Bottom line, once again, the sun is what drives the climate and maintain warm enough temperatures habitable for life. Without it, Earth will simply be a dead, frozen planet. My professional background includes climate and hydrology (ie water science). So, take it with the understanding that we cannot live without the sun on Earth. Sun helps evaporate the water, help create clouds, temperature differences produce pressure differences and hence winds, and so on. It's the biggest factor in driving our climate. And then you have other smaller factors that come into play, including geography where mountains and elevations have an effect on creating it's own micro-climates.
Yes I know that, without Sun, we will not live and don't forget, if there are no Sun, then there will be no planets. I was only saying that the Sun was not the only thing that control our temperature.
Secondly, Fairbanks does not get up to into 100s but certainly the 90s during heat waves. A record high of 100 did occur in Alaska but that's about it. Thirdly, Fairbanks has not gotten down into the -50s during the winters but more like -30s to -40s when it comes to regular extremes. It usually get down into the -10s to -20s but certainly not -50s.
Fairbanks
The link says "-40 or
colder" that mean probably reached to -50's and I learned that Fairbanks got 100's from the city-data forums where people live in Fairbanks and tell people what's it like there.
However, I do not think you understand my point about Fairbanks, I was comparing the geography of Fairbanks and Barrow, why Fairbanks can be very cold than Barrow in the winter, and hottest than Barrow in the summers.
Again, the sun help warms the water plus you have ocean own mass (water is a good heat conductor and holds and stores heat well) and inertia along with Earth's spinning body helps provide the ocean it's circulation. A major factor on how it influences our climate. So, certainly if you think about it you'll understand why Greenland's temperature is much more moderate because it's near a warmer body of ocean water only because the oceans current comes up from the south Atlantic to the north over to Greenland then near the UK and back down south. Same thing for the Pacific ocean and why the ocean's water is colder along the west coast of the United States than along Japan's coastline.
Ocean Motion : Impact : Ocean Conveyor Belt
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Ever heard that NASA suspected some planets that are very far from Sun have the ocean under the ice? Notice those gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn? They are not ice, but has huge of atmosphere and liquid, but are still very far from the sun? Wanna know why? Saturn's wind is at 1,000 mph! That explain. Air does control the temperature too and it even keep the liquid remain liquid instead of ice.
And Greenland's towns temperature is not moderately, it's very very cold! When I said moderate, I mean the temperature that people could live at maximum of the cold in Greenland.
The "hot" is not the only the temperature, the cold is the temperature too. We got four main thing, wind, water, soil, and fire. They all affect our temperature.
Oh, btw, it's cooler at the beach on the West coast only because the Pacific Ocean's water is much colder than the Atlantic Ocean on the East Coast at the same latitude. And so inland sea breezes come in off of the Pacific Ocean will be much more cooler than on the East Coast. There's about a 10F degrees differences between the two oceans from around low 80s on the Atlantic Ocean versus low 70s on the Pacific Ocean.
NWS JetStream - The Sea Breeze
Exactly, that is how nature the water is.
