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tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Canada and the US see much more considerable temperature extremes than does Europe. Water moderates temperature, and in the middle of a continent, far away from the oceans, you get wider swings. Europe’s basically a bunch of peninsulas.

The largest swings are in inland Asia, where you can get a really long distance from the ocean.

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I can’t find a map I’ve seen before that shows summer-winter temperature difference, but here’s one that shows it for a country’s capital which…is a very rough approximation.

brilliantmaps.com/capital-temp-difference/

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Being close to the poles and being further away from water.

The UK is an archipelago, so it’s pretty much all near the water.

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