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On 17/10/2010 19:29, Paul Sutton wrote: > On 16/10/10 20:26, Steven CÃtà wrote: >>> >>> On a little side note. We do have quite cold weather here in Estonia. >>>> Last winter we had -30 degrees celcius for a week or so and -20 for >>>> over a month. My thermometer tells me it's 0 deg C currently and we >>>> had our first snow like 2 hours ago. I'm sure I can manage some UK >>>> weather >>>> >>>> I thought it was chilly here, I see I don't know what chilly is :-P >> >> >> I'd still take a dry -30C over a damp 0C any day. Straight cold is dead easy >> to bundle against, but while the mercury doesn't go very low here, the >> humidity stays high in the winter and the damp gets in your bones and >> doesn't leave until mid-summer. >> >> > Yeah I found that while in canada in 2006, yes it was cold windchill > about -22 c in Medicine Hat, however it didn't feel as cold as England, > due it it not being as Damp, Vancouver on the other hand is bloody > cold, wet and horrible, very wet, e.g 3 days of heavy rain. > > Paul > Canada 1960s, damp in UK . Left Winipeg at minus 30 C (no wind low windchill factor, very dry middle continental climate )dressed warmly not too bad, arrived Glasgow same clothes at plus 5 deg but immediately started to shiver due damp conditions. -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq