Originally Posted by deneb78

It's possible that they used satellite imagery to capture very cold areas like the northeast area of Alaska that don't have weather stations like you indicated in your previous post. This could push Alaska to -3.0°C possibly.

Here is a ranking of US States from warmest to coldest that I did based on existing weather stations:

In °C

Hawaii 22.0
Florida 21.8
Louisiana 19.1
Texas 18.6
Georgia 17.3
Mississippi 17.1

Originally Posted by deneb78

Here is the ranking I compiled... I also included territories as well as independent countries (although I didn't include Antarctica because it has no permanent inhabitants). Keep in mind these only calculate the average for existing weather stations. If there are no weather stations over large areas, then these places won't be counted toward the average.

In °C

Djibouti 29.5
Mali 28.1
Aruba (NL) 28.0
Saint Barthélemy (FR) 28.0
Niger 27.9

Originally Posted by Macimate

I don't think I've ever met another person with this preference. People usually go on and on about how much they love the sun and the heat, and I just can't relate. What's so good about the sun?
I live in a pretty temperate climate (Denmark), with a good mixture of weather..so it's not like I've grown tired of some redundant climate or sky-situation.

To me the sunlight represents a bright, piercing disturbance. The heat represents an unbearable feeling of having trapped heat

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Har har, good idea for a thread.

Here are various ideas I had about different countries when I was a child:

1) England - Frog and Toad Together and Winnie the Pooh have tea with Hobbits - everyone lived on the edge of a river in a sort of Hobbit hole - or they lived on the moors with a crazy aunt locked up in the attic.

2) Germany - Cold and full of people with very stern faces. Eastern bloc Germans were always hoping to score a car that wasn't made

Originally Posted by EverBlack

Because there is this stereotype that says sunny weather is the best. You always hear it in the media. And this influences the way people think. Exactly like music, for example: jazz, metal and classical music are artistically better than mainstream pop music, but the majority of people prefer pop music to jazz, metal and classical music. This is how the world works: a lot of people are influenced by the media, why people that have their own tastes (e.g. like weather, music, and other things like