[public] close your eyes and watch me... I'm ____ing again
last week's weather was pretty much perfect -- not too hot and not chilly either. great for opening the windows and/or getting outside... as well as for not spending money on air conditioning or heating.
but a few autumnally cool days in a row have now left us at a point where I can no longer go without a shirt in the house.
oh well.
the good news is that the warm times look set to return even as soon as tomorrow. I'll need to get out to a nearby arboretum and take advantage.
I still would like to be able to live somewhere with less snow than New Jersey (preferably none) at some point in my life. the Pacific Northwest (either Oregon's Willamette Valley or the Puget Sound area) seemed ideal, with practically no snow AND more tolerable summers (because Mediterranean climate, and therefore cooler summer nights and more arid summer days), until I saw what was happening climatically over there this year (continuing megadrought, wildfires, and even triple-digit daytime temperatures breaking records).
Melbourne looks like it has an utterly amazing climate: cooler summers than here with lots of sunlight and average dew points in the low 50s(!!), and never any snow. it's apparently quite cloudy in the cooler months, but the Pacific Northwest gets that too. alas, it's in Australia.
so far I haven't been able to find a better compromise east of the Rockies (and therefore avoiding the wildfires, droughts, and water-rights issues of the West) than Asheville, NC, which is pretty much the southernmost city of decent size in the Appalachian Mountains, at an elevation of 2,130' and with a metro-area population of over 400,000 (bigger than Roanoke's). it has summers essentially the same as here but winters 7-10°F warmer, with a commensurate reduction in snowfall. I can certainly see why my father was always talking about relocating there after he retired (though it never actually happened, probably due mostly to my mother).
Lynchburg, VA, and Bristol, VA/TN, are similar but marginally less nice on both extremes.
but due to life circumstances, I don't think it's going to be possible to move out of New Jersey until I retire.
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but a few autumnally cool days in a row have now left us at a point where I can no longer go without a shirt in the house.
oh well.
the good news is that the warm times look set to return even as soon as tomorrow. I'll need to get out to a nearby arboretum and take advantage.
I still would like to be able to live somewhere with less snow than New Jersey (preferably none) at some point in my life. the Pacific Northwest (either Oregon's Willamette Valley or the Puget Sound area) seemed ideal, with practically no snow AND more tolerable summers (because Mediterranean climate, and therefore cooler summer nights and more arid summer days), until I saw what was happening climatically over there this year (continuing megadrought, wildfires, and even triple-digit daytime temperatures breaking records).
Melbourne looks like it has an utterly amazing climate: cooler summers than here with lots of sunlight and average dew points in the low 50s(!!), and never any snow. it's apparently quite cloudy in the cooler months, but the Pacific Northwest gets that too. alas, it's in Australia.
so far I haven't been able to find a better compromise east of the Rockies (and therefore avoiding the wildfires, droughts, and water-rights issues of the West) than Asheville, NC, which is pretty much the southernmost city of decent size in the Appalachian Mountains, at an elevation of 2,130' and with a metro-area population of over 400,000 (bigger than Roanoke's). it has summers essentially the same as here but winters 7-10°F warmer, with a commensurate reduction in snowfall. I can certainly see why my father was always talking about relocating there after he retired (though it never actually happened, probably due mostly to my mother).
Lynchburg, VA, and Bristol, VA/TN, are similar but marginally less nice on both extremes.
but due to life circumstances, I don't think it's going to be possible to move out of New Jersey until I retire.
This entry was originally posted at: https://scintilla72.dreamwidth.org/759135.html. Please comment wherever you prefer.