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Spoke to a guy from the University of Sydney today..
"No snow in Sydney, you will have to pack it in your bags" , implying it snows in Raleigh a lot lol.... told him I think you just came here in a particularly cold time. Do people look up climate data from places they visit or is it just weather enthusiasts? I think not as many people seem to get an impression of the climate from the day they visit. People in the NC thread bragging how they visited in Feb from the north and it being nothing but 70s... well did you happen to think we might be in a warm period? Stuff like that gets me as people can be naive.
Spoke to a guy from the University of Sydney today..
"No snow in Sydney, you will have to pack it in your bags" , implying it snows in Raleigh a lot lol.... told him I think you just came here in a particularly cold time. Do people look up climate data from places they visit or is it just weather enthusiasts? I think not as many people seem to get an impression of the climate from the day they visit. People in the NC thread bragging how they visited in Feb from the north and it being nothing but 70s... well did you happen to think we might be in a warm period? Stuff like that gets me as people can be naive.
I see that all the time on forums for cities all over the south. I once saw someone from DC go on about how cold DC is and how mild Nashville is during "average" conditions, the difference between the two really isn't much. Nashville has the same average lows with milder afternoons by about 3-5 F. Also Nashville has on average a lower extreme low throughout the year than DC (5 F vs. 10 F).
It's almost like people from the Northeast have a knee-jerk reaction that south of the Mason-Dixon cold becomes impossible. I bet you some clueless guy from DC probably thinks it's colder there than in Kentucky....
Without the wind you wouldn't had hit 10C in the first place.
Same direction and slower speeds as yesterday and it had hit 10C, of that I have no doubt. Paradoxically the winds come from the colder waters of the north-west right now too (the strength of the direction indicates Shetland to me). It's just really strange. Yesterday at least it came from NE England.
It's almost like people from the Northeast have a knee-jerk reaction that south of the Mason-Dixon cold becomes impossible. I bet you some clueless guy from DC probably thinks it's colder there than in Kentucky....
Eh, I'm the opposite. Before this forum I assumed the upper South was colder than actually is, or at least averaged more snowfall than say 6 inches / year. I'd reports of snow in the south and thought the average highs were in the mid to upper 40s so occasional snow with variabailty.
Spoke to a guy from the University of Sydney today..
"No snow in Sydney, you will have to pack it in your bags" , implying it snows in Raleigh a lot lol.... told him I think you just came here in a particularly cold time. Do people look up climate data from places they visit or is it just weather enthusiasts? I think not as many people seem to get an impression of the climate from the day they visit. People in the NC thread bragging how they visited in Feb from the north and it being nothing but 70s... well did you happen to think we might be in a warm period? Stuff like that gets me as people can be naive.
I know very few people people who genuinely research climate data, other than weather enthusiasts. I remember in university a guy from southern Germany askied how cold our winters get, when I said the average high was about 8C he looked surprised, and I was just as surprised that somebody would relocate to an area and not even have and quick glance at the climate data, but instead prefer to make assumptions.
Most people I know have a very simplistic understanding of climate. To them Spain = Always scorching; Russia= Always freezing; New York = Same as London; etc.
They don't understand that it's rarely as simple as that. Most western European's don't seem to be able to get their head around continental climates, and how much variation they see throughout the year. I also can't believe how many people simply assume that temperature is a simple as, the further south you go, the warmer it gets. There's so many more variables than that.
And of course, there's nothing more frustrating than when somebody visits an area for a short period of time, especially during an unseasonable spell, then assumes that they're an expert on climate. I've known people to visit London during a heatwave, before returning home and telling everyone it's like Spain
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during "average" conditions, the difference between the two really isn't much. Nashville has the same average lows with milder afternoons by about 3-5 F. Also Nashville has on average a lower extreme low throughout the year than DC (5 F vs. 10 F). 
