Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the perfect
climate?

This would also include factors such as having little danger of hurricanes,
volcanic activity, earthquakes, etc.

Any suggestions?

TIA

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

The only problem is that you have not described what you want. One
person's perfect climate may well be another's most boring climate.

In general, if you want to avoid earthquakes and volcanic activity avoid
coastal and mountain areas. That should get you down to something
boring. If you mean only within europe I suspect somewhere in the
northern Mediterranean area where there are no coast and no mountains.

Perhaps well in from the coast in south central Spain but not far enough
in to get mountains.

If you mean in the world then perhaps somewhere in central asia well
away from mountains. Perhaps Mongolia although you may find that chilly.

strawberry icecream wrote:
    > I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the perfect
    > climate?
    >
    > This would also include factors such as having little danger of hurricanes,
    > volcanic activity, earthquakes, etc.
    >
    > Any suggestions?
    >
    > TIA

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

strawberry icecream <[email protected]> crawled to the nearest
keyboard and summoned the courage to write:

    >I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the perfect
    >climate?
    >This would also include factors such as having little danger of hurricanes,
    >volcanic activity, earthquakes, etc.

Volcanic activity and earthquakes are not components of "climate,"
notwithstanding that large volcanic eruptions can have short-term
influences on climate.



--
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Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

"strawberry icecream" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the perfect
    > climate?
    > This would also include factors such as having little danger of
hurricanes,
    > volcanic activity, earthquakes, etc.
    > Any suggestions?

My personal choice is the Charente region of France. Not too hot in the
summer and not too cold in the winter. However, others will probably have
different priorities.

Colin Bignell

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

"Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > The only problem is that you have not described what you want. One
    > person's perfect climate may well be another's most boring climate.

Very true.

    > In general, if you want to avoid earthquakes and volcanic activity avoid
    > coastal and mountain areas. That should get you down to something
    > boring. If you mean only within europe I suspect somewhere in the
    > northern Mediterranean area where there are no coast and no mountains.

Er. Britain has coat all round it and some (small mountains). No volcanic
activity for several squillion years and only about two .000001 earth
tremors in the fifty plus years I've been about. The same is true of almost
every European country.

And there is no coast on the north mediterranean? What is th bit where the
sea stops and the land begins called then?

I dunno what you call the north meditarranean, but by any definition it has
plenty of mountains. By some definitions two of them are volcanic. One
actively.

    > Perhaps well in from the coast in south central Spain but not far enough
    > in to get mountains.

Crap. No volcanoes in Spain. Mountains ALL near coast! (Sierra Nevada in
south, Pyrenees in north)

You learnt European geography in the US? Or not at all?

    > If you mean in the world then perhaps somewhere in central asia well
    > away from mountains. Perhaps Mongolia although you may find that chilly.
    > strawberry icecream wrote:
    > > I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the
perfect
    > > climate?
    > >
    > > This would also include factors such as having little danger of
hurricanes,
    > > volcanic activity, earthquakes, etc.
    > >
    > > Any suggestions?

Tony (answering a troll who answered a troll!)

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

"Tony Day" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > "Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > The only problem is that you have not described what you want. One
    > > person's perfect climate may well be another's most boring climate.
    > Very true.
    > > In general, if you want to avoid earthquakes and volcanic activity avoid
    > > coastal and mountain areas. That should get you down to something
    > > boring. If you mean only within europe I suspect somewhere in the
    > > northern Mediterranean area where there are no coast and no mountains.
    > Er. Britain has coat all round it and some (small mountains). No volcanic
    > activity for several squillion years and only about two .000001 earth
    > tremors in the fifty plus years I've been about. The same is true of
almost
    > every European country.

Apart from Italy, Greece , Yugoslavia etc, most of southern
Europe along the boundary of the European and African
tectonic plates is classed as a seismic hazard zone.


    > And there is no coast on the north mediterranean? What is th bit where the
    > sea stops and the land begins called then?

I suspect he meant somewhere away from the coast.

    > I dunno what you call the north meditarranean, but by any definition it
has
    > plenty of mountains. By some definitions two of them are volcanic. One
    > actively.

Rather more than that, Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius are
all considered active volcanoes

    > > Perhaps well in from the coast in south central Spain but not far enough
    > > in to get mountains.
    > Crap. No volcanoes in Spain. Mountains ALL near coast! (Sierra Nevada in
    > south, Pyrenees in north)

You mean apart from the ones that arent, such as the Iberian Mountains,
and Sierra Morena !


Keith

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

"Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

    > In general, if you want to avoid earthquakes and volcanic activity
    > avoid coastal and mountain areas.

Rather, avoid tectonic plate boundaries. Sometimes they coincide with
coasts or mountain chains, but not always. And not all coasts and mountains
are plate boundaries.

Regards

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Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

On Mon, 10 May 2004 10:57:57 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Apart from Italy, Greece , Yugoslavia etc, most of southern
    >Europe along the boundary of the European and African
    >tectonic plates is classed as a seismic hazard zone.

Your sentence is a bit ambiguous. In any case, to clarify, a good deal
of Italy is considered to have earthquake risk.
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Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

There was a reference to earthquakes. They may be uncommon but they do
occur. Britain has occasionally been hit by hurricanes. Again very
uncommon but it can happen. I suppose that the east side might be safe
for disasters.

Tony Day wrote:

    > "Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >
    >>The only problem is that you have not described what you want. One
    >>person's perfect climate may well be another's most boring climate.

    > Very true.

    >>In general, if you want to avoid earthquakes and volcanic activity avoid
    >>coastal and mountain areas. That should get you down to something
    >>boring. If you mean only within europe I suspect somewhere in the
    >>northern Mediterranean area where there are no coast and no mountains.
    >
    >
    > Er. Britain has coat all round it and some (small mountains). No volcanic
    > activity for several squillion years and only about two .000001 earth
    > tremors in the fifty plus years I've been about. The same is true of almost
    > every European country.
    >
    > And there is no coast on the north mediterranean? What is th bit where the
    > sea stops and the land begins called then?
    >
    > I dunno what you call the north meditarranean, but by any definition it has
    > plenty of mountains. By some definitions two of them are volcanic. One
    > actively.
    >
    >
    >>Perhaps well in from the coast in south central Spain but not far enough
    >>in to get mountains.
    >
    >
    > Crap. No volcanoes in Spain. Mountains ALL near coast! (Sierra Nevada in
    > south, Pyrenees in north)
    >
    > You learnt European geography in the US? Or not at all?
    >
    >
    >>If you mean in the world then perhaps somewhere in central asia well
    >>away from mountains. Perhaps Mongolia although you may find that chilly.
    >>strawberry icecream wrote:
    >>>I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the
    >
    > perfect
    >
    >>>climate?
    >>>This would also include factors such as having little danger of
    >
    > hurricanes,
    >
    >>>volcanic activity, earthquakes, etc.
    >>>Any suggestions?
    >
    >
    > Tony (answering a troll who answered a troll!)
    >
    >

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

"Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > There was a reference to earthquakes. They may be uncommon but they do
    > occur. Britain has occasionally been hit by hurricanes. Again very
    > uncommon but it can happen. I suppose that the east side might be safe
    > for disasters.

A bad assumption, Atlantic hurricanes create a massive
storm surge in the north sea which due to the way
in narrows down north to south can produce
extensive flooding on the east coast if it coincides
with spring or autumn tides.

The last such event killed hundreds of people in the
winter of 1953.

Keith

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

"Frank F. Matthews" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > There was a reference to earthquakes. They may be uncommon but they do
    > occur.

There are 200-300 each year in Britain, although most could be mistaken for
a passing lorry. Earthquakes of magnitude 4-4.9 occur about every two years
and magnitude 5 or above, around once every eight years. In June 1931, the
largest recorded British earthquake (one in 1580 may have been larger),
magnitude 6.1 and centred on Dogger Bank, was felt across most of Britain,
as well a fair bit of Europe.

    > Britain has occasionally been hit by hurricanes.

Technically, a hurricane is a tropical rotating storm and they don't get as
far as Britain. Hurricane force winds in Britain are classed as severe
storms, although the media prefer to call them hurricanes. Records for the
past 70 years show seven windstorms that caused significant structural
damage across the UK, with others causing major damage in localised areas..

    > ...I suppose that the east side might be safe
    > for disasters.

In 1953, floods devastated the East Coast and Dutch land reclaimation has
removed some of the sea areas that a similar tidal surge might have run off
into.

Colin Bignell

Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

Following up to Frank F. Matthews

    >In general, if you want to avoid earthquakes and volcanic activity avoid
    >coastal and mountain areas.

Scotland has coast, mountains and no earthquakes or volcanos. But
it does have midges. Give me a volcano over a "clegg" any day.
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Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

Following up to Tony Day

    >> Perhaps well in from the coast in south central Spain but not far enough
    >> in to get mountains.
    >Crap. No volcanoes in Spain. Mountains ALL near coast! (Sierra Nevada in
    >south, Pyrenees in north)

except Teide :-) (There are mountains away from coast as well
(Gredos for instance)).
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Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

Following up to strawberry icecream

    >I was wondering where in the world posters would recommend for the perfect
    >climate?

The Balearics have got a pretty good climate but I like some snow
in winter so wouldn't do for me. All the places I have been fail
to have the best climate at all seasons. Spain is too hot in
summer, the English Lake District has enough snow for me but not
enough for ski developments, god so far, but is too wet in
summer. Northern Italy has too much fog. Cornwall is pretty good,
good light, not humid, plenty of variety[1], big seas in winter,
if it just had some snowy mountains in the middle!

1] I hate clear blue skies day after day, others probably love
them.
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Re: Recommendations - perfect climate?
 

Following up to Frank F. Matthews

    >Britain has occasionally been hit by hurricanes. Again very
    >uncommon but it can happen. I suppose that the east side might be safe
    >for disasters.

In don't think "hurricanes", we had what was called a hurricane a
few years back but I don't think it reached the official wind
speed. I don't think the UK has anything you could call natural
disasters except some flooding from time to time. I don't think
the east is any safer or less safe than the west, most of our
weather comes from the west but the really bad weather always
comes from the east. Not that its bad in world terms.
--
Mike Reid
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