Which weather is good and which bad?
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Act1v8 (
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November 26th, 2008
I’m doing some research for a project of mine and since it includes weather I’d love to ask everyone if they can shed some light to what they think is good and bad weather.
Information like temperature, pressure, humidity, sunnyness (day), clearness, cloudiness, windspeed, temperature change, anything would be good.
Which weather do you consider good or bad?
If you can please make the answer a bit more objective and use relative values, like 10–15 degrees Centigrade… you get the idea.
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I prefer temps around 75 F low humidity and a few wispy clouds.
@Act1v8, do you need people to tell you where they are? I lived half my life in the Northeast, and I am now in California. I can tell you that much of what passes for “bad” (or at least not “good”) weather here would probably have been greeted with rejoicing where I used to live. Or are you just looking for preferences?
I tend not to think of any weather as “bad” in the same way that wild animals are not “bad”—they are just doing what wolves and tigers and mountain lions do. Right now it is raining here, and whereas folks might not like going out in it or driving in it, we really need the rain because it has been a very long dry season. So is the rain “bad”? Or just favorable to some human purposes and not to others?
By the way, I love rain, and I still love it even at the end of a long and very rainy winter, when everyone else is sick of it. But I prefer to love it from a warm spot indoors.
Personally I believe bad weather is weather that can increase traffic accidents. One of the perfect conditions for this is one I’m seeing right now, at this time of year, in Ottawa, Canada. It is when the temperature is hovering around 0 degree Celsius, it rains/snows, and there are winds or even just gusts of wind. This is the recipe for black ice, ice that you often can’t see until you’re careening down the street hoping you don’t die, in the worst situation. It’s actually a serious problem for the first time it happens each year for a few reasons. First, it can occur before winter “officially” happens, during nighttime as the air is colder and at that time when some snow has fallen but melts during the day, leaving a wet environment. This environment can freeze very quickly due to gusts of wind or simply a low speed wind for a long time. Second, many drivers are not prepared for winter driving both car-wise and mentally (still driving fast, breaking hard). Third, Ottawa is a prime candidate for this to happen – the town is not as dense as Toronto (which is itself not as dense as many American cities) so there’s less wind breakers in the form of buildings, and also Ottawa encompasses many suburbs and counties, some that are accessed by high speed (80kph/50mph two-lane roads) bordered by farms. This is pretty much the perfect cocktail for death and injury, and many people are killed or injured the first time it happens each year, tons of regular car accidents as well during the next few icy days. Sadly it happens each year like clockwork. I get off the roads for these days, while I’m a great driver, that’s an exception to the rule…
I live on the east coast. Here, what is good or bad entirely depends on the time of year. If it has been a long cold winter, 59 degrees (F) feels blissfully warm. If it’s been a long hot summer, 59 degrees (F) feels deliciously cool. On the whole, I’d like to be somewhere where it is always about 73 degrees, with blue skies, a light breeze, and puffy white clouds. If we could arrange it so it would rain for an hour or two overnight, every night, that would be great! As I age, I’ve come to dislike gray rainy days, and to loathe with a passion snow and ice storms.
Bad is partly cloudy due to chemtrails.
I think a hurricane would be bad…
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