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Even here in the south we are pretty far north comparable to the rest of the world. You can tell by how dramatic our day lengths are throughout the year. Places like Tokyo, New york and Chicago don't have such dramtic day length differences.
Well I've lived my life with having 17.5 hour days in the Summer and 7 hour days in the Winter to me so that feels natural. Personally I think that the daylight that I get is just about what is respectable.
It is daylight hours like 2 hours in the winter and 22 hours in the Summer that I consider true Northern. I mean if you went to somewhere like Rekjavik and came back to London you'd soon realise that in actual Fact London isn't far North at all.
My ideal latitude would be about 65N. I prefer sunsets in the summer of around midnight not 10pm, 10pm is too early to me. A 4:30am sunrise is too late aswell.
Well I've lived my life with having 17.5 hour days in the Summer and 7 hour days in the Winter to me so that feels natural. Personally I think that the daylight that I get is just about what is respectable.
It is daylight hours like 2 hours in the winter and 22 hours in the Summer that I consider true Northern. I mean if you went to somewhere like Rekjavik and came back to London you'd soon realise that in actual Fact London isn't far North at all.
My ideal latitude would be about 65N. I prefer sunsets in the summer of around midnight not 10pm, 10pm is too early to me. A 4:30am sunrise is too late aswell.
And if you went to Barrow, Alaska, you would realise the same with wherever you live.
I lived in Portsmouth for 2 years and I've lived in the South for 5. I can confirm 28C certainly isn't common and how anyone who lives in the UK can suggest that is absolutely embarrassing!
If it happened twice a week it would be common, when it happens 2 or 3 times a month it certainly doesn't make it common!
The only thing common is a certain posters misuse of the word.
I think this proves we should use numbers sometimes instead of phrases to describe how often a particular temp happens. That is why the meteo services bother to measure temps and record averages.
and counted up the number of days 28C and over from 1981 to 2012, for the months of June thru July. I'm sure Sept or May does also get 28C, but not as often as the other months.
For those three summer months I got an average of 8 days. Some years stand out like 1995. Others are pretty bad like 1988 and 07 and 08.
8 days over the course of 92 ain't common no matter how you slice it. Comes out to .6 days per week. Around once every two weeks. To me that is "not unusual".
Well I think the Statistics for London are pretty impressive up there at 51 latitude.
You are situated at the same latitude as around Valencia. So your temperatures are nothing impressive, people seem to think that the temperatures that america get are in impressive but never fail to release how far south it actually is.
Nowhere in the USA is the same latitude as the UK.
I know that. I'm actually around Naples, Italy latitude. I know where the UK is. And actually at the same latitude as the UK in Canada they get quite a bit warmer than London in summer.
I think our winter temps are quite impressive given the low latitude we are located.
I am talking about British people. They think because America gets all this snow that it is far North like us and so they think because we are freezing cold in the summer that it is impressive that america is hot like Spain but fail to realise that it is really at the same latitude as Spain.
And Actually America is not at a Northern Latitude most of it is closer to the Equator than the North Pole including You.
Anyone south of 50N is not Northern latitude imo, For your information I don't consider my latitude of 55N very far North so 41N is just laughable. The sunlight that you would get down there in the winter is not like a winter to me. Another thing that is laughable is the sunsets before 10pm, that is just too early. I hear Americans moaning about how late sunset is and i'm thinking to myself what 'it is bright here past 11pm'. A 7:30pm sunset in the summer is just nuts.
Maybe they should look at a map then and realize where we are located. 30N to 50N are considered mid latitudes I think. 40N is certainly not low latitude.
I know that. I'm actually around Naples, Italy latitude. I know where the UK is. And actually at the same latitude as the UK in Canada they get quite a bit warmer than London in summer.
I think are winter temps are quite impressive given the low latitude we are located.
Well to be honest, there aren't many places in Canada at my latitude that have hot temperatures in the summer. Probably about 20c on average which is only a teeny bit warmer than here.
I agree that your winter temperatures are impressive, but then again they are not impressive for the circumstances. North America is attached to Greenland (more or less) which is frozen solid all year, so the cold temperatures don't moderate very much but if Greenland did not exist I think that North American winters would be a good bit warmer. It also has alot of flat land that extends way upto about 75N. We don't, we just have water.
Well to be honest, there aren't many places in Canada at my latitude that have hot temperatures in the summer. Probably about 20c on average which is only a teeny bit warmer than here.
Western Canada has highs around 22°C, though these locations aren't at sea level so they are colder than otherwise. Prince Albert, Saskatchewan has a July high of 24°C at 53°N. Continental European Russia is a bit hotter. But I agree that your location is definitely not cool for its latitude.
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I agree that your winter temperatures are impressive, but then again they are not impressive for the circumstances. North America is attached to Greenland (more or less) which is frozen solid all year, so the cold temperatures don't moderate very much but if Greenland did not exist I think that North American winters would be a good bit warmer. It also has alot of flat land that extends way upto about 75N. We don't, we just have water.
Large continents tend to have cold winters for the latitude. Asia is somewhat similar but different patterns. I don't think Greenland makes much of a difference, as out coldest weather comes from the northwest. The large pieces of flat land to the northwest at 60-75°N probably make the biggest difference. But even just not having weather come from an ocean helps. Bucharest is only two degrees further north in Europe (no big landmass) than me and its winter highs (though not nights) aren't much warmer than mine:
You think if you removed Greenland that you'd still get cold winters? Hmmm.
We would have much milder winters anyway thats for sure and I know it would definitely impact Newfoundland. Most of our cold weather comes from Greenland.
As for 24c in Prince Albert, well they are at 53N thats 200 miles south of me. Grand Prairie is same latitude as me and has average high of 22c which seems to be about right.
You think if you removed Greenland that you'd still get cold winters? Hmmm.
We would have much milder winters anyway thats for sure and I know it would definitely impact Newfoundland. Most of our cold weather comes from Greenland.
As for 24c in Prince Albert, well they are at 53N thats 200 miles south of me. Grand Prairie is same latitude as me and has average high of 22c which seems to be about right.
I don't think Greenlad effects North America's cimate all that much. The preveiling winds is westerly so like nei said the North-West & Interior Canada is where America's real cold originates.
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