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Well to be fair, geography is something I was never taught in school, and I imagine it's the same for many others. I learned nearly everything on my own, and at a very young age.
Based on what I know about Tom, way too cold in the winter and shoulder seasons for him. Also very chilly nights in the summer. Probably not enough summer convection either.
Parts of SW Ontario have warm enough summer nights, LOL ...averaging 18C ...similar to yours.
As for shoulder seasons...Osoyoos and Spences Bridge warm up faster than Philly in spring.
Well to be fair, geography is something I was never taught in school, and I imagine it's the same for many others. I learned nearly everything on my own, and at a very young age.
Same for me, though I took geography in both sixth and ninth grade. I guess I have a bit unrealistic expectations out of people lol
Same for me, though I took geography in both sixth and ninth grade. I guess I have a bit unrealistic expectations out of people lol
Maybe it's just that I went to crappy schools lol, I would've loved to study geography even further, but a basic geography course wouldn't have been of any use to me, aside from boosting my average.
My friend lives in Oshawa, Canada and despite it being May they still have temperatures in the 40s-60's with nary a 70 degree day in sight. Canada seems like a beautiful, but expensive place to live (at least near Ontario) but I could never live somewhere that cold for so long.
Not a 70 degree in sight ...
Well I must be hallucinating, forecast high tomorrow for Toronto is 22C / 72F
and Oshawa is just east of T.O. ...I'm sure it'll be over 21C
Sure we're having a cool May so far, so is NE USA ....
still a lot of May to go yet, who knows last week in May might be scorching hot.
Well to be fair, geography is something I was never taught in school, and I imagine it's the same for many others. I learned nearly everything on my own, and at a very young age.
Geography is my favorite subject, I learned geography in a peculiar way through a peculiar hobby for a peculiar 6 year old. When I was a young boy, by young boy I mean 4-9, I started collecting maps, drawing maps, spending time looking through the atlas, looking at cities, countries, mountains, everything. I took a whole notebook and dedicated my time drawing maps of the world, I maybe ended up drawing 100+ maps! I remember getting in trouble one day and being sent to my room, I had a poster and used my time in my room to draw a huge map of the world. Still have it to this day. Remember the first globe I ever got, I was so excited and happy, I was only 6 at the time too lol!
I know people who cant name the 7 continents to this day, despite that being what we started with in every history class I took up to the 8th grade.
I always hear from folks on C-D that Canada is a cold country and how can anyone like to live here, thinking our year round sport is skiing and dog sled racing, riding skidoos, and we live in igloos with polar bears skulking around. Somewhere in our sovereign Arctic yes, south no.
With 4 distinct seasons, average annual temperatures mean nothing and does not give a true picture of regional Canadian weather on a per season outlook. There is a saying you can't hold the weather man accountable because Alberta weather can change without notice. A skiff of snow has happened in April and August (very rarely of course).
Summer in my Edmonton, Alberta can be hot, exceeding +90F. It is a rare summer that we don't have +80F to +90F for a few days in a row and more than once. For example, recent and present temperature in this Spring month of May our temps have been in excess of +80F, today forecast at +84F. I don't recall a summer in the last 10 years that remained as low as +70F.
Our temps this winter, lows -4F & +5F. Still not your average California or Pacific Northwest, I grant you.
Eastern and Central Canada had bad winter storms but not so in Western Canada where it has been mild.
Any news you might hear about Canada comes from our national new networks based in Central Canada, usually Toronto. The news is not National, it is entirely for Central Canada (largest population us westerners call The Center of the Universe), and maybe the Eastern "Seaboard". This year I heard nothing on CBC or CTV about the warmth in Western Canada, all eyes and ears were on bad weather in Central and Eastern. So no wonder the world gets an inaccurate impression.
While the US has tornados, floods, fires, shootings, and shootings, racial chaos, seems on a weekly basis there is some disaster, you don't see that in Canada. There is also the political Trump vs the world mentality. Yes we have dry weather, drought driven, wild fires, like the massive one in Fort McMurray causing the entire population of 80,000 to be evacuated and flooding every year in the Red River Valley, but, all over the map, no.
I would not rate Edmonton's summers as hot. I lived in and near Edmonton for about 24 years. Edmonton has much nicer summers than Medicine Hat which is more of what I would call hot. I prefer Edmonton's summers to those of Medicine Hat but do not think I would trade most winters.
There are too many things people never talk about. And the problem is that many people don't even want to know about something if it's not already commonly known.
Unfortunately, people always complain about everything. If, for example, in spring, we get -5 °C as a morning temperature, and then, 3 days later, we get 20 °C as a high temperature, people will complain about "huge temperature swings", and "I don't know how I'm supposed to dress in this weather, one day it's cold, the other it's hot, I'm getting a headache." So they don't really adjust LOL
Okay, not really, it's just the same 2 or 3 people.
We have had summer highs of only 12C but also three days straight of 43C and of course everything inbetween. Winters high range from the low -30s to plus 22C. We can have a difference of temperatures of close to 40C in a single day.
The biggest difference for me is my wife is always one season colder than I am no matter what the temperature.
Geography is my favorite subject, I learned geography in a peculiar way through a peculiar hobby for a peculiar 6 year old. When I was a young boy, by young boy I mean 4-9, I started collecting maps, drawing maps, spending time looking through the atlas, looking at cities, countries, mountains, everything. I took a whole notebook and dedicated my time drawing maps of the world, I maybe ended up drawing 100+ maps! I remember getting in trouble one day and being sent to my room, I had a poster and used my time in my room to draw a huge map of the world. Still have it to this day. Remember the first globe I ever got, I was so excited and happy, I was only 6 at the time too lol!
I know people who cant name the 7 continents to this day, despite that being what we started with in every history class I took up to the 8th grade.
I became interested in geography at the same age (6), I used to travel the Mid-Atlantic region a lot and became obsessed with maps. I got an interactive globe as a gift and became proficient at locating countries and cities around the planet. I think I did a little better at that age than I do now lol, although my knowledge of geography in general is much more vast.
It surprises me how little some people know, whether it was taught or not, I think everyone should at least know the basics.
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