Comments by "S S" (@SS-yj2le) on "Casual Earth" channel.

  1. France gets that gulf stream along with the Mediterranean waters being quite warm. Versus Hokkaido which has much more continental influence from Siberia while lacking gulf stream influence. Only having that sea of Japan current which doesn’t provide as much warming. Water temperatures also get much colder in winter. Colder water also comes from the sea of Okhotsk which regular brings ice flows and has ports freeze over. That region of France also has the influence of the Alps mountain region that keeps out colder air from farther north and east.
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  2. Most of California is not a desert climate. Especially northern where only a small area in the northeast has any desert in the northern part. The Iberian peninsula and California have very similar climates. We also have somewhat inland climates that border or are oceanic that are warmer than San Francisco.
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  3. There is none of it in the streets there. Might be some animal waste from travelers who come with pets in some parks, but none of that. Tired of this claim. I bet the nearest big city to you that isn’t San Francisco has more of it.
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  4. I remember when I had moved to the east from the Bay Area and people were wondering why I was so hot when they said California was hotter. I never explained to them that I was from the Bay Area and that California has multiple different climates. I don’t handle hot weather as well as I do cold weather.
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  5. Only Southern Californians really live in a desert and there, it isn’t that dry. Especially closer to the coast where even some trees naturally grow there like the Torrey pine. Deserts cover no more than a quarter of the total state’s land area. Everything else is grassland with scrubs, dry woodland, higher elevations of mountains, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and forests. Also, the coastal climate is way bigger than going 15 km inland in the area of California. The winter storms go all the way to the father mountains that make the border between inland and the actual deserts. Unique topography of the San Francisco bay and the central valley causes climatic influence even farther inland in the north. For agriculture, the central valley is over 10% of the area and is the biggest agricultural region in the country.
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  6. I have wanted to visit the Azores and the Madeira islands, but I also have wanted to visit southern Europe to see similarities with our climate here in California. Did notice that we have similar climate patterns and environments. Especially Portugal.
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  7.  @you2be839  Portugal also gets the gulf stream making the waters warmer.
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  8. They have the Humbolt current and also possibly an upwelling. It is actually a similar phenomenon that causes it to also have bigger seasonal temperature shifts despite being so close to the equator.
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  9. The shrubs I'm talking about are not the ones you are talking about here. What you seem to be referring to are the scrubs seen in the high desert and areas that border them like mountain gaps not far from Tejon pass. Yellow grassland is still grassland and has the same amount of yearly precipitation as the great plains. The yellow is simply the dry season which is common in other non-arid regions. Only really far down to San Diego is it actually that type of climate and due to diverse topography and position of it along the coastal currents, there is variation. The trees there are not that sparse and make scatter or semi-clustered oak woodlands. Even farther south, the Torrey pine is generally medium size that can get really big. That is along the southern most coast where maritime influence is common. The agriculture is dependent on the rivers and reservoirs from the mountains that are entirely in California and the coastal areas from the central coast to the rainforests along the northwest. Also, the very same water received there comes from the spot that recorded the heaviest snowfall in an entire season in the entire world. A record that still stands today. Also, the central valley only has a desert climate and a semi-desert climate in the southern area of the valley. Even without such either, the whole central valley gets tule fog and maritime influence from San Francisco and the upper delta marshlands. There is an area that has California with the fourth highest 24 hour rainfall total in the whole country. Even exceeding Florida. I have lived in Virginia for years and I was not impressed with the precipitation compared to what I am used to. Even when hurricanes actually came when I was east in Delaware and New Jersey. Even assuming those dry grassy places are desert, there is so much forest, wetland, and mountain that it takes up at least half of the state's land area. Especially in the north where once north of San Francisco, any dry grassland will always be found with at least a few big trees. Applies for the coast once near big Sur. You also have the numerous oak woodlands and even forest groves that are along those dry grasslands. Even in places without trees along the coast, it may not be dry. Just bad terrain or positioning of weather that limits plant growth. Santa Barbara which is directly on the coast of southern California gets more rain than Athens, Greece and various other areas of Southern Europe that are not associated as being deserts. San Francisco gets more rain a year than London, England which is well known for being the complete opposite of a desert and this doesn't even count totals from fog. Even Los Angeles and possibly San Diego get the same amount as places that are green year round and with fog, support coastal plants more than many of the same areas. @ericastier1646 
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  10. I’m from the Bay as well and have also never heard it either. Maybe a local thing.
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  11. Do you have anything on how the humid subtropical climate exists in large areas of southern Europe?
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  12. Don't know how as we have the tallest trees in the world. @ericastier1646 
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  13.  @you2be839  Los Angeles and some channel islands also get influence from a more southerly current going north as well.
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  14. Interesting hearing that for that area. I am from the Bay and might travel there one day.
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