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Scandinavia has too mild summers IMO but the summers aren't bad for the latitude at all, they'd be above average for me but not top tier. Similarly, Italy would be below average for me but it could be a lot worse, those high elevation climates in the Alps save it a bit.
I imagined that the only climates you like in Italy are the high elevation ones. Is there any climate in Western (or even Eastern) Europe that you like?
May I ask why you prefer Alaska over Finland and Sweden?
It offers a wider range of climates for cold lovers to choose from. From Ketchikan to Anchorage to Fairbanks to Barrow. Scandinavia mostly has variations of the same wet, cloudy-winter sunny-summer long-ass-shoulder-seasons climate and few places get cold enough.
I prefer central Alaska which compared to Scandinavia has colder, longer and sunnier winters, cloudier but drier summers, less seasonal lag and less wind. We have too much windy, rainy, barely above freezing weather here that I would gladly replace with snowstorms or deep cold.
This don't make any sense.
Like saying that Key West in Florida and Barrow in Alaska have same climate.
USA has a big variety in climates and has a bigger range of climates himself and I like. Nobody is trying to argue that Key West and Barrow have the same climate, just that overall it has the best climates. With your mentality, may as well just choose tiny countries with no variety of climates.
Anyways if we're going to exclude countries with a big variety, then what's the point of this thread?
It offers a wider range of climates for cold lovers to choose from. From Ketchikan to Anchorage to Fairbanks to Barrow. Scandinavia mostly has variations of the same wet, cloudy-winter sunny-summer long-ass-shoulder-seasons climate and few places get cold enough.
I prefer central Alaska which compared to Scandinavia has colder, longer and sunnier winters, cloudier but drier summers, less seasonal lag and less wind. We have too much windy, rainy, barely above freezing weather here that I would gladly replace with snowstorms or deep cold.
Sorry to say but this is not the case.
In northern Finland and Sweden winter is mostly cold with dry climate.
Reason for this is that mountains/coastal of Norway stops mostly of rain/wet weather what is coming to the east from north Atlantic.
Sorry to say but this is not the case.
In northern Finland and Sweden winter is mostly cold with dry climate.
Reason for this is that mountains/coastal of Norway stops mostly of rain/wet weather what is coming to the east from north Atlantic.
Glad to hear, I should visit some time. Definitely a cheaper trip than Alaska.
The criteria for the best & worst is too broad since some of these countries have microclimates (ie. Paris has a different climate than the French Riviera and Western France by the Atlantic Ocean)
It offers a wider range of climates for cold lovers to choose from. From Ketchikan to Anchorage to Fairbanks to Barrow. Scandinavia mostly has variations of the same wet, cloudy-winter sunny-summer long-ass-shoulder-seasons climate and few places get cold enough.
I prefer central Alaska which compared to Scandinavia has colder, longer and sunnier winters, cloudier but drier summers, less seasonal lag and less wind. We have too much windy, rainy, barely above freezing weather here that I would gladly replace with snowstorms or deep cold.
Generally, most climates in Alaska except the arctic ones can be matched in Scandinavia. Actually when it comes to Fairbanks, their summers are warmer and sunnier than what Sweden and Finland can manage with winters like those. Anchorage is very similar to Östersund for example. In general, Alaska is very similar to inland mid-and north latitude Sweden, but those regions of Sweden might have slightly cooler, and much cloudier summers.
Makes me laugh when I see places like the UK or Ireland on the 'worst' climate list. As Churchill once pointed out the UK has a climate that you can go out walking in day or night at any time of the year, hardly ever too hot, hardly ever too cold, one minor drought I can remember in my lifetime. I bet the people of Houston can console themselves that despite the fact that their houses have been destroyed by hurricane winds at least they don't have to suffer the 18 - 21 degrees and calm weather that the poor people of London have suffered at the same time. When people are lying on their deathbeds in Africa because they have no crops because it hasn't rained for two years at least they can console themselves that they don't have to suffer the occasional shower or sometimes cloudy day that the poor people of Oxford have to suffer from time to time, and the next time on a Winters morning a Moscovite has to dig his car out of 6 feet of snow to get to work at least he can console himself that he isn't suffering +8 deg C that the poor guy in Plymouth has to contend with as he drives to work - the guy in Plymouth may even have to turn on his 'blowers'! :-D
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