It surprises me how much that surprises some people. 
There’s one in my garden.
That’s warmer than Scotland’s ever been 32.9C (91.22F). We get a fair bit colder -27.2C (-16.96F). We’ve got palm trees too.
I noticed the darkness more in Scotland in winter than here, when I was above in Aberdeen. Here, I’m used to it.
That extra four degrees latitude makes a lot of difference. Winter can be quite grim here if it’s grey and overcast (and it usually is), although clear and crisp is not so bad. Summer nights are nice though.
Highest ever recorded temperature is 91F? I really need to follow up on that job application for Harcourt Dublin. 91 of the last 100 days here in Austin have had highs above 100F. And 15 of those 91 days were at or above 105F!
When I vacationed in Ireland I was surprised to see palm trees. After I thought about it, it didn’t seem so odd, but I just tend not to think of palm trees as Irish.
Remember when Fawlty Tower’s Basil says to the guests at his hotel who are from California, “We have palm trees in Torquay Do you have palm trees in California?”
:eek: I’ve seriously never been more shocked to learn something on the dope. Well, at least since the pineapples-don’t-grow-on-trees revelation.
100 F in Atlanta is heart-stopping murder
100 F in Vegas is fairly comfortable.
It’s all about the humidity, people!
(yes, I’ve visited both multiple times)
Well, I moved here from San Francisco, and I find the summers to be very similar (although there’s not as much rain in SF and it gets darker earlier, obviously). The winters there are shorter and milder. But overall it’s not a huge difference, in terms of the lack of extremes.
Personally I hated the weather in SF because it was too cold - what was I thinking moving here? 
Well at least it’s a dry heat, as they say.
Fuck your dry heats!
I’ve unthinkingly touched metal parts sitting on my dashboard and given myself decent burns. When it’s 119 degrees and I’m stuck in traffic and my eyelids are starting to melt even though my AC is on full blast I’m thinking “THIS DRY HEAT SHIT IS AWESOME!”
When we were driving around Ireland, I was thinking that even a relatively mild New England-style snowfall would paralyze the island, the way it does in a Southern US city. I simply couldn’t see them trying to plow those roads of theirs. Just as well.
Even Scotland doesn’t get so bad in the winter, based on my very limited experience. I was in Arbroath on the shortest day of the year – it got dark by 3, but it wasn’t incredibly cold, and not windy. Guys were playing soccer/football in shorts, and there was the barest dusting of snow. But I’m glad I thought to bring a scraper to clear my windshield.
I suppose the Pacific Northwest would be closest to Ireland’s weather. Oregon and Washington are cool and rainy but I don’t think they get a lot of snow (WA might?).
I can’t stand humid hot weather at all–I don’t know how East/South people do it. As long as it’s dry, 100 isn’t too bad, even for wimpy me.
After some googling, I was startled to find the record low here in NY is -47. The claimed high in NY is 108, but I know I’ve personally seen higher temperatures back when I had a weather station.
I just looked up the record high and low temperatures for Wisconsin: 114° F (46° C) on July 13, 1936 at Wisconsin Dells and -55° F (-48° C) on February 2 and 4, 1996 at Couderay. Take that, Ireland!
Really, I’m crying on the inside.
No kidding. It was 106 here over the weekend.
Hee. For Vermont it’s -50 and 105.
http://ggweather.com/climate/extremes_us.htm
I’m amazed that somewhere in Nevada reached -50. Must be in the mountains. It’s never dropped below 30 since I moved here, IIRC.
Alaska wins! -80/100.
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How the hell could they measure -80?