Crosscheck wrote:
Now just don't try and do this in Winterpeg which is not that far from the US border.
...hah hah LOL :B True!
....the further one is from the oceans and giant ocean circulation belt arriving from southern latitudes, flowing in the direction of the north ocean regions (Europe or North America), the colder the winters will be. This is why Manitoba, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Minnesota and parts of Ontario and Quebec are so brutally cold in winter. Look at the latitude of BC (coastal) and Nova Scotia, and compare that to the latitude of Winnipeg. Now check those places for average temperature over winter...southern BC is about 360 kilometers north of Montreal, but Montreal has winter temperatures comparing with southern Siberia, and southern BC coastal (even inland as far a Osoyoos) located much further north of Montreal has January/February winter temperatures comparable to Montreal in early May. This is also why England isn't a frozen wasteland over winter: the tropical ocean currents envelope England during winter even though the latitude of say London is about the same as the frozen barren James Bay, Quebec region, where temperatures are in the -50 to (sometimes but rarely -65C) range for a chunk of the winter.
If the tropical oceanic Atlantic belt ever deviated, the British Isles would probably have to be abandoned during winter; it would be virtually unlivable there.
