Comments by "StuffandThings" (@StuffandThings_) on "The Four Reasons East Coasts Get Colder" video.

  1. What I find even more interesting is that the eastern coasts of continents are also often home to very high latitude tropics, like the Nansei islands south of Japan, Bermuda just east of the American eastern seaboard, Lord Howe island (technically subtropical but like... come on... it has coral reefs) off of eastern Australia and the high latitude almost equatorial climate of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Of course, many of these are islands that don't have the same issues of cold continental air masses and are made warmer by the warm ocean currents flowing along the east sides of continents until the colder currents take over. But then that only makes things even crazier because even staying at the same latitude but changing longitude has some pretty crazy climate shifts. And relatively small changes in latitude have dramatic effect.
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  2.  @ericwanderweg8525  Not prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) but another Opuntia species, Opuntia humifusa. Cacti have a pretty unexpected distribution, they grow throughout the Americas, from species in the Amazon to the temperate rainforests of Chile to Brazilian cloud forests to New England to Caribbean islands. So, I wouldn't exactly use that example as a way to show how weird New England's climate is, rather how weird cacti are and how they defy the typical desert stereotype. There are some other rather unexpected plants in the eastern US though, like many tropical looking magnoliids (Magnolia grandiflora and Asimina triloba come to mind) which really highlight the subtropical character of the region.
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