What's your position - Latitude & Longitude?

I've been reading Eliot Coleman's "Four seasons harvest" - he lives in Maine, USA and has heavy winter snowfall.
When researching what plants to grow, he looked at his latitude (44 degrees N) and realised that areas of France were also on the same latitude - so he went there to see what they grow in winter and how they did it. 
I don't have an ology in Geography so had to turn to Wikipedia for my position. The 50th Parallel skims the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, Cardiff is between the 51st & 52nd parallel, as is London. 
The 52nd Parallel passes through a lot of places that sound very cold to me - like Russia, Mongolia, Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_parallel_north

The 53rd Parallel touches Snowdonia, Stoke on Trent and Nottingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_parallel_north
54th Harrogate
55th Gretna and Newcastle upon Tyne
56th Just North of Edinburgh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_parallel_north
57th Hebrides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57th_parallel_north 
58th Isles of Lewis & Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/58th_parallel_north
59th Orkney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_parallel_north
60th Shetland Isles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_parallel_north

Have a look and see where you sit! Any surprises??