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boffin:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on February 21, 2021, 12:25:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: MikeK on February 19, 2021, 10:57:32 pm ---One of the many reasons not to live in Texas. lol

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Ha!!... I'm reminded of one of the (factual) quotes by some Aussies when Americans talk about how everything
is so big there....  Well, in Australia, we have a single privately owned cattle station in the out-back, that is
bigger than the whole State of Texas !!  I don't know what it proves, but it's true! haha...  :-+

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Yeah, not quite.

Largest Ranch Australia: 3,340km2 (Anna Creek Station)
Texas: 696,662km2
Alaska: 1,717,856 km2

Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on February 21, 2021, 12:25:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: MikeK on February 19, 2021, 10:57:32 pm ---One of the many reasons not to live in Texas. lol

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Ha!!... I'm reminded of one of the (factual) quotes by some Aussies when Americans talk about how everything
is so big there....  Well, in Australia, we have a single privately owned cattle station in the out-back, that is
bigger than the whole State of Texas !!  I don't know what it proves, but it's true! haha...  :-+

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When I was in Alaska several years ago, t-shirts comparing Alaska and Texas were popular:

james_s:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on February 23, 2021, 10:42:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on February 21, 2021, 11:38:35 pm ---During the -15°C night, where temps inside the house reached 2°C

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Those temperatures I can only find inside my fridge. Living in such conditions for me is inconceivable.

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I'd much rather deal with -15C temperatures than 40C temperatures. It's a lot easier to warm up than it is to cool down.
dolbeau:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 23, 2021, 09:29:10 pm ---For example, we normally think of Canada as a cold country, but the west coast has a similar climate to Northern Europe, with Vancouver and Calais having similar average temperatures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver#Climate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais#Geography_and_climate

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Yes, and from those very pages Vancouver is 49°15′39″N, while Calais is 50°56′53″N, or almost 200km more northern for Calais. They may have similar climates, but at dissimilar latitudes.

New York is 40.71'°N, technically south of Barcelona (41°23′N). Average low for January in New York is -2.8°C, for Barcelona 8.8°C. Snow is a common winter event in New York ; it's very rare in Barcelona. Very similar latitude, very dissimilar climate.

Bordeaux is 44°50′N and has very extensive vineyards, famously. I could be missing on something, but I'm not aware of much wine shipping from Halifax (44°52′N) - it seems unlike Bordeaux, the climate doesn't agree with the vines...

The east coast *is* colder than western Europe at similar latitudes.

... though global warming might change this; anyone know a good spot to grow vines near Halifax in the future? :-)

Edit: ... I should have remembered which coast Vancouver is on *before* posting :-) Can't find good latitude matches on the west coast (Bordeaux is at a similar latitude to Salem, Oregon, of which I confess I know nothing about...)
vad:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on February 24, 2021, 04:51:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on February 21, 2021, 12:25:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: MikeK on February 19, 2021, 10:57:32 pm ---One of the many reasons not to live in Texas. lol

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Ha!!... I'm reminded of one of the (factual) quotes by some Aussies when Americans talk about how everything
is so big there....  Well, in Australia, we have a single privately owned cattle station in the out-back, that is
bigger than the whole State of Texas !!  I don't know what it proves, but it's true! haha...  :-+

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When I was in Alaska several years ago, t-shirts comparing Alaska and Texas were popular:



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Don’t get me started on comparing size of Siberia (just one region of Russia) to the size of Australia, Alaska and Texas combined :)
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