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Lake Ontario is the fifth of the Great Lakes, but only the 8th largest in North America. Canada has three more -- Great Slave, Great Bear and Winnipeg.
Would you consider Alaska to be a peninsula? Or a group of four peninsulas like Italy and Greece? Or just a part of a continental land mass?
Gdansk-to-Odess is very clearly a narrow "waist" that bulges out to a wider land mass. It's a narrower isthmus than Aqaba-Kuwait, connecting a larger land mass than Arabia.
You do have a point regarding the width of the “isthmus”
Gdańsk-Odessa (Europe): 760mi
Aqaba-Kuwait City (Arabia): 782mi
Trieste-Odessa (Balkans): 815mi
1} Montreal is closer to Paris than Vancouver is to Montreal
2} The 69th parallel is often referred to as the general border between the USA & Canada but most Canadians live south of it.
3} The Chinook winds in Southern Alberta/Calgary are a very dry and warm wind that comes in from the Rockies. As it descends from the mountains it heats up and gives a real reprieve from winter very quickly. Due to it's heat and dryness it melts all snow in a couple hours. Chinook is a Native term which means "snow eater". The record increase in temp is 20 degrees Celsius in one hour and 28 degrees Celsius in one day.
1} Montreal is closer to Paris than Vancouver is to Montreal
2} The 69th parallel is often referred to as the general border between the USA & Canada but most Canadians live south of it.
3} The Chinook winds in Southern Alberta/Calgary are a very dry and warm wind that comes in from the Rockies. As it descends from the mountains it heats up and gives a real reprieve from winter very quickly. Due to it's heat and dryness it melts all snow in a couple hours. Chinook is a Native term which means "snow eater". The record increase in temp is 20 degrees Celsius in one hour and 28 degrees Celsius in one day.
I think you meant the 49th. Otherwise, you’re correct. Cities like Montreal and Toronto lie below the 49th.
2} The 69th parallel is often referred to as the general border between the USA & Canada but most Canadians live south of it.
I don't know, maybe 49th Parallel? I seem to think the 60th is somewhere around Yellowknife, NWT. And you are correct about Chinook winds. Denver gets them to a somewhat lesser extent since the temperature never starts out as cold as Calgary or Edmonton. When the NY Times had actual weather maps from the day before, a stationary front east of the Rockies was a rather frequent feature. A cold wave would start with Arctic air plunging due south, giving Casper, WY, Denver, and even Oklahoma City and Dallas an insanely cold day or two. Then the stationary front would set up somewhere around the Nebraska/Colorado border and most of the way through Montana almost to the Rockies, and the cold air, of course modified, would spread east.
I don't know, maybe 49th Parallel? I seem to think the 60th is somewhere around Yellowknife, NWT. And you are correct about Chinook winds. Denver gets them to a somewhat lesser extent since the temperature never starts out as cold as Calgary or Edmonton. When the NY Times had actual weather maps from the day before, a stationary front east of the Rockies was a rather frequent feature. A cold wave would start with Arctic air plunging due south, giving Casper, WY, Denver, and even Oklahoma City and Dallas an insanely cold day or two. Then the stationary front would set up somewhere around the Nebraska/Colorado border and most of the way through Montana almost to the Rockies, and the cold air, of course modified, would spread east.
Yes, it’s the 49th. The 60th lies well above most population centres in Canada.
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