These Are the Places with the Best Weather in America

The start of winter (for the Northern Hemisphere) is defined as the moment when the Sun hovers over Earth’s Tropic of Capricorn (the line of latitude 23½° south of the equator) before heading north — a moment called, by Northerners, the winter solstice.

The June solstice is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. The December solstice is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern. Earth’s latitudes experience the solstices in different ways.

North of the equator, the June and December solstices mark the beginning of summer and winter, respectively. The effect is opposite for inhabitants of the Southern Hemisphere; for them the June solstice signals the beginning of winter, while summer starts at the December solstice.

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• Jackson, Kentucky. 1/20.
• Wallops Island, Virginia. 2/20.
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 3/20.
• Vero Beach, Florida. 4/20.
• Hilo, Hawaii. 5/20.
• Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 6/20.
• Santa Maria, California. 7/20.
• Miami, Florida. 8/20.

Arizona

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The absolute least sunny county in the lower U.S. is Island County, Wash. On an average day, it gets only about 60 percent of the solar radiation of a typical county in Southern California. The states bordering the Great Lakes — from Minnesota to New York — are all at the bottom of the sunlight distribution.

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Here are the places to live with the best weather in the U.S. for 2020:

• Santa Barbara, California.
• Salinas, California.
• San Diego.
• San Francisco.
• San Jose, California.
• Honolulu.
• Los Angeles.
• Oklahoma City.

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