Time spent bundling up before walking to school: 4 minutes, 23 seconds
Look on people's faces when you tell them you live closer to the equator than the people of Lyon: Priceless
Global warming, where art thou?
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Global warming, where art thou?
Air temperature in Waterloo, Ontario on 6:45, March 6th, 2007: -22*C
Time spent bundling up before walking to school: 4 minutes, 23 seconds
Look on people's faces when you tell them you live closer to the equator than the people of Lyon: Priceless
Time spent bundling up before walking to school: 4 minutes, 23 seconds
Look on people's faces when you tell them you live closer to the equator than the people of Lyon: Priceless
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NeilBlanchard
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Hello,
The results of global warming is not always, um, warmer temperatures everywhere all the time!
It has the effect of more extreme weather systems: more rain in some places, and more drought in others, warmer temps in some places, and colder temps in others.
When is the last time you heard of killer tornadoes in January and February in the south eastern US? We have had three (or was it four?) this year: Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and there were dozens of deaths.
This morning it was about 8F outside, but in early January we had temps above 60F.
The results of global warming is not always, um, warmer temperatures everywhere all the time!
It has the effect of more extreme weather systems: more rain in some places, and more drought in others, warmer temps in some places, and colder temps in others.
When is the last time you heard of killer tornadoes in January and February in the south eastern US? We have had three (or was it four?) this year: Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and there were dozens of deaths.
This morning it was about 8F outside, but in early January we had temps above 60F.
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Its quite decent in my part of London at the moment.
13C high today 3C Low last night, tommorrow morning/tonight low of 1C, thursday and saturday we are expecting a low of 7C, but the highs are still only 13C.
What this has to do with global warming I dont know, global warming is a theory that carries a huge amount of weight, and human beings certainly have had an effect on our planet, how much is hard to say. Although I would quite like the weather to be a bit better in London in theory, however I dont want the weather to be better at all in practice, as I know that this planet is melting, and the seas are rising, the weather is becoming less predictable, the seasons are shifting and things are looking really shitty for our predecessors, unless this is not really global warming at all, and is just a general planetary shift of weather, just like a lot of ice ages were in the distant past.
Andy
13C high today 3C Low last night, tommorrow morning/tonight low of 1C, thursday and saturday we are expecting a low of 7C, but the highs are still only 13C.
What this has to do with global warming I dont know, global warming is a theory that carries a huge amount of weight, and human beings certainly have had an effect on our planet, how much is hard to say. Although I would quite like the weather to be a bit better in London in theory, however I dont want the weather to be better at all in practice, as I know that this planet is melting, and the seas are rising, the weather is becoming less predictable, the seasons are shifting and things are looking really shitty for our predecessors, unless this is not really global warming at all, and is just a general planetary shift of weather, just like a lot of ice ages were in the distant past.
Andy
-22 isnt that bad, in january/february it's that cold almost every day over here. Sometimes -30 or colder for a whole week and usually down to -40 a couple of times per winterqviri wrote:For more than five minutes, anyhow...jaganath wrote:so if anyone goes out without their coat, they're dead, right? scary...
... why would you go out without a coat on?
I once went out to fetch the mail in -25, in a tshirt, about a 100 meter walk. It was quite doable until I touched the -25 degree mailbox, then all of a sudden it started to get pretty cold and I had to run back home
That was a bit extreme and I only did it once, but I do regularly run out to the car to get something in just a sweater in those kind of temps, and I didn't die of it yet
I wouldn't recommend being outside longer than a minute or 2 without proper clothing tho.-
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Just as an addition to this (not saying it's due to one viewpoint or the other) - Vancouver has had a good dump of snow a few times this year - the latest was just last week!
Of course, we don't get as much snow as the east does, but you'll all remember the early snow that hit Vancouver. It's been good for Whistler's ski season this year... hehe.
*wishes he was skiing*
Of course, we don't get as much snow as the east does, but you'll all remember the early snow that hit Vancouver. It's been good for Whistler's ski season this year... hehe.
*wishes he was skiing*
So am i the only one who has jumped from a roof into a huge pile of snow when its -30°c outside?
At the moment the weather is quite depressing really, a week a go it was -25, now it's +5, at night it will be a couple degrees below zero. So to keep incompetent drivers on the road they pour liquid salt all over the place. And because the moon is not visible it's pitch black in the night.
Food. Now. Bye
At the moment the weather is quite depressing really, a week a go it was -25, now it's +5, at night it will be a couple degrees below zero. So to keep incompetent drivers on the road they pour liquid salt all over the place. And because the moon is not visible it's pitch black in the night.
Food. Now. Bye
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I personally like driving in snow storms. I miss the snow, we only got one big storm this season in New England, currently we're getting a cold streak, but no snow, once the dry cold goes away, so will the snow, not that it's any more than crunchy stuff right now anyway. We didn't have a good snow until January, I miss winter.qviri wrote:I'm sure drivers and people who pay heating bills are enjoying it a lot more.klankymen wrote:The thought that last year this time I was going snowboarding for the 20th time of the season, and this year I'd been once: Far from priceless
Last winter was cold with a lot of snow, now we got a lot of snow in november for a couple of weeks, then it went away and since then it's been crappy weather. +5-5+5-5+5-+5-5+-5 and so on. Wet and dark.
It doesn't seem to follow any pattern, some winters are just warm and some are cold. Last year this was the coldest time of the year, now it's +5 outside.
I like driving in snow too, it's great fun. And driving on snow is a hell of a lot quieter than any other surface Now if my car was rwd or 4wd i could have a lot of fun at slow speeds.
It doesn't seem to follow any pattern, some winters are just warm and some are cold. Last year this was the coldest time of the year, now it's +5 outside.
I like driving in snow too, it's great fun. And driving on snow is a hell of a lot quieter than any other surface
Now if my car was rwd or 4wd i could have a lot of fun at slow speeds.