Europe vs North America around 70°N latitude in July, same altitude, both at sea, same sun, same planet, both open to arctic, so interesting.

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  3. Europe is in general warmer than what you could expect purely from it’s latitude

  5. Golfstream for warmth in the north and the Alps to block snow and ice in the south. NY is farther south than Rome but has a lot more ice and snow.

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  7. I just looked this up on Google maps

    Inupiat is literally on the northern tip of Alaska, sitting on the bare Arctic ocean.

    Storfjellveien is located in one of Norway’s fjords.

    I would guess one is a coastal town open to the events and the nasty freeze that of the arctic ocean, whereas the other is nestled in a little micro ecosystem present in the northern fjords of Norway.

  8. Gulfstream appreciation. Dublin is roughly the same latitude as Edmonton in Canada and the climates are radically different

  9. That’s the Gulf Stream for you. Going to miss it when it collapses due to climate change…

  10. I live in Finnmark and to be fair, this is a bit misleading, a good part of Finnmark is above the tree line, and to see nice garden like this you gotta be in someone’s backyard, and someone who took great care of this tree for it to pass the winter. But it is true that the gulf stream is keeping us really warm. I live in a coastal town and we get -15°C at the coldest when further south in the continent you got pretty easily -40°C.

  11. one is on the us eastcoast the other on the eu “westcoast” right? maybe makes a difference
    Google:
    In the Northern hemisphere, the west coast is warmer in the winter. But the east coast is warmer in the summer. Or more accurately, the east coast has more extremes. That’s because the weather pattern goes west to east.

    And add to that the gulfstream for eu

    Just guessing!

  12. Yep – thank the Canadian Shield for that desolation lol

  13. It used to be called the ‘Gulf of Winter Warmth’

  15. It comes through the mountains, America from North to South, cold goes further south and heat further North. In Europe, the Alps are perpendicular to the north/south and do not allow the cold and heat to move as freely. Above the Alps they still benefit from the Gulf Stream.

  16. Completely different terrain and geographic size though

  20. In short – soil degradation or desertification . It’s a complex topic, but there are some good news. It IS fixable! The best example would be the “The Great green wall” project currently ongoing in Africa.

  21. Haha, I’ve been at the area around the bottom picture many times!
    Summer is the best day of the year!

  23. The ecosystem never ceases to amaze me. So many different things affect it at all scales from the smallest to the biggest factors. The difference between two places could be owed to anything from things like the Gulfstream to what types of worms are in the soil.

  24. One continent has (mostly) civilized societies, and the other continent does not.

  25. Oh, the images are in the wrong order. Or the title is. Confused me for a bit.

  26. compare live streams of Calgary vs London today which are about the same latitude

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