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I do also have a problem understanding what the Arctic Circle has to do with this. North of arctic circle in America and Scandinavia is two totally different th
by rypskar 13y ago
I do also have a problem understanding what the Arctic Circle has to do with this. North of arctic circle in America and Scandinavia is two totally different things
- klausjensen 13y agoOk, I'll bite. What do you mean?
- jsnell 13y agoThe Nordic countries have a rather mild climate despite being so far north. To have a comparable temperature in the Americas, you'd usually need to be a couple of thousand kilometers further south. (E.g. I guess the climates of Boston and Stockholm might be roughly comparable, but Boston is actually on the same latitude as Rome). So if you tell an American that something is almost at the Arctic circle, their intuition will tell them it's a very rough and almost uninhabited place. You tell it to a Finn, and they'll think that it's where the fourth largest metropolitan area of the country is, or where you go for a comfortable ski holiday.
- rypskar 13y agoI have lived north of the circle for most of my life, and the feeling I have is that 13 C in October and having winters where it is more days with around 0 C than -15C is not what most peoples associate with north of the arctic circle. The difference is that we have warm water coming with the Gulf Stream creating a completely different climate compared to other places north of the circle.