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This global image shows that only the mountainous areas in Turkey approximate colder areas, but the areas where people live are warmer.
Or, just google "... average temperature" and open the Graphs tab. There you'll see an average graph. For instance, Northern Germany (Hamburg) is similar to Vermont or New Hampshire.
VT/NH and the rest of New England for that matter seem nothing like Hamburg...VT/NH are humid continental climates while Hamburg is oceanic. VT/NH are colder in winter and hotter in summer. Hamburg is also much cloudier.
And in fact the coast of Morocco has pretty cold water given the latitude, similar to Cali. Baja CA does much better in water temps than Morocco.
Other than that there really are no Euro equivalents to North America. We live on a sub polar continent with extreme continental climates with a huge north south mountain range and no substantial east west mountain range to protect us from ice box Canada. Hudson Bay is a useless shallow body of water that retains no summer heat and freezes completely over every year. If it were as deep as the Gulf of Mexico it would not freeze over so. Low 500mb heights just sit over that damn Hudson Bay for weeks and weeks on end ruining our weather. Europe has no equivalent.
You guys won the climate lottery, and we lost. Simple as that.
Did you just call North America, which reaches from the arctic down to the equator, a “Subpolar” continent?
I see a lot of posts on these forums of Americans (and Canadians) inquiring as to the climate in various locations across Europe. "What's the winter like in Rome?" or "How much sunshine does Amsterdam get?" seem to be understandably common queries in advance of booking a trip or even considering relocation.
I was thinking that many (though not all) cities in Europe have a "climate double" in North America, and by simply giving the reference to these doubles is much more illustrative in explaining the climate than writing an essay on whether it was snowy this winter or how sunny your last summer was.
Here is a list to get us going. What do you guys think? Agree or disagree with my "climate doubles"?
Reykjavik = Anchorage, AK
London, Amsterdam, Paris = Vancouver, BC
Glasgow, Belfast = Prince Rupert, BC
Porto = Portland, OR
Lisbon = San Luis Obispo, CA
Madrid = Redding, CA
Tenerife = San Diego, CA
Oslo = Halifax, Nova Scotia
Stockholm = Portland, Maine
Helsinki = Montreal, QC
Berlin = Boston, MA
Budapest, Vienna = Pittsburgh, PA
Belgrade = New York City
Milan = Washington, DC
Rome, Athens = Sacramento, CA
St Petersburg = Sudbury, ON
Moscow = Minneapolis
Warsaw = Toronto
What do you guys think? I couldn't think of any equivalents for the cold winter/Mediterranean climate of Istanbul, or the warm Oceanic climate of Bordeaux?
Likewise, I could think of nowhere in Europe that has the dry continental climate of Denver, or warm humid subtropical climate of somewhere like Atlanta, GA or New Orleans. And there definitely is no equivalent of the tropical climates of Miami!
Toronto has winters like Helsinki and summers like Bordeaux. Warsaw is in between.
I see a lot of posts on these forums of Americans (and Canadians) inquiring as to the climate in various locations across Europe. "What's the winter like in Rome?" or "How much sunshine does Amsterdam get?" seem to be understandably common queries in advance of booking a trip or even considering relocation.
I was thinking that many (though not all) cities in Europe have a "climate double" in North America, and by simply giving the reference to these doubles is much more illustrative in explaining the climate than writing an essay on whether it was snowy this winter or how sunny your last summer was.
Here is a list to get us going. What do you guys think? Agree or disagree with my "climate doubles"?
Reykjavik = Anchorage, AK
London, Amsterdam, Paris = Vancouver, BC
Glasgow, Belfast = Prince Rupert, BC
Porto = Portland, OR
Lisbon = San Luis Obispo, CA
Madrid = Redding, CA
Tenerife = San Diego, CA
Oslo = Halifax, Nova Scotia
Stockholm = Portland, Maine
Helsinki = Montreal, QC
Berlin = Boston, MA
Budapest, Vienna = Pittsburgh, PA
Belgrade = New York City
Milan = Washington, DC
Rome, Athens = Sacramento, CA
St Petersburg = Sudbury, ON
Moscow = Minneapolis
Warsaw = Toronto
What do you guys think? I couldn't think of any equivalents for the cold winter/Mediterranean climate of Istanbul, or the warm Oceanic climate of Bordeaux?
Likewise, I could think of nowhere in Europe that has the dry continental climate of Denver, or warm humid subtropical climate of somewhere like Atlanta, GA or New Orleans. And there definitely is no equivalent of the tropical climates of Miami!
Tenerife is quite a bit warmer than San Diego though. The capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife qualifies as tropical according to Koppen by temperature, though it is far too dry, drier even than San Diego. The southern resorts like Los Cristianos and Adeje are even warmer.
Geographically of course the Canary islands aren't part of Europe, but they're often considered European as they are relatively close and integrated into Spain in a way that the distant European possessions like say French Polynesia or St Helena (Britain) etc aren't.
Did you just call North America, which reaches from the arctic down to the equator, a “Subpolar” continent?
Seriously, who the **** are you, you troll.
Saying North America is sub polar while it has many tropical locations is just retarded, and the US is substantially warmer by comparable latitudes to China. It's extreme exaggeration, you can't take these people too seriously, there's half wit armchair climatology all over this forum from a few long time posters.
Saying North America is sub polar while it has many tropical locations is just retarded, and the US is substantially warmer by comparable latitudes to China. It's extreme exaggeration, you can't take these people too seriously, there's half wit armchair climatology all over this forum from a few long time posters.
This, trends for this "winter" are showing WARMER than average; Myrtle Beach getting frequent highs in the 60's and no frost, atleast in December; there were few in mid to late November.
Minsk = Bangor, Maine
Skopje = New York City, New York
Athens = San Bernardino, California
Lisbon = Los Angeles, California
Madrid = Fresno, California
Rome = Sacramento, California
Podgorica = Huntsville, Alabama
Zagreb = Sky Valley, Georgia
Paris = Seattle, Washington
London = Vancouver, BC
Dublin = Neah Bay, Washington
Berlin = Abbotsford, BC
Warsaw = Portland, Maine
Bucharest = Chicago, Illinois
Stockholm = Saint John, New Brunswick
Reykjavik = Prince Hubert, BC
Moscow = Quebec City, Quebec
You can swim at the Beach in the SW and SE of UK but not the Pacific Northwest.
Uh...yes you can.
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