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You're right, there's not as much difference between France's overseas territories as i had believed. However, when i went to fix my modification to that article, i noticed that France does not belong on that list at all! France is not transcontinental "solely by virtue of the fact that an integral part of their national territory consists of islands that are situated within the continental shelf of another continent", it's transcontinental because it has mainland territory on multiple continents. So i'm deleting France from this list. I hope you agree. Foobaz·o< 18:31, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Only in the case of French Guiana is the territory on a continental mainland, namely of South America. If the territory on other continents controlled by a nation on the list must consist solely of islands, then Spain has to go too, since Ceuta and Melilla is on the African mainland. In France's case, there are three other continents and Oceania covered besides South America. Actually, if we take the "solely" clause literally, Spain should be removed even more so than France. Heff01 21:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm familiar enough to write featured articles on the topic :) I know well what Ivan Asen II did, and I haven't heard of any Asian conquests — I checked briefly and I still haven't found anything to confirm this in my books, perhaps I need to dig deeper and more concrete. Currently, the only "source" used to back that claim in the list is a totally flawed map which displays Constantinople in the middle of the Black Sea and the Danube spilling inland :) Please, could you find another source, I'd be curious to know what territories in Asia Minor Bulgaria has controlled — I intend to help bring Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria to FA status someday, probably in the summer, and it will surely be of use :) Todor→Bozhinov 10:05, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right about the map link; an overlay was obviously out of whack. I'm going to look for more information and a better map of Bulgarian aggression against the Latin Empire. Heff01 18:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! There are someone to change Greece to fully European and Malta from North Africa to South Europe. There are similar things in continent templates (asia,africa,europe) Can you please take a look? Sincerely User talk:Zaparojdik10:57 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I've responded to your comment at my talk page. If you feel there's a better course of action to be taken or that you can make the article clearer, by all means, go ahead. theProject 05:08, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the edit again before I saw your entry on the talk page, where I've replied. Doug Weller (talk) 16:44, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Heff01! I've noticed your political "coverage" and think it's been an excellent addition to Lehigh Valley-related pages, so I was a little hesitant to change your media additions. I did feel, however, that adding Berks was low on the notability scale because it would also necessitate adding reception from other adjacent counties, including Northampton, Monroe, Luzerne, Bucks, etc. - the Chicago (WLS) and Boston (WBZ) remark was an exaggeration to make the point. Given that, the paragraph clearly would get overburdened. I'll grant New York is a similar stretch, but Philly is highly significant. By virtue of their sizes, as well as the inference that these markets are close enough for us to receive their stations, the previous statement was much more notable, in my opinion, than trying to strive for completeness. All such things being open to discussion, I welcome your reply. Thanks. Allreet (talk) 14:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking of making a complete list of Pennsylvania Home Rule communities as part of the Home Rule Municipality (Pennsylvania) article. Currently there is a partial list at the top of List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania. I would probably also add a symbol to the nav boxes for home rule communities - see the discussion at Template talk:Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The problem is that the most recent source I can find is this. I have admired your edits on county officials and assume you might be able to provide a better source / more complete list. Your thoughts? Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 20:06, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Unfortunately, I didn't find about this until two months after the fact. Even had I time to defend the article, the votes probably weren't there to preserve it. Its the thought that counts. Heff01 (talk) 22:34, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw some of your edits and wanted to say, "Good job." Were you aware that Esbenshade's "Place Names in Pennsylvania" is online, here? That may provide you with the material to source some of the new articles. Choess (talk) 05:01, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I created the page because the Fairlane Village Mall was on the list of shopping malls in Pennsylvania but did not have its own page. I am unsure as to what you believe is lacking. The mall will become more viable once Kohl's opens in the Value City space. Heff01 (talk) 15:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redone properly once Kohl's opened. Revitalisation for the FV mall is slow but happening. Heff01 (talk) 02:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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What does NN mean? Is this mall too small despite three major anchors? Heff01 (talk) 18:50, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The source is the Weather Channel, which was used for the chart. I used the Koeppen system to determine it as a humid subtropical climate on the northern periphery. The boundary with Dfa passes through Delaware County. Heff01 (talk) 06:36, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I shall find one. The only map that I know of for New Jersey shows the whole region as Cfa because the -3°C isotherm is used. Heff01 (talk) 04:50, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the temperature averages on the Wikipedia page for Asbury Park, the January temperature average makes its boundary status obvious. Heff01 (talk) 04:54, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to see how long the entry would survive once I added the talk. I decided that there is a much better case for LVI than for Tweed New Haven so I only added LVI back at this time. Whoever makes the decision to revert LVI inclusion lives in or much closer to NYC than I do (I am from Allentown, PA.) Heff01 (talk) 14:56, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I would have to search for references, but the Wikipedia page on the airport states that it is a diversion airport for major NYC metro airports and Philadelphia. Heff01 (talk) 14:58, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Trewartha classification of subtropical climates is a pure nonsense. I repeat subtropical means almost or nearly tropical. Tropical means warm or hot summer and absence of true winter (frost unknown or exceptional). A subtropical climate is a sort of tropical climate with either a short true winter or a long true but subdued winter. In other words in subtropical climates, a) frost, though not unknown, is occasional and b) in summers you can wear shorts and tee-shirts without sweaters, jackets and/or coats.

The Köppen Csa-Cwa-Cfa climates or the Trewartha C climates (most of Köppen Csa-Cwa-Cfa climates + a part of the Csb-Cwb-Cfb climates) include too many cool and very cool climates very far from tropical climates. Almost all the climates classifications are in fact bioclimates classifications including Köppen's and Trewartha's. In Ouessant you have heather, ulex (whin), grass, etc ... in other words a pure temperate vegetation which withstands periods of cold while subtropical vegetation can't bear too long periods of cold. I never went to Ouessant but to Brest in Bretagne (Brittany) (I am actually living at 40 km from Paris). Ouessant has a hyperoceanic climate : Brest is the oceanic version of Ouessant that is with winters slightly colder and summers slightly less cool. And I can tell you that your nuts are freezing at Brest. In the Finistère departement where are located Ouessant and Brest, you almost never get warm in summer. Imagine that the hottest temperature ever in Ouessant is 29.3°C, far from being tropical and even subtropical. Whenever French meteorologists or climatologists talk about Metropolitan France climates, they exclusively use the term temperate (either temperate oceanic or temperate degraded oceanic or temperate semicontinental) (and eventually the expression of "mountain climate" about the Alpes (Alps) or Pyrénées (Pyrenees)) but they never use the word "subtropical" even for la Côte d'Azur (French Riviera : Nice, Saint-Tropez, ...) or la Corse (Corsica : Ajaccio, Bastia). Subtropical is unknown in Metropolitan France. If you tell a Ouessantin (inhabitant of Ouessant) that his climate is subtropical he will laugh at your face because he almost can never be dressed in shorts and often wears a sweater and/or a coat even in summers. The Isles of Silly in Great Britain, 200 km north northwest of Ouessant, have exactly the same climate.

In Köppen classification, you may have subtropical climates with mean winter temperature close to -3°C (the 0°C threshold is not in Köppen's classification but a modification by US climatologists) : ridiculous !!! Claim that New York City, where frost may occur in any of the 7 to 8 coldest months of the year, has a subtropical climate is a nonsense. New York City's winter is too strong and too long to consider that town has a subtropical climate. Vegetation in New York City may support long winters so is not a subtropical vegetation at all. New Orleans has a subtropical climate, no doubt but New York City has a temperate subcontinental (annual thermal amplitude between 21°C-28°C in Rivas-Martínez' classification, http://www.globalbioclimatics.org/book/bioc/global_bioclimatics_0.htm) climate. Even Trewartha considered New York City as temperate and not subtropical. You can't compare New York winters (0.3°C in January) with New Orleans' (11.9°C) : New Orleans is "almost" tropical while New York is "very far from" tropical.

After all, Köppen used the mean annual temperature of 18°C to separate cold (semi-)arid climates (that are called now temperate (semi-) arid climates) from warm (semi-)arid climates (called now either subtropical or tropical (semi-)arid climates). For the sake of consistency, he could have chosen the same limit for the humid (non-arid) climates and defined subtropical climates as climates with a mean annual temperature above or equal to 18°C and a coldest mean monthly temperature below 18°C. I recall that he also used that 18°C limit to define tropical climates : this time the 18°C threshold was used for the "coldest" month.

In wikipedia, only Köppen-Geiger's (and eventually Trewartha's) classification is considered but not more modern works such as those of Holdridge or Salvador Rivas-Martínez which are very seldom used as references. Holdridge noted that a threshold of a mean annual biotemperature situated between 16°C and 18°C (depending on locations) separates vegetation withstanding cold periods from vegetation too sensible to low temperatures.

Though Köppen made a superb work, his classification is however dated nowadays. Rivas-Martínez for instance uses more sophisticated thresholds. Example : the polar climates. Köppen defined the polar climates as climates where all mean monthly temperatures are below 10°C. Imagine a station with all mean monthly temperatures equal to 9.9°C : according to Köppen it would be polar. Happily this case doesn't exist on earth now but you have some examples close enough. Campbell Island in New Zealand is polar according to Köppen (mean monthly temperatures between 4.9°C and 9.6°C : so winters are pretty mild and not polar, for instance at 40 km from Paris the coldest monthly temperature is 1.5°C inferior to that of Campbell : I have "more polar" winters than Campbell). Ushuaïa (mean monthly temperatures between 1.7°C and 9.7°C is also polar according to Köppen whereas once you get out of the inner town you enter in a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest which is pretty different from the tundra associated to Köppen's ET polar climate.

Rivas-Martínez considers that the climate is polar when the sum of the positive mean monthly temperatures (Tp) is inferior to 38°C which is equivalent to an annual biotemperature inferior to 3.1666...°C. Therefore such stations as Campbell island (biotemperature = 7.0°C according to wikipedia) or Ushuaia (4.9°C in wikipedia) aren't polar in Rivas' definition. According to Rivas-Martinez, Campbell island climate is temperate (http://www.globalbioclimatics.org/station/ne-campb.htm : biotemperature = 6.97°C in that source) but not polar and Ushuaia's is "boreal (antiboreal)" (http://www.globalbioclimatics.org/station/ar-ushua.htm : 5.57°C instead of wikipedia's 4.9°C) that is a climate between temperate and polar but once again not polar. In Köppen's classification there are too many polar regions not associated with their associated tundra or ice cap stratum while this is not the case with Rivas classification.

The limit between polar and boreal climates according to Rivas is the 3.1666...°C mean annual biotemperature (see above or "una temperatura positiva anual inferior a 380 (Tp)" in http://www.globalbioclimatics.org/book/bioc/global_bioclimatics_2.htm#2da written in Spanish in 2004, Tp being expressed in "tenths of °C" : 380 = 38°C) and the limit between (subpolar and) polar and boreal climates according to Holdridge is ... 3°C (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdridge_life_zones). Rivas-Martínez and Holdridge almost perfectly agree on that (though Rivas has introduced in 2017 a new variant : the infrapolar climate with 380 < Tp < 600 that is 3.1666...°C < mean annual biotemperature < 5°C).

All this to say that other climatologists than Köppen could be considered nowadays.

To come back to the subtropical definitions,

the Holdridge's definition could be used as a reference (16-18°C ≤ mean annual biotemperature ≤ 24°C)

(and you can note that Köppen (semi-)arid climate's threshold of 18°C separating the "temperate" (semi-arid) climates from the warm "subtropical" (semi-arid) climates is close to Holdridge's 16-18°C).

Those thresholds are much more accurate than Trewartha's and Köppen ("humid" Csa-Cfa-Cwa) climates' thresholds

because the latter climates encompass to many temperate (not even temperate warm) regions : either mild as off the Britanny ("French Britanny" or "Great Britain") coasts or almost continental as in NYC.--Carlo Colussi (talk) 14:58, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with not including places like NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC, or downtown Cincinnati because they only qualify according to Koeppen. At that, all except DC are borderline and Cincinnati's hardiness zone is 6b (annual absolute average temperature below 0° F.) I agree with Ushant and coastal Cornwall being included but listed as only under the Trewartha system. Their hardiness zones are AT LEAST 9b, if not 10a. Heff01 (talk) 05:39, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Washington DC narrowly misses the Trewartha mark, as does the London Weather Centre (even though the latter is an oceanic climate.) Although Baltimore is farther north than DC, it is more built up and on an arm of the Chesapeake Bay so that Downtown and Inner Harbor Baltimore DO meet the Trewartha defintion. Read my comments in the list of locations with a subtropical climate about how I back up Baltimore's inclusion. Heff01 (talk) 05:47, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Baltimore's geographic location and urban heat island effect cause its downtown to be Trewartha's northernmost subtropical example in North America east of California. Heff01 (talk) 05:51, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This is not intended to be disruptive. All I intended to do was show what areas of the South do not meet the Trewartha definition of subtropical with a map link to show it. In recent times I have taken much of an interest in climate. The Do zone in Trewartha extends from Delaware to the Texas Panhandle. Heff01 (talk) 17:17, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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