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Well, you are all invited to join me in February to test "how bad is -30deg Celcius in Estonia" :) Regards, Jaan On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Eion MacDonald <eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17/10/2010 19:29, Paul Sutton wrote: >> On 16/10/10 20:26, Steven Côté 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 > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq