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treebeard55 · 12-23-2008, 08:13 PM

I have some friends at church who lived many years in France. They assured me that the winters there are milder, and it was obvious they preferred the French climate! (They also told me how to correctly pronounce the name of your city.)

You may well be further north than we are -- I'd have to check a map. But most of western Europe has a milder climate because of the Gulf Stream. In this part of the USA, we're more than 1000 km from the moderating effect of any ocean, so both our winters and our summers tend to be more extreme.

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treebeard55 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Warsaw IN, USA USDA zone 5b Posts: 511	I have some friends at church who lived many years in France. They assured me that the winters there are milder, and it was obvious they preferred the French climate! (They also told me how to correctly pronounce the name of your city.) You may well be further north than we are -- I'd have to check a map. But most of western Europe has a milder climate because of the Gulf Stream. In this part of the USA, we're more than 1000 km from the moderating effect of any ocean, so both our winters and our summers tend to be more extreme. __________________ Treebeard 55 Steve Moore http://hoosierbonsai.blogspot.com The most important bonsai tool is your brain.