Plan Your Vacation with Know Your Seasons

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses a visual representation of seasonal variations, exploring its potential usefulness for vacation planning and general interest in climate patterns. Participants share their thoughts on the imagery and engage in a broader conversation about weather phenomena in different regions, including snow occurrences in Australia and Siberia.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Conceptual clarification
  • Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express appreciation for the visual representation and its potential applications for vacation planning.
  • One participant humorously suggests learning Spanish for vacation purposes, while another mentions the possibility of learning Dutch in relation to snow patterns.
  • There is a question raised about why Australians do not experience snow, despite their geographical proximity to the South Pole, with some participants noting that snow is not common in certain areas.
  • A participant points out that the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia remains snow-covered year-round and discusses its historical significance regarding mammal fossils from the last ice age.
  • Another participant makes a light-hearted comment about expecting a musical reference related to seasons.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the interesting nature of the visual representation, but there are differing views on the climatic conditions in Australia and Siberia, with some uncertainty about the reasons behind these patterns.

Contextual Notes

Some claims about snow occurrences and historical climate patterns are not fully substantiated, and there is a lack of detailed exploration into the geological records mentioned.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals interested in climate patterns, vacation planning, or those curious about seasonal variations in different regions may find this discussion relevant.

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Just made this, it's interesting to look at. Might be useful for vacation planning as well ;)

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7205/bluemarble2004months.gif
 
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Thats actually really cool.
 
Very nice!
 
Or retirement planning...maybe I should learn Spanish :smile:!
 
Australians never get any snow?
 
rootX said:
Australians never get any snow?

I've always wondered why not since they 'appear' to be so close to the south pole... same with parts of south america... why's it always nice down at the tip there? But to the north it gets cold like 1/4 of the way down the entire Earth lol... never looked it up tho.
 
We do get snow, but never in my area.
 
wow, that was so cool images, i downloaded it :) thanks
 
Nice one, JB,

Lisa, you might just as well learn Dutch, you can see that The Netherlands stays snow free as well. But how about winter sports?

Anyway look in the right corner, the northernmost area in Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, it appears to stay white all through the year. Now this area is renowned for an abundance of mammal fossils, like horses, bisons, aurochs, lions, antilopes oh yes and mammoths too, all carbon dated around 50,000 - 10,000 years which happened to be the last ice age.

So it remains winter all year over there but during the ice age it appeared to be a productive meadow, hosting herds of large herbivores (mega fauna)?

And then it is not-done/ wrong/ enemy of the environment/ if one is wondering about the correct interpretation of all geologic records, which are the fundamentals of the global warming errrm ...thing?
 
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Very nice!

I was expecting something along the lines of:

Know your seasons ... listen to Vivaldi.
 
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junglebeast said:
Just made this, it's interesting to look at. Might be useful for vacation planning as well ;)
We're headed for a vacation in France later this month. I will certainly take this fascinating map into account in our plans.
 

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