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Europe has far milder weather than the States due to the gulf stream. While New York (40 degrees north) can get a foot or two of snow dumping several times a ye
by isostatic 7y ago
Europe has far milder weather than the States due to the gulf stream. While New York (40 degrees north) can get a foot or two of snow dumping several times a year, Rome (41 degrees north) gets an inch or two once or twice a century.
- logfromblammo 7y agoVisualization of Earth oceanic currents: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents... Stick around to play with the other options in the hamburger menu in the lower left.
- isostatic 7y agoWow, that's an amazing site that will drain hours of time
- ralphhughes 7y agoThanks for sharing that, I notice they have an overlay for ocean temperature as well, so you can visualise both the heat flows and absolute temperatures on the same map: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-36.08,41.80,671 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents...
- cgh 7y agoBergen, Norway is at roughly the same latitude as the small city of Whitehorse, in Canada's Yukon Territory. Bergen is rainy and barely gets below freezing in the winter. Meanwhile, Whitehorse in winter ranges between -15 and -30 degrees C. If climate change seriously disrupts the gulf stream, much of northern Europe is in serious trouble.
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- Scarblac 7y agoRome is rather far away from the gulf stream. Isn't it more that if there is wind from the north over Europe, Italy is mostly shielded by the Alps and other mountain ranges?