I will be reporting the results of a new experiment that I will be conducting as soon as the sun comes out again. Given that we are so far up the globe (relatively), the sun is at a strikingly low angle and I want to find out what that angle is.
So, taking a page from any secondary education geometry book (see page 143, exercise 12 a and b - be sure to show your work), I am going to stick a pole in the ground, measure its height and the length of the shadow it casts (at 9am, noon, and 3pm - the only times that I think the shadow will be dark enough). Then, using the tangent calculations (opposite over adjacent), figure the closest angle (and of course via several assumptions of perpendicularity).
Neato.
Second, it is the warmer trade winds that keep Britain from getting as cold as Canada.
For comparison:
Juneau (capital of Alaska): Latitude: 58º 18' N
Olympia (capital of Washington): Latitude: 47º 02' N
Nashville (capital of Tennessee): Latitude: 36.1589
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