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Why the hell is that crazy? I live at 55N, 11 degrees of latitude from the arctic circle.
200 miles north of me in Stornoway the record is 24c. I don't see what the fuss is. I think 31c is an appreciable record my latitude.
Fairbanks, Alaska at latitude 65 N has gotten up into the 30's before. It was 32 C when I was in upper Michigan 2 years ago, at 47 degrees north, next to a very large and very chilly lake. I would have thought you'd at least get some sort of foehn wind from the interior highlands to get an occasional spike. Syracuse, NY has reached 70 F, 21 C in January (yes, January) due to southerly winds coming off higher terrain just to the south of the city.
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Fairbanks, Alaska at latitude 65 N has gotten up into the 30's before. It was 32 C when I was in upper Michigan 2 years ago, at 47 degrees north, next to a very large and very chilly lake. I would have thought you'd at least get some sort of foehn wind from the interior highlands to get an occasional spike. Syracuse, NY has reached 70 F, 21 C in January (yes, January) due to southerly winds coming off higher terrain just to the south of the city.
Ok I live at 55N, nyc state is 43N quite a bit further south than me, don't even compare my location. Again don't compare my location to Michigan which is quite far south, remember that Michigan is attached to a continent.
Also the sea temp in the summer is 12c here much colder than Michigan. I also have to content with cold air coming down from Greenland which is frozen in the summer.
But you don't live in a northern location! For goodness sake are you really that insular that you thought that it would be hot here.
Just going on experience here...
Every time I go north on my continent in summer, all I find is hot weather. Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, friggin' Lake Superior, it's been 32 C + nasty humidity. None of this lovely 20 C stuff I'd kill to see in summer. When I visited New Zealand, in their summer, I experienced 33 C in Christchurch, in what's supposed to be a cool summer climate. At least the humidity was desert-dry...lol.
I'm just now starting to relax about not running into a monster heat wave when I go to Paris...lol.
Ok I live at 55N, nyc state is 43N quite a bit further south than me, don't even compare my location. Again don't compare my location to Michigan which is quite far south, remember that Michigan is attached to a continent.
Also the sea temp in the summer is 12c here much colder than Michigan. I also have to content with cold air coming down from Greenland which is frozen in the summer.
Nowhere in North America has that issue.
But don't you get southerlies that come off the interior of the island from time to time? Foehn-type winds can do amazing things even in oceanic climates. I guess it just never happens in your location.
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Not really, we don't have an interior. Again being insular.
It would reach 26c here most years, alot of the years it will go upto 28 or 29c (like last year and the year before) so it does get very warm, its not like its 17c constantly.
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I think 31c is an appreciable record my latitude.
GET REAL.
