• RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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    Not all that surprising when you consider that New York is a tiny bit more to the south than Rome. Draw a horizontal line through Italy, Spain and New York and you’ll find similar amounts of sunshine. Draw a line through Scotland and see where you would end up in Canada, it’s probably going to be even more cold and miserable there than in Scotland ;)

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    God I need to move to Europe. Everytime someone says it’s depressing and gloomy it just makes me more sure that it’s awesome. Bring on the clouds and the moisture, never make me squint, no more sunburn. Glorious.

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    Please don’t post images like this, I’ll end up with fellow Americans telling people in Chicago to flee north to Italy before you know it.

    Well, then again maybe they won’t know what Italy looks like

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        Didn’t know that off the top of my head. I was making a joke about Italy and Chicago being at the same longitude do to the picture.

        Although the area just west of Venice, now part of Tuscany I believe was given to Spain in exchange for the Louisiana Purchase (part of a larger deal) , which I believe may have included Minneapolis. Don’t remember where the lines fall.

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      At first I didn’t realize you were complaining about the picture layout and thought you were making a clever comment about how part of Italy really is at a more northerly latitude than Chicago.

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        Ah no, just referencing the number of times Ive heard people either jokingly or being serious say that Alaska is next to Hawaii. Stemming from pictures like this

        Also something I have had someone in person use as a reference as to why they knew Texas was larger than Alaska while playing trivia at a bar

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      2 days ago

      Those migrant vessels they sink are full of thousands of desperate Hoosiers in search of a better life

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      Of course I’d rather take a quick 2 hour flight to Greece instead of going to California. Way closer

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      The Scandes, a mountain range, runs north from southern Norway along the border between Norway and Sweden. Cloud formation is much more likely on the west side of the mountains, because of all the humid air blowing in from the North sea. The sun doesn’t shine through an overcast sky.

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    I always thought england was pacific north west levels of dreary, didn’t know it was that bad. How are the English not more depressed?

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    The blob across the border between England and Scotland explains so much as to why I get twin peaks vibes from Dumfries and Galloway.

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    What is your source of data, honored dude? Also, I can see why so many of my brothers by another mother in the EU rent an RV and cruise through my town all summer. Don’t forget to stop and shop! (RV= caravan, I think )

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      I can’t seem to find the original source, but based on search results, I’m seeing that this map has been circulating in similar circles to this and solar power communities since at least 2016.

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      England sits at a yearly mean “sunshine hours” of 1538. If it wasn’t for the western and northern parts it would be be one rank higher.

      English people just love to complain about the weather, despite it raining ~50% more in Wales and Scotland.

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    is that dark spot in Northern California Redding? I we account for smoke cover that part of the valley should have a ~ 2 weeks less sunshine than the mountains around it.

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    Thr US one is what you get when you spill a bottle of ketchup on the corner of a white duvet you just washed.

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    Is the unmarked white space north of the U.S. , and between it and Europe, Mexico, or Canada? I get those two confused