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Ok so i have been wondering. Why does the south have so much snow? I grew up in mid-missouri and now live in NE GA. In missouri we maybe got enought snow for a months worth sometime more in the bad winters..that was during good years and in Ga we have only had 3 good snows in the last 4 years...maybe the weather was different back then but there seems to be a ton of snow in the game for months and months even in the deep south. Can anyone explain why this is? i mean its kind of annoying because i would think that was when the south would have the best advantage...the north being all covered in snow and making troops hard to move while the south is like 50-60 degrees and the most you have to worry about is maybe a thunder storm. I mean it makes sense in tennesse and virginia...but why Mississippi, GA ,LA, SC?

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Not questioning the decison, just curious - what was the source for information on the weather in the 1860's

tyler11 wrote:Ok so i have been wondering. Why does the south have so much snow? I grew up in mid-missouri and now live in NE GA. In missouri we maybe got enought snow for a months worth sometime more in the bad winters..that was during good years and in Ga we have only had 3 good snows in the last 4 years...maybe the weather was different back then but there seems to be a ton of snow in the game for months and months even in the deep south. Can anyone explain why this is? i mean its kind of annoying because i would think that was when the south would have the best advantage...the north being all covered in snow and making troops hard to move while the south is like 50-60 degrees and the most you have to worry about is maybe a thunder storm. I mean it makes sense in tennesse and virginia...but why Mississippi, GA ,LA, SC?

Indeed. It's something really curious that I've always wondered.

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There were several major volcanic events in the late 1700s and the early to mid 1800s that effected weather world wide.

Tambora, in 1815 was the largest, putting 150 cubic km. worth of ash into the atmosphere.

10 cubic km. is enough to effect world weather for more than a decade. Tambora caused a world wide famine that lasted several years and likely caused the cooling that lasted most of the century.

Anyway, it really was colder then.

An additional explanation which was given when similar questions were raised in regard to RoP and RUS is that snow in this game represents harsh winter weather in a more general sense: Freezing cold and icy winds can be just as devastating as actual snow.

OneArmedMexican wrote:An additional explanation which was given when similar questions were raised in regard to RoP and RUS is that snow in this game represents harsh winter weather in a more general sense: Freezing cold and icy winds can be just as devastating as actual snow.

Yes. Especially without modern heating systems.

...and before Global Warming.

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