No Proteas in Europe.

Suprised to see NH as one of the few states consistant on Nuclear. Seabrook Station has gotten so much shit since its construction, they never even finished its second reactor.

(Granddad worked for PSNH and helped with the construction)

Its a sedge, not related to cotton, but one of my favorite plants. We get it or a different species in the genus in bogs here in New England.

Its a species of Eriophorum. "Tussock Grass" or "Cotton Sedge." Its in the Sedge family Cyperaceae.

We get a ton of it in New England, a lot of the Greenland plants do well here at the higher elevations.

New Hampshire in the 90s/00s. Suprised your lakes don't freeze over every winter, I thought upstate NY was colder than over here. Lake Winnipesaukee freezes over pretty damn solid every year, usually enough to take a bobhouse out.

The lake usually doesn't "ice out" until April, but its been getting earlier every year. Used to work on the Mt Washington as a deck officer and one year we had guys jetskiing in late March.

Not much, we've been here before. Consisntant 0⁰ days used to feel like the norm when I was a little kid, now any mention of negative temps feels like a big todo.

Its New England, not Texas. We can handle a bit of a chill.

The White Mountains in New Hampshire are predicted to get windchills as low as -100⁰.

Still will most likely not break the state record for lowest temp.

Edit: they broke the windchill record for the US

Not likely, most narrow endemic species (Plants anyway, I'm not sure we even have any narrow endemic animals) in New England are found on Cape Cod or in the White Mountains.

This is missing dozens of conventions.

I New England alone you have Another Anime Convention, Pop Cult Anime Convention, Bakuretsucon, Animaine, Anime Boston, Queen City Kamakaze, Portcon, and Connecticon just to name ones I have been to recently.

I get some of them are small, but Connecticon is a four-day convention that sells out like 5 hotels in Hartford, its pretty big, definitely bigger than either of the conventions (and it only indicates one) that take place in Portland Maine.

Same thing that's going on with California, Texas and Florida. High initial biodiversity leads to a lot of opportunities for things become endangered. Alabama is the most biodiverse state east of the Mississippi baring Florida.

Not many spring breakers drinking Campari

"The Taconic Mountains or Taconic Range (/təˈkɒnɪk/) are a range of the Appalachian Mountains, running along the eastern border of New York State and adjacent New England from northwest Connecticut to western Massachusetts, north to central western Vermont. A physiographic region of the larger New England province, the range includes notable summits, including its high point, 3,840 feet (1,170 m) Mount Equinox in Vermont, and 3,489 feet (1,063 m) Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts."

I really don't understand why everyone is bent out of shape over this.

If you lived in the region you should have read up on its geology a bit more.

"Written in Stone" by Chet and Maureen Raymo is a great introduction to the geology and topography of the Northeast.

Rural for the Northeast anyway.

Also Mt Greylock isn't in the Berkshires, its part of the Taconic Mountains. The Berkshires are a different formation to the east.

And this is in a very small, urbanized state too.

Edit: Massachusetts is the 7th smallest state, 15th most populated, and ranks 3rd in population density. I'm not sure why people downvoted this. Yes it has rural areas and yes they are lovely, but it is absolutely a small and urbanized state.

I lived in Maine and NH before I lived in MA and though its my cultural obligation to dunk on it, I do love this state.

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Eriophorum are such underrated plants. They look like little Truffula Trees! They're wrapping up here in New England too.