The climate of Ulthuan

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@warcolors yes, that’s right.  It is more complex than that.  But New York,  whilst having cold winters also has hot summers.  Geography and meteorology combine to create the local climate, but you still tend to find broad similarities between temperature ranges within latitude bands.  This means that the northern most parts of Ulthuan would not be expected to exhibit arctic climates – but it does.  There is no way to dress that up as anything other than an anomaly.  It doesn’t matter that it’s an anomaly,  it’s a fantasy world.  But the fact that it’s supposed to be a facsimile of our own world means the Ulthuan climate is definitely somewhat out of place.

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The biggest differences between Europe and North America in regards to climate are that the sea makes much more ingress into the European landmass than it does into the North American, which leads to more of a balance between the seasons in the Old World than the new and that most major mountain ranges run east to west in Europe, thus blocking cold air from penetrating very far south and warm air from penetrating very far north, while North American mountain ranges run largely north to south, allowing Arctic air to travel all the way to the Gulf unhindered and warm air all the way into the Canadian pariries, leading to very cold winters and very hot summmers in most states and provinces.

Generally speaking, North America is also sunnier than most of Europe, depending on location, of course. If you compare Seattle to Athens – as internet people tend to do…-you will find the opposite to be the case.

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Speaking from the perspective of someone just an hour from the Rockies, the climate here on the Canadian prairies is sort of like this:

Winters: generally around 0c, +/- 5 degrees. We will have a couple of weeks of real cold, rarely hitting below -20c. And when they do happen, a wonderful phenomenon called a Chinook will come off the mountains and can take the temp from -20c to +10c in a single day! Snow doesn’t stay all that much. It’s currently almost non-existent. January to March are the snowier months. And wet snow.

Spring: short! Somewhat rainy, windy, and temperatures will be 10-20c. May long weekend it will snow. Always happens.

Summer – May to September, with most temps around 20-25c, and two or so weeks of over 30c.

Fall – a strange season, often warm and mild, with not much to complain about

 

All of these seasons have been dramatically affected by climate change in the past 15 years. Back then, I didn’t need AC at night in summer, as the cooling from the mountains would drop a 25c summer day to 10c overnight. That doesn’t happen anymore. So AC is needed. The lack of snow is causing droughts. As are the receding snowpack in the mountains proper, and glacial recession.

That’s the weather from Alberta

 

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