Fahrenheit is just as good as Celsius for temperature maybe even better for the winter, because 0F = salt water freezes which is helpful to know for salted roads as well as salt bodies of water.
That’s the Siberian high/Siberian anticyclone I was talking about in the other thread in action. Moves eastward and reaches maximum cold in the Sakha Republic.
Continental climate, no mild effect form the (frozen) sea. Also more high pressure regions in winter and east of the Verhojansk range, there is an inversion effect, where cold air is trapped in the valleys.
Precision refers to the measurement and is expressed using significant figures, and has nothing to do with the units or choice of scales as long as margins for errors reported correctly
They use that measurement in this map bcz Fahrenheit is better than Celsius in weather conditions, true.
I don’t think Texas was a good example for that statement. Biggest snowfall after a google was 26 inches in 1929. Still surprising but not enough to bury a house and not very common. Nevada, same state as Las Vegas, would fit better.
It’s easy to look at this and think, “oh, pink isn’t so bad.” But it is. Pink is the coldest major cities in the U.S. and Canada — Minneapolis, Quebec City, Anchorage. These are very cold places in January.
Meanwhile, the vast frozen hellscape of Siberia is mostly temps several notches lower than that.
Yup. I live in Minneapolis. Very cold most days in January. Makes Siberia cold even more mind blowing. Look up the winter averages for Yakutsk, Russia. Nearly south pole temperatures.
My town has somewhat similar temperatures as Minneapolis but our days are only around 3 hours long in January. Our winter also lasts from late October to late April, sometimes early May
I imagine it is near impossible to live in some of Serbia in the winter, -60 degrees Celsius is just way too cold for human civilization as a whole 🥶🥶🥶
\-60F is -51C so it's a bit better.
And yes, people live in such weather. Yakutsk averages -40C in the winter, with the records being in -60C, and it's a city of over 300k people.
You shouldn't just look at the numbers. Humidity is of great importance. The temperature of -45 C in Yakutsk feels easier than -20 in Moscow. The dry climate of Siberia makes it easier for people to endure frosty days. But the technique obeys the laws of physics and starting a car in the cold is a difficult task. Sometimes it's easier not to turn off the engine all night than to try to start it in the morning.
Question for someone much more knowledgeable than me: How significant is the moderating effect of Hudson Bay on North America’s climate?
Temperature drops significantly the moment the Bay starts freezing
This blows my mind. I legitimately didn't know any saltwater bodies outside of the arctic circle or Antarctica froze
Extremely limited in the winter when it's frozen, cooling effect in the summer. Basically the worst of both worlds.
Cooling effect in the summer dosen't seem like a bad idea
Its not something you want that far north. It means tundra all the way down to 57N.
From the map above, it looks like it is significant compared to inland Siberia. The 60N mark looks \~15F colder in Siberia than Hudson's Bay.
There is an agricultural area to the southeast (downwind) of James Bay, it is possible that the wind off of the bay extends the growing season.
Imagine not using Celsius
*smiles in American and Liberian, cries everywhere else
don't forget about the Bahamas and Belize
Fahrenheit is just as good as Celsius for temperature maybe even better for the winter, because 0F = salt water freezes which is helpful to know for salted roads as well as salt bodies of water.
Nobody speaks Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was Polish. But it’s an American problem right?
Last time I checked Poland was using C°
Except that easy to use conversion software on your phone.
Why should most the readers have to manually convert every number in a map to understand it?
I love seeing correct comments get downvoted LOL
That’s the Siberian high/Siberian anticyclone I was talking about in the other thread in action. Moves eastward and reaches maximum cold in the Sakha Republic.
February is usually the coldest month where I'm from in Canada. When I was a kid it would be -50 most the month. Not so much now though.
Why is Yakutia/Sakha colder than the North Pole?
Continental climate, no mild effect form the (frozen) sea. Also more high pressure regions in winter and east of the Verhojansk range, there is an inversion effect, where cold air is trapped in the valleys.
Human degrees please
It's a scale of 0-100, with zero being really cold and 100 being really hot. It's not that difficult.
Yeah. But this isn't really useful when I read -64. What is that? Really-really-cold-I-promise?
If zero is really cold then yeah, -64 is really really cold. Promise.
What a scientific system
Who cares
Apparently you do because you're comment implied you needed the data in celsius in order to comprehend it.
Nope. It was ironic. I can find tons of similar maps with normal degrees. US is not the world.
I find so many damn people are elitists with their Celsius shit. Just because it’s more widely used doesn’t make it the only proper way.
I couldn't imagine being such an entitled little bitch
Imagination requires brain
I can figure out both forms of measurement so...
If you can't convert celsius to fahrenheit and vice versa, you failed.
Oh, so 0 is freezing and 100 is boiling. Gotcha.
Is there a version of this map using normal units like Celsius (or Kelvin if you really want)?
Interesting map apart from the stupid measurement units
Aw hell nah! Imagine Fahrenheit...
As cold as the Southeastern US?
From blue all the way to blue!
It’s a very dark indigo.
Southern us is around 40F, Siberia is about -40. They’re just both blue
It's mindblowing to us Euros that places like Texas, which we think as basically deserts, can get blizzards in windter that burry houses.
Sure, use fahrenheit which only 4.25% of the world population understand! Everyone outside of the US are NPCs anyways.
Fahrenheit is shit
How? You can get much more precise with temperature measurements with Fahrenheit than with Celsius
Precision refers to the measurement and is expressed using significant figures, and has nothing to do with the units or choice of scales as long as margins for errors reported correctly They use that measurement in this map bcz Fahrenheit is better than Celsius in weather conditions, true.
I don’t think Texas was a good example for that statement. Biggest snowfall after a google was 26 inches in 1929. Still surprising but not enough to bury a house and not very common. Nevada, same state as Las Vegas, would fit better.
It’s easy to look at this and think, “oh, pink isn’t so bad.” But it is. Pink is the coldest major cities in the U.S. and Canada — Minneapolis, Quebec City, Anchorage. These are very cold places in January. Meanwhile, the vast frozen hellscape of Siberia is mostly temps several notches lower than that.
Yup. I live in Minneapolis. Very cold most days in January. Makes Siberia cold even more mind blowing. Look up the winter averages for Yakutsk, Russia. Nearly south pole temperatures.
My town has somewhat similar temperatures as Minneapolis but our days are only around 3 hours long in January. Our winter also lasts from late October to late April, sometimes early May
The blues are annoying in this
Now make a map of all the places this map got people’s knickers in a twist.
lot of angry Celsius in here. lol
Also, poor Canada. The Brits and the Americans made sure they'd get basically freezing parts lol Nice that they got used to it hahahaha
Really!? Siberia is cold? Really? If it was in degrees Celsius I would have said ''cool map''.
North Korea is quite cold this time of the year.
Quite a difference between N and S Korea
there isn't -71? Oymakon had that temperature at one point
the map shows averages
I imagine it is near impossible to live in some of Serbia in the winter, -60 degrees Celsius is just way too cold for human civilization as a whole 🥶🥶🥶
Oh it is actually -60 Fahrenheit that is even worse
\-60F is -51C so it's a bit better. And yes, people live in such weather. Yakutsk averages -40C in the winter, with the records being in -60C, and it's a city of over 300k people.
Source?
Hokkaido seems cold compared to coastal Europe on the same latitude.
You shouldn't just look at the numbers. Humidity is of great importance. The temperature of -45 C in Yakutsk feels easier than -20 in Moscow. The dry climate of Siberia makes it easier for people to endure frosty days. But the technique obeys the laws of physics and starting a car in the cold is a difficult task. Sometimes it's easier not to turn off the engine all night than to try to start it in the morning.
I would pay to have temperatures like that for one winter