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- [Briggs] What is going on, everyone?
Welcome back to the World According to Briggs,
and a video about the weather.
Are you in 100 degree weather right now?
A lot of the United States is.
Did you have freezing cold weather last winter?
If that's the case, you've probably thought about moving
to a place with better or at least less extreme weather.
Everyone likes different types of weather.
I like cooler weather and can't stand it
when it's 100 degrees or more.
Actually I can't stand it if it's in the 90s.
Some people are the exact opposite.
But a majority of the people
just like it someplace in the middle,
they don't like it to freeze
and they don't like it sweltering hot.
What most people consider a city with good weather
is a city that doesn't have too many days,
if any, that are below freezing
and not too many days above 90 degrees.
Today's list is about just that.
We're looking for Metro areas in the United States
that have the most moderate temperatures
and a good amount of sunshine.
We went to the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration's National Center
for environmental information and found the 10 metro areas
with the fewest freezing days, fewest days above 90 degrees,
and how many days of sunshine they had.
Since we're going off three different stats,
the exact order might be a little off,
the last three or four though,
it's obvious that they should be at the top of this list.
All right, let's see what U.S. metro areas
are getting the most vitamin D from the sun.
Number 10: Fayetteville, Arkansas.
I like Fayetteville.
Fayetteville's a really nice place to stay,
nice place to live, nice place to visit.
It's not like the rest Arkansas, it's normal.
And when I say normal, I mean,
by the average person's normal, not by Arkansas normal,
which Arkansas normal isn't normal.
Arkansas is a very cheap place to live in most areas,
Fayetteville, not so much,
but compared to the rest of the country,
it's still got a decent cost of living.
As far as the weather goes,
in 2020, they had 72 days below freezing
and above 90 degrees they had 77.
The number of clear days in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2020
was 218 days.
Number nine: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
Myrtle Beach is one of the fastest growing metro areas
in the United States right now.
It's weather, I'm sure, plays a big part of that migration.
Summers and spring break can get a little crazy,
but the rest of the year, you can live a normal life
and then come next spring break or next summer,
you can get back to yelling at kids to get off your lawn,
because it's attracting a lot of retirees.
And I'm sure a lot of that's going on during spring break
and the summer.
I don't know if you know this,
but Myrtle Beach is pretty much a tourist destination.
In 2020, Myrtle Beach had 31 days below freezing,
40 days above 90 degrees and 215 days
of sunshine, clear days.
Number eight: San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Look at that: a territory!
We just did a video on territories.
Everyone seemed to enjoy it. I'm going to have to do more.
San Juan is a tropical island,
so you already know they don't get any snow.
If they ever do get any snow, it'll be a freak event.
And I'm sure it'd last a few seconds.
Puerto Rico's capital city can run a little warm,
but never very cold.
They do get some hurricanes, so that could suck really bad.
Matter of fact, I think they're still trying to recover
from one in 2017.
Matter of fact, I know they're trying to recover from it.
In 2020, San Juan, Puerto Rico had zero days below freezing,
big donut, zero, nada, none.
They had 65 days above 90 degrees
and they had 276 clear days.
Number seven: Atlanta.
They say Atlanta has two seasons, summer and Christmas.
One thing we really didn't look at on this video
is the humidity.
Atlanta, and most of the South, does get some humidity.
So 95 degrees in Arizona is a little more comfortable
than 85 degrees in Atlanta
when you got a whole bunch of humidity going on.
But they don't have a terrible amount of days
above 90 degrees in Atlanta.
It just stays kind of that 75 to 85 most of the year,
which is nice.
Atlanta had 44 days below freezing in 2020.
And they had 43 days above 90 degrees.
As far as clear days go, they had 217 days of sunshine.
Number six: Oklahoma City.
How these freaks slip in here?
Just kidding, Oklahoma City is not that bad of a place.
I've actually grown kind of fond of it in recent years.
Oklahoma city is another city that's growing.
They're grown at a pretty good pace, too.
Low cost of living. Houses aren't that terribly expensive.
And I know a lot of people will comment and go,
no they're getting so much worse.
Compared to other states,
you'll see that Oklahoma's not that expensive.
Compare it to Oklahoma City five years ago,
yeah, it is more expensive.
That's how economies work.
But Oklahoma city does not have terrible weather.
They do have a couple of freezing days
more than others on this list.
Actually, it's in 2020 they had 76 days below freezing
and above 90 degrees 71.
What gets them really on this list
is they don't have hurricanes and most of their weather
stays in that 70 to 85 for a good portion of the year.
In 2020, they had 235 days of sunshine.
Number five: Los Angeles.
Yes, Southern California is known for their great weather.
Los Angeles is no exception. They have great weather.
I grew up in Los Angeles.
I actually grew up in a suburb called Redondo Beach
in Torrance, they're kind of the same.
But I grew up there, and our weather was alittle bit better
than let's say downtown LA.
During the summer downtown LA gets a lot hotter
than the beach area where I was from.
So it depends on where you are.
It can change anywhere from five to 10 degrees
during the summer.
That ocean breeze
works like an air conditioner sometimes, I swear.
But Los Angeles is our first trip into the Golden State.
And there's going to be a few more, 'cause like I said,
it's just known for its great weather.
In 2020, Los Angeles had zero days below freezing,
which is good news
if you're living on the streets of Los Angeles,
like so many people are right now.
And above 90, they only had 21. That's it.
And the days of sunshine, 263 days.
Number four: Honolulu, Hawaii.
If you didn't know, Hawaii was going to show up
someplace on this list,
you haven't been paying attention to,
I don't know, the globe, the news, anything else.
Hawaii is known for its great weather,
sure, like so many other places.
They do get their hurricanes and those can get ugly.
But most of the year they have decent weather.
Like Los Angeles or where I grew up Redondo Beach,
You get that ocean breeze,
so your 90 degree days aren't that many.
The weather of Honolulu and pretty much all of Hawaii
is what draws so many wealthy retirees
to spend their golden years in the Aloha State.
Number three: San Francisco.
Over the years, I've been to San Francisco
a couple dozen times.
I lived not too far from there in Monterey for a while,
was up in San Francisco every now and then.
And then over the years,
I've visited it a bunch of other times.
Every single time I've gone there,
it is either really hot or cloudy, fog basically.
They called the place Fog City for a reason.
It's always foggy.
In my experience, other than the fog,
San Francisco just in general has pleasant weather,
a little cooler than other places like Los Angeles,
but it just seems nice all the time.
Getting past the fog, I mean.
San Francisco has its problems
we've all talked about at length,
that the cost of living there,
the homeless epidemic San Francisco has,
but it is still one of the most beautiful cities
you will ever visit in the United States.
There was a survey done
with hundreds of travel professionals and they asked
what are the most beautiful cities in the world.
They had all the ones you'd expect
like Paris, London, Apache junction.
And the one that surprised me was the San Francisco.
He was like number four or three, something like that.
But it's considered
one of the most beautiful cities on the planet.
And all you hear about is the homeless
and how the cost living so high.
Still, it's a beautiful city despite all its problems.
In 2020, San Francisco had zero days of freezing weather.
So that's good.
Days above 90 degrees, only two in 2020.
And the number of clear days was 260 days.
Number two: San Diego, California.
Most people just assume
San Diego has the best weather no matter what,
I mean, it just seems to be in that sweet spot.
You get up the ocean right there,
so it stays a little cooler, you're low enough.
It's just a good place. Weather's great all the time.
But it's only at the number two spot.
Again, like San Francisco and Los Angeles,
and pretty much any place near the ocean in California.
San Diego is an expensive city.
Not as bad as San Francisco, but it's up there.
If you're a retiree and you can afford it,
this one of the best places to retire.
I mean, golf courses everywhere,
plenty of beaches to walk up and down
with your metal detector.
San Diego is just a great city with great weather.
In 2020, like most years,
they didn't have any freezing days, so that's a plus.
Days above 90 degrees, only three days.
It's in that perfect zone,
no freezing and hardly any sweltering days.
In 2020, they had 263 clear days in San Diego.
All right, before we get to number one,
don't forget, we have another called On This Day.
There is a link down below.
We would love it if you checked it out,
watched a couple videos.
All right, on to number one.
And number one, Santa Barbara, California,
Santa Barbara by far is one of the best beach communities
I've ever been to in California.
Actually, I can't think of any other coastal cities
that are as nice as Santa Barbara, tell you the truth.
I mean, they have tons of small towns
that are probably better, but as far as coastal cities go,
this is definitely one of the best in the country.
And they got some of the best weather to go along with it.
If you've never been and you have the opportunity
to visit Santa Barbara, I would suggest it.
It's a really nice place.
It's only about an hour and a half,
two hours north of Los Angeles, right on the coast.
It's a great little community.
In 2020, Santa Barbara had six days
that were below freezing, which kind of surprises me.
And they only had three days above 90 degrees.
The best part about Santa Barbara
is it just stays kind of perfect most of the year,
a little bit cooler than San Diego and Los Angeles
and a little bit warmer than San Francisco.
It's just kind of perfect.
In 2020, Santa Barbara had 286 days of clear skies.
All right, that's our video. Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Hope you got some information out of it.
Have a great day and be nice to each other.