Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
A person I know said that Norway has 6 months of night, followed by 6 months of grey sky. During the winter the temperatures plummet down to -55 °C and people lie in heated beds all day long because they can't get out of those beds because they would freeze to death. Norway has the highest suicide rate in the world along with Sweden.
I'm NOT joking, he really said that. I was thinking something like "What the hell are you saying?".
I have to say I am a bit of a climate geek, but I find it funny to see what people who know nothing about the weather think a place's climate is like.
So I sometimes (uncool I know) ask a friend to guess just the temps for a place and see what they come up with!
I asked this guy what he thought London (UK) and Melbourne (Aus) climates were like (temps only) and this was the result:
London now has summers that B87 would definitely have an actual reason to be proud of!
Winters, are similar on average except the suddenly high frequency of night time frosts.
As for Melbourne, well, most climate-ignorant people where I live think "Australia" and automatically the summer HAS to be extremely hot, anywhere. So now Melbourne's summer temperatures blow Renmark out of the water and give BeerParty no reason to move away (except to get away from those latte sipping leftists).
Winters if anything a bit cooler, and slow to warm in spring, then suddenly, BAM! it's summer.
What I've noticed in Melbourne is that people tend to remember the couple 40C days you get most summers, that sticks in their memory and thus to them it was a "hot" summer. Most of the general population aren't savvy when it comes to their own temps, or temps and summers in other places in the world. I think if we show random people how much warmer summers are in other places they would be quite shocked.
There is definitely that perception that AUstralia is extremely hot. It no doubt stems from the fact that 80% of the country is desert. Ofcourse, this is largely true in the outback, but certainly not in the SE corner where most of the population live. Once we had visitors over from Hungary one October in Melbourne, and they were complaining how s**t the weather was.
One of the most annoying climate misconceptions/exaggerations I have come across is how some people say that summers in the south features a temperature of 95 Degrees with 98 percent humidity. Any well known and renowned weather expert would know that it would be impossible for anywhere in the Southeastern United States to have that sort of humidity, let alone anywhere on earth experiencing that insane amount of humidity
What I've noticed in Melbourne is that people tend to remember the couple 40C days you get most summers, that sticks in their memory and thus to them it was a "hot" summer. Most of the general population aren't savvy when it comes to their own temps, or temps and summers in other places in the world. I think if we show random people how much warmer summers are in other places they would be quite shocked.
There is definitely that perception that AUstralia is extremely hot. It no doubt stems from the fact that 80% of the country is desert. Ofcourse, this is largely true in the outback, but certainly not in the SE corner where most of the population live. Once we had visitors over from Hungary one October in Melbourne, and they were complaining how s**t the weather was.
I think Budapest probably has better summers than Melbourne. There isn't really any wind there, and it can get pretty humid too at times. It has decent summers tbh.
I think Budapest probably has better summers than Melbourne. There isn't really any wind there, and it can get pretty humid too at times. It has decent summers tbh.
The averages are very slightly higher, but it is inland with hundreds of km from the nearest body of water so it gets more consistent heat. Melbourne's averages are artificially spiked by the few heat spikes it gets. If it wasn't for the 5 or so hottest days in crummer, it would be textbook Heathrow, and Heathrow is on an island 15* further from the equator and much further from reliable heat sources. Lmfao. Going south around Port Phillip Bay in the metro area, the averages get lower yet. There are climates on the Victorian coastline that actually have cooler summers than London, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portla...ctoria#Climate and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrnambool#Geography
The Spanish med coast is warmer year round than Melbourne at the same latitude, despite facing the sea and on the edge of a continent that is colder than the Southern Ocean, and much warmer in summer despite Melbourne being on the edge of the world's second largest subtropical desert, that is far hotter than the continent the Spanish coast sits on. Some of Southern Vic's summer highs are COOLER than LOWS in parts of the med coast.
The wonders of the warm Med sea. When you think about things like this, you realise how blatantly pathetic Failbourne's crummers are.
Last edited by BeerParty; 07-07-2017 at 04:32 AM..
Skip to under the quote if you want the 5 exaggerations I have heard.
I was going to make a new thread about this very topic as I have a lot to say, but since I looked it up I saw a thread already exists so I will just post what I was going to say here. So since I have became interested in the weather/climate again I have thought about certain remarks or statements said by other people online in other chats and what not in the past. I only just now realize how some of them were exaggerations. I have about 5 of them.
Quote:
Originally Posted by EverBlack
A person I know said that Norway has 6 months of night, followed by 6 months of grey sky. During the winter the temperatures plummet down to -55 °C and people lie in heated beds all day long because they can't get out of those beds because they would freeze to death. Norway has the highest suicide rate in the world along with Sweden.
I'm NOT joking, he really said that. I was thinking something like "What the hell are you saying?".
1: This is a first one and a reply to EverBlack as my first exaggeration has to do with a guy from Norway I know. I only have this at one since it "could" be possible, but what I am about to say seems slightly far fetch. So the guy from Norway I know claims that people there wear shorts year round even in temperatures as low as -35C, however, the record low where he lives is basically that at -34C. The record lows for December and February in that city are respectively -29C and -30C.
2: A guy online I know that lives in Lake Havasu City said "The summer we have is very brutal. We get multiple days of 125F every year, and sometimes it goes OVER 130F some years!"
130F? The hottest temperature record on Earth isn't much hotter. The record where he lives is 128F so maybe it does get close to 125F, but I don't think it is that frequent.
3: Another guy I know online once said "I may live in Canada, but our summers are just as hot as Florda most years." This one isn't as bad since the record highs are perhaps similar, but most if not all of Florida have perpetual 90F/32C or above highs during their hottest months. Only a few areas in Canada come even near that. Defintely not the area he lives in (Just look at my Green Bay thread, that is basically the temperatures albeit he gets more snow than Green Bay.) Oh, and speaking of that.
4: Same guy said "Well it normally gets past -40 here, and I have seen a thermometer in my city at -50C once!"
The record low in his city is below -40, so -50C seems a tad extreme.
5: People where I live often say "Man it's 95F with like 95 percent humidity." Okay that is basically impossible, the dew point would be over 90F, and the heat index would be over 150F.
''London's climate is cold, wet and gloomy all year''
Sorry, but London receives less precipitation in a year than Rome, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Naples, Sydney and New York City. It has cold and gloomy winters, but warm and sunny summers. ''San Francisco is cold, gloomy and foggy all year''
Sorry, but San Francisco has more clear days per year than Los Angeles, Denver, Oklahoma City, San Diego, Salt Lake City and Tampa and in excess of twice as many sunny days as Miami. Whilst fog moves in during summer mornings, this always burns back to the coast by afternoon and the rest of the year is largely fog-free. It has a very mild climate.
Minneapolis has 6 months of winter. Exaggeration to the max. Sure, by southern standards this is true, but any month with an average high above 32 is not winter in Minnesota. It may be winter in Tennessee, but they have lower standards for "winter."
Minneapolis is constantly below zero in winter, temperatures in the Twin Cities get down to the -50s every year. This one's really funny considering the record low is only -41 in the Twin Cities. People think we have the same climate as Fargo, ND. It's actually much milder down here compared to North Dakota and northern Minnesota.
And the reverse... Dallas has 6 months of summer. Another exaggeration. May and September can actually be surprisingly cool some years. Some years you'll have May days with highs in the 60s even. No month that cool is summer in Texas. Again you have to adjust to a climate's standards. In Minnesota, average highs in the 80s indicates a summer month, where as in Texas it indicates a late spring or early fall month. You can't judge seasons on a single objective criteria, you have to adjust.
Dallas is constantly at 100 or above in summer. Just like with Minneapolis and below zero, not true. We usually wouldn't get the first 100 degree day til mid or late July. June, like December in Minneapolis, is actually a pretty mild month for the season. Some years like 2011 you'll get most the summer with triple digits but most years, average highs are in the 90s.
All or most of Texas is a dry heat. Nope. West Texas is a lot drier but east and central is humid, just not as bad as states further east.
Texas doesn't have a change of seasons, especially not a fall. Not true. Depends where you are but most of the state experiences a change of seasons. Fall colour and cool air come later than up north but they do come. The foliage time frame is delayed by a month compared to up north but it does come in November. It can snow in winter and even in late fall early spring, it just doesn't stick around for too long.
I used to live in Cape Town, South Africa and now live in England. When people hear "Africa" here they tend to think extreme, year round heat when Cape Town is cooler than many European cities in summer.
When I went to Cairns in Australia on holiday the other year my parents and South African family thought it would be similar to Cape Town, because they lump south Africa and Australia together as "similar Southern Hemisphere countries". They couldn't get their head round Cairns being warmer in its coldest month than Cape Town is in its warmest.
I guess I'm interested in nature
so the difference between the low, heath vegetation naive to Cape Town and the forests around Cairns is striking, and so is the fact that typically tropical plants like coconut palms and breadfruit trees grow in Cairns but not Cape Town.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
