AMOC doing some heavy lifiting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation

The crazy bit is how far north Europe is, relative to the climate we get. Almost everywhere else this far north is freezing

The US is fucking huge. A lot of our weather up north is closer to yours, but we've got deserts, rainforests, Florida is just outside of the tropics, etc. There's a huge variety of climates here. The US is larger than all of Europe, by quite a margin. East to west it's wider than Lisbon, Spain to Moscow, Russia. North to South it's pretty much identical to Europe. (Technically Europe is slightly larger with the Scandinavian countries sticking out pretty far north.)

The weather in New England and upper New York is very much like German weather, and sometimes worse. We’ve had snow on the grounds since the 30th of November and it’s only barely reached 0C in the last week.

It was -15C a couple nights ago at roughly the latitude of Rome, next to the ocean too. And only about 50km northwest (inland) it went down to -25C.

This has been a colder December than average for the last decade, but we have mountains that regularly get meters of snow each winter, and they are way lower elevation than the alps too. Also as we all know the last decade has been stoopid warm.

Mt Washington has measured the highest wind speed in the world.

Yeah thank you to the gulf stream. Too bad that global warming will make it disappear ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also wind patterns. At the midlatitudes westerlies dominate. So the east coast has a continental climate (receives cold air in the winters, hot air in the summers) while the west coast does not (the oceans make the summers and winters mild)

You'll see that the west coast cities on the same latitudes of their European counterparts have a very similar climate (as opposed to east coast cities, which have a very different climate than their latitude-counterpart).

Thanks, didn't realize until I read this lol

On which scale? Because that kinda matters.

Celsius? Kinda hot but not necessarily deadly.

Kelvin? You've turned your city into an air fryer.

Which way? Because it gets incredibly hot in the Canadian prairie. There is no body of water to regulate temperature so the summers can get serious heat waves while the winter is absolutely frigid. Granted, Edmonton is still considerably further south than Stockholm.

Location in the time zone is also a factor. France is near the far west of CEST.

For example Michigan is in the far west of EST. The sun rises 30-40 minutes later than in New York, and you do get light at 10pm in the height of summer.

Cameras are pretty good at taking in light and giving a false representation of how you'd experience it if you were actually there. You see it at televised sporting events where it looks like twilight but they have to tell the viewers at home that it's full dark there. I'd imagine at 10pm, his web cam was just doing a much better job seeing than a human eye could.

This was a cool thing about living in Seattle and any further north - in the summer it'd be dusk until 10pm. And the in the winter the sun would basically never appear. I guess it was less "cool" and more "insanity producing" but locals were used to it.

That actually really fucked up the first French attempts to settle the St. Lawrence river. They knew it was a similar latitude as Paris so they were completely unprepared for their first winter in Quebec City.

Virginia Occidentale has a nice ring to it. It''d fuck up John Denver too.

It's translated into French it looks like.

Did you not notice "Virginia Occidental"?

The meme maker was threatened with a cease and decist order by Kraft-Heinz.

oh, does Italy not usually get snowstorms with cyclone structures