@Jene_Sais_Quoi yeah it's pretty bad up here, like really bad. Wasn't like this when I was growing up at ALL. It's so tragic.

I've spent a lot of my younger years in Washington as well, sad to hear the endemic is spreading. Though not surprising, lots of people go back and forth from AK to WA I guess.😞

@Lingitta I'm so over it honestly. I can't even function in the cold anymore, I can't deal with it. It's so depressing. It's great in the summer though, we also have like, the best pizza in the country. So there's that.

@Tail
and Here's me thinking south of Sweden is cold in winter. Well our summers are great and the nature fantastic. The pizza, well they varie but I'm sure you will find one of your taste.

@Lingitta I aspired to move there once, I believe Tromsø(sp?) Is one of our sister cities, so we've likely got very similar weather. Though we've had to cancel/reroute our snow people games in recent years because of a lack of snow. And people here say climate change isn't real.

@Tail
Tromsö is Norway not Sweden. Although we are an oblong county and go up as high north as Norway. Norway is our neighbors

@Tail
The South of Sweden is in the level as Denmark. And no Scandinavian is not a country it's a region

@Lingitta oh whoops, for sure, I'm aware. I just get them mixed up. Except I know where Norway is. Is Finland part of Scandinavia?

I was studying Norwegian for a while and from what I've seen it's largely interchangeable with Swedish

@Tail
Scandinavian is just Sweden Denmark and Norway. We all have similar languages. Then there's a nother region called the Nordic countries. They are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
Geographically one would think the Scandinavian countries would be as cold as Alaska but we have one thing here you haven't and that's the warm Gulf stream. But up the very north of Norway Sweden and Finland it can go as low as -45 °C sorry but we don't do Fahrenheit

@Lingitta Ah okay, that's good to know. And that's understandable. -45°C is insane. Some of our more northern areas reach that low but very rarely. We typically get around -35°C in the winter but even that's not very common. Do you guys get much rainfall? We get an awful lot, especislly during the autumn months. The panhandle of Alaska extends pretty far south to where it almost doesn't snow at all.

@Tail
The record for Sweden is -52,6° C at a wether station in Vuoggatjålme. In 1966. Mostly it's not much more than around -20 -30° in February. Depends on the winds & the stream in the Atlantic. As I said Sweden is oblong and it would tak me a couple days to drive from north to south. I live in the very south we early have temperature under - 10 °C but many from the north freez much more hear because it's wetter and more wind. I've never been all the way up north. I like warm weather.

@Lingitta Sounds very similar to here, I'm in the southern part of Alaska where it's typically warmer, but also windier because we're right by the sea. What are the summers like where you are? Does the sun also not go down?

@Tail
In the north the sun doesn't go down but in the south it's often light until around 23.00. gets dark but then gets light around 04.00. We actually could see the Nordic green lights as far down as hear a couple of weeks ago but that is very very rare. Further up north the sun never goes down in the summer.

@Lingitta yeah that sounds about the same as where I am, so we're likely at about the same latitudes. I'm about done with the cold though, I wouldn't mind not seeing snow for a while. That's part of why I nixed my plans to move to Norway.

How are winters in Denmark?

@Tail
I so understand your view about snow. I'm the same. I feel depressed wintertime. I hate driving in it. Thing break in the cold life just feels shitty. In Denmark it's just a bit warmer than her in south Sweden. We're often in Copenhagen as we only have a bridge to cross to get there. I'm seriously thinking of buying a house in Spain. I'm afraid that's where you will have to go to find some + °C wintertime. Last winter we didn't have many -°C and I hope we won't this year either.

@Lingitta agreed. I was actually looking at Spain next, if for the food if nothing else. I have a friend there and she has mostly good things to say about it. Just about. Anywhere is a step up from the US in my opinion.

Belize was possibly another option.

@Tail
I think you should. Thanks talking to me It has been nice. It's 01.00 here now and I'm going to bed. Good night

@Lingitta ope! Likewise! Have a good night🙏

@Tail
And yes the fall is the rainiest period hear. We used to have snow down here. In the little village I live in we prepar a skie track in the woods peopleall around Skåne will come and skie. Thera are usually 3 different lengths. A man in the village has a snow scooter. He prepairs the tracks when the snow comes. If we are lucky
Snow usually comes in February. We only had about two weeks with snow last year. And skiing hear on our tracks is free for everyone