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With only 2 days in March supposed to be below 70° for a high temp I have tomato planting on my mind now. I can almost tastes them with some bacon and mayo on good bread.
Watch for a freeze potential getting into northern Alabama and Georgia for the March 11th-20th time frame. It should avoid your area most likely.
Yes, well that's because being Canada's California is hardly the equivalent of playing in the big leagues. Definitely a minor league title.
Absolutely. It is interesting to think of so large a country yet most of it has a pretty damn inhospitable climate with much of the population crammed into the parts of the country with the most favorable conditions..and yet those have climates similar to the adjacent areas in the U.S. which are considered rather cool (like Washington/Idaho in the West and Upstate New York or Michigan in the East).
Thinking of that, Canada should really dominate at the Winter Olympics but somehow the Northern Europeans and Americans do in general.
Absolutely. It is interesting to think of so large a country yet most of it has a pretty damn inhospitable climate with much of the population crammed into the parts of the country with the most favorable conditions..and yet those have climates similar to the adjacent areas in the U.S. which are considered rather cool (like Washington/Idaho in the West and Upstate New York or Michigan in the East).
Thinking of that, Canada should really dominate at the Winter Olympics but somehow the Northern Europeans and Americans do in general.
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.
Max temps Sunday afternoon... Spring Fever. Too bad its only 1 days worth.
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