Berkeley is near San Francisco. I would not say the weather there is "warm". But then I live in Los Angeles.

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Anonymous wrote:My definition of warm weather is you never get a trace of snow, the trees are not all barren from November - April, you never get low sun angles, and you rarely have to wear a jacket during the daytime even in January.

Sorry, that basically means Florida, southern Texas, Arizona, California (but not northern...Stanford works because it's inland vs. Berkeley).

Not sure how anyone can consider NC or TN or VA "warm" if the average temperature in January is only 3-5 degrees warmer than DC.

Huh. NC, TN, VA schools have ideal weather IMO. Summer that extends late. Mild Fall that lingers. A few short months of winter (often quite mild) and they are back in shorts for months.
For me, you spend so much time in college outside, so that kind of weather is great. But I have friends who want truly hot who are at U Miami, and others who want to ski, at UVM.

The equation was about warm weather colleges. Not your idea of ideal weather.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My definition of warm weather is you never get a trace of snow, the trees are not all barren from November - April, you never get low sun angles, and you rarely have to wear a jacket during the daytime even in January.

Sorry, that basically means Florida, southern Texas, Arizona, California (but not northern...Stanford works because it's inland vs. Berkeley).

Not sure how anyone can consider NC or TN or VA "warm" if the average temperature in January is only 3-5 degrees warmer than DC.

Huh. NC, TN, VA schools have ideal weather IMO. Summer that extends late. Mild Fall that lingers. A few short months of winter (often quite mild) and they are back in shorts for months.
For me, you spend so much time in college outside, so that kind of weather is great. But I have friends who want truly hot who are at U Miami, and others who want to ski, at UVM.

Yeah...but that's not warm. Also, if VA weather is ideal, well now DC weather is ideal. It's not any different.

The winters in VA and NC are almost identical to DC. I was considering a trip to Nashville in February and it was COLDER than DC when I looked.

Your preference is not what the OP is asking. Let's assume Warm means Warm all the time.

U Miami for sunny weather and happy people!
UT - Austin is pretty nice too
USC

Anonymous wrote:My definition of warm weather is you never get a trace of snow, the trees are not all barren from November - April, you never get low sun angles, and you rarely have to wear a jacket during the daytime even in January.

Sorry, that basically means Florida, southern Texas, Arizona, California (but not northern...Stanford works because it's inland vs. Berkeley).

Not sure how anyone can consider NC or TN or VA "warm" if the average temperature in January is only 3-5 degrees warmer than DC.

Huh. NC, TN, VA schools have ideal weather IMO. Summer that extends late. Mild Fall that lingers. A few short months of winter (often quite mild) and they are back in shorts for months.
For me, you spend so much time in college outside, so that kind of weather is great. But I have friends who want truly hot who are at U Miami, and others who want to ski, at UVM.

My definition of warm weather is you never get a trace of snow, the trees are not all barren from November - April, you never get low sun angles, and you rarely have to wear a jacket during the daytime even in January.

Sorry, that basically means Florida, southern Texas, Arizona, California (but not northern...Stanford works because it's inland vs. Berkeley).

Not sure how anyone can consider NC or TN or VA "warm" if the average temperature in January is only 3-5 degrees warmer than DC.

Anonymous wrote:UCLA, Berkeley, Emory, Vanderbilt, Rice, UNC, Duke, UVA (pushing the limits of “warm weather” here), Georgia Tech, Wake, UT-Austin, Tulane

I like this list. I would add William & Mary (before board explodes, yes it has a national reputation) and the Claremont Consortium colleges

I would say all of the UC's
USC
Stanford
Rice
UT Austin
Tulane
Emory
Georgia Tech
University of Florida
UNC Chapel Hill
Davidson
Duke
Vanderbilt
UVA (mostly warm and getting warmer, thanks climate change)

Stanford, Harvey Mudd, CalTech, Pomona, UCLA, UCSD, Cal, UT, Rice, Tulane, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Emory, Florida, Duke, UNC...

If you truly mean warm weather (which actually to me excludes anything north of southern GA on the latitude line)...and you really mean schools that your everyday person would know...the list is small.

University of Texas
UCLA
USC
Tulane (but not sure it is widely known)
University of Florida

Florida State and Alabama are widely known...but I am not sure people would say they are "good" schools.

Rice and Emory would fit the weather...but I don't think the average person has heard of the school. Pomona, Harvey Mudd, etc. would fit the weather...but definitely not well known.

I just don't think the Raleigh area or Nashville is much warmer in general than DC during the winter.

University of Florida, University of Miami, University of Georgia, Clemson

Emory
Tulane
Rice

UCLA, Berkeley, Emory, Vanderbilt, Rice, UNC, Duke, UVA (pushing the limits of “warm weather” here), Georgia Tech, Wake, UT-Austin, Tulane

Duke, Vandy, USC

Which would you say fit the bill? Colleges that everyone in the country would know about and think "this is a good college" and have some degree of familiarity/positive impression of it.