Naomi Wu

Great map for people who keep asking me "aren't you cold?"😁

RT @[email protected]

Starting a new semester means introducing students to China's geography. This is one of my favorite maps to use, showing that many places in China are similar to areas that students are likely familiar with! Source (to the best of my knowledge) from a 1971 CIA map

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“Starting a new semester means introducing students to China's geography. This is one of my favorite maps to use, showing that many places in China are similar to areas that students are likely familiar with! Source (to the best of my knowledge) from a 1971 CIA map”

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Show threadNaomi WuJan 27, 2023
Pairs well with this one:
Show threadNaomi WuJan 27, 2023
This is Shenzhen, so you can see I'm very, very rarely wearing anything that I would be cold in. I won't even leave the house if it's under 12c/53f🥶
Show threadKevin Karhan Jan 27, 2023

@SexyCyborg I mean the entire pearl river delta is basically subtropical...

Only actual tropics are warmer with higher fluctuations per day than year on average...

Show threadPatrick McLaughlinJan 27, 2023

@SexyCyborg

Looks like a very pleasant range, to me—living in New England now. Cold sucks. Snow is fun to go visit, briefly.

But humidity does matter, too. I loved San Diego, for 25 years because it wasn’t humid.

Show threadgkrnoursJan 27, 2023
@SexyCyborg the temperature doesn't change much over the months! Here in paris, we reach 0°C a couple of time every winter and it's common to reach 35°C a couple of time in the summer
Show threadMattiP 🤡🃏🧌🚩Jan 27, 2023
@SexyCyborg I prefer a climate like that, but my body isn't built for it so I'd have to shower 2-3 times a day 🚿
Show threadPatrickleeJan 27, 2023
@SexyCyborg kinda looks like the central 2/3rds of the USA.
Show threadPatrick McLaughlinJan 27, 2023

@SexyCyborg
My recollection (from the same era as that map, Ye gods) was that Hong Kong’s winter was harder than I thin Savannah’s is. Or was.

But it’s a good approximate frame to have. Thank you.

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Jan 27, 2023
@SexyCyborg Fair point, but I'm a few kilometers south of you and I'm cold. 😃
Show threadCharlie StrossJan 27, 2023

@SexyCyborg @lizmat Ah, so parochial, so USAn!

I can't make head of tail of that map because I'm not American and North American climate zones are not familiar.

Show threadWalt MankowskiJan 27, 2023
@cstross @SexyCyborg @lizmat Most of the American regions on the map are relatively sparsely populated. As a native of Philadelphia, even I don't have a good sense of the climate difference between Kentucky or Tennessee, or Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.
Show threaddr2chaseJan 27, 2023
@cstross @SexyCyborg @lizmat to be fair, it was prepared for a class taught in the US, though not clear what the composition of the class is. But the class is also at Harvard, where you can get advanced degrees in Parochial.
Show threaddr2chaseJan 27, 2023
@cstross @SexyCyborg @lizmat
The climate zones there can roughly be described as "fucking cold" (Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Alberta),
"fucking hot & fucking cold" (Nevada),
"intermittently fucking hot with ice storms & tornados" (East Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas),
OMFG the humidity (SE Coastal),
trade some humidity for a hodgepodge of snow, ice storms, and tornadoes (Kentucky, Tennessee).
Wyoming and Colorado have a lot of Rocky Mountains on their west sides, so they tend dry.
Show threadRichard HaussmannJan 27, 2023
@SexyCyborg I’m somewhat embarrassed at my US-centric mindset that I need State’s names to understand the regions. Worse, is that I can barely name another country’s state/region names and most non-US folks can name all 50 States.