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Why do summers get so hot at northern latitudes? It seems like it isn't so much that northern latitudes have temps have temps that are consistently X° cooler than a lower latitude, but rather they just have a vastly lower floor during winter while maintaining much more similar highs in the summer.

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Why do summers get so hot at northern latitudes? It seems like it isn't so much that northern latitudes have temps have temps that are consistently X° cooler than a lower latitude, but rather they just have a vastly lower floor during winter while maintaining much more similar highs in the summer.	1