[Anavaralo]

At around 04.00 we hit -33 Celsius here where I live. We got more snow than Siberia...Feels like I'm livin in a freakin igloo...With high-speed internet connection.

Anyone else here a living popsicle?

[Dweplyododo]

Melbourne's forecast for 41 degrees next Monday. That's above zero. At least this summer's not as crazy as last summer (4 days in a row above 40 degrees, including a day of 46). Not yet anyway.

So no, no popsicles here.

b

[evammaUselp]

Britain is under the impression it is in the midst of 'the Day After Tomorrow'. It did take me 4 hours to get into work on Tuesday, but only because I just missed a train and a few being cancelled after that. However yesterday I arrived earlier than I have done in maybe the past 6 months. I guess it was the right sort of snow on the line.

I doubt anyone is actually feeling like a popsicle as most of us seem to burning gas like it's going out of fashion.
Keep it tight and stay frosty!

[WrinnaArraple]

Gaa, you win. We reached minus 28... Thank heaven we switched from wood heating to borehole heat exchange last year! My back aches as it is from snow shoveling - doesn't need wood chopping as well...

[endulundaSauh]

UK + Snow = Calamity

[orbidewa]

Apparantly here in the Netherlands we have trains that aren't winter proof (10 cm of snow was enough to shut down nearly all public transportation).
Switches are frozen
For some reason, communicating with passengers is also nearly impossible.

We don't have enough salt for the roads resulting in this

[UHlVExs7]

The UK is running out of salt too (people putting too much on their chips), so anything other than the main roads are pretty hairy

[Preorbtat]

I live on a peninsula, so while the wind makes it colder than a lawyer's heart we don't get much snow 'cos of all the seawater surrounding us. So when it snows here, you can be fairly sure the rest of the country has already bought snowshoes and stockpiled tinned beans.

Upside - A few mates have a flat which is hands down the best snipers nest I've ever seen for snowballs. Elevated position, clear line of sight to the pub opposite and a bamboo fence that you can see through, but can't be seen through. Nothing says Happy New Year like beaning snowballs off the head of some humourless tosser threatening you with a bat

[zilsolley3]

Gaa, you win. We reached minus 28... Thank heaven we switched from wood heating to borehole heat exchange last year! My back aches as it is from snow shoveling - doesn't need wood chopping as well...

If you live near Stockholm and its -28 I concede victory. The cold there is even worse. In Östersund it is at least dry enough.

[ThisIsOK]

-35C this morning, -45 with the wind. Nothing unusual.

[TZtrDuso]

UK + Snow = Calamity

Well if you ever consider invading Sweden, then do it during autumn since we apparently can handle (?) snow but goes completely paralysed when confronted with... autumn leaves... All public (rail-bound) transportation stops since.. it .. is.. leaves .. on .. the .. rail..

If you live near Stockholm and its -28 I concede victory. The cold there is even worse. In Östersund it is at least dry enough.

Nah, I am in Vaermland right now where the cold is dry and if you dress accordingly, cold is not a problem. You may look like a rural fool on escape from the little men in white but it keeps you warm. Nothing beats my dad's army coat.

[Lapsiks]

It's around 28 °C here in Phuket, but I'll be flying back home at the end of the month so I guess I'm joining the club. Expecting 50 degree change at best...will probably end up being -40 °C so hahaha...sucks for me

[BipiewExifese]

They canceled school in the districts across town here because they were worried about kids getting frostbite. That's happened maybe like once before in Tulsa's history. Freakin cold today.

[weO1bVp1]

[QUOTE=Kaa;410494]Well if you ever consider invading Sweden, then do it during autumn since we apparently can handle (?) snow but goes completely paralysed when confronted with... autumn leaves... All public (rail-bound) transportation stops since.. it .. is.. leaves .. on .. the .. rail..
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Yes it's very hard to have actual working public transportion
In the winter with 10 cm of snow the trains won't go
But also in Fall/Autumn, because of the leaves, or when the winds above 85 km/h, they'll drive a lot slower.
And last but not least, in the summer because sometimes the rails expand and some of the bridges won't work.
We truly have amazing public transportation here in the Netherlands.

[Badyalectlawl]

They canceled school in the districts across town here because they were worried about kids getting frostbite. That's happened maybe like once before in Tulsa's history. Freakin cold today.

They don't cancel school here unless the cold causes a physical plant problem, typically a water main break. But it's -11C in Tulsa today, I can see where that would be problematic as people probably don't have the clothing for it.

[ProomoSam]

just how cold is witch's mammary glands? do cold mammary glands necessarily make a woman a witch like not sinking in a pond? most of them i had chance to hold were rather warm even if the owner ended up being less than a lady.

pete

[prmwsinfo]

I can remember school (during my school-years, now long behind me) being closed only once due to extreme cold & snow.

There was a temperature limit to outdoors phys-ed though. If it were below -15 Celsius we'd skip the regular skiing and do indoorsy stuff.

[wiweimeli]

But it's -11C in Tulsa today, I can see where that would be problematic as people probably don't have the clothing for it.

Oh yeah we have the clothing for it down here. we just wait till deer season to use it. And its all Camo. HA! We seem to be a bit weenyish when it comes to the cold weather in Texas. It bothers me not. But if you should happen to have the flu at the same time, well thats a different story. Although I have sat in a tree stand and tried not to scare off the deer with my coughing. I guess it all depends on your motivation level.

[Qdcqxffs]

About 12-13 F when I woke up this morn, got up to about 25 F by 1 pm. Right now it about 16 F. Yeah, I feel ya.......If i could feel anything at all.

[Fetowip]

They don't cancel school here unless the cold causes a physical plant problem, typically a water main break.

Actually even then, I don't think we'd close down a school...I mean we're Canadian, unless you live in lalaland, it's pretty much an excepted fact of life. November to March is cold, you're gonna have ice on the road, shoveling is gonna be your daily exercise, it's gonna be below negative 30 sometime and you won't see it coming, you'll forget your glove and spend half an hour trying to get the feeling back, and there's still gonna be a line at timmies.

I distinctly remember walking to school in a blizzard with -40°C weather when I was in elementary...you're a pansy if you think -10°C is cold, we were T-shirts at that temperature