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Scotland is part of Great Britain...
And when you look at the climate tables on Wiki, with an average high of 20°C one can't call summers in Dublin cold.
Compare that to Düsseldorf, Germany, where the average summer high is 22°C, whereas the average winter high is only 4° - vs 8° in Dublin. And yet, Düsseldorf is considered one of the warmest cities in all of Germany.
Here is a map of the hardiness zones of Europe: http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pb...uropeHZMap.jpg
As you can see Glasgow and Edinburgh are in the same zone as Paris, Dublin even in the same zone as Barcelona.
I don't know some of the other cities you mentioned, so I can't comment on them. But the three Irish/British cities you mentioned did indeed strike me...
You are right Dublin has a very mild humid climate, with damp cool winters and cool to warm and humid summers (a lot of rain). We get snowfall maybe once a year or every two years, but last year we got a few weeks of snow with temperatures dropping to -12 degrees celcius on a few occasions. Dublin is not a cold city by world standards, just very rainy and cool.
I don't think any city in Alaska qualifies as a "big city" or can barely even be called a city.
I think Moscow takes the cake. It is in a very cold latitude and is far inland, which makes it even colder.
I agree that Moscow is one of the coldest big cities in the world. There are still some cities colder than Moscow but Moscow still is high up there on the top.
Also Moscow Russia has 11 to 12 million people.
So it is the most heavily populated city by far in such as a cold weather region for the winters.
But then again this is also true with Harbin, China that has 10 million people and it is even colder than Moscow.
I agree that Moscow is one of the coldest big cities in the world. There are still some cities colder than Moscow but Moscow still is high up there on the top.
Also Moscow Russia has 11 to 12 million people.
So it is the most heavily populated city by far in such as a cold weather region.
Obviously there are colder cities. I thought we were only talking about major cities.
I agree that Moscow is one of the coldest big cities in the world. There are still some cities colder than Moscow but Moscow still is high up there on the top.
Also Moscow Russia has 11 to 12 million people.
So it is the most heavily populated city by far in such as a cold weather region for the winters.
But then again this is also true with Harbin, China that has 10 million people and it is even colder than Moscow.
Yeah I would go with Harbin, in January they experience an average low of -24 degrees C and an average high of -12 degrees C . I don't think that I could live in that kind of cold.
Yeah I would go with Harbin, in January they experience an average low of -24 degrees C and an average high of -12 degrees C . I don't think that I could live in that kind of cold.
Norilsk has an extremely harsh climate. Average temperature is approximately −10 °C (14 °F), and temperatures as low as −58 °C (−72 °F) degrees have been recorded. The city is covered with snow for about 250–270 days a year, with snow storms for about 110–130 days. The polar night lasts from December through mid-January, so that Norilsk inhabitants do not see the sun at all for about six weeks. In summer, symmetrically, sun does not set for more than six weeks.
Well, in the i'd easily say Minneapolis is the coldest BIG city in the united states. Its record low was -34 and the record low windchill was -67 by the new formula and -87 by the old formula. I know Anchorage, Fairbanks, Fargo and Duluth are colder that Minneapolis-St. Paul but since this thread is about cities with a large amount of skycrapers and population i'm going Minneapolis no doubt. Heres just a reference list of some cities:
Metro Pop., Rec. Low.
Minneapolis, MN: 3,317,308, -34
Fargo, ND: 208,777, -33
Duluth, MN: 279,771, -41
Faribanks, AK: 97,581, -40
Anchorage, AK: 380,821, -38
Denver, CO: 2,552,195, -29
Seattle, WA: 3,344,813, 0
Boston, MA: 4,552,402, -18
Detroit, MI: 4,296,250, -21
Milwaukee, WI: 1,555,908, -26
Buffalo, NY 1,135,509, -20
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