Pleasant Weather We're Having

Have a look at this little spark of ingenious. It's an interactive map (by software engineer Kelly Norton) of the United States, in which weather for each of hundreds of locations was collated by how many "pleasant" weather days it had average for each month, then totalled for the year. Now, the idea of "pleasant" is obviously pretty subjective, and to really get it spot on you'd have to juggle humidity and all that, so some basic guidelines were set and that's that. But he was quite reasonable about it:

“pleasant” here means the mean temperature was between (55° F and 75° F), the minimum temperature was above 45° F, the maximum temperature was below 85° F and there was no significant precipitation or snow depth.

That more or less works for me, though in my semi-arid area things work slightly differently than elsewhere. No big thing. What is a big thing, I think, is the way in which the map shows weather in an unusual and yet very useful way. Naturally, he's received a lot of fun and useful feedback about it, including ways to customize what a given individual sees as pleasant weather, or to invert the thing to let people dodge places with really awful weather.