Places that go against their country's climate stereotype (nights, USA, cloudy)

[Joe90]

Originally Posted by nei

How is that relevant to my post? I was discussing familiarity, not about climate definition.

I'm just saying that climates within a group, don't need to have any familiarity.

Originally Posted by Jakobsli

Temperate rainforest in the US...and temperate rainforest along the coast of Norway at 59 - 66 degrees N
http://www.naturfag.no/binfil/download.php?did=2577

Her er den norske regnskogen - Bergens Tidende reise


Map:

Credit: WWF
Link: Visste du at vi også har regnskog i Norge? - WWF-bloggen VÅR VERDEN

Looks a bit open for rainforest. Growth should be so rampant and profuse in a rainforest, that it's not really possible to see more than a few metres.

[Ariete]

I don't see any informative posts here anymore, this has become another "stupid things people say about weather" thread.

I think we weather forumers are aware that Russia really has a summer, Norway a temperate rainforest, and Melbourne is not a desert.

And don't even think about educating anyone, as nobody random will never just wander upon this subforum.

[Joe90]

Originally Posted by Ariete

I think we weather forumers are aware that Russia really has a summer, Norway a temperate rainforest, and Melbourne is not a desert.

Looking at the pictures, it's hard to conclude that Norway has a rain forest.

[Alkis]

Hmmm for here Florina for its snow and cold temperatures and less hot summer and Ioannina for the rain, gloominess etc.. Generally North and Central Greece is not always sunny, warm as many people imagine because they think about our islands or Athens when they refer to Greece. And me personally I am impressed with many climates on Earth that are out of my imagination.

[Ariete]

Originally Posted by Joe90

Looking at the pictures, it's hard to conclude that Norway has a rain forest.

Well, that's you. You don't seem to have any knowledge outside your isolated islands whatsoever.

[Joe90]

Originally Posted by Ariete

Well, that's you. You don't seem to have any knowledge outside your isolated islands whatsoever.

I think it's more about challenging assumptions (something I think doesn't happen enough on here, and in life in general)

It's rainforest because some definition says so, yet it lacks the features of rainforest. But it will still get called a rainforest. Seems to be more of an obsession with rigid definitions, than what happens in the real world.

I've got a good broad knowledge -just won a $100 bar tab at a pub quiz last thursday.

[B87]

A couple for the UK...

Scilly Isles


Cairngorm

[Joe90]

^^^ Norfolk pines can grow in the UK.

[Warszawa]

Originally Posted by dhdh

Good points, except the last one - I'd say Seville actually is Spain's stereotype

You have a point. I always imagined Spain as the stereotypical Mediterranean climate but I bet a lot of people think it's like super hot

[tom77falcons]

Originally Posted by Joe90

^^^ Norfolk pines can grow in the UK.

They can't even grow those in subtropical eastern US. Cold extremes probably kill them off. What low temp can they take?