12th December 2006, 6:49 PM
It's not even just that. In a standard land mass, there's still not that drastic a change. I've posted it before, but being right in the middle of two mountain ranges forming a sort of weather tube of mixing currents from north and south, meeting right around north Oklahoma and south Kansas has some interesting results. Namely, tornadoes and wild weather fluctuations. Of course the weather doesn't really have the right conditions for a tornado this time of year.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)