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Fun fact: The Shetland Islands off the north coast of Scotland have the same USDA climate zone as south Texas (9a), but are around the same latitude as central
by ascorbic 11y ago
Fun fact: The Shetland Islands off the north coast of Scotland have the same USDA climate zone as south Texas (9a), but are around the same latitude as central Alaska.
- lucaspiller 11y agoTIL Texas isn't as warm as I thought...
- ascorbic 11y agoIt's a little misleading, because climate zones are just based on minimum average temperatures. British winters are similar to Texan winters, but British summers are more like Alaskan summers.
- noxToken 11y ago>British winters are similar to Texan winters Hmm. That's not so bad. What does everyone complain about? >but British summers are more like Alaskan summers You poor, poor people. Though they probably say the same about our 100F (~38C) summers.
- bryanlarsen 11y ago> What does everyone complain about? British winters have a similar temperature as Texan winters, but they have a lot more rain and a lot less sunshine (because of the clouds, and because the day is shorter).
- ascorbic 11y agoAnything over 25C is a scorcher. Though nobody has AC in their homes, so we're less able to cope.
- icebraining 11y agoThough they probably say the same about our 100F (~38C) summers. Considering how many of them come to our Southern corner to enjoy our 38C summers, probably not. (And they're very welcome, by the way! I'm quite happy to see tourists around.)
- TwiztidK 11y agoSpeak for yourself. Texas Winters with Alaska summers sounds awesome! The best summer weather I've ever experienced was 70-80 during the day and 60s at night. Absolutely perfect weather, until snow started to fall from November to June. If I never had to experience 100F heat again (excepting saunas), then I would die a happy man.
- carlob 11y agoThen I guess you can move to San Diego…
- baldfat 11y agoSan Diego is heaven's weather! I lived 100 miles to the east and we had 123 °F in August and September High Low °F High Low °C 65 49 Jan 18 9 65 51 Feb 18 10 66 53 March 19 12 68 56 April 20 13 69 59 May 20 15 71 62 June 22 17 75 65 July 24 19 76 67 Aug 25 19 76 65 Sept 24 18 73 61 Oct 23 16 69 54 Nov 21 12 65 48 Dec 18 9
- sunnybythesea 11y agoMind you this doesn't include the Santa Ana's, not that I'm complaining...
- sandworm101 11y agoI'd take the Alaska summers, but only without the Alaska bugs. What's the point of Sun if blocked by grey clouds of gnats? Regardless of temp, Wet = bugs. Texas = dry.
- cylinder 11y ago>Texas=dry Oh how misguided you are
- sandworm101 11y ago
- knodi123 11y agoBut don't british winters usually include snowfall? Because Texas winters rarely include snowfall.
- ascorbic 11y agoNot in much of the country. There have been a few unusually snowy winters in the past few years, but in much of the country you can go for years without snow. I've had no snow this winter, and it hasn't been below -2C. As someone else mentioned though, Britain is much wetter than Texas, so it's not surprising there'd be more snow.
- ska 11y agoWell, not in the winter.
- jamesblonde 11y agothe outer Lofoten Islands at 68°N in Northern Norway are in zone 8, same as San Antonio, Texas!