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[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 108 points 10 months ago

Ah yes China or Russia, countries famously small enough to have a single simple climate.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

The map shows Russia as having climates similar to Nebraska as well as Greenland. I don’t think that’s really a single simple climate.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I think the concept might be mapping them so there's some kind of scale proportion between the countries their NA equivalent, as well as a climate one. There's still some misses, though. I'm not sure how "Eastern Europe" compares to the continental divide, and Ukraine has got to be larger than Japan.

[-] zephr_c@lemm.ee 32 points 10 months ago

To be fair, those areas of North America don't have a single simple climate either. It is pretty unhelpful though, I'll grant you that.

[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 9 points 10 months ago
[-] zephr_c@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

To be fair, there aren't a lot of areas around that size in the world with deserts, jungles, and monsoons. It's a pretty good comparison, as much as it's possible for there even to be one between regions that large.

[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I dont think it snows in that area, i might be wrong

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee don’t really have the same climate as the sun belt states either so I was taking it as the climate in northern china vs SE china

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah yes, the country Scandinavia

[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

And let's not even get into the labelling of the UK and Ireland as one country... We still haven't sorted out the mess from last time.

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

I think Ireland should join the United Kingdom and kick out England. Wales can stay if it behaves.

[-] Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

Finland also isn't in Scandinavia.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

I don't see that being claimed though?

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Helsinki is within the Scandinavia-zone on the map, and Helsinki is the capital of Finland.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

You got some perceptive eyes there, didn't even notice that they also placed cities on the map

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 28 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the famously wintery coasts of France and Spain.

It's a cool idea, but putting aside the silliness of putting the whole of China in one region only of the US, they very clearly looked at pure latitude without taking into account the effects of the AMOC keeping the whole western coast of Europe about 10-15℃ warmer than it has any right to be given its position on the globe.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Please, you're going to jinx it.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's pretty well feckin jinxed at this point, it doesn't need my help

I like how it's confirmed gonna collapse within from 1 to 100 years, and everyone's response is just to wait to see while arguing about when it's going to happen exactly

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

The Midwest should probably be Siberia. Like Siberia, we have two climates: too fucking cold and mosquito

[-] mrh@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I'm not 100% sure, because it's been circulating as an image, but a quick google search leads me to a meteorologist named Dan Johnson who apparently posted this to facebook a few years ago.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Note: climate, not biome.

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

What exactly is the climate of huge spanning areas like Russia, India, China, Scandinavia etc.? This map doesn't make any sense at all.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, I N D I A

this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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