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From: brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown)
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Subject: Re: Temperature-limited geographic location
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 15:25:12 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <11497@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>I know that tempaerature variations on the surface of the earth depend
>on an awful lot of different factors; as far as I know, the main
>locations where the temperature varies minimally are in the tropics,
>where it just varies between "hot" and "too hot", depending on seasons
>and local factors. What I am wondering is whether there is some place on
>the earth where the temperature stays between certain limited but
>temperate points for a large percentage of the time (like 95% or so)?
>What I am looking for is a site where the temperature never(*) drops
>below freezing, and never gets above, say, 80 degrees F or so, for
>totally natural reasons (i.e., the inside of a building doesn't count).
>Maybe some island somewhere, or some mountain valley in the tropics, or
>some coastal location warmed by currents, or the like?

>The area just inland and north of San Diego and just south of Escondido,
California touts itself as ideal, but it wouldn't quite stay below 80
all the time.  The desert is to the east and the Lake Hodges trench runs
west to the Pacific, carrying cool air in.  They tend to stand each other
off most of the time.  Sometimes a hot Santa Anna wind from the desert 
will dominate however.  (My father chose to retire there - Rancho Bernardo).
Of course the San Diego Zoo also claims that the near perfect climate is
what enables them to have such a good botanical and zoological collection.
This place is just down the mountain from the Palomar observatory.