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OH MAN I AM SO JEALOUS.
Caesar of Bread
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I'll be in Chicago this weekend. Enjoying Quiz Bowl nationals!
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Liked, read spoiler, unlikedI'll be in Paris on the 4th of July!!
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Hygro
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California? How long are you there for?
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Yeah, California. In theory there is some chance of me spending time in Santa Cruz in the undefined future, but I might spend a day or two in San Jose as well instead of just immediately taking a Greyhound down.
Hygro
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There's definitely more in San Francisco, but hmu when you come down I'll head to San Jose for sure.
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Orly?I'll be in Paris on the 4th of July!!
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Or DeGaulle?
Have a great time in Zanzibar, that does sound amazing!
There are nationals? How did I not know about that when I was in school!
Well I guess because our team only made it to the quarterfinals of our regional competition... I still remember losing in the second tiebreaker of the second game of a doubleheader, the question that could have won it for us being one that I knew I knew the answer to, but which I couldn't remember due to mental fatigue. Something about James Garfield or Rutherford B. Hayes I think. Eventually one of my teammates took an incorrect guess when they saw the history specialist wasn't buzzing in, and on the next overtime clue the other team got the answer and advanced.
May you have better fortunate in the nationals! Maybe even with some of that Windy City deep-dish pizza afterwards.
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I suspect you would find me deeply unpleasant to spend time around.
Do you know the way to San Jose? Dionne Warwick wants to know.
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San Jose is just where I might be landing on the way to a more intended destination. I was just curious if there was anything notable to see there as someone who can't do tourist things.
How to take a year-long road trip with reliable 70-degree weather
The 13,000-mile escapade would take you through 26 states and six Canadian provinces
If you’ve ever planned a road trip vacation, you may have felt that you needed to pack for every season. But Brian Brettschneider, an Alaska-based climatologist and prolific mapmaker, has found a way around that.
After poring over copious weather and climate data, Brettschneider, a researcher for the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, devised a hypothetical year-long road trip that would follow the best odds of ideal weather. Covering 13,909 miles, the route navigates enormous stretches of North America, shifting north and south with the changing seasons. The goal? Hew as close to 70-degree conditions as possible.
While Brettschneider says no one has navigated the full expedition, which would involve a journey through 26 states and six Canadian provinces, several people have tried portions of it. “It’s a year long, so you need to be basically retired or otherwise have a free year to do it,” Brettschneider said in an interview Wednesday. “I have heard from people who have done segments, like the Appalachian chunk.” Brettschneider says he came up with the idea for this sort of project in 2015 when thinking about how, thanks to shifting seasons, a belt of relatively temperate weather would oscillate north and south over the course of a year. “I kind of noticed that you could kind of trace a path around the country where there was a constant temperature,” he said. “Seventy seemed like a nice number where you can trace that throughout the year.”
So he did. He calculated historical averages for the period 1991 to 2020, and then used those to chart a course — or rather several courses. In addition to the U.S.-Canada route (shown above), which covers more ground and also includes a visit to Alaska, Brettschneider offered a few options for those hoping to remain within the Lower 48.
[map included below]
One of them, the coastal route, begins in Tampa, features a drive up Interstate 95 to Boston into the late spring, a hop toward the Great Lakes, passage through the Upper Midwest and Columbia River Basin during the summer and then meandering through the Four Corners and Desert Southwest into December. That one is 7,468 miles. A slightly shorter (7,064 miles) interior route would begin in Texas, include a slow northward progression toward the Canadian border and then require spending some time in the Rockies and High Plains.
Brian Brettschneider created a map of multiple domestic routes within the United States that statistically should favor temperatures close to 70 degrees throughout. (Brian Brettschneider) But the ultimate journey — that includes Canada and Alaska — would begin in San Diego. January would be spent taking Interstate 8 east toward Phoenix. Then comes a trip to El Paso in February. March, April and May include a slow east-northeast journey through the heartland, Midwest and Appalachians, visiting the Virginia Blue Ridge, Canton, Ohio, and Chicago.
In June, the intrepid adventurer would pass through International Falls, Minn., before crossing the border and swinging through Winnipeg and Edmonton in Canada. Since summer temperatures rise most quickly in June, travelers would have to move more than 100 miles per day on average to “outrun” highs above 70 degrees — covering 3,424 miles during the month. By the end of June, travelers would have to be in Fairbanks, Alaska, which also would have meant a trip through the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. The remaining six months are spent on a return journey to Florida, with jaunts through Idaho, the Rockies, the Great Plains and the Southeast. The maps displaying these routes were published on Brettschneider’s website Tuesday. They represent an update from maps he published in 2015 incorporating the latest available 10 years of climate data; his 2015 maps were based on 1981-2010 climate averages, while his 2023 maps use data from 1991-2020.
In 2015, Brettschneider also created a 10,000-mile road trip following 80-degree temperatures for the Capital Weather Gang. Brettschneider has been shocked about how popular his maps have been.
“I never expected it to take off,” he said. “But there are lots of intersections with [people’s] interest. There’s been kind of a road tripping hallmark of American culture since the 1950s. Everyone’s done a road trip.”
Since he initially published the first renditions of his maps in 2015, Brettschneider estimates some 20 million people have seen them in some capacity. “Quite a number of people asked ‘are you going to update this?’ so I figured I had a little time last week, and I decided to update it,” he said. “It’s really been interesting that, over the years, it’s taken on a life of its own.” On his website, Brettschneider wrote that even though his new maps take into account another decade of climate warming, the routes haven’t shown much change. “[T]he shift in 70°F temperatures between 1981-2010 and 1991-2020 is very slight,” he wrote. “It’s just too short of a time period to capture the distance change.”
The longer route that includes Canada and alaska
Hygro
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Dude look how the route looks like the USA inside the USA with Alaska included
