I am looking for an area which has a dry temperate climate and is
relatively good for the usual allergies, such as hay fever and grasses
etc. Low humidity and mean temperatures around 70 are what I'm looking
for.  The time of year that is important is May through Oct.

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Request for Question Clarification by mvguy-ga on 01 Oct 2002 15:48 PDT

By "mean temperature" do you mean the 24-hour mean or the mean daily
highs?  How far from that mean are you willing to go?  Thanks!

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Clarification of Question by csr-ga on 01 Oct 2002 18:08 PDT

I do want the daily highs.  Possibly, The temps could vary from 60
degrees to 80 degrees for daytime highs.  Humidity is the prime
factor, but cold isn't too good, either.

csr-ga,

The southern California coastal region (particularly, San Diego county
north to Santa Barbara county) meets the climate parameters you seek
for the time of year you specified (from May through October).

I know this because I lived there for 15 years, but of course I have
the climatology and meteorological data to back it up.

From (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) NOAA's Santa
Barbara climate page, you can see that the monthly average maximum
temperature between May and October is approximately 72 degrees F:

http://www.nwsla.noaa.gov/climate/sba.html

The entire southern California coastal area has generally low
pollen/mold counts, although smog can be a factor in some areas such
as downtown Los Angeles and downtown San Diego. If you are right on
the beach, there is low lying coastal fog/haze on many summer
mornings.

Here is a link to NOAA's Los Angeles/Oxnard main page. From this page,
you can click various self-explanatory links for specific areas to
view graphs and charts on temperature highs and lows, precipitation,
daily climate summaries, radar images, satellite images, etc.

Where else in the country is suitable, you might ask?

Southern California coastal is as close as you will get to what you
mentioned. North of Santa Barbara on the west coast and it gets too
cold.

Hawaii almost qualifies, but is a bit on the warm side with average
temperatures in the low 80s year round.

The Gulf and East coasts are either too hot or humid, or both. The
northeast is too cold.

The southwest desert area is too cold in the winter and too hot in the
summer.

The Midwest breadbasket area is generally too cold.

Here is a link to a climate map of the United States, from NOAA's
CIRES Climate Diagnostic Center:

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/USclimate/states.fast.html

Click on a state to focus on that state, then select the "Examine
monthly rankings for temperature and precipitation" radio button to
see graphs for that data.

Google search strategy:

Keywords: "southern California climate data"

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=southern+california+climate+data&spell=1
,

"Santa Barbara climate data" 

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=santa+barbara+climate+data&btnG=Google+Search
,

"united states climate data"

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=united+states+climate+data

If you care to specify a particular statistic you're looking for, I'd
be happy to add it in a Clarification.

Good luck in continuing your inquiries!

~omniscientbeing-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by csr-ga on 02 Oct 2002 08:25 PDT

Dear Omniscient, (May I call you buy your first name?)  Your answer
was excellent, and I would like to ask you to research my next
question.  Is that possible?  Thanks, Carol Rosenblatt

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Clarification of Answer by omniscientbeing-ga on 02 Oct 2002 08:46 PDT

Thank you very much!

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Clarification of Answer by omniscientbeing-ga on 02 Oct 2002 08:52 PDT

As for requesting me to answer your next question, there is no
"official" feature of GA for doing this, but I have seen it done
informally by stating in the posted question that you are waiting for
a particular Researcher to answer the question, and that after a set
period of time, if that particular Researcher hasn't answered it, you
would accept answers from any reseacher.

~omniscientbeing-ga

very thorough,Thanks.