Think I should try to find a nice pub where I can spend a couple of days
Maybe a pub like this english pub:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/807757-pub- ... r-new-year
(global warming is not the subject for discussions here right now... )
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Weather Acting Funny in Your Neighbourhood?
Minus 44 C or minus 47 F (edit) is the temperaure expected in the part of Scandinaia where I am right now....
Think I should try to find a nice pub where I can spend a couple of days Maybe a pub like this english pub: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/807757-pub- ... r-new-year (global warming is not the subject for discussions here right now... ) Last edited by observer2 on Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
You can drink in a sauna?
COLD IS A RELATIVE THING. ...
65 above zero: Floridians turn on the heat. People in Minnesota plant gardens. 60 above zero: Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in Minnesota sunbathe. 50 above zero: Italian & English cars won't start. People in Minnesota drive with the windows down.. 40 above zero: Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in Minnesota throw on a flannel shirt. 35 above zero: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in Minnesota have the last cookout before it gets cold. 20 above Zero People in Miami all die. Minnesotans close the windows. Zero: Californians fly away to Mexico . People in Minnesota get out their winter coats. 10 below zero: Hollywood disintegrates. The Girl Scouts in Minnesota are selling cookies door to door. 20 below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in Minnesota let the dogs sleep indoors. 30 below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Minnesotans get upset because they can't start the Snow-mobile. 40 below zero : ALL atomic motion stops . People in Minnesota start saying... "Cold enough fer ya? " 50 below zero: Hell freezes over. Minnesota public schools will open 2 hours late.
Yes, In a sauna is also a great place to have a beer Skiing can wait I guess.  ..
Heh. Californians can't handle 50F weather, let alone anything lower. I always laugh when the weather forecasters come on and tell me it's going to be "cold", "frigid", need gloves and scarves, etc... when the temperature drops below 60. Then I get really irate when they tell me the temperature will shoot back up to the mid/high-70s, and it's good because we "need" that warm weather (as if we don't get enough of it the other 300 days of the year).
I wonder what Northern Califonians (Sierra Nevada Mountains) do at this time of the year. It is dropping into the 20's and 10's as lows for the next few day here (Gulfport, Mississippi).
Looking at the weather forecast for the weekend, RECORD colds from the Dakotas to Arkansas to southern Florida! Where's all this Global Warming I've heard so much about?!
Weather guy in Tampa put up the 5 day forecast, told us that we might get a mixture of sleet and snow overnight tomorrow.
He also pointed out that the station was using the "wintery mix" icon and that he not only hadn't used it in fifteen years down here but wasn't even aware that the icon existed.
Perhaps in the Arctic? Where, 1) Ice free travel across the North of our Continent has happened for the first time in our recorded history, and shipping companies are taking a serious look at using that route, the fabled "Northwest Passage". 2) One of the latest freeze-ups occurred, almost a month later than "usual", much to the chagrin of the Natives, and the Polar Bears, who were cannibalizing their young, because they had no ice from which to hunt the seals. 3) It was warmer there on January 4th, than most of the USA, probably including parts of Florida...
I'm bummed. I'm in Florida. It's raining, it's in the 40's. That means: no shorts, no T Shirt, and worst of all, no sandals! Then I have to go to a movie that still has the air conditioning on. Still, watching Emily Blunt might warm me up, even if she's playing a queen.
Its been averaging 19 degrees here (66 F) in Ja. and man are we freezing our butts off. Something about stationary front off the north coast. This is just unusal and weird. On the way to work everyone was wearing jackets and coats.
We did our normal 26/28 (78/82) go ?
How come CNN use the Celsius scale. Are they making different weather report for diffrent areas? (Europe, Asia, US, America?)
By the way, doesn´t the Celsius scale make more sense? Water freezing point = 0 C Water boiling point = 100 C
The best thing about the Celsius scale, apart from it making more sense, is that a degree Kelvin is effectively the same as a degree Celsius. This means the conversion (C to K) in chemistry and biology are easy. The F scale makes no sense on so many levels, unless your name is Marlow. 
You'll like this old thread: Metric/Imperial debate #1133046
To see how we arrived at the ludicrous scale that is Fahrenheit (thanks Daniel Gabriel F), check out the "history" section in this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit (I say ludicrous, because at least English linear measure makes some elemental sense, being related to body parts, but this was pure voodoo mathematics)
The Fahrenheit scale may be based on a ludicrous idea, but it does what it is suppose to do.
CNN really does their temperatures in Celsius? What is next? Doing their broadcasts in Latin? No wonder nobody watches them anymore. As for Fahrenheit on the way out. That really is nonsense.
I hate to be a pedant here, but I think you mean Esperanto. The latin equivalent of temperature scales is sticking your hand out of the window. 
Well it depends on your time period. Back in Newton's day, Latin was the esperanto of the times. Anybody who was anybody, be they French, English, German or whatever wrote in Latin. And since we are talking Celsius the temperature, along with Kelvin, of the scientists, I do mean Latin. I don't believe I have ever seen a mathematical paper in esperanto, but I have read plenty in Latin, or at least tried.
The best thing about the Celsius scale, apart from it making more sense...
This really is not true. If anything Fahrenheit is more accurate since it is 180 units from freezing to boiling as opposed to 100 for Celsius.
Well whose fault is that?
I believe that was the third iteration of the fahrenheit scale. They were already desperately trying to make it relevant even back then. Similar to Microsoft trying to copy everything MAC and google. 
Not the Luddites, for sure.
I believe that was the third iteration of the fahrenheit scale. They were already desperately trying to make it relevant even back then. Similar to Microsoft trying to copy everything MAC and google.
The third? Well at least they knew enough to try to fix it. But it is still relevant. If I say it is 72F outside, (I wish) you know exactly what I mean. As for Microsoft, Fahrenheit and His Friends will certainly be relevant long after those jokers in Redmond are gone. Though I have to say I like Windows 7.
Well I suppose if Bengladesheses were watching the Weather Channel on satellite, they might be confused. 72! man that is HOT!
I got used to thinking in the Fahrenheit scale a lot quicker than the imperial measurements. And yes, I also like Windows 7.
Which reminds me of a amusing story. A friend went to China last spring. He was out in a T-shirt enjoying a warm day. One comment he got, this fellow was still wearing his winter coat, "but what are you going to wear when it's summer!"
I see. You old farts all stick together. 
The debate continues:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/scien ... imate.html Headline: U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege
10-20 inches of snow and blizzard conditions starting here tonite and continuing thru Thurs morn.
Squack is taking Wed. off work. Will be home recording music and drinking beer and watching movies!  Many others taking day off.
Work place will be a Ghost town, tumble weeds have already been seen in the parts of the building. 
While I am firmly in the camp of those who believe "climate change/global warming" is a naturally re-occuring event, unaffected and unopposable by man, I also believe the unusal amount of snow this winter neither refutes nor reinforces climate change.
It happens. You can average temperature and precipitation and if a year happens to hit the average, it just happens to hit the average. No year is normal
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