Amazing how God designed the world. Yesterday I could barely keep the A/C off with 86 degree temperatures (with a heat index of 92) -- basically record heat. But meanwhile in Umiat, AK, they were having temperatures below zero! At the same time of day, same planet.
The "same planet" part is what is hard to believe. If you traveled to the right places on earth, you wouldn't feel any need to visit other planets. North pole, deserts, rainforests, mountains -- so far from our own day-to-day experience they might as well be different worlds.
Not just temperature either -- flora, fauna, LENGTH OF DAY, everything. The only way they're boring is they still just have one white moon. But even then, the northern latitudes have the Aurora Borealis! And like some sci-fi planets, places above the arctic circle experience 24-hour sun and 24-hour darkness.
Here is a place that fascinates me: Umiat, Alaska:
http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/zmw:99789.10.99999?MR=1Actual Time 10:28 AM AKST 3:16 PM AKST
Civil Twilight 9:02 AM AKST 4:41 PM AKST
Nautical Twilight 7:45 AM AKST 5:58 PM AKST
Astronomical Twilight 6:36 AM AKST 7:07 PM AKST
Length of Visible Light 7h 38m
Length of Day 4h 48m
Tomorrow will be 10m46s shorter.
They are already getting less than 5 hours of sunlight per day, here in the middle of November. And every day you lose a further whopping 10 and a half minutes of sunlight!
Note that they have three hours of "twilight" though, where the sky is not pitch black, but the sun has gone down below the horizon. In Texas this stage lasts about 25 minutes.