Originally Posted by GUWonder
And NYC winters are often enough worse than Scandinavian capital's winters, at least extreme temperature-wise. And the coldest days I've endured in DC are worse than what I've had to endure in two of the three Scandinavian capitals so far.
I've lived in DC, in NYC, and in Scandinavia. Guess which is the only one of the three that regularly hits -35 C in the winter, coupled with nice blasts of wind direct from Siberia? Winters are far colder, longer and darker in Scandinavia than anywhere in the continental US.
And to add some objective figures to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/c...ml?tt=TT003520
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/c...ml?tt=TT001090
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/c...ml?tt=TT001140
I'll take a Scandinavian July-August over a DC/NY one any day though...!