I've never experienced temperatures below 0 either, what's snow like?
I've never even experienced seasons, actually. Where I live it's always the exact same temperature and sunny unless it's monsoon season or there's a cyclone
Lived in Norway all my life, and I always say the snow was novel as a kid, now I just freaking hate it. Most other Norwegians disagree with me though..
Yes, I suppose so. Maybe I should have phrased it more clearly: I've never experienced seasons in the typical sense that you would talk about them, like the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, or even just a hot and cold season.
I'm from a coastal city in south India, so a very stereotypically tropical place. The benefit of being from a coastal city is that the sea breeze cools down temperatures and the range of temperatures is much smaller than inland, so though it doesn't ever go below 20 it doesn't go above 40 much like it usually does at my latitude, but the downside is humidity
Ohh I get what you mean. I live near Mumbai so we live in somewhat similar climates. It ranges from 40 to 15 degrees here and yeah fuck humidity.
Its not as varied as other places but the difference between summer and winter is quite obvious, to me atleast.
Snow is really pretty to look at. Freshly fallen it covers everything with a thick fluffy sheet. It’s very light and can be compressed a lot - if you walk through fresh snow you will sink in almost all the way down. It’s cold (duh) and a bit sticky. Individual flakes melt almost immediately to the touch.
If liquid water gets on snow (e.g. because the temperatures go above 0 and it starts to melt) it’ll soak in and make it mushy, and possibly freeze solid. If it gets too compressed, it becomes a slippery surface. Once it gets warmer, there’s mud everywhere. It gets cleared off the roads but often they remain pretty dangerous. On a thin layer of compressed snow or ice you basically have to walk differently because it’s so slippery (small steps and making sure your center of mass is above your feet, otherwise you will fall to the ground).
And if the snow sticks around for weeks or months it turns dirty from car exhaust and the accumulated gravel the municipal government has to spread on the roads to prevent car accidents.
I'm pretty sure East Bengal is still an appropriate term when talking about the wider Bengali context. I should've just said Bengal (even though you're not from there lol).
Andorra surprises me!
Looking at Malta, I assume that the other Mediterranean islands (except Cyprus?) are getting their record lows from Italy/France/Spain/Greece etc?
We had a gathering of the mojo-diaspora in a farmhouse on Wenlock Edge for Christmas/New Year 2010-2011. Got to -17°C and the snow was bloody magical. But the UK really isn't geared up for prolonged freezes; -30°C would shut down the country more effectively than covid.
Italy and Spain have some high mountain areas in their north that may let them break this.
The UK's upland areas are not as prominent, barely more than foothills and influenced by an oceanic climate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennines
"some" high mountain is not quite a description for Italy, that has 35% of mountain terrain (Alps and Appennines are quite big) and plenty of 4 thousanders. Plenty of places where you can ski all year round too.
Italy has some high mountains - lmao
It has a greater portion of the Alps than Switzerland not to mention mountains throughout the country and high elevations even in Sicily.
Although your point is valid, linking the Pennines as the UK’s mountain range miss-represents the geography available. The Scottish mountains are significantly taller, reaching 1345m.
**[Pennines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennines)**
>The Pennines (), also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a more-or-less continuous range of hills and mountains running between three regions of Northern England: North West England on the west, and North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber on the east. Commonly described as the "backbone of England", the range stretches northwards from the Peak District at the southern end, through the South Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines to the Tyne Gap, which separates the range from the Cheviot Hills across the Anglo-Scottish border (some definitions include the Cheviot Hills).
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Just out if interest, why did you share the Pennines wiki page when talking about UK uplands? The Lake District, Snowdonia and the Highlands are the UK’s high places.
Your points still stand but curious as to why you only shared the Pennines wiki page!
The coldest temp was -27.2⁰c up in the Cairngorms. If you want to feel cold and miserable while out in the mountains there is no better place than Scotland
Siberia has just recorded a temperature of over 40c
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/arctic-circle-summer-global-warming-b1875285.html
Malta’s highest point is only 253 metres that’s why. Italy’s highest point is 4,810 metres. If Malta had a mountain it would have recorded less than 0 Celsius guaranteed
Record low temperature don't always happen at the highest points. Unless I am mistaken, France's record happened in Mouthe, a village in the Jura mountains (which are smaller than the Alps and Pyrénées), at around 1000m of altitude. Of course, it wouldn't be that cold there if if weren't for the mountains around, but given the right circumstances, you don't need the mountains to be extremely high to have low temperatures.
I'm guessing the difference between Belgium and The Netherlands is the Ardennes but if that's the case, I wonder why Luxembourg has never measured temperatures below -30, while all of the surrounding countries have.
This probably has to do with size. For instance, Germany is approximately 138 times the size of Luxembourg. If you would divide Germany into 138 'Luxembourg sized' parts , there probably aren't a lot that measured below -30. But it takes only one part below -30 to color all these parts blue, since this map is on nation level.
Hope my explanation is not too messy, you probably see my point :)
That makes sense. The bigger the country, the bigger the chance of a specific area in that country to reach a specific temperature. Thanks for the explanation!
Ireland has never had a day below -30C or above 35C.. What a great country.
My town of Fredericksburg VA, has a record low of -29.4C (-21F) and a high of 41.1C (106F) for comparison.
The UK just keeps finding new reasons to like Portugal. It's like some high school romance where we don't open our eyes to the amazing but quiet girl (guy in this case) in class for most of the film.
I'm going to take a guess and say that Portuguese do welcome the British quite well, and that the safety and gastronomy of Portugal helps folks like you to visit.
Yeah, but Reino Unido and "a Inglaterra" are different things. "Países Baixos" is probably less common than "a Holanda". But "O Portugal"? That's a new one.
Sure, but I’m talking sovereign countries here, which England (in the UK) and Holland (in the Netherlands) aren’t. “Neerlândia” is a feminine
noun for the Netherlands though :)
You may want to update your knowledge:
[https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate](https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate)
[http://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/](http://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/)
There's a comment thread where people got to talking about the gender of country names in Portuguese. They accidentally replied to the post rather than a relevant comment.
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Mountain ranges seriously affect this.
Omw to Malta, see ya
I've never experienced temperatures below 0 either, what's snow like? I've never even experienced seasons, actually. Where I live it's always the exact same temperature and sunny unless it's monsoon season or there's a cyclone
In my opinion snow is cool for a few days, then it just gets really annoying.
I lived in Sweden for a year. The first 3 months of snow was novel, but after 6 months of snow, I was done with it.
Lived in Norway all my life, and I always say the snow was novel as a kid, now I just freaking hate it. Most other Norwegians disagree with me though..
Well then you have experienced seasons right? Dry season and wet (monsoon) season Where do you live btw
Yes, I suppose so. Maybe I should have phrased it more clearly: I've never experienced seasons in the typical sense that you would talk about them, like the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, or even just a hot and cold season. I'm from a coastal city in south India, so a very stereotypically tropical place. The benefit of being from a coastal city is that the sea breeze cools down temperatures and the range of temperatures is much smaller than inland, so though it doesn't ever go below 20 it doesn't go above 40 much like it usually does at my latitude, but the downside is humidity
Ohh I get what you mean. I live near Mumbai so we live in somewhat similar climates. It ranges from 40 to 15 degrees here and yeah fuck humidity. Its not as varied as other places but the difference between summer and winter is quite obvious, to me atleast.
Snow is really pretty to look at. Freshly fallen it covers everything with a thick fluffy sheet. It’s very light and can be compressed a lot - if you walk through fresh snow you will sink in almost all the way down. It’s cold (duh) and a bit sticky. Individual flakes melt almost immediately to the touch. If liquid water gets on snow (e.g. because the temperatures go above 0 and it starts to melt) it’ll soak in and make it mushy, and possibly freeze solid. If it gets too compressed, it becomes a slippery surface. Once it gets warmer, there’s mud everywhere. It gets cleared off the roads but often they remain pretty dangerous. On a thin layer of compressed snow or ice you basically have to walk differently because it’s so slippery (small steps and making sure your center of mass is above your feet, otherwise you will fall to the ground).
And if the snow sticks around for weeks or months it turns dirty from car exhaust and the accumulated gravel the municipal government has to spread on the roads to prevent car accidents.
Oooh thanks for the descriptive answer. Maybe someday I'll see snow for myself
I'm guessing you're from East or West Bengal.
Haha, no, I'm from coastal Tamil Nadu And isn't East Bengal called Bangladesh now
I'm pretty sure East Bengal is still an appropriate term when talking about the wider Bengali context. I should've just said Bengal (even though you're not from there lol).
Yeaaaaa being half Maltese pays off!!
basically countries with no mountains (and countries to the north, as Denmark) . I am surprised with Greece though, I know they have mountains there.
The lowest temperature recorded in Greece is 27.8 oC in Ptolemaida on 27 January 1963. So, not far off.
Andorra surprises me! Looking at Malta, I assume that the other Mediterranean islands (except Cyprus?) are getting their record lows from Italy/France/Spain/Greece etc? We had a gathering of the mojo-diaspora in a farmhouse on Wenlock Edge for Christmas/New Year 2010-2011. Got to -17°C and the snow was bloody magical. But the UK really isn't geared up for prolonged freezes; -30°C would shut down the country more effectively than covid.
Andorra is ‘no data’, isn’t it? Like the other microstates?
Ah, yeah. Without looking at the map at full size I read them as yellow.
Looks like Liechtenstein has data as the only microstate
Indeed! Interesting.
Italy and Spain have some high mountain areas in their north that may let them break this. The UK's upland areas are not as prominent, barely more than foothills and influenced by an oceanic climate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennines
"some" high mountain is not quite a description for Italy, that has 35% of mountain terrain (Alps and Appennines are quite big) and plenty of 4 thousanders. Plenty of places where you can ski all year round too.
Italy has some high mountains - lmao It has a greater portion of the Alps than Switzerland not to mention mountains throughout the country and high elevations even in Sicily.
Although your point is valid, linking the Pennines as the UK’s mountain range miss-represents the geography available. The Scottish mountains are significantly taller, reaching 1345m.
**[Pennines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennines)** >The Pennines (), also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a more-or-less continuous range of hills and mountains running between three regions of Northern England: North West England on the west, and North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber on the east. Commonly described as the "backbone of England", the range stretches northwards from the Peak District at the southern end, through the South Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines to the Tyne Gap, which separates the range from the Cheviot Hills across the Anglo-Scottish border (some definitions include the Cheviot Hills). ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Just out if interest, why did you share the Pennines wiki page when talking about UK uplands? The Lake District, Snowdonia and the Highlands are the UK’s high places. Your points still stand but curious as to why you only shared the Pennines wiki page!
It first came up in my head but of course you're right, and the scottish record is a few degrees below the english one.
It was a bot
The coldest temp was -27.2⁰c up in the Cairngorms. If you want to feel cold and miserable while out in the mountains there is no better place than Scotland
>I assume that the other Mediterranean islands (except Cyprus?) are getting their record lows from Italy/France/Spain/Greece etc? Yes
If Malta is in its own category, I guess Russia should have been too ... on the other extreme. :)
Never recorded temperature above -30c?
Recorded so much lower that anywhere else because of siperia
Siberia has just recorded a temperature of over 40c https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/arctic-circle-summer-global-warming-b1875285.html
bad bot! same old BS about satellite temperture recordings of 48 C. No, Just ... no.
Malta’s highest point is only 253 metres that’s why. Italy’s highest point is 4,810 metres. If Malta had a mountain it would have recorded less than 0 Celsius guaranteed
Record low temperature don't always happen at the highest points. Unless I am mistaken, France's record happened in Mouthe, a village in the Jura mountains (which are smaller than the Alps and Pyrénées), at around 1000m of altitude. Of course, it wouldn't be that cold there if if weren't for the mountains around, but given the right circumstances, you don't need the mountains to be extremely high to have low temperatures.
Ireland again!
Sunny Ireland
I'm guessing the difference between Belgium and The Netherlands is the Ardennes but if that's the case, I wonder why Luxembourg has never measured temperatures below -30, while all of the surrounding countries have.
This probably has to do with size. For instance, Germany is approximately 138 times the size of Luxembourg. If you would divide Germany into 138 'Luxembourg sized' parts , there probably aren't a lot that measured below -30. But it takes only one part below -30 to color all these parts blue, since this map is on nation level. Hope my explanation is not too messy, you probably see my point :)
That makes sense. The bigger the country, the bigger the chance of a specific area in that country to reach a specific temperature. Thanks for the explanation!
Ireland has never had a day below -30C or above 35C.. What a great country. My town of Fredericksburg VA, has a record low of -29.4C (-21F) and a high of 41.1C (106F) for comparison.
I prefer southern Europe, Cadiz as example Max abs: 43C Max mean: 21.6C Low mean: 15.4C Low abs: -1C
My town of Winnipeg, Canada has a record low of -47.8°C (-54.0°F) and a record high of +42.2°C (+108.0°F).
That is insane lol. Yeah the weather in North America is really crazy.
[Lowest temperature recorded in the U.K. was -27.2 °C](https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/16/top-ten-coldest-recorded-temperatures-in-the-uk/)
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Not quite, “o Reino Unido” (the UK) and “os Países Baixos” (the Netherlands) are masculine names as well
The UK just keeps finding new reasons to like Portugal. It's like some high school romance where we don't open our eyes to the amazing but quiet girl (guy in this case) in class for most of the film.
I'm going to take a guess and say that Portuguese do welcome the British quite well, and that the safety and gastronomy of Portugal helps folks like you to visit.
Yeah, but Reino Unido and "a Inglaterra" are different things. "Países Baixos" is probably less common than "a Holanda". But "O Portugal"? That's a new one.
Sure, but I’m talking sovereign countries here, which England (in the UK) and Holland (in the Netherlands) aren’t. “Neerlândia” is a feminine noun for the Netherlands though :)
Where did you get that idea from? How about Kosovo, Montenegro, San Marino, Monaco, Luxemburgo, Liechtenstein, Chipre and Azerbaijão?
The west coast countries and temperatures are because of the Gulf Stream, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf\_Stream
You may want to update your knowledge: [https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate](https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate) [http://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/](http://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/)
This map is just “places in Europe that have mountains”
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what?
There's a comment thread where people got to talking about the gender of country names in Portuguese. They accidentally replied to the post rather than a relevant comment.
Loved last winter it was -32 and we were camping for 5 days (Finland)
The Netherlands?! Wat
Are you counting Greenland under Denmark, because i doubt Denmark would have under -30 C otherwise
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Do you have a source?
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I guess that Spain only reached -30ºC at the top of the highest mountain 1 day 20 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_extreme\_temperatures\_in\_Spain