'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Mexico City's got to be up there too.
I wonder if there's any correlation if you just look at post-Industrial Revolution cities. (And even there, as someone pointed out, Chicago's not as much of an outlier as all that because it is on a major shipping route. Ditto Montreal and Toronto.)
I like how NYC is the 13th largest city in the world in terms of populaton, and the only other USA city to make the top 60 is Los Angeles at 47.
When I was a kid, I think LA and Chicago were both in the world's top ten. But since then, a large number of third-world cities have seen huge population growth....
I always wonder about physical size, too -- Philadelphia's central city is tiny, but they absorbed the nearby municipalities so the city population is relatively big.
Oh, tommyrot's link does speak to that. I am fascinated by the density figures. Fascinated! India is Not Fucking Around with their urban centers, but you can see that some of those place are just large because they are physically (geographically) large.
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I had a moment of wondering how I posted when I was offsite at lunch, and then I saw it was ita, not me, posting.
I had a chicken sandwich, hoping it would be light. It was one of those breaded patties. Now I'm sleepy.
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Northern New England has a bonus Mud Season, don't forget.
Eastern Canada has the bonus Fog Season in between Spring and Summer.
While many parts of Ohio may have 4 clearly defined seasons of reasonable length, southern Ohio has about 2 weeks of spring. And then 5 months of summer.
I'd say NYC has 2.5 months of summer, 3.5 months of autumn, 3.5 months of winter, and 2.5 months of spring - with the caveat that spring does not equal warmish temps with nice rain showers and some wind, it equals weather that is all over the place.
From memory TX has 3.5 months of summer, 3 months of autumn, 2.5 months of winter, and 3 months of spring.
Southern NM had a bonus windy season.
Jamaica has layers. It's 85° all the time, and it's either raining for an hour or so, or it's not. Mostly sunny.
Oh, right, hurricanes. We do have those too.