🌎 Where to Live

A website to show the best places to live based on weather in the US

✨ How it works

Using NOAA weather data from 2008 to 2021, we calculate the average number of pleasant and unpleasant days for each month. We then combine those to display a heatmap of the best places to live by weather.

We calculate the perceived temperature, which takes into account relative humidity, to more accurately evaluate the temperature.

A pleasant day is counted when all of the following are met:

• Average perceived temperature between 60°F and 80°F
• Maximum perceived temperature below 85°F
• Minimum perceived temperature above 50°F
• Visibility of more than 5
• Less than .05" of precipitation

An unpleasant day is counted when any of the following are met:

• Average perceived temperature below 40°F
• Average perceived temperature above 85°F
• Visibility of less than 5
• Any snow, hail, thunder, or tornados
• More than .1" of precipitation

All other days are not counted and are instead considered normal days.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🤝 Acknowledgments

• Kelly Norton for the pleasant-places repository, which we used as reference and inspiration.
• Spencer Mortensen for his article explaining how to create very accurate circle approximations using bezier curves, which we used for creating circles and curves in HTML canvas.