Your dream climate over time

What originally started as an island with a few tropical climates grew into a bigger continent due to my dissatisfaction with the limitations of a small tropical island.

Originally, the continent was small with mainly tropical climates and this was my dream climate:



Perennial warmth, humidity, lots of thunderstorms and plenty of sun.

However, I started to find it a bit boring - not enough seasonal variation. So I extended my continent northwards and created the necessary terrain and features for the following climates to exist. These ones feature more seasonal variation but are still tropical or subtropical variants:



I still think these are a bit lacking in seasonal variation and not enough opportunities for cool comfortable weather in winter. So the continent was extended northwards even more and these climates could be included:



These are my favourite climate cities in New Florida now, good comfortable winters, and warm sunny humid summers with regular thunderstorms.

So we have gone from an Am (Tropical Monsoon) climate with no seasonal variation to a much more moderate variety of Cfa climate with nice seasonal variation and less than half of the annual rainfall. A big change.

Mines didn't really change that much. I just lowered the humidity by a lot, the temperatures stayed the same

All the climate boxes I posted in past years are now gone from the image hosting server, so I recreated these from memory as closely as possible.

2014 - The height of my cold hating, as well as my obsession with summer convective rain. So the result was like an über-monsoonal version of northern Florida:



2015 - Decided a little bit of winter was okay, but kept the same overall concept:



2016 - When I really started to favor excitement over comfort, and move away from mild subtropical winters. I changed it a few times, but it was generally something like this:



2017-2018 - Most likely prompted by our very warm winter in 2017, I had a cold lover phase. For a while I wanted an even more continental climate than Lexington:



2019 - Then this past winter I realized that was going overboard, and settled on the current version: 

I don't have all my dream climates archived, but I have some.

This appears to be my first dream climate. It is from June 2014.



Context: This was after two winters in Ohio and falling in love with snow. I didn't care much about summer at all, other than not liking humidity, so I just sort of threw in temperatures arbitrarily.

I seem to at some point remember having a dream climate with something like 85F average highs in July and 15F in January, but I can't find it.

This is the next one I can find.



This seems to be from September 2016. This is after moving to KC and suffering through two hot, humid summers. I began to realize that I wasn't a cold lover, I was a heat hater and snow lover. I also realized that my snow-water ratios and precipitation pattern made no sense, so I fixed those. Ignore the sun, I seem to have forgotten the whole "days are longer in summer" thing. I promise I don't want July to be like Tórshavn.

This is the next one.



It is from March 2017. 14 of the 18 months since moving back to KC had been above average, and 2 of the 4 below-average months were less than 1F below average (July and August 2016, 0.8F and 0.6F below average respectively, and only in highs - the lows were still hot. The two that were substantially below average were May 2016, which was actually cool, and December 2016, which was mostly warm with a single powerful arctic outbreak in the middle of the month dropping the averages). This was my reaction to that: I cooled the summers further, made the winter diurnal ranges a bit more naturalistic, and moderated the records a lot. I also changed the precipitation and snow a bit to be more naturalistic. Again, ignore the sun.

Most recent:



This is from June 2019. The only differences are in precipitation and sun. I've made it slightly drier once again, as well as switching the sun from hours to percent so I don't have to do math to get actual proper sun statistics in. These should be accurate.

Will post my evolution now!

My first one was like Vancouver or Brussels or something along those lines, I absolutely detested summer heat from really bad experiences of heatwaves in 2011/2012 without ac, still wanted a shot at snow but wanted reasonable transitions, felt some summers before were okay but suspected these were unexpectedly cool and normal summers would always be bad





Gradually I became okay with a bit more summer heat since I wanted transitions in the 70s (fall), so incresed the summers to Paris level oo so, was slightly okay with a hot day or 2 but not really

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia,_Washington#Geography_and_climate was also an inspiritiAtion since it seemed somewhat fun with the strange summer frosts will still being mild
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