The NWT has the same polar bear shape, modern ones have a northern lights background. Tourists from there have had their plates stolen while on southern vacations 
Who got the Polar Bear licence plate was one of the major points of disagreement when Nunavut split from the NWT.
They both did, and Nunavut cars were registered with an N suffix. But Nunavut appears to have surrendered the polar bear in about 2013.
I was staying at my Aunts house in Long Island in late August once. She was having a dinner party that day and needed some stuff. There was a market near her house and it being perhaps the only walkable part of Long Island, I volunteered to get it. A walk of about a mile and a half.
I arrived at the store soaked in sweat from head to toe.
It seems like the humidity goes all the way to the Rockies. We were in Manitou Springs, which is about 10 miles up into the front range, in August. It was 80/90F-ish, but tolerable. The next day we headed east, and about 60-some miles into Kansas, we stopped for fuel. I got out of the air conditioned car and could barely breathe. It was no hotter than the day before, but the air was absurdly thick. The car sits by the fuel pump and you see water running out from under it, and you think nothing of it because it is just what the A/C unit had been pulling out of the air.
In south Texas, I leared to walk to the store at about 2 pm. At daybreak, the humidity is 100% and there is no breeze. In the afternoon, the air evaporates the sweat which cools, there is often a breeze, and a few fluff shade-clouds form. Nicer, even though 105.
Perhaps this is my selective memory, but as a kid growing up in Kansas, I really don’t remember absurdly high humidity. This high humidity, I believe, is a fairly recent phenomenon. (Climate change?)
Well, it was what you were used to. Relative to just inside the Front Range, the humidity in west Kansas seemed brutal, especially with respect to an air conditioned car.
I still live in Kansas. I should have mentioned that the humidity now is much higher than I remember as a kid on the farm.
I’ve never spent a full day in Kansas, but oddly enough, inside the Front Range, it always feels like it is just about to rain due to the low air pressure from the altitude.
Being someone who has never lived anywhere above 2000’, I sometimes randomly get that feeling when I get very much above 1000’, having experienced it in Cortland NY at 1200 but not at Asheville NC at 2300 so I don’t know if that would happen in Kansas
I lived on Long Island for a few years, right on the shore (Long Beach). I don’t remember the humidity being worse than anywhere else. Certainly not as bad as Manhattan.
Ever been to Tampa in the summer?
Florida is not particularly pleasant in March.
You people don’t have to put calendar modifiers on your comments, you know. Florida is not particularly pleasant. Period.
Well, you will be pleased to know that most of it will be gone, sloughed off into the sea, by the end of this century.
I won’t be around to appreciate that.
It’s not confusing at all!
Three drones, blowpipe, chanter and bag - so simple!
No, it’s a bird drawn by cartoonist George Price.
Who is?
I think we’re perhaps getting a little over-excited here. Nowhere in Shetland is more than 170 miles north of the Scottish mainland. However Scotland is on the same latitude as Hudson Bay, which is why the influence of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift is relevant.
It’s important to know that tour guides talk absolute fucking bollocks. Moreover, a good proportion of them aren’t actually Scottish, they are as likely to be Australian or English, and the stories they tell are the ones which their employers have found resonate with foreign tourists, and not necessarily the stories which Scottish people traditionally told each other.
So I’m not sure which “big hill” is being referred to above, most tourist tours take in Greyfriars Kirkyard but it’s not especially (or at all) associated with the numerous outbreaks of the plague between the 14th and 18th centuries.
What I’m trying to say is that it is embarrassing to hear the bullshit that foreign visitors are fed about one’s country, I’m sure I’m not the only Scot that feels that way and I’m sure it doesn’t just apply to Scotland.
It can get really irritating too, and even destructive; did someone tell you that it’s good luck to rub the nose of the statue of the dog called Greyfriars Bobby? That’s not a thing, it’s entirely made up by and for foreign tourists, and it’s beginning to damage the statue.