Snow in Yanksville
OK it snowed here in Indiana last night, I say this for my neck of the woods though I have no idea if the entire state got snow.
Anyway I have 2 nights off work but since I work nights I stayed up as not to knack my sleeping pattern. At about 4am I was pretty pissed and I went outside and built a snowman just because I could.
Anybody else in the states get snow?
Beanz, USSpeccyfan, Klepto?
I would say Monty Mole but I know you're in Canada and you get snow all year round every day :D
Anyway I have 2 nights off work but since I work nights I stayed up as not to knack my sleeping pattern. At about 4am I was pretty pissed and I went outside and built a snowman just because I could.
Anybody else in the states get snow?
Beanz, USSpeccyfan, Klepto?
I would say Monty Mole but I know you're in Canada and you get snow all year round every day :D
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If i went outside at 4am to build a snowman all my neighbours would think i'm totally 'looney tunes'
oh :)
well it snowed in york a fortnight ago. i went to the shops to buy some chillies and fell over, then i pretended i was doing a snow angle until a car honked its horn so i'd get out of the way, then i bought the chillies and did some skids on my way home.
i'm sure they think that about him anyway.
I'd do some right now if it was in front of me, but alas I can't take the risk incase I get a drug test at work.
bloody yanks say it's the land of the free.
Free to do what every other sausage does more like, I hope Barack Obama gets in then we'll all be putting coke on our cornflakes instead of sugar.
No, no snow here..I belive Dallas sometimes get it but in the 11yrs I been in Houston I think it snowed once for 5 mins and had melted before it hit the ground.
I did have to wear a jacket one day 2 years ago though..it dropped to 50 degrees :lol:
So who the hell is buying coats in Houston??
A jacket 50 degrees is T-Shirt weather :p
however I still haven't thoroughly accustomed to the yank weather, it's way more screwy than the British weather, and the forecasts on TV are even more inaccurate than back home :lol:
No kidding! We've had continuous snow cover since late October - and probably well into April. We had another 3 to 4 inches over the weekend accompanied by minus 20 temperatures. They get more snowfall out east in Ontario and Quebec; but it's generally slightly warmer there.
The thing that surprised me when I first came here is that kids (or people in general) just don't bother with building snowmen or snowball fights; or get excited at all when it snows. But that's only to be expected if you're used to six-month long snowy winters all your life.
Here in Oregon, dry but a bit nippy. Oh I love Oregon. Snow predicted in next few days..and apparenly its quite rare around here. If it does snow..I'll take myself to Florence on the coast or Coos Bay maybe.
Snow angle. Sounds painful :grin:
Snow angle for a man to be standing at.
I wouldn't have done it back home in England....well maybe I would if I was trollied enough :D
I wonder if the pain was acute.
It's a balmy -32 here at the moment with a wind chill of -47. You WoSsers should spare a thought for me as you put on more sun cream and swelter under the afternoon sun of a typical British winter...
put your trousers back on, and the cold won't affect you so much.
Strangely enough it's supposed to be 60 here today, I bet it won't be though, and I'm not going out in a T-Shirt to find out, it was -10 here the other night and that's the coldest I think I've ever experienced. Still wasn't that bad with a jacket on, but my fingers didn't share the same sentiments unfortunately, took about 20 mins once I got indoors for them to return to normal.
Is that -10 F? I can't get my head around cold temperatures in Fahrenheit... It's too confusing for my frozen brain to understand. :(
yup! I the frost when I left work a couple of mornings ago was so thick I thought it had snowed.
Boom: (-10) degrees Fahrenheit = -23.3333333 degrees Celsius
Brrrr...
Yup, I can do the conversion - but I'm just getting at the fact that I have to convert all Fahrenheit temperatures below about 50 F into Celsius before I understand them. But I can understand all temperatures above that fine without needing to convert. Sometimes I understand hot temperatures easier in Fahrenheit. (And in Canada, weather forecasts are in Celsius, but oven temperatures for cooking are always specified in Fahrenheit). I'm just weird, that's all...
- What's the temperature over there ?
- Minus 30 degrees, sir.
- But we got a report, that there is minus 50 degree.
- No sir, there is minus 30 here.
- Please go and check the thermometer.
- Minus 30, sir.
- That's not possible, what's the atmosphere there, what's the weather there ?
- Weather ? .... Yep, you mean outdoor, well, outdoor, there is minus 50, sir.
Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Spokane, Seattle, Portland..arrgh...the wind would cut ya in half in South Dakota.
Oh and we got stuck in freezing rain and snow on the mountain pass, and a 6 hour ride turned into a 14 hour battle for survival when the bus heating broke down and the bus kept icing up...made wow.
That's a long way to go for a loaf of bread.
I fancied a loaf in Montana..but after stepping outside and seeing the people going about..I decided to go hungry.
Worrying thing is the forecast said the freezing rain would turn to snow just after midnight, I looked outside about 20 mins ago and it has indeed turned to snow.
I hope it's not too bad otherwise I'll be hiking through the tundra to get to work tomorrow night, as my wife is terrified of driving in heavy snow, and I don't have a full drivers license :D