@julesG MIND. BLOWN. I‘m down here in bloody Liberia (well, more like the Mediterranean Sea) and all my ancestors are from up in France, Ireland, Scotland, and Norway. No wonder we far prefer the climate in Minnesota and we don‘t mind Canada. My mind is absolutely blown.
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GingerAntics @julesG I guess my 2nd/3rd grade German teacher did say Germany was SIMILAR to Minnesota. I suppose that fits with this. It‘s different, but not REALLY different. A little cooler. A little less daylight. 5y
julesG Lots of Germans emigrated to Minnesota. I think I have distant relatives there, too. My maternal great-grandmother's cousins emigrated about a hundred years ago. 5y
GingerAntics @julesG we sure do. We have a lot of people of German and even Scandinavian decent. I first started learning German in a little catholic school that‘s as an old German parish, started by German immigrants. I guess it‘s a slight step up for Germans and a massive step up for Scandinavian folks, from the looks of it. 5y
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Texreader This is so cool!! 5y
GingerAntics @Texreader I googled and figured I‘d get a table or something. This map is way better. No tables or numbers needed. I never knew I needed this map, but I totally did. lol 5y
ju.ca.no This is really cool! Still you have to keep in mind that european weather is much warmer then the US‘s because of the gulf stream😊 but especially cool to see the distances like that! 5y
GingerAntics @ju.ca.no I wasn‘t so much concerned with weather as I was with how much daylight each country got. It stemmed from a conversation about vitamin D, from the tagged book. I do know it‘s warmer than you‘d think from this map in the U.K. 5y
ju.ca.no @GingerAntics ah I see☺️ I didn‘t even think of that😅 (edited) 5y
GingerAntics @ju.ca.no 🤣 that‘s the trippy part of this book. It goes places you wouldn‘t imagin. Jules is in a Germany and she was saying she was on this huge prescription vitamin D supplement once when she said Germany gets less daylight then we do here, so I googled and found this map. It‘s mind blowing that Europe‘s weather is very similar to here, but it‘s so much further north. 5y
ju.ca.no @GingerAntics it‘s really interesting indeed! I never really thought of that! 5y
GingerAntics @ju.ca.no right? We really don‘t think of all the little ramifications of being a few extra degrees north, even if the weather is similar. I‘m sure someone, somewhere has done studies of all the weird ways 15 minutes less daylight can effect the human body. To think, for millennia people have survived in all these different places without vitamin supplements or even knowing about vitamins. The human body really is an amazing thing. 5y
GingerAntics @ju.ca.no the tagged book talks about this lost viking colony in Greenland I think, and how science now believes that they all died because of a severe deficiency of vitamin D causing their bodies to just shut down. It‘s an interesting thought. 5y
ju.ca.no @GingerAntics that is indeed an interesting thought! 🤔 5y
GingerAntics @ju.ca.no written well, that could be really interesting to read about. 5y
ju.ca.no @GingerAntics it‘s really an interesting thought! I work in a museum where we also deal with climate and such things, I might try to work it into our exhibition as I really think this is super interesting to know! 5y
GingerAntics @ju.co.no oh that would be cool as an exhibit piece in a museum. The different side effects of living in different climates, and how those climates compare to other areas at the same latitude. 5y
ju.ca.no @GingerAntics exactly! We already deal with side effects - but we don‘t compare it much to other areas yet, so this would totally work as an addition🤗 5y