As the World Cup was getting underway, I guess a lot of Europeans were posting to social media about how hot it is here in various parts of North America. A few days ago, Kendra Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com put this on BlueSky:
The reason many Western Europeans don't believe North Americans (including Canadians!) when we say our weather is not something to fuck with is tied to New World degeneracy theory. It's from the 18th century from a dude who never set foot here and posits everything in the New World is weaker.
Which was interesting enough, and there were several responses that were worth reading. But the one that really got my attention was this from someone named karpad:
Fun fact: the record coldest it has ever been in England is the same record cold it has ever been in Louisiana. The hottest it has ever been in England is about the same as the hottest it has ever been in Alaska. America is huge and our weather is extreme and Europe has no frame of reference
England, of course, is in no way the whole of Europe (where there are clearly more temperature extremes than that), but that sure does give you an idea of how much the Atlantic Ocean moderates temperatures. It's not much different from the Pacific Northwest, and for the same reason.
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