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The original poster is seeking concise metrics to characterize a city's climate quickly, suggesting options like average temperatures and temp ranges. They initially consider using simple statistics like average lows and highs, and later propose that average temperature combined with temperature variance could be effective. The thread revolves around identifying minimal yet accurate climate metrics, with the overall tone focused on practical, efficient data summarization.
blksith0

blksith0

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Imagine you have a big list of cities and wanted to concisely get an idea of what the weather is like over there.
If conciseness and speed wasn't a problem, you could look at a graph like this (below) for each city, but that's not fast.
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So what metrics would you need to accurately capture the climate of that area? Less is better, so all I can think of is: average lowest temp, average highest temp.
Any other ideas?
 

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I think average temp along with temp variance would do.
 
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