Last winter there was a question about why a freeze warning in the northern plains states didn’t apply to other states to the East and West. And people were like “well, the mountains…” this and “uh, the Mississippi…” that, but I couldn’t get over how “y’all, you’re missing the big thing here. It’s not weird that so few states have the same weather, it’s weird that so many do.”
If you put the US over Europe, with New Mexico over Portugal, Maine would be over Moscow. The contiguous 48 states is basically the same size as China. By itself, it’s bigger than three whole continents (not combined).
I think this is something that many Europeans seem unable to grasp. The US is massive
Last winter there was a question about why a freeze warning in the northern plains states didn’t apply to other states to the East and West. And people were like “well, the mountains…” this and “uh, the Mississippi…” that, but I couldn’t get over how “y’all, you’re missing the big thing here. It’s not weird that so few states have the same weather, it’s weird that so many do.”
If you put the US over Europe, with New Mexico over Portugal, Maine would be over Moscow. The contiguous 48 states is basically the same size as China. By itself, it’s bigger than three whole continents (not combined).
A little smaller than Italy is truly crazy