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> To: phl@lists.pm.org
> cc: mjd@plover.com
> Subject: Latitude
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:32:19 -0500
> From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
>
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> To: tchrist@perl.com
> cc: mjd@plover.com
> Subject: Latitude
> Organization: Plover Systems
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 22:48:24 -0500
> From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
>
>
> Remember when we weer on Baseline Avenue and you made some remark
> about how we were further north than I was used to, and I replied that
> actually 40 North rnus right through Philadelphia? I was looking in
> the atlas today, and it was pretty interesting to see which cities
> were at which latitudes. Some surprises there. So for your
> entertainment, here's an incomplete list; note that all latitudes are
> approximate:
>
>
> 60: Anchorage.
> 55: Frozen wastes.
> 53: Calgary/Edmonton.
> 50: Vancouver. Regina. Winnipeg.
> 47: Seattle. Great Falls. Duluth. Quebec.
> 45: Portland. Minneapolis. Montreal.
> 43: Chicago/Milwaukee. Detroit. Toronto. Boston.
> 40: Denver. Indianapolis. Philadelphia. New York.
> 38: San Francisco. Kansas City. St Louis. Cincinnati. Washington.
> 35: Bakersfield. Albuquerque. Memphis. Charlotte.
> 33: Los Angeles. Phoenix. Atlanta.
> 30: Houston. New Orleans. Jacksonville.
>
> 25: Miami
>
> 20: Honolulu
>
>
> Surprises: The big surprise for me is how far north Seattle is. I
> guess being on the ocean makes it warmer than inland cities at the
> same latitude like Spokane.
>
> Similarly, I knew Anchorage was far north, but I didn't realize how
> much further north it was than practically everything else. Last year
> it occurred to me for the first time that I think of Northern
> Minnesota and North Dakota and Montana as being cold frozen
> places---but the southermost points in Alberta and Saskatchewan are
> north of the northernmost points in Montana. But Anchorage is north
> of the northernmost points in Alberta and Saskatchewan, which I don't
> think had occurred to me before. Anchorage is about as far north as
> Yakutsk.
>
>
>
>
> Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@plover.com
> I am boycotting Amazon. See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html for details.
>
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