Best weather for your trips

[Foreigner]

Iceland for cleanest air...

The countries that get the best weather in the world | Daily Mail Online

 

[Mick1969]

I always have the best weather on my travels, the largest snowfall on record for October in 2011 in New York which caused utter chaos, then flew to Miami for hurricanes and flooding.

 

[Himeno]

I always have the best weather on my travels, the largest snowfall on record for October in 2011 in New York which caused utter chaos, then flew to Miami for hurricanes and flooding.

First time I was in NYC (March 05) there was a blizzard. Second time, there was a heat wave (Manhattan is not nice in 42C).
I've missed some "fun" weather during my trips. Avoided hurricanes in FL by a week a few times. Floods in Iowa... Was in NY 3 days before Hurricane Sandy.

Only flight I've ever missed was because Typhoon Wipha shut down the trains while I was on the way to HND. By the time I got to the airport (by local bus after the train pulled into a small local train station with no where near the needed amount of taxis for the people stuck there), CX had closed check in. I found some other people on the train headed to the same flight and we all got rebooked without issue. At the time AA was still running their JFK-HND flights and their flight had been delayed due to the storm, so the AA desk was still open once I got rebooked to JFK by CX, so I was able to easily get my JFK-BOS flight rebooked.

 

[JohnK]

The weather has been good for my Thailand golf trips. No washouts yet even with torential downpours. Hope that run continues.

 

[RooFlyer]

Iceland for cleanest air...

The countries that get the best weather in the world | Daily Mail Online

What a load of tosh (the article). From the article:

Visitors to Iceland, for example, inhale the cleanest air on earth thanks to forests which act as natural air filters.

and

Guests will also be inhaling the cleanest air on earth thanks to forests which act as natural air filters and the strict pollution regulations.
In addition to this, Iceland's water is also among the purest in the world thanks to regular precipitation and the natural filtration of volcanic rock.

I've been to Iceland a couple of times and can tell you its mostly not 'forests', due to the freezing weather and volcanic activity. In any case, the size of the place means that the air you breath is more likely to have just blown in from over the ocean rather than exhaled from the meagre vegetative cover.

And Iceland can have very strict pollution regulations if they like, but unfortunately the volcanos, geysers and other volcanic features don't obey such regulations, and their output of particulates, sulphur, 'acidic rain' and a whole bunch of other stuff dwarfs any human produced emanations and means you don't really want to inhale anything 'downwind' for too long.

For the cleanest air in the world, try Cape Grim, in NW of Tasmania. There's a monitoring station there that shows the air there, blown off the southern ocean, is the cleanest in the world.

So take that.

 

[Foreigner]

No idea about Iceland but i do recall seeing forests in Finland.