This trip is causing us to ask questions previously unasked - and the Internet is failing us at providing answers.
It seems so simple - all we want to know is for any given period of time, where in the USA are the temperatures around 70 degrees? We’re trying to plan a route for our year on the road and just want to see what influence typical weather patterns would have on that planning.
I spent a couple hours last night fooling around on weather.com, experimenting Wolfram-Alpha, running Google searches and complaining on Twitter to no avail. It seems the entire online weather world is only geared to answer questions in the form of “I plan to be in a specific location during a specific time, can you tell me what will the weather be?” and we need to flip that on it’s ear and ask “I plan to be in a specific weather pattern during a specific time, can you tell me where to find it?”
I didn’t think it would be so hard to do…I know the data is out there, but have to assume it’s a question so few people ask that the tools haven’t been constructed to answer it.
Travis Gertz writes:
I haven’t found anything that gives you an overall look in one place, but if you go to practically any city’s wikipedia page it shows the seasonal weather patterns including average temperatures.
That’s the best we found… though it didn’t help us much only because it was such a crazy, unseasonal year for weather.
Boyink writes:
Yea - Wolfram-Alpha could provide that as well, and even roll it up by state. But it’s still answering the “where” first.
Ideally I’d like the typical “temp ranges across the country” maps that most weathermen use but with a slider for date - just so we could see trends.