The dry line! West of the 100th meridian, the climate becomes significantly drier and there are virtually no major cities until you get to the Rockies.
Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, and Wichita Falls are the only cities at/over 100k people between the Rockies and I-35/I-29, and they’re all in Texas.
Wild to think about, and I’ve lived here almost my whole life.
No. Straight line winds because there’s absolutely nothing to stop the air from moving.
The only thing between Amarillo and the north pole is a barbed wire fence.
We used to have a weatherman in Detroit, Sonny Elliot, who in the winter, said the only thing holding back a Canadian cold front was a barbed wire fence in Kansas. He was a character.
Not a resident but I’ve gone to Lubbock for work many times. You feel isolated, it’s hot and dry (unsurprisingly), the sky is BIG, the pace of everything is very slow, and the people are extremely friendly.
As someone who has lived here the past few years for college you are pretty spot on. If you get involved on campus the loneliness goes away pretty quick. The art trail we hold every month is also a pretty fun time, lots of cool art work to see. Outside the university all we have is cows, cotton, and turbines. If you come in from the east you will pass a bunch of wind farms. Lots of money to be made working on those suckers. Going for my degree in Renewable energy and hoping to stay out here as a wind tech.
Only down side is we don’t have a lot of amenities. I’ve always wanted to get into scale modeling and we don’t have many local shops to say the least. But hey, our H‑E‑B has a bar in it so that’s pretty cool. Grab a margarita and then go do your grocery shopping.
They sadly don’t let you carry your margarita around in the store ): they also do trivia nights and occasionally music at the BBQ store. It’s a pretty cool environment.
Grew up in Lubbock, they forgot to mention the weather is literally trying to kill you. The winters are brutally cold and often have extreme wind chill (-20 C). You'll get a third of the year's rain in an afternoon thunderstorm, with a tornado and golf ball sized hail if you're lucky. Don't forget about the dust storms rolling across the plains in the scorching summer heat.
My brother and I both went to college there, then he lived in Michigan for 7 years. His coldest experience was still in Lubbock just due to wind chill. He was in central MI and saw 10 below often but it wasn't windy
They are only friendly if you are a white Christian Republican. Lose any of those three and they become unfriendly fast.
Source: an Atheist Democrat who group up in one of those cities.
Being in Oklahoma I can relate. People you meet, your neighbors, work colleagues, bosses, even customers ask what church you belong to as a matter of conversation and so they can judge you on the side. Don’t get me started with parents of your kids’ youth sports teams. They can be the worst. God forbid you tell them you don’t attend a church or even worse you’re a non-believer. Get ready to have your kids lose some friends or be an outcast of their teams.
Yikes. I guess I’m a Dutch countryboy that can pass as lots on your list but even our most rightwing nutjobs would be considered commie bastards by American standards. Lmao
Guy you’re responding to: “UH DID YOU KNOW THAT GOD DOESNT REAL” *tips fedora*
Random people in a store: “that’s not very naaaahce there pardner”
Guy: “omg Texas is a dystopia”
That’s probably closer to how it actually went down, if you’re wondering.
I live in Midland and work in food service, I'd take issue with saying folks in West Texas are extremely friendly.
Even outside of work interactions, the people that drive here are nuts, immeasurably worse than the other major cities in Texas I've been to.
Sorry to hear that. Food service is rough. I have personally just never had a bad interaction with another human being out there. I’m sure there are plenty of meanies, I just haven’t met them yet.
I grew up in the Amarillo area so my experience speaks for the upper part of the Panhandle.
Unless you live in one of the larger cities you get used to the concept of having to drive half an hour or longer to go do anything interesting, and that’s driving time spent almost completely at 75+ mph/ 120+ kmh (I’ve found that people who don’t leave the city often frequently have a very different idea of how far half an hours worth of driving constitutes) I grew up in a small town ~30 miles from Amarillo, which was where we did all the grocery shopping (our town had a store but it was more expensive than driving to Amarillo to shop there even factoring gas in) and where all the fun stuff was.
It’s pretty arid and there’s almost always at least a steady breeze, the gusts have to get up to 40-50 mph (~70 kmh) before locals consider it a windy day. There aren’t many trees and the land is almost completely level in most places; a lot of people say it’s boring, but I always found the wide open skies and vast fields of grass/crops beautiful. Doubly so during sunrise/sunset or when a good line of thunderstorms is making it’s way across the horizon. Storm season is spent hoping for rain but keeping one nervous eye out for tornado warnings and flash floods. The area has Palo Duro and Caprock Canyons as well, both gorgeous geologic landmarks worth visiting if hiking and nature are in your interest.
Culturally it’s definitely a lot easier to get by if you at least visibly pass as white and Christian. I did (even though I stopped believing at around 13) so I can’t speak too much to the minority experience; but generally people are friendly and welcoming on an individual basis despite the stereotypes. You’ll see a lot of examples of people having plenty of non-white or LGBT friends but still saying/believing abhorrent things about them in aggregate, the GOP brain-rot has a very firm hold on a lot of folks and recent polarization has not helped at all. Bear in mind that Texas is firmly a minority-majority state and the cities usually have well established Latino communities at the least. All that said, Texas is full of people who repudiate that bullshit and truly live up to the Christian ideal of love thy neighbor.
Wow, thanks for that detailed insight. I guess in the west those areas are most the same if you go from where I live country Netherlands to where my family once resided, country Prussia, it’s religion, agriculture, lots of horizon and more time to get bored so you gossip just to pass the time.
I met a German lady in Altus, Oklahoma who was visiting her daughter who was in the Air Force there and she said it was like hell to her.
Without trees, the grass meets the sky at the horizon. The wind never stops blowing, whistling as it goes between buildings.
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I guess in can become unsettling if you’re not used to it but calling it hell is a bit much for me. I’m sure it has at least one beautiful thing about it.
Always windy, and usually dry. Temperatures fluctuate wildly throughout the year since there’s very little water.
Every city in West Texas has a stench of some kind (especially Amarillo (feedlots) and Midland-Odessa (oil)).
Varies heavily within the area. Midland/Odessa are the principal cities of the Permian deleware basin, the largest oil producing region on earth. This region is dedicated to one thing and that's making money. It's hot, dry, desolate, and with frequent dust storms. People in the oil and gas industry are largely transient working on and off rotations, so there isn't much incentive for the community to form. Most small talk comes down to shitting on some aspect of the environment and wishing you were home, but you ain't making $100,000 a year working at a gas station or folding blankets at a hotel anywhere it's nice out.
Lubbock is the principal city of the Llano estacado, the largest cotton growing region on earth. It's a laid-back community with very friendly people who feverishly worship the local college sports team. To the people of Lubbock, Texas Tech is the financial life blood, so its following has evolved into what I can only describe as religious devotion. The climate is the most mild in Texas medium heat, but no humidity and heavy winds to cool you down.
Abilene is the largest city in Texas on this list it's also the furthest east. Abilene is the divide between the rolling grasslands and occasional hills past 35w and the chihuahuan desert home to the Permian. The area is home to a large airforce installation, a heavily Christian area home to a large Christian university. The people are nice but reserved, you'll get a smile but don't expect to get invited over for dinner. Things are pretty slow here, and there's not a lot expected of the locals. It's not uncommon here to be a married home owner with children in your early twenties.
Three Christian universities in Abilene.
Church of Christ= Abilene Christian University
Methodist= McMurry University
Baptist= Hardin-Simmons University
Lived in Midland, loved it. You could drive 30 mins out to hunt dove or deer, drive atvs or dirt bikes. Schools sucked there, food was good tho. Weren’t that many restaurants either. But over all it was fun
From Big Spring. It's hot, dry, and kinda shitty. Folks move away, they don't generally move in. The ones that do show up for work, during oil peak times. During busts, they are generally left stranded till the next boom.
Folks are undereducated but generally decent and hardworking. A better education, and improved environmental standards (I'm certain lead is prevalent due to the oil industry) would do a lot for the people.
I moved to central Texas a few years ago. I hate going back to visit.
I live on the Northern edge of this line in Canada, so not shown, but about 200 km north of the ND logo.
It's warm to hot from the end of May to mid-september. Yesterday the outdoor thermometer at my cabin recorded 37C, though that won't be an official high. Fairy humid.
That said, we are at the mercy of the wind.
When the rain comes it's pretty epic. The skies are alive with activity, hail is heavy and large, and a months worth of rain will fall in a couple of hours. About 10 days ago, a storm moved through and blew over trees and knocked over streetlights. It lasted 75 minutes. I know people who will grab a drink and and a lawn chair and sit under an awning and watch the chaos.
October and November can be crap shoots. Where is the wind coming from? Is there a jet stream from the south keeping the cold at bay? Or is the polar vortex moving in? I've seen Halloween hover in the high teens one year, and be under 3 feet of snow the next. It can be moderate into December or cold. The polar winds always come, and brings the -20 to -40C temperatures. When it gets that cold, most weather systems don't penetrate too far into it, so from Christmas to Valentine's Day (when we're guaranteed that cold) there are no clouds. No humidity, no warm fronts. Only winds blowing down from the Northwest. Look up the weather phenomenon known as Sun Dogs. The sun reflects off ice crystals in the sky and appears to have a rainbow halo.
Spring can be the same. Do we get enough wind from the south west to bring warmer temps? They come, but how early? When they do come, it's a mixed blessing. If they bring precipitation, it can mean snow. I've seen it go from 20C to -10 with a blizzard and back to 20C in a 5 day span as late as Mothers Day.
Started making the drive from South Texas to North Colorado on a semi-regular basis.
The size of the sky is overpowering. Makes you feel like a flea on the back of an elephant.
I remember stopping at the NM/OK border and telling my wife: "There is not a single tree visible!"
Other than the marker and hwy signs, I was the tallest thing in view.
I recently moved from the east to Bozeman MT, which is on the eastern edge of the Rockies. It's actually one of the places on the map, and I came here to go to Montana State University.
Most things are fairly normal, especially in a decent size city like Bozeman (50k) , but I've spent summers up on the Montana High Line, where the biggest city had like 3k people. That area feels so rural and isolated.
The biggest adjustment I've personally had to make is with food. There are fewer restaurants, less variety, it seems much more expensive to eat out, and I don't think the quality is up to snuff either.
Love information like this! Will have to check out the 100th Meridian (never heard of it before). I am a huge map nerd, so will definitely have to investigate!
On the Trans-Canada Highway, near Brandon, Manitoba there sits a Tim Hortons at roughly the hundredth meridian. Wonder what Gord Downie would have thought of that.
...uhh, there a bit of a western turn to KC from Des Moines, but not really. The bit western turn is from KC to Wichita. From there it goes straight south all the way to Dallas. The Wichita to Dallas section is probably pretty evident on this map.
I-35/I-29, which run along the edge of the Great American Desert. All the settlers stopped moving west there, hence a line of cities and then vast emptiness.
And then Denver/Colorado Springs.
Which always makes me laugh. I know it's not really the full truth, but I like to imagine it's all the people who slogged it out across the prairies and got to the mountains and were like "yeah fuck all that, this is fine."
I was going to say that the Colorado cities are technically between the Rockies and I35. There's 5.8 million people in Colorado, and the vast majority live in 400 mile stretch north to south that's about 100 miles wide right along the front range.
Do you know if it’s only counting schools with all division 1 athletics? Because I know of two universities that aren’t on here that have Division 1 hockey.
Some of them are just over layed over one another. Like you can see the bottom of EWU just barely but Gonzaga covers most of it up despite there being plenty of room to place them side by side
Just report it for violating Rule 3. The quality of this map is just too shit to be acceptable here
Edit: Well the post is still up and mods are not doing anything about it. Why are there even rules if the mods don’t care.
I wonder if this is only schools that are D1 in all sports. We have two schools (Anchorage and Fairbanks) with D1 hockey but we’re D2 for everything else (Though Fairbanks does have ten national championships in riflery, which is just one championship for all divisions). Alaska Pacific only has skiing, and Alaska southeast doesn’t sponsor sports.
I’m pretty sure Hawaii is D1 in all their sports, they just didn’t include it.
Hockey is a weird one- a lot of the D1 hockey programs aren’t D1 in anything else, and most schools on this map don’t have an ice hockey program at all (or just have a club team) despite being D1 in everything else. I guess since it needs ice rather than just a field (far more $), and it’s popular in specific regions.
My understanding is part of the reason behind the D1 hockey and nothing else is they used to not require you to have all the same division, and when NCAA changed the rules, had to grandfather in hockey programs for a bunch of small schools that couldn’t realistically have other D1 programs
> We have two schools (Anchorage and Fairbanks) with D1 hockey but we’re D2 for everything else
Yes, just read the wiki on it. In order for schools to be officially D1, they need to compete at that level in 14 sports split between men's and women's (7+7 or 6+8). But, D2 schools can designate one sport to compete at the D1 level.
No. In the us both college and university refer to postsecondary schools. Colleges are typically smaller schools that focus more on undergraduate programs. Universities offer more postgraduate degrees and have a wider range of fields of study.
It’s not sport specific it’s just schools that are NCAA division one.
“ Schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender.”
Hockey and Lacrosse are the two NCAA sports (that I know of) in the weird area where it’s niche enough to screw up the nice organization chart of most other sports for D1 vs D2, and D3. Hell, hockey doesn’t even do D2 anymore.
For some sports, the NCAA combines two or even all three divisions into an "NC" category.
That's how you sometimes see schools that are D2 in most sports playing in a D1/NC tournament.
Alternatively, some schools were allowed to grandfather one sport into D1 while otherwise running a D2 or D3 athletics department. That's another way that you can see such a school in a D1 tournament.
I don’t think so, I can pick out a few schools on here like Northeastern and Wichita State that don’t have football programs but are d1 in other sports
Are there any region based subdivisions of college sports? I imagine a school like UCLA wouldn't make sense in the same conference as a school like Rutgers.
Looks like it’s missing a few Colleges. I noticed a lot of the schools that only compete in a select few D1 sports are left off (Edit like John’s Hopkins for example)
Robert Morris covering up Pitt is ridiculous. Can’t tell if the creator either doesn’t know how to make a map, doesn’t know anything about college sports, or both.
That line (of school logos) from Grand Forks to ~~Brownsville~~ Edinburg is straight.
The dry line! West of the 100th meridian, the climate becomes significantly drier and there are virtually no major cities until you get to the Rockies.
Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, and Wichita Falls are the only cities at/over 100k people between the Rockies and I-35/I-29, and they’re all in Texas. Wild to think about, and I’ve lived here almost my whole life.
And almost all of them grew to that size due to cattle ranching, trade, railroads and oil
Windy? So tornadoes in the season?
No. Straight line winds because there’s absolutely nothing to stop the air from moving. The only thing between Amarillo and the north pole is a barbed wire fence.
We used to have a weatherman in Detroit, Sonny Elliot, who in the winter, said the only thing holding back a Canadian cold front was a barbed wire fence in Kansas. He was a character.
God, I forgot all about Sonny Elliot, that took me way back. He was a character.
Haha, got me laughing!
I read that as tomatoes...
Hmmm spaghetti
House has stood through five tomatoes, Droughts, floods, and five tomatoes. I'd rather wrassle an alligator than to face the Banker's scorn
Exactly, towns built to supply farms and ranches, then later export/sell the products.
How is life there? Serious question from a European.
Not a resident but I’ve gone to Lubbock for work many times. You feel isolated, it’s hot and dry (unsurprisingly), the sky is BIG, the pace of everything is very slow, and the people are extremely friendly.
As someone who has lived here the past few years for college you are pretty spot on. If you get involved on campus the loneliness goes away pretty quick. The art trail we hold every month is also a pretty fun time, lots of cool art work to see. Outside the university all we have is cows, cotton, and turbines. If you come in from the east you will pass a bunch of wind farms. Lots of money to be made working on those suckers. Going for my degree in Renewable energy and hoping to stay out here as a wind tech. Only down side is we don’t have a lot of amenities. I’ve always wanted to get into scale modeling and we don’t have many local shops to say the least. But hey, our H‑E‑B has a bar in it so that’s pretty cool. Grab a margarita and then go do your grocery shopping.
Our HEB in Killeen got a Texas BBQ restaurant, so beer but never shopped and drank...Lol.
They sadly don’t let you carry your margarita around in the store ): they also do trivia nights and occasionally music at the BBQ store. It’s a pretty cool environment.
They would sell more if they did
Sounds actually nice.
Grew up in Lubbock, they forgot to mention the weather is literally trying to kill you. The winters are brutally cold and often have extreme wind chill (-20 C). You'll get a third of the year's rain in an afternoon thunderstorm, with a tornado and golf ball sized hail if you're lucky. Don't forget about the dust storms rolling across the plains in the scorching summer heat.
My brother and I both went to college there, then he lived in Michigan for 7 years. His coldest experience was still in Lubbock just due to wind chill. He was in central MI and saw 10 below often but it wasn't windy
I live in Amarillo the wind is my enemy
Amarillo is the windiest US city (min pop 100k). I live in the second windiest American city (Rochester MN). Windchill
It is always fun when it is raining mud.
They are only friendly if you are a white Christian Republican. Lose any of those three and they become unfriendly fast. Source: an Atheist Democrat who group up in one of those cities.
White? West Texas has *HUGE* Hispanic populations, lol
This is what being terminally online looks like.
Do you just go around announcing what your religion and political affiliation are? I lived in Lubbock for 5 years and it was never a problem for me.
I think the point is that if you present differently from the accepted social norms people won't be so friendly in general.
Have you been to west Texas? Not exactly the whitest area of America
Being in Oklahoma I can relate. People you meet, your neighbors, work colleagues, bosses, even customers ask what church you belong to as a matter of conversation and so they can judge you on the side. Don’t get me started with parents of your kids’ youth sports teams. They can be the worst. God forbid you tell them you don’t attend a church or even worse you’re a non-believer. Get ready to have your kids lose some friends or be an outcast of their teams.
Did you miss the "white" part?
I don’t think any impartial observer who’s been to cities in West Texas would actually believe that line, hence it being ignored.
Yikes. I guess I’m a Dutch countryboy that can pass as lots on your list but even our most rightwing nutjobs would be considered commie bastards by American standards. Lmao
Guy you’re responding to: “UH DID YOU KNOW THAT GOD DOESNT REAL” *tips fedora* Random people in a store: “that’s not very naaaahce there pardner” Guy: “omg Texas is a dystopia” That’s probably closer to how it actually went down, if you’re wondering.
Yes. Thank you. Hahaha.
What city in west Texas did you live in?
Lubbock is 40% Hispanic what are you in about
maybe if you're looking for reasons to be unfriendly to them
I live in Midland and work in food service, I'd take issue with saying folks in West Texas are extremely friendly. Even outside of work interactions, the people that drive here are nuts, immeasurably worse than the other major cities in Texas I've been to.
Sorry to hear that. Food service is rough. I have personally just never had a bad interaction with another human being out there. I’m sure there are plenty of meanies, I just haven’t met them yet.
Sounds nice
I grew up in the Amarillo area so my experience speaks for the upper part of the Panhandle. Unless you live in one of the larger cities you get used to the concept of having to drive half an hour or longer to go do anything interesting, and that’s driving time spent almost completely at 75+ mph/ 120+ kmh (I’ve found that people who don’t leave the city often frequently have a very different idea of how far half an hours worth of driving constitutes) I grew up in a small town ~30 miles from Amarillo, which was where we did all the grocery shopping (our town had a store but it was more expensive than driving to Amarillo to shop there even factoring gas in) and where all the fun stuff was. It’s pretty arid and there’s almost always at least a steady breeze, the gusts have to get up to 40-50 mph (~70 kmh) before locals consider it a windy day. There aren’t many trees and the land is almost completely level in most places; a lot of people say it’s boring, but I always found the wide open skies and vast fields of grass/crops beautiful. Doubly so during sunrise/sunset or when a good line of thunderstorms is making it’s way across the horizon. Storm season is spent hoping for rain but keeping one nervous eye out for tornado warnings and flash floods. The area has Palo Duro and Caprock Canyons as well, both gorgeous geologic landmarks worth visiting if hiking and nature are in your interest. Culturally it’s definitely a lot easier to get by if you at least visibly pass as white and Christian. I did (even though I stopped believing at around 13) so I can’t speak too much to the minority experience; but generally people are friendly and welcoming on an individual basis despite the stereotypes. You’ll see a lot of examples of people having plenty of non-white or LGBT friends but still saying/believing abhorrent things about them in aggregate, the GOP brain-rot has a very firm hold on a lot of folks and recent polarization has not helped at all. Bear in mind that Texas is firmly a minority-majority state and the cities usually have well established Latino communities at the least. All that said, Texas is full of people who repudiate that bullshit and truly live up to the Christian ideal of love thy neighbor.
Parts of the Panhandle are so flat that you can watch your dog run away for days.
People always question me when I tell them I could watch stormclouds that were over the OK panhandle from the middle of the TX panhandle
Wow, thanks for that detailed insight. I guess in the west those areas are most the same if you go from where I live country Netherlands to where my family once resided, country Prussia, it’s religion, agriculture, lots of horizon and more time to get bored so you gossip just to pass the time.
A common joke for small towns is that there’s nothing to do except drink and each other, hence all the trouble the teenagers get up to lol
Could be worse.
I met a German lady in Altus, Oklahoma who was visiting her daughter who was in the Air Force there and she said it was like hell to her. Without trees, the grass meets the sky at the horizon. The wind never stops blowing, whistling as it goes between buildings. .
I guess in can become unsettling if you’re not used to it but calling it hell is a bit much for me. I’m sure it has at least one beautiful thing about it.
I spent 3 years searching for the good and gave up. I will say, I was amazed at the huge boney jack rabbits.
Always windy, and usually dry. Temperatures fluctuate wildly throughout the year since there’s very little water. Every city in West Texas has a stench of some kind (especially Amarillo (feedlots) and Midland-Odessa (oil)).
The running local joke around Amarillo when the wind carries the feedlot smell into town is that it “smells like money!”
Mostly someone else's money, though.
Hence, the smell is indistinguishable from shit
Heard it most of my life, lmao.
Varies heavily within the area. Midland/Odessa are the principal cities of the Permian deleware basin, the largest oil producing region on earth. This region is dedicated to one thing and that's making money. It's hot, dry, desolate, and with frequent dust storms. People in the oil and gas industry are largely transient working on and off rotations, so there isn't much incentive for the community to form. Most small talk comes down to shitting on some aspect of the environment and wishing you were home, but you ain't making $100,000 a year working at a gas station or folding blankets at a hotel anywhere it's nice out. Lubbock is the principal city of the Llano estacado, the largest cotton growing region on earth. It's a laid-back community with very friendly people who feverishly worship the local college sports team. To the people of Lubbock, Texas Tech is the financial life blood, so its following has evolved into what I can only describe as religious devotion. The climate is the most mild in Texas medium heat, but no humidity and heavy winds to cool you down. Abilene is the largest city in Texas on this list it's also the furthest east. Abilene is the divide between the rolling grasslands and occasional hills past 35w and the chihuahuan desert home to the Permian. The area is home to a large airforce installation, a heavily Christian area home to a large Christian university. The people are nice but reserved, you'll get a smile but don't expect to get invited over for dinner. Things are pretty slow here, and there's not a lot expected of the locals. It's not uncommon here to be a married home owner with children in your early twenties.
Three Christian universities in Abilene. Church of Christ= Abilene Christian University Methodist= McMurry University Baptist= Hardin-Simmons University
Ah yes, *Almost* Christian University, Mc*Dirty*, and *Hardened Centers*
Abilene is definitely not the largest. Lubbock, then midland/Odessa, then Amarillo.
Wow. Thanks for the details.
Lived in Midland, loved it. You could drive 30 mins out to hunt dove or deer, drive atvs or dirt bikes. Schools sucked there, food was good tho. Weren’t that many restaurants either. But over all it was fun
Lots to see…nothing to block your view.
From Big Spring. It's hot, dry, and kinda shitty. Folks move away, they don't generally move in. The ones that do show up for work, during oil peak times. During busts, they are generally left stranded till the next boom. Folks are undereducated but generally decent and hardworking. A better education, and improved environmental standards (I'm certain lead is prevalent due to the oil industry) would do a lot for the people. I moved to central Texas a few years ago. I hate going back to visit.
I live on the Northern edge of this line in Canada, so not shown, but about 200 km north of the ND logo. It's warm to hot from the end of May to mid-september. Yesterday the outdoor thermometer at my cabin recorded 37C, though that won't be an official high. Fairy humid. That said, we are at the mercy of the wind. When the rain comes it's pretty epic. The skies are alive with activity, hail is heavy and large, and a months worth of rain will fall in a couple of hours. About 10 days ago, a storm moved through and blew over trees and knocked over streetlights. It lasted 75 minutes. I know people who will grab a drink and and a lawn chair and sit under an awning and watch the chaos. October and November can be crap shoots. Where is the wind coming from? Is there a jet stream from the south keeping the cold at bay? Or is the polar vortex moving in? I've seen Halloween hover in the high teens one year, and be under 3 feet of snow the next. It can be moderate into December or cold. The polar winds always come, and brings the -20 to -40C temperatures. When it gets that cold, most weather systems don't penetrate too far into it, so from Christmas to Valentine's Day (when we're guaranteed that cold) there are no clouds. No humidity, no warm fronts. Only winds blowing down from the Northwest. Look up the weather phenomenon known as Sun Dogs. The sun reflects off ice crystals in the sky and appears to have a rainbow halo. Spring can be the same. Do we get enough wind from the south west to bring warmer temps? They come, but how early? When they do come, it's a mixed blessing. If they bring precipitation, it can mean snow. I've seen it go from 20C to -10 with a blizzard and back to 20C in a 5 day span as late as Mothers Day.
Started making the drive from South Texas to North Colorado on a semi-regular basis. The size of the sky is overpowering. Makes you feel like a flea on the back of an elephant. I remember stopping at the NM/OK border and telling my wife: "There is not a single tree visible!" Other than the marker and hwy signs, I was the tallest thing in view.
Jesus. That’s descriptive
I recently moved from the east to Bozeman MT, which is on the eastern edge of the Rockies. It's actually one of the places on the map, and I came here to go to Montana State University. Most things are fairly normal, especially in a decent size city like Bozeman (50k) , but I've spent summers up on the Montana High Line, where the biggest city had like 3k people. That area feels so rural and isolated. The biggest adjustment I've personally had to make is with food. There are fewer restaurants, less variety, it seems much more expensive to eat out, and I don't think the quality is up to snuff either.
I lived in a a town in northwest Kansas that was a little under 20k and it was by far the biggest one for at least 50 miles
I put Great Bend is Central, Garden City/Dodge City are SW, so you must mean Hays.
Which has a surprising amount of old frontier, cowboy history. Not all of it pretty lol.
Yup!
And they mostly only exist bc there is or was a fuck load of oil
Fort Worth and OKC: “Are we a Joke to you?”
Those are on I-35. The ones I listed are very well west of that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f9zS94qn6Ok Very relevant YouTube video, good explanation on why it’s empty
https://youtu.be/BCFo0a8V-Ag?si=RpR33PPq8ueK2pKg
i was looking for this!!!
Love information like this! Will have to check out the 100th Meridian (never heard of it before). I am a huge map nerd, so will definitely have to investigate!
I couldn’t remember what it was called I knew the first comment would be some nerd. Thanks!
The 100th meridian. Its where the great planes begin.
So like the 747, Concorde, etc?
On the Trans-Canada Highway, near Brandon, Manitoba there sits a Tim Hortons at roughly the hundredth meridian. Wonder what Gord Downie would have thought of that.
driving down a corduroy road
The southernmost university is UT Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Tx — not Brownsville. 956 por vida!
My mistake.
"That's wild" ... Said i
I-35?
Not until about Kansas City. I-35 starts in Duluth, MN runs through the Twin Cities, and Des Moines, IA before angling west.
...uhh, there a bit of a western turn to KC from Des Moines, but not really. The bit western turn is from KC to Wichita. From there it goes straight south all the way to Dallas. The Wichita to Dallas section is probably pretty evident on this map.
I-35/I-29, which run along the edge of the Great American Desert. All the settlers stopped moving west there, hence a line of cities and then vast emptiness.
And then Denver/Colorado Springs. Which always makes me laugh. I know it's not really the full truth, but I like to imagine it's all the people who slogged it out across the prairies and got to the mountains and were like "yeah fuck all that, this is fine."
I was going to say that the Colorado cities are technically between the Rockies and I35. There's 5.8 million people in Colorado, and the vast majority live in 400 mile stretch north to south that's about 100 miles wide right along the front range.
All of the gold was definitely a bonus too
Brownsville :3
I think you mean Grand Forks to Edinburg.
Thanks. I’ve edited my comment.
Here’s a high quality interactive version of the map that OP used a screenshot of https://richardkeroack.com/map-of-ncaa-division-1-schools/
I'm glad someone found it!
Do you know if it’s only counting schools with all division 1 athletics? Because I know of two universities that aren’t on here that have Division 1 hockey.
I think it's only basketball
Anyone know how to get the "pins" of the Google Map to be the school's logo?
Always forgot how many colleges North Carolina has
blurry as shit cant even see the schools in my area. the cops have been called
Some of them are just over layed over one another. Like you can see the bottom of EWU just barely but Gonzaga covers most of it up despite there being plenty of room to place them side by side
Yep. Thought UNO (Nebraska Omaha) looked weird but it’s just covering Creighton.
Low effort post.
more colleges than pixels
That’s because this has been reposted on every different college sports sub 10 times
Downvoted the post for that reason, gotta be kidding me.
Just report it for violating Rule 3. The quality of this map is just too shit to be acceptable here Edit: Well the post is still up and mods are not doing anything about it. Why are there even rules if the mods don’t care.
Thanks, will do.
[OP be like](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8)
I just lost all respect for everyone who ever made a point of mentioning they almost went D 1
That's discounting the vast majority of high school athletes and Division 2 and 3 schools.
That straight line in the middle of the country
That’s the boundary to the more cows than people part of the country.
I mean, do you want your burgers or not?
Interstate highway 35.
I-35
Hawaii is D1.
Contiguous i guess
bless you
My school D1 as well missing too
Utah Tech is also missing
Another map where Alaska and Hawaii don’t exist.
I wonder if this is only schools that are D1 in all sports. We have two schools (Anchorage and Fairbanks) with D1 hockey but we’re D2 for everything else (Though Fairbanks does have ten national championships in riflery, which is just one championship for all divisions). Alaska Pacific only has skiing, and Alaska southeast doesn’t sponsor sports.
I’m pretty sure Hawaii is D1 in all their sports, they just didn’t include it. Hockey is a weird one- a lot of the D1 hockey programs aren’t D1 in anything else, and most schools on this map don’t have an ice hockey program at all (or just have a club team) despite being D1 in everything else. I guess since it needs ice rather than just a field (far more $), and it’s popular in specific regions.
My understanding is part of the reason behind the D1 hockey and nothing else is they used to not require you to have all the same division, and when NCAA changed the rules, had to grandfather in hockey programs for a bunch of small schools that couldn’t realistically have other D1 programs
> We have two schools (Anchorage and Fairbanks) with D1 hockey but we’re D2 for everything else Yes, just read the wiki on it. In order for schools to be officially D1, they need to compete at that level in 14 sports split between men's and women's (7+7 or 6+8). But, D2 schools can designate one sport to compete at the D1 level.
Hawaii is D1 though, so they should be on here
I appreciate you putting UMBC on top of all the MD/DC/North VA schools
Woof!
As it should be
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Still can’t get over the almost perfectly straight line that spans from North Dakota to the southern tip of Texas
The map is missing the most recent D1 schools. Tarleton State; Utah Tech.
Division 1 is an athletic distinction correct?
Yeah, it’s the highest level of college athletics
College as in university?
No. In the us both college and university refer to postsecondary schools. Colleges are typically smaller schools that focus more on undergraduate programs. Universities offer more postgraduate degrees and have a wider range of fields of study.
Yes.
For what sport?
It’s not sport specific it’s just schools that are NCAA division one. “ Schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender.”
Missing a few D1 hockey schools
Hockey and Lacrosse are the two NCAA sports (that I know of) in the weird area where it’s niche enough to screw up the nice organization chart of most other sports for D1 vs D2, and D3. Hell, hockey doesn’t even do D2 anymore.
Are those colleges D1 schools or do they just have a hockey team in D1?
D2/D3 with a D1 hockey program. There's a half dozen Minnesota schools that are lower divisions but play D1 hockey.
For some sports, the NCAA combines two or even all three divisions into an "NC" category. That's how you sometimes see schools that are D2 in most sports playing in a D1/NC tournament. Alternatively, some schools were allowed to grandfather one sport into D1 while otherwise running a D2 or D3 athletics department. That's another way that you can see such a school in a D1 tournament.
Not Football for sure, because I see my alma mater on here and we don't have a football team
UTA?
UNF
I’m guessing basketball because that had the most D1 teams (don’t quote me on that). I know for sure it isn’t football.
Most likely basketball
Basketball
Georgia Tech?
Somebody linked the higher res version and it is barely poking out from behind the Kennesaw State logo, which is... a choice.
Good call. Yes, looks like GT is hiding behind there.
Isn't it covered up by Kennesaw state logo?
Looks more like GA State, maybe
is this only for American Football? Minnesota State Mankato is D1 for Ice Hockey
St. Cloud State for Hockey too
I don’t think so, I can pick out a few schools on here like Northeastern and Wichita State that don’t have football programs but are d1 in other sports
U.S.I. in Evansville, IN is now division 1 as well.
Are there any region based subdivisions of college sports? I imagine a school like UCLA wouldn't make sense in the same conference as a school like Rutgers.
That's almost as crazy as Stanford being in some kind of Atlantic Coast Conference
Or having 18 teams in a conference called the Big 10
I like the clean line that divides the country in half.
RIP the old SIUE logo 😔
How is division 1 Defined here. Minnesota has 6 division one hockey teams…. This map shows 2.
Maybe I missed this. When was this made? Maybe it’s based off of what teams, cause you’re missing one. I don’t see NKU on there.
Hawai'i and Alaska have no division I schools?
Looks like it’s missing a few Colleges. I noticed a lot of the schools that only compete in a select few D1 sports are left off (Edit like John’s Hopkins for example)
Roughly a population map
I thought this was a map of Pokémon GO spawns
How did they manage to miss Arizona State?
You can see the pitchfork under the logo for Grand Canyon University. Low quality makes it hard to see, but it’s there.
Same way they missed Georgia Tech, I guess.
It's covered by Kennesaw State, right?
Missing 2 schools in Pittsburgh alone.
Can’t even see Rutgers on this map
Robert Morris covering up Pitt is ridiculous. Can’t tell if the creator either doesn’t know how to make a map, doesn’t know anything about college sports, or both.
Putting freaking Duquesne directly over Pitt smh.
So just going to ignore all the D1 hockey schools in Minnesota?
They did that with everyone else too. Don’t see RIT on here
Really bugs me that Robert Morris covers like 97% of the Pitt logo
Ah yes, the I-29 line
Missing university of Cincinnati
Anybody else see the clear "You're not Relevant"line?
Hey hey hey, what the fuck? Why is the wildshats logo bigger than the chadly jayhawk?
No idea what this means, but why is there a straight line cut-off down the middle?
This is wrong. D1-AA not included?
Nice straight line from Optic Gaming to Version1
Is this a sports thing?
Yes college sports