Why is East Asia so much colder than most of Europe? (icy, temperature)
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I guess it is because other than Shanghai, the other cities endure much shorter cold days in winter, though at many times unbearable. So cost wise, it is not worth to install a central heating system in the entire building.
For China, there is an across the board policy that for those cities located south of a certain river, there will be no central heating. And Shanghai is located just south of that line.
Soooooo, what is one expected to do? Just freeze inside all winter long for your entire existance? I just couldn't imagine such a dumb, arbitrary "rule" saying "south of this river, no heat"..... Makes zero sense.
Soooooo, what is one expected to do? Just freeze inside all winter long for your entire existance? I just couldn't imagine such a dumb, arbitrary "rule" saying "south of this river, no heat"..... Makes zero sense.
Soooooo, what is one expected to do? Just freeze inside all winter long for your entire existance? I just couldn't imagine such a dumb, arbitrary "rule" saying "south of this river, no heat"..... Makes zero sense.
Are you a Portuguese American or just a language-crazy person Saritra?
I like languages and I like helping people, hence that post.
To answer your question: No, I'm not Portuguese-American (my heritage is mostly Irish and Native American, in case you were wondering). I know nothing about Portuguese other than that it sounds like a Russian trying to speak Spanish, I just looked up those conjugations to help ghost-likin because I had noticed the is/are mistake a few times.
Hanoi has very cool winters for its latitude.. Crazy to imagine as I was there only last week and it was still 32C/24C by day/night... The weather pattern for winter must shift quickly
If it stops flowing it'll still have mild winters for it's latitude since it's on the western facing side of a continent.
Exactly. People don't seem to realize that the #1 determinant of climate, aside from latitude, is that air masses generally flow west to east. If you are on the west coast of a continent, you're getting mild oceanic air. If you're in the interior or east coast of a continent, you're getting continental air (cold in the winter, hot in the summer). If it's a huge supercontinent like Eurasia, the effect is even more pronounced.
All the other factors mentioned (Gulf Stream, Siberian High, etc. etc.) are like minor nuances.
Eastern parts of a continent are usually (relatively) cooler and wetter than the west.
Eurasia is one example. Others are North America, Australia and South America.
Not exactly. They can be much hotter in the summer. They're simply more continental than west coast climates. Hot humid summers and cold dry winters are the norm for eastern climates, depending on latitude of course.
I'm sure it's quite cold in winter, but the water is warm for a good 6 months of the year. Even longer if your threshold is lower than mine.
Badly worded post.
Smarty Pants---Yes I mean what I say the water was ice cold at all 3 locations and rather presumptuous of you to criticize my experience. I was there this past July 2016 with a travel group. None of us could stand it--- the water was freezing. We were told this was quite normal for Crete.
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