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Originally Posted by Icare dixit
Interesting. I thought about the ocean. How Scandinavia or Russia are probably bad ideas for that reason. It's too cold.
Hours of sun is more important to me than the temperature, but it's interesting how there's an almost perfect distribution of sun radiation. If not too far from the ocean. Aberdeen has a higher temperature than Finland, because it's nearer the ocean?
It's interesting how there are palm trees in Ireland near the Atlantic.
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Scotland is further south than Finland, so Aberdeen will get more sun but the presence of the ocean will keep off the cold much better than Finland where they just have the Baltic sea and northern parts of that freeze in the winter
Northern Norway, much further north than Scotland, is cold but not as cold as Russia or Finland as the gulf stream washes past Norway and keeps off the worst cold.
Western areas of the British Isles are almost frost free even in Scotland.