers with water temperatures warm enough to not wear a wetsuit, or crisp fall you get in other parts of the country you've undoubtedly visited.

Southern California is wonderful for a variety of reasons but the "I can drive to all 4 seasons" disregards some of the important details you don't get anywhere in semi-arid California weather, fauna, and ocean you have in the rest of the country.

A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in San Fransisco, and it was a warm, sunny day (to my friend's surprise). We were hanging out at a beach when we see a guy in a speedo walk by, towards the water. Before anyone could warn him, he jumped in the water, immediately jumped out, then ran back to the parking lot.

My guess is he was European - people from the West coast would know not to go in the water, and American men rarely wear speedos. I imagine the concept of being at the beach on a warm sunny day, but the water is too cold to enter, was completely unknown to him.

Water got up to 75F at a lot of beaches in Orange County, CA last summer, not exactly the 80 of Belize, but pretty enjoyable.

Winter surfing in January/February in -20C (-4F) is a thing in my region.

> the trip to Alaska seems unnecessary.

Staying in one easy 70°F place did not satisfy the project goal. From the meteorologist behind it (emphasis mine): "Imagine that you really like days where the high temperature is 70°F AND YOU WANTED TO PLAN A ROAD TRIP where the temperature always hovers around 70°F"

A 13,000 mile road trip is probably always unnecessary. Yet awesome! :-)

I think it's impressive he fit the Alaskan diversion into the problem constraints. (Also, I love road trips to Alaska.)

Careful, there -- many historical average charts are no longer particularly useful, and you really do need to look at current data. In June of this year, San Francisco had a high temperature over 70F on one out of every 6 days, including a high for the month of 79F.

Rising temperatures in a city where nothing was built anticipating the rise is a recipe for a bad time. Plus, the instant you get beyond the city limit of SF and a few adjacent suburbs you head right into temperatures typical of summer in many other parts of the country (the NOAA station at the airport in San Bruno, for example, reported a high of 87F in June, with daily highs over 70F for the majority of the month).

Unnecessary but fun. This maximises travel and experiences while keeping the temp the same. Someone needs to do this for their gap year

San Diego is pretty much 68 to 72 year round. In the summer it might get a little warmer and in the winter a little colder on select days, but it's a pretty tight range.

Did you miss the part where he said San Diego?

You need to work on your courtesy.

I feel a little embarrassed how long I spent clicking on the temperature curve before finally noticing the little dragbar underneath which is how you change the target temperature on that. The lack of geographical or movement constraints make the results less interesting than OP, though.

Any chance you could deploy a Celsius version for the rest of the world?

Very nice. Can you make it take a temperature range?

Your neighbour from the Maritimes here it was 10C (50F) here yesterday it's 17C (63F) right now. I don't mind cool but I don't like it with rain.

I agree 21C (70F), dry, summer sun strength, no wind that's perfect.

Elevation explains temperatures staying cool in the mid-west. The California Current probably explains cool summer weather on the west coast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Current

Hah! That sounds very similar to Wyoming. I've seen more than one shirt and heard more than one person say "Yes, Wyoming sucks. Now go home and tell all your friends!"

The weather isn't so great (spring and fall may as well not exist, it just feels like you go from freezing winter to blazing summer), but the scenery is truly hard to beat. Also, Yellowstone.

yesss… "It sucks here! Don't come! You'll hate it."

Lived there for 10 years. I loved it. But it got way way to expensive even if your making close to 100k. That and its not big. stuff can get boring there.

Way to miss the point. The prose makes it sound like the goal is to maximize the time spent at exactly 70, or to minimize the variation away from 70, neither of which is the case.