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There is more rain in Europe, which means more clouds, which means less sun. The reason for this is the Gulf Stream, which brings wet, warm air to Europe. Places in Europe are generally warmer and wetter than places at the same latitude in North America.
There's no Gulf Stream in the Mediterranean Area. People seem to forget that we are in Europe too.
Oh yeah rain is a big thing here, I live in the north of France and I don't think we had more than 3 days without rain since november
also north europe gets less hours of sun wich is also a big factor
Maritime climate and geographical barriers have a big impact.
@@strikedn Noo I know you're part of Europe.
Came for the comparisons, stayed for the AMERICAN DOING THE EURO TO DOLLAR CONVERSION BACKWARD.
It’s the dollar that lost value
Yes, the bigger number on his screen shows that $1 = 0,92€, but it also shows below that $1,08 = 1€. He did see the right conversion even though he didn't point out the numbers. And he was right, Euro was much stronger before than it's now. For a moment during the worst inflation run I thought that Euro would drop so low that the Dollar would be the stronger one. It nearly did.
But the original video had a mistake on the number. I don't think that Euro has never been as strong as $1,7.
@@j3mixa And despite all the world's financial struggles the UK Pound continues to be worth more than US Dollars or Euros.
@@j3mixa The strength of the Dollar should be a lot lower considering Trump borrowed more money from China than ANY nation EVER have borrowed from ANYONE and he did it in just 4 years. The US debt are out of control and only few understand that US have been de facto needing inflation so they combined with an increase of printed Dollars have a chance to hollow out the value of their debt. Obama ran into the wall of the housing market crash caused by a lying corrupt gambling mentality of Wall street from his predecessor. Obama had to borrow from China as well but they went directly into this HUGE hole in the economy it caused. Obama then made legislation to have Wall street oversight and prevention of bundling of good and bad valued housemarket derivatives and when Trump took over one of the first thing he did were to remove large parts of that oversight and again allow some level of bundling meaning it only are a matter of time before the US house market again crashes and US politician stand in front of TV and say they had no clue what were coming. SIGH!
Yes, Sunlight and daylight are not seen as the same,
Also, you can't compare latitude and assume that the weather will be the same, we have the Gulfstream in all of west Europe, that's why New York get way more snow than the same latitude in Europe, and then again, there's something called inland climate, seaside climate, which means that if you're from the middle of a continent, you don't get the same weather as someone on the same latitude at the coast
Thank you for saving my time, wanted to elaborate on the difference between latitude and climate, and sun/day light too...
It must be the clouds.
There's confusion between sunlight hours which are the same all over the world and sunhine hours (when the sky is not overcast). By the way, Turkey is not in Europe...
Most of Europe has a climate called Warm-summer humid continental climate, that is the climate of most of the Canada and the very Northern East/Northern Midwest part of US, for example Bucharest in Romania has the same climate of Chicago (hot-summer humid continental climate) and Sofia in Bulgaria the same of Toronto in Canada which is colder even though Sofia is south of Bucharest. Almost all the continental Europe has the climate of Sofia.
The exceptions are the peninsulas and countries bordering the ocean (Italy, Greece, part of the Balkans and the Iberian Peninsula have a Mediterranean climate, Scandinavia a subarctic climate, while France, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and a part of Germany have a temperate oceanic climate)
The North American continent is also a huge blob of earth that heats up in the sun and stores heat (aka continental climate). The humidity from the Pacific is dissolved and pushed upwards when it reaches the Californian coast. Clouds reach the USA from Canada or from the Gulf of Mexico. On the other hand there is a huge water body between Africa and Europe which means more clouds and humidity overall.
17:55 you are checking USD to EU , EU to USD is 1.09 , also he said "one euro is equal one point zero seven dollars , which is 1.07 , maybe he forgot to put the "0" while editing xD so is 0.02 higher than before :D
Thanks for doing it instead of me
Also a correction I wanted to make. € and $ have always been following each other closely.
@@allmybasketsinoneegg more like $ is following € , we all know the dollar is not really a good currency :D
You're right, and it's not "maybe", he forgot the "0"
Yeah just commented that. What a prick
That part with Euro to Dollar gave me an aneurysm. First the number on the slide was wrong, then Ryan screwed up and reversed it.
the GDP maps is also not per capita, and defently not normated to PPP.
GDP is also totaly useless factor of comparing stuff. It tells you nothing about how it is in the country.
For instance Ireland have the highest GDP per captia on the continent. But they are not especially rich. The reason why they have so high GDP is that all off shore companies have there headquater there, so when ever a large company buy something from a other large company, it counted as irish GDP, even if it don´t benefit ireland in any way shape or form
The gulf Stream has a huge Impact on our climat.
Climate*
climax* :p
Yes, NYC is on the same latitude as Italy or Spain
At Fox news, they once said that solar energy only works in Europe because we have so much more sun that the U.S. Hence solar energy simply won‘t work in America…. LOL
Fox News being Fox News. Although, it is probably true that some part of the US receive less solar energy than some part of Europe. I guess especially if you add Alaska but also add oversea territories of European countries in the mix, it's gonna make for some meaningless data.
🤣 anything to justify the continuation of using fossil fuels .
@Attirbful who do you think believes in such stupid fox news? Use your brain and proove before believe for news.😊
stupid left wing anecdotes. apart from such obvious nonsense and conspiracy theories. you both are aware that solar panels work LESS efficient if the get to hot? what you want is DAYLIGHT of a certain degree, NOT sunlight for the sake of sunlight! this can overlap but hasnt so, next time use yourself your brain, dont believe every nonsense focus more on facts. you find on all channels all kind of bullshit, especially if it is from the antisemitic/antizionist antiwestern/antiwhite racist left wing Nazi channels like CNN, CBS or ABC (or as online news basically Nazi propagada channels like the Guardian which is a mix of socialist/left wing and sharia propaganda channel.
@@volkhardhenschel1863 I think you must take a 101 class in sarcasm as you clearly did not get what I was writing. I was simply reporting what Fox said, not what I think! I actually making fun of Fox for CLAIMING that they have less sun than, say, Germany or Denmark… MANY AMERICANS BELIEVE FOX NEWS more than any other news outline! I KNOW we have less sun and still solar energy has surpassed any other energy in Germany and many more will install it in years to come while Americans think that using photovoltaic energy means that at night, they must use candles and hand crank their television… Hence the “LOL“ after the comment! But thanks for the advice to use MY brain, Volkhard. It is about time, you begin to use yours, too!
The climate is different because of the directions how the mountains spread over the continent. It is North-Souths in the Americas and it is West-East in Europe.
And the US is a larger uninterrupted land mass, whereas it's difficult to get really far away from the sea in Europe.
Amount of sunny days is regulated by EU. 😀
And the most important reason: oceanic circulation.
@@MellonVegan yeah, that's certainly what makes the UK so rainy.
@@BenjaminVestergaard But also way warmer than it 'should' be. I remember going to New York. New York is on the same latitude as Barcelona/Rome/Istanbul. I've never experienced a weather as cold as in New York, I think it was in March/April. I live in Spain now and temperatures would be about 40 degrees C higher at least.
The 44 countries of Europe are very VERY different from each other. Different languages, different culture, different ways of choosing and cooking food. To me the word Europe means nothing except referring to a geographical part of the Indo-European continent. (Yes, it is one continent).
Its the Eurasian continent. India is a small part of the Asian part of the continent - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia
@@tonycook1624 Yes. You're right.
You are thinking of Indo European languages, which is not the same as Eurasia
Random stats:
48% of candidates for local government in Scotland have no religious belief. (survey in 2022)
36.7% of Scots replied no religious belief in the 2011 census.
58% of Scots replied no religious beliefs in a 2017 survey.
Does this tell us about peoples religious beliefs or their willingness to give this information to governments?
@@stephenlee5929You mean the religious are willing liars? Who'd have thunk it?
@@stephenlee5929It's pretty accurate. The 2021 Census is similar for the whole of the UK. The largest religious group was "No Religion" followed by Christians as a whole, therefore the majority were sensible and not generally superstitious!
@@stephenlee5929 Most people are pretty honest on large scale census because they realise that the results could be important to policy
@@charlesunderwood6334 Yes, Mostly pretty honest?
What year was it that Jedi Knight was a prominent response to religion?
,,but only 44 have capitals on European continent,, For example Turkey has its Capital city Ankara in Anatolia which is already Asia.
I think the 50 countries include city states like Monaco, Andorra, San Marino and Vatican city. And probably also Farao islands and Gibraltar.
@@buddy1155those are not counted as seperate States
@@buddy1155no, it's just that there are 6 transcontinental countries, that's it
@@MellonVeganThere are more than six transcontinental countries in Europe. The obvious ones are of course Russia and Turkey. Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Azerbaijan have by one definition a sliver of their territory in Europe. But then you have all the colonial remnants of the UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark. And Armenia might be by some definition transcontinental as it is as seen by some to be cultural European but by all geographical definitions Asian.
@@saladspinner3200If you go by UN membership, the micro states of Andorra, Monaco, and the Vatican are independent countries, the Faroe Islands and Gibraltar are not.
The military comparison with regards to manpower, sure it's pretty comparable if you only count the top 5 countries in Europe, but add up all 44 and I think the story would be quite different!
Yeah Finland with 870000 men and women might add to that a little bit for example.
@@ernomakkonen5200 Exactly, the comparison they made in the video is like taking the entirety of all of Europes armies combined, and compairing it only to how many active soldiers the US has in the top 5 states with the most active soldiers... makes no sense when there are 50 states
@@AHVENAN Still, Europe has about twice as many inhabitants, that has to be taken into account too!
A little american egocentrism
@@ernomakkonen5200 most of those are in reserve, that don´t count
The drinking age is NOT 20 in Finland and Sweden and I highly doubt that it is in Norway either, where they got the data a bit confused there is that at 18 you can buy things like beer, cider and stuff like that that has a low alcohol percentage in stores and you can go out to most bars and clubs at 18 as well, what you can NOT do until you're twenty is buy strong liqour like Whiskey, Rum, Vodka etc that has high alcohol percentage
Basically the same system as the narrator said that they have in Portugal
That part is actually debatable, if you go with the minimum to buy anything or the age when you can buy everything. It just has to be consistent for all countries.
@@Alias_Anybody Then the map shown is inconsistent, for Finland and Sweden it shows 20, which is the age you can buy anything, in Germany the map shows 16, which is the age you can buy only beer and wine, but you still have to wait 2 years for strong liqour.
Norway has 18 year for everything below 22% alcohol and 20 for the rest
@@Rafaela_S."Only beer and wine" 😂😂😂
"The drinking age is NOT 20 in "
That was not what the grapth stated. The grapth stated the age where you could buy alcohol. And if you watch when they zomed in it says both 18 as well as 20. So its corect.
5:38 Coastal areas have more rain and clouds and '4 seasons in a day' weather. Europe has a lot more coasts. So the weather is much more changeable (with less sunshine). Ad to that the populated areas are slightly northerner..
8:11 and 16:45 Eastern/Central Europe went thru 40 years of communism and a 10 years of transition ..
It depends, in the Netherlands the coast has less rain and more sun hours.
That's not 100 % true.
Take a look at the coasts of Greece, Croatia, Cyprys, Spain, Italy....... 😊
@@TheSuperappelflap
The Netherlands is só small/narrow, that from a meteorological POV, the country it's just one coastal area.
But yes, the inbound rainclouds will release their water until they're above land, right behind the beaches and rows of dunes. ;)
Its not quite a simple
It depends on if the water is warm, cold or neutral.
In west/Northwest of Europe the gulf stream is very war, this creates more clouds. On the east cost of USA the opposite is true, and the ocean suck down clouds.
Also if we compare say the Baltic to the grand lakes. The Baltic both have more water as well as being slightly salty. This salt makes it so it almost never freezes over in winter. This keep the area warm, bud cloudy. While in the summer its cold, and make the area around quite free from clouds. But it have a additional drawback of being so high north that not all hours of sunlight is counted. Stockholm and Helsinki loses like 300-400 hours because they are at night and hence are not counted. (yes, the sun is up at night here).
For the meds there is a similar thing. North med is warmer than the sounding area, south med are colder. Hence Europe wet and north Africa dry.
"Eastern/Central Europe went thru 40 years of communism and a 10 years of transition .."
That would be 1939 to 1991, i would call that 50 years. And there been about 30 years since.
There is two other factors. PPP is considerably higher in eastern Europe. For example in Poland PPP is more than twice that of Germany.
The second part is deduct vs payout. In Northern Europe payout is more common than deduct, in eastern Europe the opposite is true (well basically all countries in eastern Europe apart from Romania for some reason). The issue is that payout create a false GDP number.
Also that map is not GDP per capita even if it say so.
If the maps is normated for both captia as well as PPP the diffrance between eastern and western Europe almost vanish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#/media/File:MapChart_Map_(5).png
And on this map Sweden, Finland, Denmark. Germany and Austria sticks a head basically dominated by false GDP measures.
While Swizerland and Norway sticks a head of actually being rich... and... well foren interest.
Luxembourg an Ireland (Where the later country is actually not very rich) really show how much power false GDP have. If we look at what people actually earn (normated by PPP) People in Ireland and Luxembourg earn no more than people in Germany, Netherlands or Denmark. And considerably less than in Switzerland.
@@matsv201 Very good explanation. The PPP thing is true, the corporations just increase prices and housong prices also mirror what people can afford. GDP per capita is only an interesting statistic for the people that own the corporations because it indicates how much they can charge us.
I blame the finns for the little sunshine we get. Every time they rake the forests, all the dust is blocking the sun. Either that or it's clouds...
Trumps idea 🤷♂️🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
haha, Finns don't rake forests...
You forgot about the clouds of smoke coming from austrian exploding trees, lol!
Yeah, that's certainly fair. We need to wear masks for several weeks after every raking season ends.
The differece between europe and US American christianity ist extreme. If you look to the most conservative countries like Italy, Spain and Poland where its mostly catholic, there is not so much "Cult" religion like in the US. And we are not ruled by religion in the politics. Yes we in Germany have parties that are partly based on religion but it will not be ruled like in the US.
Spain "conservative"?
@@strikedn Yeah I mean only VOX has around 10% support, and PP has become kinda liberal in LGTB+ stuff
You checked the Euro and USD value the other way around.
You should see what one Euro is in USD
Also in the video, the narrator say 1.07 Euros but the picture shows 1.7. Big difference.
@@Cleow33 My mate Google suggests currently $1.08 = €1.00, or $1.00 = €0.92
For most tourist use its pretty much parity having bounced between $1,12 > 1.05 over the year.
The higher rate of young people living with their parents in southern Europe is cultural, but mainly related to unemployment rates which are WAY HIGHER there
If 2/3 of the family left the country due to unemployment and left me living all by myself, does that still counts as living with parents? LoL
The only factor that counts how much sunlight you get is clouds. Sure in the winter you got less sun at the north, but you'll get more in the summer. It's just not sunny when it's raining or clouded.
Ryan, sunlight is blocked by rainy clouds. In American deserts it rarely rains
Of course not, otherwise they wouldn't qualify as deserts.
@@LlortnerofYou can still have a cloudy desert - it has to not rain (or snow). Antartica is an example of a cloudy desert (that is dark for much of the year too)
@@tonycook1624 Cloudy, sure. But it was specificially _rainy_ clouds.
You looked up the Euro -> Dollar conversion the wrong way around. Rhe videos says how many Dollars is one Euro, you looked up how many Euros are worth 1 Dollar.
He says 1 Euro = 1,07 Dollars, that's a typo on the slide I suppose.
So the current price 1 Euro = 1,08 Dollars is actually not that far off.
Euro and Dollar have been very stable to each other in recent times. Only during the inflation surge due to affecting beoth currencies at different times, it went a bit off the chart.
Apart from what you mention that it is true, it must also be said that if you are comparing Europe (not the European Union) and the US, you have to mention other currencies that are not the euro, such as the pound sterling, the Swiss franc, the Czech crown, the Hryvnia... etc.
less sun becaue...... clouds! over europe region you have more aquatic sites + mountains which are holding the clouds. most of west/central america is flat plain what makes humidity on higher altitude flowing undisturbed, without a similar way of condensation like on european mountains.
also that plains wide plain west/central area is just a sun heat mirror which is also contributing in preventing of humidity condensation.
A few points for our friends in the US...
1. The "divide" in East and West Europe is clearly attributed to countries who were part of the USSR and those which were not.... excluding a few exceptions like the northern countries. It's not necessarily bad in all cases, but you can tell that it takes generations for a country to change/adapt.
2. The narrative of the video seems to be omitting smaller European countries, who clearly in most cases differ compared to others. These are sometimes visible in the graphs and sometimes not (so there is no consistency). For example, in Malta people can vote (and even be elected in councils) at the age of 16.
3. The video is also mixing Europe and EU randomly, and often times during the same subject the narrative starts with EU and then shows a graph of Europe.
Interesting video nonetheless :)
Ad 1. You're mixing up the USSR and the Eastern Block. There were many countries behind the Iron Curtain, not just the USSR. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia and Eastern Germany were all under the Soviet influence, but not a part of the USSR.
You should visit Eu. Just saying....
From previous episodes, it seems that he should make a road trip across the US.
European union or europe?
Because not every european country is part of the EU.
Better Europe and not just EU.
@@MiTaReX meh, the best travel destinations in Europe are all in the EU anyway, except for like London and Istanbul.
He really should, and the more views he gets from his videos, the closer he will be to being able to afford it.
Regarding living at home, I am from Norway and I basically moved from home when I was 16 to start college. I really haven't lived with my parents since then, that is perfectly normal here. When you start college, and if you live far away from your home you get some sort of scholarship from the government to pay for your dorm room, study books, food etc. The scholarship approximately 600-700 usd per month. After school, I immediately started my apprenticeship and could afford renting an apartment. After 2 years of apprenticeship, I got a permanent job and could afford a loan to buy an apartment.
+ the living at home graphs have different age ranges. USA has 18-34 and Europe 25-34
All 6 of our family eats 50 mg of vitamin-D daily all year around.
Greetings From Finland!
☺ "Eating" mg of vitamins. Never heard it said like that before.
@@CabinFever52 That's interesting! I had to google it lol
I'm (swe) used to saying/hearing "eat" in that context but apparently in english "eating" implies chewing while in swedish for example it basically means "to consume"
@@specialnanobot , don't get me wrong----nothing wrong with saying it that way. I just never heard it said as such.
The UN recognises 44 countries in Europe. The six countries excluded from the list, but which are usually included in the 50 are: Turkey (geographically mostly in Asia), Cyprus (middle east), The Faroe Islands (self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark), Greenland (geographically in North America, and also a self-governing Danish territory), Kosovo (shamefully not recognised by the UN, because Russia and Serbia are buddies), and Kazakhstan (only has a tiny bit of it geographically in Europe).
That comparison video was totally incomprehensible Ryan. Even the narrator keeps saying he thinks it might be this and is not sure about that. WTF.
He simply lets you interpret things instead of doing it for you.
Lol. Where is the data and study for an accurate comparision over so many metrics? The video author took the time to try to search for it (the oranges and apples that were available to him at the time) and present it in a more friendly way to you. And yes he even took the time to show its fragility and humbleness about them. And what is your reaction? It is b*tch**g and treating him and his work as weak preys. You want accurate data in a youtube video? Lol.
@@nox8730 ...and if you could read the data you could do that, but Ryan keeps the video so small it's impossible to read the data.
@@vtbn53Indeed, the best way to do this is probably for one to make his own research on the topic.
Hey, since I'm early; I love your videos, you're just so chill to watch while eating or when I'm in transport. Fijne dag from the Netherlands! 🇳🇱
Yeah vitamin D is an issue. I am from Norway, I buy the milk that has added D-vitamins. Only a problem during winter though. And if you have white skin, it means you have better means of absorbing d-vitamin through sun light. I really feel the difference each spring, when mind and body awakens. Still, love having the variations of weather here, albeit a little less with the years passing by :) Wouldn't mind taking a trip to spain atm...
Eat more pickled herring :D
Even here in central France I’m obligated to take a vitamin D tablet every 6 months
Regarding the hours of sunlight thing, the answer is extremely simple: Clouds.
In fact, ignoring atmospheric effects, the entire globe has the _same_ average hours of daylight - twelve hours per day. The only thing the tilt does is cause the length of the day to vary over the year, rather than it always being twelve hours everywhere. Taking the atmosphere into account, daylight actually averages slightly more than half the year, and the longest average is around the Arctic and Antarctic circles, where there is a region where the sun rises above the horizon every day of the year, but also have periods where the sun doesn't sink below the horizon at night.
Yes, except that the earth isn't round but an obloid and mountain ranges will slightly delay sunrise.
@@DenUitvreterMountains cast shadows, yes, but they don't stop daylight. And while it is true that the earth is an oblate spheroid rather than a sphere, that effect is absolutely tiny - about twenty out of more than 6000 kilometres.
@@anarchodin I don't know how tiny, depends on the angle I guess. Of course mountains won't stop daylight, but if you are West of a mountain rage, you will see the sunset later.
Regarding the number of countries in Europe, it depends on several aspects. First, you must define Europe's borders, as the border to Asia is purely a matter of convention. Are the three Caucasian nations Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan European or not? (I would argue they are Asian.) And Cyprus is traditionally considered European due to its Greek heritage, but geographically it makes more sense to count it as part of Asia. Secondly, it matters if you accept trans-continental nations or not. I would assume that the UN assign every nation to one continent only, placing Turkey and Kazahkstan in Asia despite them having territory in Europe. And thirdly, it matters what nations you regonize as independent or not, for example Kosovo.
It's always astonished me (well, ever since I realised it) that London (England) is further north than the Gulf of St Lawrence, but snow in London at all is pretty rare. Climate patterns are very interesting
I always find it amusing when people say London '(England)', as if any other London is talked about on the world stage.
@@Thurgosh_OG i did it deliberately to avoid confusion with London Ontario (Fake London)
@@AndreiTupolev Also not to be confused with london Hawaii or any of the other 35 London across the world
This is accurately portrayed in the movie titanic. But most people don´t think about it. Half of the side of the Atlantic is war stream other half is cold. And the diffrance in temperature is huge.
In the movie titanic one day before they hit the iceberg they was walking around in bare arms in the sun, the day of the accident it was freezing temperatures. This is accurate to real life. The temperature diffrance can be as much as 15-20C for a distance of just a few hundred km.
The warm side is on the European side and the cold side is on the american side. This explains both the differential in temperature as well as clouds.
The very warm water of the eastern Atlantic heats up western., northwestern and northern Europe. This effect is the largest at Lofoten in Norway that have very mild winters with just a few month with freezing, despite the area is as far north as northern Alaska. Dublin actually got even milder winters than London, despite being more north.
The downside of the extreme mild winters is very cloudy weather, because its the heat of the water vapor that make the area so mild.
Exact opposite is true for east cost in the US. Very cold water chill down the US east coast. The flip side of that coin is that the Atlantic there suck down water vapor clearing the sky from clouds.
The meridian have a similar effect as on the northern side as the Atlantic on north-western Europe.
The Baltic have sort of a similar (but not quite) effect that it buffers heat from summer to winter and winter to summer.
But the same is sort of true for the west side of north america. For example Vancouver in Canada got a climate almost as mild as London. Vancouver is only 2 degrees south of London
@@Thurgosh_OGThats because north americans think first of London (Ontario)
The similarities between the "Human Development Index" map and the "Certainty in their belief in God" map 👀👀👀
@@boldDNA So??
Hello! Thank you so much for showing us this video today.
7:16 What's still important to note is the scale that was chosen here which makes perfectly sense for those two regions of the world. But in reality the HDI goes from 1.0 (perfect) to 0.0 (abysmal) and there sadly are many countries in the world that do have a HDI way below 0.8, which (lowest category on those maps) I'd say on a global level is still quite ok, if you're above 0.8 (China has 0.768 for example)
This report was dated 2022 but its data already seemed out of date. The Euro has basically been around 1.2 dollars for a while now. It even refers to data from 2013 and 2015.
Its 1.09 now, exchange rate was only around 1.20 for a brief period during the epidemic.
Generally its always at or just below 1.10 and both the ECB and US Federal bank try to keep it that way.
In Scotland you can get prescribed vitamin D as the winters are very long with few daylight hours. It used to be 16 to smoke in the uk til not long ago, I was smoking at school.
Appreciate the video... just wanted to point out that the "Young people living at home" is 11.5% in France, not 1.5%. There's a faint "1" also check the green color (not the darkest green which is
21:00 in the netherlands, friends of mine, 30yo still live at home because there are no affordable homes. the worth of my appartment has increased over 100% in the last 10 years. it's ridiculous.
My mums first house cost £2000 (60 years ago). The same house was last on the market for £400,000 (about 10-15 years ago)
Sunlight difference is linked to the Gulf Stream, which brings warm water (and associated humid air) from the tropics into more temperate latitudes. As it cools it generates more cloud and rain - hence the lower sunlight breaking through.
Definetily NOT in the Mediterranean area, we are part of Europe too, and there is plenty of sunny days as shown in the map.
Apparently the Mediterranean countries don't count, it's all rain and clouds, basically Belgium. Smh...
@@Xiroi87 Why so touchy? No-ones ignoring Mediterranean countries or assigning lower status to them. He simply looked at Europe as a whole region and wondered why OVERALL there is less sunlight. The map shows pretty clearly the distribution so it was clear that the difference was biased to the northern countries. No need to pick fights by taking synthetic offence over basic geographical facts.
@@qman2261 I'm not picking up a fight, just stating that assuming that Europe equals just a part of Europe is simplifying too much
I was reading only yesterday about Bangladesh. Many of us Britons are of the opinion that ours is an overcrowded / overpopulated country with a pop of about 66 million people. Bangladesh is not quite as large as the UK. It`s about 80% the size ( 1/5 smaller than the UK ) - and has a population of about 170 million people.
Yes and a lot of them live in slums. Your argument is factually correct but, I assume you dont want to live in a crowded slum.
And they live in EXTREME poverty!
If your island had 170 million people it would literally sink into the ocean 😅
@@ub681904 Bingo ! You may infer exactly that we`d be sunk if our population on this Isle rose to anywhere near that of Bangladesh.
What I was attempting to do was to draw the attention of Britons toward what might be the state of the UK 30 - 40 years from now if we continue to allow illegal and / or unskilled immigrants into the UK.
We are already at saturation point. Farmers fields have turned to Farmers Pools. The land is drenched, saturated with water as a result of rainfall and not least on the grounds that to large an area of England has concrete on top of it.
20:50 93% of Slovaks live in a household that is owned by the people who live in it. During the communism, nobody could own their apartment. After the fall of communism in 1989, the state apartments were sold very very VERY cheap (even the biggest apartments for less than 2.000 € at that time), so practically everyone bought the apartment they lived in. Now there are almost no rental apartment options, so young Slovaks have to stay living with their parents for a long time, unless they have a partner and both of them buy a (very expensive) house/apartment with mortgage. About 60% of households are three-generational, grandparents living with parents and children. Some Romanian stand up comedian once said that in the Eastern Europe you get to own a house by inheritence, so someone has to die for you to get to own a home.
You're right, the living at home maps can't really be compared.
Another thing to mention is also the fact that the US has those different age limits above 18... whereas here in Denmark, you're fully considered an adult when you turn 18.
You can't collect the full amount of education support, unemployment benefits or other public support while you still live with your parents. At the same time, your parents won't be able to collect child benefits from the day you turn 18.
And as a student you have access to subsidised apartments, or other housing support if you're low income.
So unless your parents have a fully paid home that's big enough and you have a fairly paid job, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, financially, to stay at your parents'.
The thing about the "living at home" map is that in lots of countries in the world people value the family more than living alone, so in those countries there will be more generations living in one house.
@@tovarishcheleonora8542 indeed, but in those countries, a family home is usually large enough to host 3 generations.
@@BenjaminVestergaard My point is that most countries that had high persentage on that map are doing it because family value, and not because of money (money was Ryan's guess of reason).
@@tovarishcheleonora8542 ah, I don't believe that's the reason in Italy for instance.
Some places it does have a financial benefit though, and some places homes are so expensive that kids can't afford to move out until they are fully educated.
My initial comment was just to highlight that in Denmark they try to make it easier to move out which is traditionally more common. And they pay for it by making it less attractive to stay with parents.
9:00 Certainty of belief: For the most part of the 20th century the USA were a phenomenon within the developed countries. As a rule secularism increased in all western countries (Eastern Europe: communism is per definition atheistic), as modernity increased - with the exception of the US, a fact many European church people envied. Now it seems that US as the most developed country were only delayed in joining this trend.
However one may discuss if there is not one specific home made reason for the current boost of secularism in the US: the politicization of the US evangelicals and their domination of the Republican party. Being a very outspoken large minority they have gained more political influence than their numbers would allow for (in a different electoral system), dominating and polarizing thus the majority of the country - also religiously. For young religious seekers this brand of Christianity may just be too fundamentalist, too extreme, too intolerant towards LGBTQ+, and thus turn them off AND obstruct their access to Christianity and god as a whole (God being portrayed as a hater of LGBTQ, anti abortion, and in favor of man’s domination over wives, women in general, daughters etc.).
So evangelicals may have become their own greatest enemies of Christian faith in proclaiming a false, distorted and repulsive image of god and thus contributing to secularism.
For a place with such a high belief that God exists they seemingly have no knowledge of 'thou shall not kill'!
France is the largest country in the EU, but not the most populous, we have practically the same population as Great Britain but on a territory twice as large.
As a result, land is more abundant, a greater number of individual houses and a large part of the center is very sparsely populated, which also gives more accessible purchase prices.
(this is why we are invaded every summer by British hordes coming to seek the sun and affordable prices)😉
But hey, in general they are charming people although they suffer a lot with the French language.☺
I was going to say something similar. I bought a place in France (where I've emigrated from the US), and the difference in prices shocks my American friends and family. Way better prices here, and the houses are also more durable, which might be why they're less expensive as well, since for many centuries France has built homes to last, and the US does not.
I feel for you. The English abroad can be terrible. I wish my French were better, or at least good enough to get by in France. I remember once having to speak in French over a CB radio to ask what time a canal lock closed for lunch. It was tricky, but a success. I speak Catalan, so it’s not too far of a stretch to improve the little French I know.
@@ness-ee No, it's always relatively easy to make yourself understood by an Englishman: A good (or several) bottle of wine, a few pieces of cold meats, a little cheese and it's very easy to understand each other and put the world back together.
Between good people, aperitifs can be “epic”.😂😂
@@Ron_Robertson Yes, that’s probably why young people can leave their parents a little earlier. They have more choices.
@@olivierpuyou3621 … and rugby!!
Haven't you ever heard of clouds? where US have continental climate and few cloudy days - European countries are mostly near oceans and have way more cloudy days on a yearly basis.
I recently came across a bit of news from Italy. A 70-year woman had won a court case that forced her adult sons (aged 40 and 42) to move out of her home. She'd said that they don't contribute financially, and they don't help with the housework. In Southern Europe, there is that culture that especially men stay and live with their mommy no matter how old they are. Here in Northern Europe, people would laugh at them.
Statistically, there are some middle-aged people here (Finland) who live with their parents, but I'd say most of them are disabled or have some other medical condition so that they aren't able to live on their own. Their parents have opted to take care of them instead of putting them in some care home. Then there are also those families where it is the other way around, so that adult children have decided to move back with their parents to take care of *them*.
You can say basically that the climate is defined by latitude, closeness to the ocean, and more importantly the oceans streams (gulf stream for Atlantic ocean)
Germany: much colder, much less sun - WHAT? No AC? 😂
Germany has a very temperate climate with Summers that can be quite hot. Europe isn't a tundra...
@@saladspinner3200 German houses are simply build different with better insulation that keeps the heat outside. And we do Stoßlüften
@@saladspinner3200 You sound like you have not lived in the US and Germany, there is little comparison
@@headhunter1945 I literally live in Western-Europe...
@@saladspinner3200 "US *and* Germany" not just one of them. And western Europe includes the western Mediterranean coasts, so that's not saying a whole lot.
OMG, Ryan, it's not that difficult!
E.g. a small part of Turkey is in Europe, but Turkey is an Asian country with a culture very different ftom european culture, with Ankara, its capital, in Asia.
Most places in Europe are closer to an ocean than most places in USA, the air is more humid and there are a lot more clouds, that's why there's less sunshine.
That is the big difference Ryan - you view the world from how it impacts you, we, Europeans, view the world from how it impacts us, our family and our community. Take your comment about Uncle Sam and cigarettes, healthcare is a shared risk, so your decision to smoke impacts your family and your community where it hurts - money! The more we have to finance care for health issues relating to smoking, the more taxes we pay. And of course any money you have to spend beyond what is covered in healthcare is money you can't spend on your child, your wife and so on.
Europe is warmer than the same latitude in America and Canada because of the ocean currents in the north Atlantic which move heat from the tropics and the Gulf of Mexico up towards Greenland, Iceland and further north. That heat warms the air over the north Atlantic, which blows into Europe keeping it warmer in winter than the same latitudes in North America.
The technical name for it is the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The Gulf Stream is part of it.
Problem is, sometimes that current shuts down. It's happened many times in the past. When it does shutdown it's sea ice in winter all the way as far south as Spain.
America is a continent, not a country.
Plus, an American is from the Continent of America.
@@CaptainAmerica001Over here in Europe we are lazy as say "America" when we mean "United States of America". When we talk about the continent we call it "North America". Clear now?
In conclusion, America is not a country or a nation. Therefore, 'American' is not a nationality or a citizenship, officially.
Anyone who uses these 2 terms as such is due to ignorance, conceitedness, laziness, stubbornness, indocrination, selfishness, and/or arrogance.
Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of America.
The 20 year age limit on alcohol sales in Norway only applies to spirits. It's 18 for beer and wine. In Germany, it's 18 for spirits and 16 for lower alcohol beverages like beer and wine. Also on driving, in France there are classes of vehicles that 14 year olds can drive without a licence.
Swede from the northern part of the country here: Vitamin D deficiency is a problem during the darkest months of the winter. The sun don't settle for a long time during the summer so it isn't all bad.
In the UK, we get lots of rain cloud. The winds come across the Atlantic ocean, picking up rain on the way and drop it when the resulting clouds go higher over the land. Our day length will be the same os yours at the same latitude, but the sun doesn't have as much chance of breaking through
e bet its related to stuff like the saharah and wind direction similar to how Hurricanes often come to be and hit america, and sometimes come back to europe in a diminished state.
what i find interesting though is temperature in the winter.
you guys get way more snow whilst your closer to the equator then here in the netherlands
Sun hours in northern Sweden: its pitch dark for some days in the winter, but in the summer, the sun never sets. Its light 24 hours a day for some time.
Even in southern Sweden the sun may set at 11 and go up again at 2 am in the summer.
ITS THE 4TH VIDEO IN A ROW WHERE HE READS THE DOLLAR - EURO CONVERSION THE WRONG WAY AND ACTUALLY THINKS THE DOLLAR IS WORTH MORE LMFAOOO
There seems to be a corelation between HDI and how religious the people are.
The same correlation that there's between global warming and pirate activity in the Caribbean.
@@ralkai based on which research?
Not really... For instance, HDI for the US and for Germany is comparable (0.92 vs. 0.94), but pretty much the entire US (short of a few states in the North-East) has more than 50% of its population certain that God exist, whereas for Germany it's 29% or less. Same with Scandinavia, Great Britain, etc. Also, European countries vary in terms of HDI much more than they vary in terms of the "religiousness". I really don't know how you came to this conclusion, but it's definitely incorrect.
@@Stefiiiz Read my comment again before accusing me of something I haven't said. Also if there is a correlation between 2 things, then that doesn't mean that there can't be other factors as well.
The thing that triggered my comment in the first place is that both in the US and in Europe people are more religious in lower HDI countries.
@@Vincrand Okay, I see your point now, however, it's mostly true for the US and it's only valid if you look at the relative values of the two indicators (I mean, if you look at the areas separately). If you take absolute numbers into consideration (and why wouldn't you if both indicators are calculated in the same way for the US and Europe and thus - completely comparable?), there's no real correlation.
Ocean and atmospheric currents play crucial roles in shaping the climate patterns and sunlight distribution across different regions of the world, including Europe and North America. These continents, with their diverse geographical features and proximity to major oceanic currents, exhibit distinct climate characteristics influenced by these interconnected systems.
In Europe, the presence of warm ocean currents, such as the North Atlantic Drift, significantly impacts the climate of western and northern regions. This current, an extension of the Gulf Stream, brings warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico towards the coastlines of Europe, particularly along the western shores. As a result, countries like the United Kingdom, Ireland, and parts of Scandinavia experience milder climates compared to their latitudinal equivalents. The influx of warm air and moisture from these ocean currents contributes to relatively higher temperatures and increased sunlight exposure in these regions, particularly during the winter months.
Conversely, in North America, the influence of oceanic currents varies depending on the coastline and geographic location. Along the west coast, the California Current brings cold water from the north, contributing to cooler temperatures and reduced sunlight hours in coastal areas of California, Oregon, and Washington. This can result in overcast conditions and marine layer fog, particularly during the summer months, which can limit sunlight penetration and affect local climate patterns.
On the east coast of North America, the Gulf Stream plays a significant role similar to its impact in Europe. This warm ocean current travels along the eastern seaboard, bringing warmth and moisture to regions like the southeastern United States and parts of eastern Canada. These areas often experience milder winters and warmer temperatures compared to regions at similar latitudes, thanks to the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream.
In both Europe and North America, atmospheric circulation patterns further interact with ocean currents to shape climate conditions. The movement of air masses, influenced by factors such as temperature differentials and land-sea distribution, contributes to the formation of weather systems and cloud cover, which can impact sunlight distribution across these continents.
In Sweden you can drink and buy alcohol in a bar at 18 but can only buy alcohol from systembolaget and bring home if you are 20.
Hours of sun is affected by overcast as well. The reason that SW US has more sun hours than say Florida, is because the Pacific is colder than the Atlantic at the american coast, thus less humidity in the air and thus less clouds. The rocky mountains also act as a cloud sheild of sorts.
More education and information = less religion/indoctrination. That's why religions always have fought against it.
The hours of sunlight are measured *on the ground,* where they heavily depend on the amount of clouds. Deserts, for example, tend to get more sun than rainforests, even if on the exact same latitude. (That goes both directions, of course: more clouds -> wetter -> more trees.) That's wind directions, mountain ranges, distances from water etc. etc.
Turkey is in Europe, yet most of their country is in Asia (Minor)including their Capital Ankara. Now go to former Soviet Union States. They cross the Europe Asia divide. Most of Russia in in Asia, but their Capital is in Europe.
That 'belief in the certainty of a god' graphic could also serve as an inverse relationship graphic for 'average intelligence quotient'
in sweden u can drive a car at age 15 if it's a low speed (30km/h) like a moped-car. Also regarding drinking age is different from the age you're allowed to buy it in store... 18 vs 21
Similar in Germany, just the top speed is 45km/h for those mopeds and cars. They lowered the age for 45km/h vehicles a few years ago...before that it was 25km/h at 15 and 45km/h at 16, now you can ride a 125cc/ 15hp bike, basically without any speed limit, at 16...
6:01 it's mostly about weather and/or terrain. In western norway and northern scotland, it's due to high fjords blocking sunlight. In many coastal places in Europe, high amounts of rain also mean less hours of sun, since rain clouds block out the sun.
5:20 the actual amount of sun hours, as in how long from sunrise to sunset is directly dependent on latitude. i think the metric they are showing in the graph is amount of sun hours, as amount of hours you can see the sun through the clouds.
As someone from Ireland who hates the sun, thank God we don't get more sunlight. My girlfriend lives in California though, and wants me to move there, so that's a concern (one of many).
Coming to DAYlight, in the north the total daylight per year is actually higher than by the ecuator due to "reflaction", how the sunlight bend through the atmosphere, especially near the poles.
18:10 he forgot a 0. He meant "1,07" not "1,7" . Its currently at 1,09. You also got the exchange rate displayed wrongly. He is showing "how many dollars you get for an Euro" while yours shows "how many euros i get for a dollar".
The alcohol age in Sweden at least (and I suspect the same in Norway and Finland ) is different depending on HOW you buy it. You can buy and drink alcohol in bars etc. But you can't buy packaged to take away/wholesale. Meant to limit alcohol consumption and adverse alcohol related effects on society. Closed containers taken away risking uncontrolled/underage consumption and distribution.
New York and Madrid have the same latitude. By the way, since Spain have no zoning laws, everything is blended and Madrid looks like Queens or Brooklin as seen in the movies.
Climate isn't as dependent on latitude as you might think. Seas and the flow of the sea play a big role.
As for sun hours, yes europ might have more clouds. But i have heard that the sun hours on those to maps are calculated using different criteria. Maybe the US is more generous as to what counts as a sun hour.
The age limit also depends on a number of different things. For example in Sweden the age of driving a car can be anything from 15 to 19 year depending on what kind of car it is. This really matters because Teens drive around in A and AM cars. Generally there is much more granularity in Europe.
For example in Sweden you can drive a new type of vehicle at age 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 21... (but not when you are 17 for some reason)
19:20 The fact that Dollar and Euro are nearly at parity is NOT a coincidence. The Euro is ultimately derived from the "European Unit of Account", which was created in 1950 at exact parity with the US Dollar. Its purpose was mainly accounting of Marshal Plan funds. The "European Unit of Account" was transformed into the "European Currency Unit" (ECU, pronounced in a French way) at parity in the 1970s, and the ECU was transformed into the Euro in 1999/2002 at parity. The exchange rate of those european units has drifted apart from the dollar somewhat through the years, but it remains close to 1:1.
Ankara, the capital of Turkey is is Asia, sice the country straddles both continents. Its also possible 🎉the The Holy See (The Vatican ) is excluded because it's a statistical anomany for various reasons ( technically no birth rate or death rate etc.). London, Dublin and Reykjavik arent on the European mainland, though I'm not sure why that's important, they're all still European cities.
Also surprising that Vatican City doesn't appear on the list of countries convinced god exits
Great video as always, it would be interesting to make a comparative video on secularism between European countries and the United States. continues to help us discover our differences and our similarities
The number of daylight hours is exactly the same all over the earth. Its only how much clods there are that differs. Sort of.
Above say around Latvia, nighttime sun is not counted.
But a other reason why there is little sunlight is that the Atlantic is so warm, that create clods that move in over land, specially in northern Europe. The med is also quite warm. This is total opposite in specially east USA where the Atlantic is very cold, and it suck down clods.
5:30 Northern Europe is heated by the Gulf stream. Warmer sea temperatures however also mean higher evaporation, combined with the dominant wind direction from the West more fog and more clouds in the regions near the sea = less sun. Also London (UK) is a bit north of Ontario (Canada) and New York a bit south of Rome - the comparison would be been better made between North America and Europe than between only the US and Europe. (The latitude of Indianapolis would be about in the middle between Rome and Athens, which would mean a warm mediterranean climate in Europe. Madrid would be slightly north of Indianapolis.)
If you draw a line westwards from London you pass completely above the US across Canada.
I saw snow in New York a few days ago and if you go east from New York you reach the south of France where the temperature right now is around 14 degrees C which is about the same in London. That’s 57degrees F.
What other factors determine hours of sun? --> weather patterns. Without researching (so correct me if I'm wrong!):
If it's cloudy and overcast, sunlight won't reach the surface. And what determines Europe's climate for a large part? The trans Atlantic deep sea current, which originates in the Gulf of Mexico.
Also, because of Earth's spin and the U.S. and Europe located on the northernn hemisphere, our winds are predominantly from west to east. With this in mind and the aforementioned (warm current, Europe receives alot of wind from the Atlantic ocean, which ofcourse brings clouds and precipitation. The U.S on the other hand is shielded by the Rocky Mountain range. A majority of the precipitation falls on the western side, hence why you have the PNW which is most comparable to Europe (UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, nothern France, Germany, Denmark, Poland...)
this why Ryan, Why is America so much sunnier than Europe?
Because Europe is further north than the United States.
The most southern portions of Europe are about ten degrees north of the most southern portions of the continental U.S.. Half of Europe, including the U.K. and Ireland, is above the highest point un the continental U.S..
Generally speaking the closer to the equator a location is the more sun it receives.
Wrong. The equator actually gets _less_ daylight hours than the Arctic and Antarctic circles due to atmospheric refraction. The difference is, as he reasoned out, cloud coverage.
Yes, the most southerly part of Great Britain, Lizard Point, is at the same latitude as Winnipeg. This is what caught out the Pilgrim Fathers they expected Massachusetts to have the same climate as Portugal.
Ryan, Why Europe has less sun hours despite being on the same latitude:
- weather as a reesult of,
cloud forming and earths atmospheric rotation and distributin of land, if u look at land distribution in the axis of rotation.
6:00 quite simple i think, mountains. There are regions where there is a drastic change in latitude, and there clouds kind of get stuck in front of the high mountains. And when wind mostly comes from the same side all the time, typically from the ocean land inwards, the area before the mountains has much less sunlight over the year than the area behind the mountains, because this area doesen´t get a lot of clouds at all.
Europe also included Islands as well as the Continent. Thus the Coninental capital cities might not be included as the Island capital cities. Like Ireland, Malta, Iceland, the UK, and so on
You're writing nonsense. A state means a state, regardless of whether it is on an island or a continent. These statistics simply did not take into account (and rightly so) capitals that are not located in Europe (as in the case of the capitals of Kazakhstan or Turkey, which are considered somehow European countries only because their tiny, tiny part is located in geographical Europe, and the overwhelming majority of them is in Asia). Generally, 45 capitals of European countries are European cities. And in total, there are 47 European countries (or partly European), or 48 if you include Georgia, but geographers argue whether the areas south of the Caucasus Mountains are still Europe or already Asia. Culturally, it is certainly Europe (culturally, Armenia, neighboring Georgia, is also European, and this since ancient times; but geographically, it is already clearly in Asia).
On the agerestriction Subject; in sweaden you can go to clubs and bars to drink at 18. But you can't bye alkohol in a store with higher % content (3,5%>) before 20.
the age to buy alcohol for finland is partially wrong in the graphs. you are generally allowed to drink at 18 and buy alcohol at 18 except for booze, which is limited to age 20 and above
Latitude and longitude are not the only thing that determines. The prevailing winds and ocean currents are also important. New England is colder and farther south than Englund. The winds across England have been warmed up by the Atlantic Ocean.
Correction about drinking age or alcohol purchase age limits in Finland: 18 years for beer, wine and milder alcohol products (less than 21% alchohol content) in government monopoly liquer stores. 20 years for all products. But in bars and restaurants the age limit is 18 years.
7:51 That divide is mostly a remnant of the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia. It's been "only" 33 years since the Soviet Union fell apart, and all these countries have been occupied for half a century. That kind of damage is not easily repaired...
With the comparison of sunshine the video messed up a little. In the first segment, it described that large parts of Europe are way further north than the US. It would be better to compare the hours of sunshine of the nothern American continent and Europe. Still, there will be differences, most probably since the US only have oceans to the sides while Europe has lots of costal area and costs are usually more cloudy and humid than areas like Indiana for example.
I am British before my first ever trip to the US my father said, it is very easy to be fooled into thinking that Europe and especially the UK is very smilier to each other...meaning the US, but they are so radically different.. My father spent a large part of is 40 years of service in the Royal Air Force working with and directly for people in the USN.. I myself met and married an American and even after 10 plus years of marriage we would sometimes look at each-other blankly.... Pro-trip No1 for anyone marrying an American.... The 1st floor in a department store in the US isn't the same as in the UK!!!!
and being fooled into thinking that the USA, UK, New Zealand and Australia are the same because they all speak only English
We have a huge Vitamin D deficiency problem. I take D supplements (with Vitamin K2, and cod liver oil which my mother poured down my throat from birth). A lot of people are unaware of this. However, since Vitamin D was added to some foodstuffs by law we have not seen the level of ricketts in the cloudier and industrial parts of Britain as we had in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, such as Glasgow and the North of England - bad diet, no sun, never seeing any daylight at all if you start work in the factory or mill in the dark, and finish it in the dark, as would happen in winter.
I am glad that liver oil comes nowadays in capsule form and not that vile fluid with the long lasting aftertaste.
Everyone in Ireland has low Vitamin D levels, we have to add it to our milk and cereals
Not quite true. The whiter the skin, the more efficient the body is at producing Vitamin D. Dark skinned people living in Northern Europe ought to take supplements, but not everyone.
Probably the on most influential reason more sun hours in North America is the continental climate = less humidity so dryer over all, also higher altitudes esp. in the western half.
We have supplements vitamins and more
number of yearly sun in linked to weather patterns... you (USA) have a big barrier that block the bad weather from going west to east (classic sense at those latitudes) and, cold oceanic current that doesn't help the making of clouds (and that change in the north, WA and OR being more... rainy...
in Europe, our mountains are mostly blocking the north south weather instead and we get the gulf stream that warm us and help charge the clouds
basically, Europe is more cloudy than the USA as a whole