Have your weather preferences changed over time?

Mine have definitely changed. When I first started getting interested in weather, I mostly just wanted comfortably warm and somewhat humid, stormy weather year round but eventually I became more and more of a four-seasons person. Now I can appreciate winter, even a really cold one, though I still very strongly prefer that it does not dominate the year. I'm okay either with a subfreezing snowy winter (as long as it's not ridiculously cold or too long-lasting) or a just-above-freezing milder winter as long as there are regular frosts and occasional snowfall and it's not raining all the time.

For the longest time I was a fan of wetter climates (especially in summer) but now that it's gotten really wet here after months of extreme dryness, I have to say that I've developed an appreciation for the drier weather we had (to an extent). Suddenly having rain or storms almost everyday, as much as I love the greenery it provides and the amazing skies we get, can actually be a bit annoying and intrusive, I kind of miss the un-intrusive nature of consistent clear skies and dryness. So I think perhaps a climate that's more on the dry side but gets just enough rain and storms in short bursts to keep everything green while being dry the rest of the time would be preferable over a consistently wet one that I would've desired up until recently. So we'll see if and how this changes in the coming months.

I’ve grown much more interested in heavy snow. With all the light snows this year, I’m missing the big snowstorms we usually get. I now want much more snow than I used to but on not many days.

I’ve also overestimated my interest in cold. This has been a mild winter and in already ready for it to be done. I want a few really cold days per year (like sub 15 f highs and lows in the -10s) for interest and the novelty of being so cold but otherwise I want winter to mild and dry. 

The 20s and 30s we’ve been getting all winter are not interesting, repetitive and cold enough to be annoying. 

I’m thinking now my ideal winter months would feature 3-5 highs in the 20s with snow, 2-4 sunny days with highs in the 00s or 10s and lows we’ll below 0, and then the rest >40. Don’t want any of the 25-40 days we get unless it’s coming with a big snowstorm.

^ What are the average dew points like? High 70's/low 80's of F, judging by the diurnal ranges? That's kinda overkill even for me lol

As for my preferences, I've changed quite a bit, though I've always loved warm/hot weather and rooted for record highs as far as I remember. Back in 2014 I adored, and was fascinated at very hot desert climates (my ideal at that time would've been something like Palm Springs or Kuwait), though over the years I've moderated my preferences quite a bit; I started appreciating t-storms more in 2017/18 and I only liked moderately hot summers (average highs around the low 90's or so with some heat spikes here and there). In 2019 I've come to realize how much I loved triple-digit temperatures and variability, which has resulted in me creating my current dream climates.

Yeah I also registered a Wiki account at around the same time as you did (I rarely edit Wiki pages though).

I might get around to doing some reconstructions though I didn't make any dream climates before I joined C-D.

MET I remember New Florida, and even its older incarnation back on CD that also had a tropical south island. You should make a thread with a big giant climate battle of all the island's major cities! Just out of those two climates, Carven City looks pretty awesome. Interesting that both are technically Cfa but still very different from each other!

This evening I'm collecting all my weather records for various cities in New Florida into Wikipedia tables, adding more data where possible. When I've done it (it's a ton of data), I'll add them to the Dream Climates thread, along with a map of New Florida on google earth. Shouldn't take too long.

10 years ago my dream climate would have looked something like this:



My current one looks like this:



All seasons are a few degrees warmer. Rainfall is also substantially lower but there’s still a summer peak. 

Haven’t decided on snowfall yet, but in general I don’t want silly amounts.

Since I moved to Oklahoma, I've grown to desire more continentality, and more of a late-spring precipitation peak instead of a mid-summer peak. When I was a kid I wanted winters as cold as those of Charlottesville, VA, but in high school I modified that to Harrisburg, PA, and my preferences have only gotten slightly colder since then.