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Originally Posted by rcentros
Because on a cool day the sun feels good. I guess you've never lived along the beach in Southern California, or in the mountains of Montana.
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I have been to southern California many times, and I can assure you that we have cool sunny days too. Their weather is mostly a bit warmer (averaged over the year) than ours so I guess we likely have more cool sunny days than they do.
As it happens we do live right beside a beach, it is directly in front of us across the road. We are also on the west coast, so like your west coast the weather patterns arrive off the sea. Surprisingly, seeing you mention southern California as the cool sunny place to be, we also have a big island out off the coast in front of us, but just the one and only about 3 nautical miles off, so not quite like Catalina and the Channel Islands (but we can see it 99% of the time
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And if you want cool and sunny we cruise a lot on our sailboat, I can assure you that it gets pretty cool and sunny doing that in autumn and early winter (we hope to be off again in a fortnight for a month or so autumn cruise).
I have never been to Montana but as far as mountains go I have spent time in the mountains of Europe (the French and Italian Alps), Sweden, Australia (they really just have high rolling hills) and New Zealand, and experienced plenty of cool sunny days in those too. The highest cool sunny day I have had was somewhere over 8,000 feet, a bit lower than Montana's Granite Peak, of course but there again I am not into mountain climbing just where I can get to via gondola, helicopter, etc. and I suspect not much reading gets done on the peak of Granite Peak even when a cool sunny day.
So, I am likely not really short on cool sunny days experience when I comment about the wisdom of sitting out in the sun
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