Have your weather preferences changed over time?

^ Lol back in 2011 I liked chilly summers too, I wanted average highs of like 18 C in the warmest month , I've always preferred June being warmer than August though as I tend to get tired of summer by the second half of August.


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In answer to the question, yeah, my preferences are changing quite a bit. I no longer like hot summers, in fact the older I get the less I like heat. I'd be happy with 23-25°C in summer these days. I still like mild sunny winters, and humid stormy summers mind you but not hot ones. This is largely due to medical reasons, I have auto-immmune disease that causes nerve damage, and I can't tolerate any kind of heat any more. So I no longer like it, and if it gets any worse I may even prefer cold summers.

I’m growing more interested in storms and less so in heat. Now I still love extreme heat but the idea of consistent summer heat is appealing to me less and less. 

High 70s and low 80s are still enough to feel warm which is a necessity while not being unpleasant, especially if I’m doing something active.

In Shitchester, 90s are quite interesting but they’re well above average. In Fort Collins, only 95+ is interesting so if I have a ~90 f average high in my dream climate, the upper 80s and 90s won’t provide any interest but still are hot enough to be annoying.

Now 100+ temps are still epic and I do love the sensation of extreme heat for short periods of time so I think I’d like consistent 77-85, a few cooler days and then some heat spikes with several days a summer month over 100.

I’m also more interested in storms. Not experiencing a single thunderstorm in June was annoying and I’ve found myself rooting more for storms than dry days the past 2 weeks in Shitchester. If they’re brief then I can still have most of the day to do outdoor activities. 3/6 days this July have had a thunderstorm and I’ve had no issue going outside.

I think a variable, dry pattern followed by a few stable, stormy days in a row would be good. I did a couple example months and they came out to average highs of 29-30 c with like 8-10 days >90 with 4-5 of those >100 as opposed to 16-18 days >90 and the same amount of 100s in my current dream climate. 

I prefer cooler summers now than I did maybe 5 years ago. 26/27C highs and 18C lows would be perfect. As mentioned above, I also don't like uncomfortably warm nights anymore, and really struggle to sleep at times.

I was looking through the records for York, and although 20C lows are rare, the last one being 21.1C in 2019, the record is actually 23.5C from back in 1987. That's probably one of the warmest lows ever recorded in the UK, let alone northern England. Theres no way I could sleep in my house now with a night like that.

Quite a lot. And it is still "evolving".

As a kid, I had a fascination towards tropical climates, like Singapore and Darwin. I envied how they had 30C+ temps nearly everyday of the year. As I grew older into my teens I was into warmer humid subtropical climates with mild winters, like those of the Gold Coast and Durban. Later, I liked desert climates (I still prefer drier climates). During the past 10 years, I liked mild oceanic climates with mild summers and mild winters (i.e. Port Elizabeth in South Africa and Narooma in NSW), including those extremely dry mild desert climates (i.e. Arica), because I seemed to be intolerant of both heat and cold during that time. Anything averaging above 27C was too hot for me.

Now, I prefer hotter summers (though not humid). I don't mind 31C average highs in the hottest month. So bring on some heat, preferably dry and sunny.

The winter humidity in Rochester is becoming more and more appealing. There’s been a couple days here with temps around 40 f, with thick, low clouds and high humidity which have been quite nice. I’d like at least several days a month like this in winter, more would be fine too.

Also I’m losing my patience with dry cold. It’s boring and unpleasant. With the weak sun, very low dews and often a breeze, sub-45 f highs in Colorado have been annoyingly cold. Additionally, unless it’s well below average or snowing, there’s nothing interesting about these cold temps.

I used to want to avoid a winter snowpack, but while I still do, I now consider snowfall to be a much higher priority. The colder a winter is, the more snow I want, otherwise they’re almost as dreadful as cold and rainy.

Stable, cold and dry in winter is a godawful combination I’m realizing.

Recently, over the past year—but especially since moving back to ENC and living without A/C, I've come to appreciate humid heat (i.e. dew points above the 70-75°F range) and built tolerance to it quite a bit. I've found 90/75°F type days quite nice, especially when there's a bit of wind, and thunderstorms. My dream climate remains similar, but I'd like at least a few days of these in summer, and not sure I'd like to live in a climate completely devoid of days with higher dew points and T-storms.

Being from Ireland I wanted to live in a warmer and sunnier climate than Ireland/UK. When I moved to Christchurch I always felt like it was warm enough during summer and that it was sunny enough throughout the year. I always felt like Australia especially during summer would be just hell on earth and not enjoyable. Years later here I am living in Perth where we get MUCH warmer weather and I love it. Though the odd day is too hot most are perfect and it's nice to sit outside at night comfortably in shorts and a t-shirt. Never thought I would enjoy working and living in such a warm climate