Stop pretending you are Northern.
What other make believe thing do you think you are? An Elf? An Pixie? An Eskimo?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:41, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I am northern.
I'm also a quarter Dutch and that's even more northern.
( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:42, Reply)

More northern?
Have you seen a map recently?
(NoeI «:::P:::» «:::E:::» «:::R:::» «:::V:::» «:::E:::», Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Well slightly more northern.

( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:46, Reply)

The most northerly point of the Netherlands is at the same latitude as Grimsby.

(NoeI «:::P:::» «:::E:::» «:::R:::» «:::V:::» «:::E:::», Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:47, Reply)

Then why do they get so much snow and Grimsby doesn't.
ANSWER ME THAT MR CLEVER CLOGS : )
( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:49, Reply)

Erm, they don't really
but if they did it would be because they have a continental climate rather than an oceanic one like we do.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:52, Reply)

Thank you Mr Clever Clogs.

(NoeI «:::P:::» «:::E:::» «:::R:::» «:::V:::» «:::E:::», Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:53, Reply)

I was being silly.
Hence the grin at the end. Surprisingly I'm not as stupid as I appear to be.
( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:53, Reply)

sorry, I'm not getting silly at the moment
I blame my lungs' current constant attempts to live a new life outside my body.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:54, Reply)

I did know it was something to do with climate but not sure how.
So thank you for telling me the answer.
( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:58, Reply)

mediating influence of the ocean, innit?
So we're cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter (and wetter all the time) than the equivalent latitude in a large continent like europe or the US.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 14:04, Reply)

see also: all of the US bar Alaska.
which is further south than Paris but still gets significant snowfall.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:54, Reply)

And Half German
Barely British at all really.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:44, Reply)

Quarter German and Dutch.
My dad is all British.
( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Dec 2011, 13:47, Reply)