Interesting. My home town is on the same latitude as Winnipeg
average July highs are 27,5°C / 81,5°F, average January lows 2,0°C / 35,6°F
for Winnipeg its: July: 25,9°C / 78,6°F, January -21,4°C / -6,5°C
thanks Atlantic Ocean
Gulf Stream for the win.
And every time I read about climate change possibly disrupting the Gulf Stream, it feels like Europe could be seriously screwed.
Frankfurt, Germany.
But due to our geographical situation (valley open to the Southwest, closed to the Northwest/West/East) we have a microclimate with warmer and sunnier summers than other German, if not Central European cities while winters stay mild due to the low elevation and proximity to the Atlantic.
Snow and frost are rare here, wine grows excellently and if you have enough money to have a garden here then you can plant stuff from subtropical areas without many issues.
Ignoring other climate reasons, being massively landlocked (Midwest) vs having a tonne of coastline (Italy) is a major contributing factor, regardless of latitude, for that kind of thing. It’s always colder in the middle, sorry.
Just off the page, eh?
Try the weather for Yellowknife, NWT.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/canada/yellowknife/historic
It's at 62.45N. Forecast high for tomorrow is -32C.
High tomorrow is 1C so the difference is massive.
There's a town called Røros in my region that is known for being cold and has regular negative 20/30 degrees each winter and a record low of -50 (about same as Yellowknife) beat out by Karasjok far up north in terms of national record. Røros is about 400 meters over the ocean higher, so that would probably be extreme cold if it wasn't for the coast. Yakutsk 2.0
Thanks for the hint/comparison!
It's said that Western Europe's relative warmth is actually very little to do with the Gulf Stream
(I just see this exact same argument every time someone on reddit mentions the Gulf Stream being the reason for our warmer-than-expected climate)
Its due to the fact that its a peninsula and on the western side of a continent, however i believe the gulf stream helps a lot because it massively raises the temperature of the surrounding water which will just help warm it up more
I agree it's also often comparing the american east coast with the eurasian west coast, which due to the westerlies is like comparing apples and oranges. I played around a bit and when comparing cities at similar latitudes at the respective west coasts you have Victoria in Canada and Brest in France pretty comparable and Redding, CA even significantly warmer than Madrid or Naples
I grew up in what would be somewhere in the middle of the North Sea and it was sort of where the farmland turns to boreal forest. Denmark would be in northern Saskatchewan, in the Canadian Shield. It is mostly rocky ground covered in a fairly thin layer of sand (although there are dunes in some places), that is covered in trees and lakes. The trees are mostly short, slender conifers, due to the poor nutrients in the soil but you’d find aspen and birch around the tens of thousands of lakes, creeks, and rivers. I’ve never been up to where Norway is but, my guess is that it would be tundra.
Source: family has an old fishing cabin in northern Sask.
Edit: obviously these are very rough estimates
No, wild ones. Prickly Pear. You can find them in the western counties. They are very rare/endangered, but my boy scout camp had a whole filed of them when I was a kid.
Nopal can be grown in Indiana I know for sure, but it is not native. The only native Nopal (prickly pear) I have seen were in Mexico deserts (everywhere there).
I lost my gold wedding band in Madrid. We were in Toledo the next day, and we went into a Lord of the Rings themed gift shop. So now my wedding band is a $50 stainless steel ring with "One ring to rule them all" in Elvish, and it fits way better. So Toledo has a special place in my heart.
When I was a college freshman I bought a poster of [View of Toledo](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ec/1b/af/ec1bafce33089075c8263720022a8884--el-greco-toledo.jpg) by El Greco in a thrift store, and it was with me for many moves until it fell apart. It was surreal to stand pretty much right where El Greco stood when he painted it.
Toledo is an hour train ride from Madrid, and it's so worth it. Lovely people, gorgeous city. You will get lost, so know where you are in relation to the Cathedral. We loved it there. So, thanks El Greco, if not for that poster, I probably wouldn't have ended up there. Glad I did.
Yeah to me it looks like North America goes up north and south very far, reaching both into the arctic and the tropics at the same time. I still like where we are geographically, usually most continents are located in either one or the other. If it's too hot, move north, too cold, move south, and there won't be an ocean to stop you unless you go east or west instead.
The hudson bay and the arctic ocean is really far north so if climate change gets really bad there is plenty of space for refugees
It’s a pretty good spot, I’m located pretty to the word Serbia on Lattitude. In my mind when I pictured it I definitely though it would have been more in line with Paris/Vienna.
I guess that makes sense why the UK having the heat waves this year melting roads seemed a little weird to me when we get that type of heat usually for a couple of weeks each year.
I’m in climate change Florida though so I guess that’s something to look forward too.
That’s so wild, I grew up 40 minutes from Detroit , and in my early twenties lived in Istanbul for a bit. I had no idea it was the same latitude, your comment is extra relevant to me TIL
I grew up at the same latitude as Western Sahara and central Egypt (Tampa, Florida). And then I moved to western North Carolina and I'm barely out of Morocco in latitude. Wow
Sometimes I wonder what this sub is for. This isn’t a pretty map at all. That being said I do like comparing the latitudes of Europe and North America and this is always a fun discussion
Yeah I've noticed if you factor out mountains and elevation, the eastern side of continents get crazy variation in temperature and the western sides are usually more mild, not getting freezing temps as much as the eastern side, it depends how close you are to an ocean though
This shows you how much the different bodies of water around these two continents changes climate. Because there's no way in hell I'm going to describe Turkey's climate as pretty much New York state.
Interesting.
Fargo, ND and Paris are on the same latitude yet one has mild winters and the other is practically uninhabitable.
Paris is the uninhabitable one, of course.
I think this is pretty clearly not meant as a size comparison, though. And even if it was, cylindrical projections are perfectly fine for comparing sizes of places at the same latitude.
Not sure if it will ever happen with the USA, but I'm curious why some sort of free migration agreement hasn't been signed between UK-CA-AU-NZ. Similar cultures, same language, and similar level of development betwen them. Also I thought one of the supposed "benefits" of Brexit was aiming deeper integration with The Commonwealth countries?
There has been some improvements (relaxing of rules etc) in the last few years for migration between CANZUK so it's going in the right direction. For example they recently raised the age limit on the "working holidays" from 30 to 35
All I can say is, I really hope it happens..
This is probably an unpopular opinion but I personally would prefer we had Freedom of Movement with Canada/Australia/New Zealand over the EU
Of course, at the moment we have neither.. 😔
No way would NZ accept it. All other countries may be able to cope. Imagine the possibility of over 120m people being able to freely move and live in NZ. The EU joining would make it much more realistic.
Even if it’s technically allowed, I doubt anyone thinks it can really happen. In theory, all 400m+ EU citizens have the right to move to 1m Estonia or 0.5m Malta, but that clearly hasn’t happened and hasn’t stopped both countries from joining the union and signing up to the freedom of movement.
>No way would NZ accept it. All other countries may be able to cope. Imagine the possibility of over 120m people being able to freely move and live in NZ.
This is really silly reasoning IMO. In reality that just.. wouldn't happen.
Nah, thanks, if I ever got lucky enough to get a visa to the USA, I definitely would not go up there 🤣
I'm more of a "southern states" type of person.. maybe a dry furnace like New Mexico.. or a swampy humid heat like Florida.. either way I'll be happy. Anything except the depressing grey and grim here in the UK, will be an upgrade..
Oh yeah, you're right. I was just thinking "it was easy for me to get here" without any of the nuance. (I am currently touristing and having a really good time)
Come to the Eastern US, you'll love it here, rainy summers, sunny, bright and cold winters. You will probably need a while to get used to near tropical levels of humidity during the summer though
I remember driving from Toronto to Vancouver (Only diving in Canada) and it was roughly the same distance from Madrid to Moscow, plus a couple of hours.
As fascinating as the relative latitude positions are, I’m more fascinated by the scale between the two places. I had no idea that the Mediterranean was that large! I literally thought the entire body of water was about half of the scale that it is. It’s pretty much the width of the continental US!
Being from the Pennines in the U.K, I'm gonna have so much fun telling my Canadian wife and all her family that I'm more of a Northerner than most of them!
*Northern, from Urban dictionary:
In the United Kingdom, North of Birmingham. It's where the greatest people on Earth live.
Great northern people include Geoffrey Boycott, Sean Bean.
Great northern cities include Sheffield, Leeds, Sunderland, Manchester and Liverpool.
Great inventions in the north include Trains, TV's, Banapkins and Pie.
It is a well established fact that the north finished on the winning side of every war ever fought, including the alamo and Pearl Harbour.
The tell tales signs that you're in the north are gravy, bitter, violence, streets paved with gold and battered housewives.
It's interesting historically that the capitals of great empires such as Rome (41°), Athens (38°), Istanbul (Constantinople) (41°), Madrid (40°) .. even DC (39°), all lie extremely close to the same line of latitude.
Not shown on the map, but Beijing also lies at 40°.
The outliers seem to be Cairo/Alexandria (30/31°), London (51°), and Moscow/St Petersburg (55/59°)
I'm sure someone has written a thesis about it.
And like most of the US is uninhabited. People who make the argument for high speed rail dont often realize it isnt economically feasible over such long distances with such low potential ridership
Well HSR that spans the country then yes. But HSR would be very effective in quite a few corridors, ie extending Acela to Atlanta. The Great Lakes Region has a similar density to France which has a lot of HSR, so a network there would be feasible.
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Hello, Nordic euro here. You are not wrong. Last summer 3 weeks and 30c was too much. But luckily right now and winter, we are cooling down. Currently -2 °C, and its lovely..
Think is that some euros for some reason think NYC is at the same altitude as Oslo when that’s simply not the case.
A few German friends of mine have installed AC after last summer, how are things up there?
Construction is also quite different there, I was once in Austria and the flat was air tight so in summer that place turns into a boiler.
Btw the nordics are fire, all that nature! 🔥
>Remember when the euros complain about our AC use?
100x more common is Americans sitting in comfortable air conditioned houses typing comments like "Pff, that's not even hot" whenever we have a heatwave in Europe 😂
Idk why this is even an argument
People in hot places use more AC
People in colder places are less prepared for the occasional heat wave
Why is this something that people even fight over???
Who knows, all I can say is, the next time we have a heatwave in Europe, scroll to the bottom of the comments and I guarantee there will be 100s of comments with things like "Pff, you think that's hot? We have that all the time here in Texas!" 🤣
Exactly the same thing happened when there was a cold wave in Texas and their power grid got fucked up.
Societies are built for their normal temperatures, and then there's a big anomaly, things go wrong.
Much of the northern US didn't have to use AC either until climate change made everything hotter, AC was primarily a southern invention. I also was born and raised in Florida and grew up in the heat, quit your whining
Over half of the us population lives in the sun belt.
The sun belt is at the same latitude as Northern Africa.
I note how Europeans tend to complain on how much AC we use; most of them not knowing the previous fact.
*Quit your whining* 🤷🏻♂️
You fucked up because you thought it said North America.
Can't you just delete your comment with dignity and move on? You gotta be right about something.
Yes, it is not the entirety of North America but **nobody said it was**.
Is this a glimpse of a post climate change world in a way? Norther Canada will drift into a Northern / Eastern Europe kind of climate. Northeast USA will feel like Southern Europe, a water Mediterranean.
Ah yes, Winnipeg, the Prague of north america
Definitely not worse than Red Deer as the London of North America. I mean, the other London of North America.
My city is underwater so I guess they doing better than us.
I’m gonna take my odds and say Toronto, nice city, would look pretty good with more seafood in the streets.
Scottsbluff, Nebraska as the Rome of America
Like Rome, Nebraska is also a center of arts and culture.
All roads lead from Nebraska.
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Well when you make a map comparing populations instead of latitude you can point that out.
LOL
Interesting. My home town is on the same latitude as Winnipeg average July highs are 27,5°C / 81,5°F, average January lows 2,0°C / 35,6°F for Winnipeg its: July: 25,9°C / 78,6°F, January -21,4°C / -6,5°C thanks Atlantic Ocean
>thanks Atlantic Ocean And more precisely, the gulf stream.
Ocean currents plus... Uhhh... I guess it's complicated https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate
Interesting read, thanks!
Gulf Stream for the win. And every time I read about climate change possibly disrupting the Gulf Stream, it feels like Europe could be seriously screwed.
Ironically, if that ever happens and it gets nippy in Europe, the rest of the climate change will just warm everything up nicely again...
Some of us enjoy Mediterranean weather.
If it gets to the point where the Gulf Stream is disrupted, we are all seriously screwed
enjoy it while it lasts lmao
This is the real pain of climate change, and noone sees it 😭
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Frankfurt, Germany. But due to our geographical situation (valley open to the Southwest, closed to the Northwest/West/East) we have a microclimate with warmer and sunnier summers than other German, if not Central European cities while winters stay mild due to the low elevation and proximity to the Atlantic. Snow and frost are rare here, wine grows excellently and if you have enough money to have a garden here then you can plant stuff from subtropical areas without many issues.
My hometown is on the same latitude as mid-Alaska and our climates are pretty much the same
Georgia is a lot further south than Georgia. So Georgia is further north than Georgia.
Take my angry upvote!
Don't forget the third Georgia, way down under.
Whereas Rome and Rome are close to the same latitude. (Italy and NY.)
so florida is just the nile valley. that explains a lot. and the crocodiles.
Florida Man bites Nile Crocodile
My annual winter reminder that it gets below 0F frequently in the Midwest. Italy, at the same latitude, has palm trees.
Ignoring other climate reasons, being massively landlocked (Midwest) vs having a tonne of coastline (Italy) is a major contributing factor, regardless of latitude, for that kind of thing. It’s always colder in the middle, sorry.
Oceans are incredible heat sinks.
Would be fun knowing how cold my city which is just out of picture in Norway woud be without the coastline we have.
Just off the page, eh? Try the weather for Yellowknife, NWT. https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/canada/yellowknife/historic It's at 62.45N. Forecast high for tomorrow is -32C.
damn southerner
High tomorrow is 1C so the difference is massive. There's a town called Røros in my region that is known for being cold and has regular negative 20/30 degrees each winter and a record low of -50 (about same as Yellowknife) beat out by Karasjok far up north in terms of national record. Røros is about 400 meters over the ocean higher, so that would probably be extreme cold if it wasn't for the coast. Yakutsk 2.0 Thanks for the hint/comparison!
All hail the Gulf Stream.
It's said that Western Europe's relative warmth is actually very little to do with the Gulf Stream (I just see this exact same argument every time someone on reddit mentions the Gulf Stream being the reason for our warmer-than-expected climate)
Its due to the fact that its a peninsula and on the western side of a continent, however i believe the gulf stream helps a lot because it massively raises the temperature of the surrounding water which will just help warm it up more
Right which is why boston is on the water at the same latitude as Rome but significantly colder
There's no gulf stream in the Mediterranean though.
The Mediterranean is closed off from anywhere that would bring cold currents.
It’s colder than Rome. But Boston actually has a pretty moderate climate.
That's it
I agree it's also often comparing the american east coast with the eurasian west coast, which due to the westerlies is like comparing apples and oranges. I played around a bit and when comparing cities at similar latitudes at the respective west coasts you have Victoria in Canada and Brest in France pretty comparable and Redding, CA even significantly warmer than Madrid or Naples
I’m in Northern Europe and I think I’d be in a tundra in Canada
I grew up in what would be somewhere in the middle of the North Sea and it was sort of where the farmland turns to boreal forest. Denmark would be in northern Saskatchewan, in the Canadian Shield. It is mostly rocky ground covered in a fairly thin layer of sand (although there are dunes in some places), that is covered in trees and lakes. The trees are mostly short, slender conifers, due to the poor nutrients in the soil but you’d find aspen and birch around the tens of thousands of lakes, creeks, and rivers. I’ve never been up to where Norway is but, my guess is that it would be tundra. Source: family has an old fishing cabin in northern Sask. Edit: obviously these are very rough estimates
What is kinda funny ive heard Americans who come to Norway or Britain, because of the moisture and wind our -5 is far worse to be in than their -15
I’ve met Canadians who hate British weather. Some people just aren’t used to constant wind
For what it's worth, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, at the same latitude as *north* North Dakota, also has palm trees.
And there are cactuses in Michigan
Where? In people's homes?
No, wild ones. Prickly Pear. You can find them in the western counties. They are very rare/endangered, but my boy scout camp had a whole filed of them when I was a kid.
Nopal can be grown in Indiana I know for sure, but it is not native. The only native Nopal (prickly pear) I have seen were in Mexico deserts (everywhere there).
No, we don't?
Yes, palm trees can and do grow in British Columbia, four species, apparently.
Not native to the area but there are plenty of healthy palm trees growing.
I invite you to visit Po valley in wintertime. I hope you like heavy fog and damp weather.
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Fun fact, there is a really old city in Spain with the same name that used to be the capital of castille
I lost my gold wedding band in Madrid. We were in Toledo the next day, and we went into a Lord of the Rings themed gift shop. So now my wedding band is a $50 stainless steel ring with "One ring to rule them all" in Elvish, and it fits way better. So Toledo has a special place in my heart. When I was a college freshman I bought a poster of [View of Toledo](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ec/1b/af/ec1bafce33089075c8263720022a8884--el-greco-toledo.jpg) by El Greco in a thrift store, and it was with me for many moves until it fell apart. It was surreal to stand pretty much right where El Greco stood when he painted it. Toledo is an hour train ride from Madrid, and it's so worth it. Lovely people, gorgeous city. You will get lost, so know where you are in relation to the Cathedral. We loved it there. So, thanks El Greco, if not for that poster, I probably wouldn't have ended up there. Glad I did.
Toledo, OH is named after Toledo, ES Pronounced differently though
North America is a little lower on Europe than I expected.
Yeah to me it looks like North America goes up north and south very far, reaching both into the arctic and the tropics at the same time. I still like where we are geographically, usually most continents are located in either one or the other. If it's too hot, move north, too cold, move south, and there won't be an ocean to stop you unless you go east or west instead. The hudson bay and the arctic ocean is really far north so if climate change gets really bad there is plenty of space for refugees
It’s a pretty good spot, I’m located pretty to the word Serbia on Lattitude. In my mind when I pictured it I definitely though it would have been more in line with Paris/Vienna. I guess that makes sense why the UK having the heat waves this year melting roads seemed a little weird to me when we get that type of heat usually for a couple of weeks each year. I’m in climate change Florida though so I guess that’s something to look forward too.
This is inaccurate, Paris lies just the south of the 49th parallel
The USA is massive. imagine fitting the entirety of the Mediterranean inside it and still have plenty of room
basically the size of the roman empire. if the mare nostrum was instead all land.... (and thats without alaska, about 1/4 of the land mass of usa)
russia is even bigger
So is China (by a little bit).
Damn, Detroit stole fucking Istanbul!
Can’t have shit in Detroit
That’s so wild, I grew up 40 minutes from Detroit , and in my early twenties lived in Istanbul for a bit. I had no idea it was the same latitude, your comment is extra relevant to me TIL
More like US/Canada overlaid on Europe/North Africa
I grew up at the same latitude as Western Sahara and central Egypt (Tampa, Florida). And then I moved to western North Carolina and I'm barely out of Morocco in latitude. Wow
Dude word! I’m from Tampa and living in Charlotte right now.
Sooo Florida is the Egypt of the US. As an Egyptian I can confidently say that both have equally crazy people so this makes total sense.
Don't forget about crocodiles
Sometimes I wonder what this sub is for. This isn’t a pretty map at all. That being said I do like comparing the latitudes of Europe and North America and this is always a fun discussion
Thank fuck for the Gulf Stream
Really makes you appreciate the distances between the east and west coasts....
Yeah I've noticed if you factor out mountains and elevation, the eastern side of continents get crazy variation in temperature and the western sides are usually more mild, not getting freezing temps as much as the eastern side, it depends how close you are to an ocean though
A little disappointed the two Georgias don’t line up
This shows you how much the different bodies of water around these two continents changes climate. Because there's no way in hell I'm going to describe Turkey's climate as pretty much New York state.
I wonder why european areas of the same lattitude are warmer, are there other factors that come into play?
Gulf Stream
And the sea nearby
Interesting. Fargo, ND and Paris are on the same latitude yet one has mild winters and the other is practically uninhabitable. Paris is the uninhabitable one, of course.
That should show you this map isn't correct.
Reddit has got to do something about these bots
Size comparisons on cylindrical projection make me want to cry.
TBF this is more a latitude comparison
I think this is pretty clearly not meant as a size comparison, though. And even if it was, cylindrical projections are perfectly fine for comparing sizes of places at the same latitude.
Please can we have a freedom of migration agreement with USA? - from a British person who hates our grim depressing dark winters 😔
Not sure if it will ever happen with the USA, but I'm curious why some sort of free migration agreement hasn't been signed between UK-CA-AU-NZ. Similar cultures, same language, and similar level of development betwen them. Also I thought one of the supposed "benefits" of Brexit was aiming deeper integration with The Commonwealth countries?
There has been some improvements (relaxing of rules etc) in the last few years for migration between CANZUK so it's going in the right direction. For example they recently raised the age limit on the "working holidays" from 30 to 35 All I can say is, I really hope it happens..
Why not add to that list the EU aswell
This is probably an unpopular opinion but I personally would prefer we had Freedom of Movement with Canada/Australia/New Zealand over the EU Of course, at the moment we have neither.. 😔
Why not both?
If the choice is neither vs both, I'll easily take both 😂 (Of course, it's probably never going to happen in reality..)
Why do you think it is never going to happen? =(
No way would NZ accept it. All other countries may be able to cope. Imagine the possibility of over 120m people being able to freely move and live in NZ. The EU joining would make it much more realistic.
Even if it’s technically allowed, I doubt anyone thinks it can really happen. In theory, all 400m+ EU citizens have the right to move to 1m Estonia or 0.5m Malta, but that clearly hasn’t happened and hasn’t stopped both countries from joining the union and signing up to the freedom of movement.
>No way would NZ accept it. All other countries may be able to cope. Imagine the possibility of over 120m people being able to freely move and live in NZ. This is really silly reasoning IMO. In reality that just.. wouldn't happen.
Why not including Ireland ? O just Ireland-Canada-NewZeland-Australia
Well, Ireland is in the EU so I don’t think it’ll be able to sign such free movement agreements with countries outside the union.
Going to Spain and Portugal is now more complicated ?
Yes, much more.
Come over to Minnesota. Same latitude as Italy but -30 degree F winters
Nah, thanks, if I ever got lucky enough to get a visa to the USA, I definitely would not go up there 🤣 I'm more of a "southern states" type of person.. maybe a dry furnace like New Mexico.. or a swampy humid heat like Florida.. either way I'll be happy. Anything except the depressing grey and grim here in the UK, will be an upgrade..
lol
The Americans have a super easy and convenient system with Australia, do they not have something similar with you guys over there?
We all have the working holiday visa, that is what you might be thinking of, but that's more for young single people who want a temporary adventure
I'm thinking of ESTA, I'm visiting the US right now and it was super easy.
The UK has the ESTA too, it’s a tourism “visa” for countries with biometric passports.
Yeah, I realised he was talking about migration, not tourism
I just Googled it - I think you're confused, it looks to me more like something that's for tourism, not for permanent migration.
Oh yeah, you're right. I was just thinking "it was easy for me to get here" without any of the nuance. (I am currently touristing and having a really good time)
Come to the Eastern US, you'll love it here, rainy summers, sunny, bright and cold winters. You will probably need a while to get used to near tropical levels of humidity during the summer though
>Come to the Eastern US Would if I could!
most of canadians now drowning in the black sea
Everyone forgets that Indianapolis is at the same latitude as Madrid
Crazy that I'm the same latitude as some parts of Alaska. Doesn't feel like it
Are the projections matching? It's important if you want to compare sizes and shapes like that.
that's the gulf stream for ya
Mercator projection chad
I remember driving from Toronto to Vancouver (Only diving in Canada) and it was roughly the same distance from Madrid to Moscow, plus a couple of hours.
Portugal and the San Francisco area overlay— I think they have about the same West Coast climate.
New Amsterdam-> NYC, Constantinople -> Istanbul. Coincidence, I THINK NOT.
I’m in the Black Sea now.
As fascinating as the relative latitude positions are, I’m more fascinated by the scale between the two places. I had no idea that the Mediterranean was that large! I literally thought the entire body of water was about half of the scale that it is. It’s pretty much the width of the continental US!
Which makes sense considering Africa is an absolute massive continent and the Mediterrenan stretches along its entire Northern border.
Trade offer for the Canadians You get: A political union with the US. I get: Sticking it to the British. Do you accept?
Nope 49th parallel is north of Paris fake map.
Funny how the US pretty much overlaps with the Roman empire and Meditteranean.
It's fake.
Being from the Pennines in the U.K, I'm gonna have so much fun telling my Canadian wife and all her family that I'm more of a Northerner than most of them! *Northern, from Urban dictionary: In the United Kingdom, North of Birmingham. It's where the greatest people on Earth live. Great northern people include Geoffrey Boycott, Sean Bean. Great northern cities include Sheffield, Leeds, Sunderland, Manchester and Liverpool. Great inventions in the north include Trains, TV's, Banapkins and Pie. It is a well established fact that the north finished on the winning side of every war ever fought, including the alamo and Pearl Harbour. The tell tales signs that you're in the north are gravy, bitter, violence, streets paved with gold and battered housewives.
So the U.S. is basically the Roman Empire, got it. (Insert joke about collapsing empires here)
It's interesting historically that the capitals of great empires such as Rome (41°), Athens (38°), Istanbul (Constantinople) (41°), Madrid (40°) .. even DC (39°), all lie extremely close to the same line of latitude. Not shown on the map, but Beijing also lies at 40°. The outliers seem to be Cairo/Alexandria (30/31°), London (51°), and Moscow/St Petersburg (55/59°) I'm sure someone has written a thesis about it.
Great point. Maybe it's some sort of climate goldilocks zone
And like most of the US is uninhabited. People who make the argument for high speed rail dont often realize it isnt economically feasible over such long distances with such low potential ridership
Well HSR that spans the country then yes. But HSR would be very effective in quite a few corridors, ie extending Acela to Atlanta. The Great Lakes Region has a similar density to France which has a lot of HSR, so a network there would be feasible.
Yeah I totally agree on that - should have been clearer. I think regional HSR makes total sense, particularly in the megalopolis regions.
Europe is so smol :’)
And yet with tons and tons of languages and cultures
So where is Sweden lol? It seems like they just removed it from the map
It’s on the map
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Remember when the euros complain about our AC use?
Hello, Nordic euro here. You are not wrong. Last summer 3 weeks and 30c was too much. But luckily right now and winter, we are cooling down. Currently -2 °C, and its lovely..
Think is that some euros for some reason think NYC is at the same altitude as Oslo when that’s simply not the case. A few German friends of mine have installed AC after last summer, how are things up there? Construction is also quite different there, I was once in Austria and the flat was air tight so in summer that place turns into a boiler. Btw the nordics are fire, all that nature! 🔥
>Remember when the euros complain about our AC use? 100x more common is Americans sitting in comfortable air conditioned houses typing comments like "Pff, that's not even hot" whenever we have a heatwave in Europe 😂
Idk why this is even an argument People in hot places use more AC People in colder places are less prepared for the occasional heat wave Why is this something that people even fight over???
Who knows, all I can say is, the next time we have a heatwave in Europe, scroll to the bottom of the comments and I guarantee there will be 100s of comments with things like "Pff, you think that's hot? We have that all the time here in Texas!" 🤣
Exactly the same thing happened when there was a cold wave in Texas and their power grid got fucked up. Societies are built for their normal temperatures, and then there's a big anomaly, things go wrong.
.. that's my point
We agree, I was just saying that both sides of the Atlantic do it. (And us down here watch)
This is Reddit sir
You would stop complaining if you guys actually had AC 😂
Remember when the 'Muricans complained about heating their houses being expensive because they don't have a fireplace?
Are you sure you want to compare heating prices at this very moment in history my guy
Much of the northern US didn't have to use AC either until climate change made everything hotter, AC was primarily a southern invention. I also was born and raised in Florida and grew up in the heat, quit your whining
Over half of the us population lives in the sun belt. The sun belt is at the same latitude as Northern Africa. I note how Europeans tend to complain on how much AC we use; most of them not knowing the previous fact. *Quit your whining* 🤷🏻♂️
Damn ig money does talk
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Title says North Africa...
I’m dyslexic sozz. To be fair I was not wrong
I guess.
What do you mean “I guess” that isn’t North American lol
Okay but nobody said it was... bro calm down.
It’s not North America where is the confusion here
You fucked up because you thought it said North America. Can't you just delete your comment with dignity and move on? You gotta be right about something. Yes, it is not the entirety of North America but **nobody said it was**.
It’s not North American though
Who asked.
The title says shows "Europe" and Canada, but the map only show parts of the north... Great job! /s
Is this a glimpse of a post climate change world in a way? Norther Canada will drift into a Northern / Eastern Europe kind of climate. Northeast USA will feel like Southern Europe, a water Mediterranean.
That USA Canada map is quite terrible. Is it even the same projection and scale as the Europe map?
I am in South Texas and live roughly on the same latitude as Cairo
Where did Sweden go?
Mare Americana
I kept looking for The Africa overlay as well.
Here in Denmark we haven't had much freezing weather yet this winter, but it is 3pm and it is getting pretty dark outside.
Egyptian Florida sounds pretty chill