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Latitude alone doesn't determine how cold winters get. Average low °C Dec-Feb: Moscow −6.5, −8.7, −8.8 Ottawa −9.2, −14.4, −12.5 Yet Moscow is over 1000km f
by wmil 5y ago
Latitude alone doesn't determine how cold winters get.
Average low °C Dec-Feb:
Moscow
−6.5, −8.7, −8.8
Ottawa
−9.2, −14.4, −12.5
Yet Moscow is over 1000km farther north.
Europe gets warm moist weather blowing in from the Atlantic. Warm Pacific weather gets blocked by the rockies in North America.
- kgeist 5y agoMoscow isn't considered a cold city in Russia, I live in a city just 600 km to the east from it, same latitude, and the average low is -13C Feb-Dec here. Sure not everything is determined by latitude alone, there's a nice video which compares the climates of USA/Canada/Russia: https://youtu.be/0ucZBvmmml4 https://youtu.be/0ucZBvmmml4
- wmil 5y agoThe video is neat, but averaging over the year is deceptive. A hot August doesn't make Ottawa's cold January more pleasant. My point was just that people move to the Russian South for mild winters, and it does have mild winters by Canadian standards.