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That sounds nice, bit far away but would be great if it materializes.
Something seems likely to eventuate. There's actually excellent agreement from all ensembles of a major cold outbreak for most of North America mid-month. Basically everywhere within a 1500 km radius of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Canadians put all their winter energy into hockey and there's only 2 medals available for that. Meanwhile a country that invests a lot in high quality ski resorts will unlock the ability to be competitive in 40 medal competitions. You also have sports like bobsleigh/skeleton/luge which are really not something that can be practiced casually - it's a whole different animal from just tobogganing down a small hill and requires special facilities that are not accessible to the overwhelming majority of any country's population.
And England basically called dibs on the best settlement land in North America while the French were unwilling to put a major emphasis on settlement of North America and just established fur trade routes and a few tiny subsistence villages and got bogged down in wars with the Iroquois. In the mid 18th century, New France had only about 65,000 people while the Thirteen Colonies had 1,500,000 people.
That population discrepancy shaped the rest of the history of North America. Britain was able to use that population base to recruit militias and fairly easy squash any local resistance from Natives and other European powers like France. When France tried to make a grab for the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, the British were easily able to rebuke them in the French & Indian Wars and conquer New France. Then when the Thirteen Colonies turned the tables against the British, the British were left with just the small formerly French colonies along the St Lawrence River/Acadia. And from then on the Americans could expand westwards in the warmer climates of the Midwest while the British were just stuck with the much colder Canadian Prairies.
Canada is basically the parts of North America that the British, and later, Americans, didn't deem worthy to prioritize settling. Canada was still able to end up with a few decent lands, like Southern Ontario and Southern BC, and maybe with climate change these will become increasingly better, but that is the gist of it imo.
Yeah, those french canadian fur trappers covered a huge swath of what is now the midwest and even as far west as Idaho.
Look at all the french named places....
Des Moines, Iowa
La Crosse, WI
Racine, WI
Terre Haute, IN
Marquette, MI
Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
Boise, ID
Belle Forche, SD
Pierre, SD....capital of SD...pronounced wrong!....locally pronounced as "Peer"
Dubois, Wyoming (my fave town in Wyoming)..also pronouced wrong!
Laramie, WY
Gillette, WY
Eau Claire, WI
Havre, MT
Butte, MT
Joliet, IL
Detroit, MI
Prairie Du Chien, WI
Roseau, MN
And like you said, Canada was just lucky to get anything with a half decent climate.
Though northern US and southern Canada are not really much different.
Washington state and northern Idaho are like southern BC...
Montana is like southern Alberta...
North Dakota and northern Minnesota are like southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Southern Ontario is like Michigan, northern Ohio, Wisconsin, western NY state and north PA.
Southern Quebec is like northern NY state, Vermont, New Hamsphire, and northern Maine.
Parts of Maine are like New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Inland Alaska is like the Yukon.
It's funny how sometimes in the media they treat the Vancouver area like it's Canada's California or something but then you realize it's actually kind of a chilly climate.
Here's how the Vancouver area gets its rep. But like you were saying: big fish, small pond. In most parts of the world 6°C would be considered chilly.
Yeah, those french canadian fur trappers covered a huge swath of what is now the midwest and even as far west as Idaho.
Look at all the french named places....
Des Moines, Iowa
La Crosse, WI
Racine, WI
Terre Haute, IN
Marquette, MI
Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
Boise, ID
Belle Forche, SD
Pierre, SD....capital of SD...pronounced wrong!....locally pronounced as "Peer"
Dubois, Wyoming (my fave town in Wyoming)..also pronouced wrong!
Laramie, WY
Gillette, WY
Eau Claire, WI
Havre, MT
Butte, MT
Joliet, IL
Detroit, MI
Prairie Du Chien, WI
Roseau, MN
Something seems likely to eventuate. There's actually excellent agreement from all ensembles of a major cold outbreak for most of North America mid-month. Basically everywhere within a 1500 km radius of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
latest forecast has 70 degrees on Saturday for parts of the Chicago area (away from the lake) but then snow on Monday.... Spring in the Midwest
cold air will arrive next week
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