Weather where you are?

[Alan]

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Going by that hot air balloon maybe you've had enough and are thinking of heading to warmer climes

 

[sonomalaverda]

Going by that hot air balloon maybe you've had enough and are thinking of heading to warmer climes

Someone looks cold in that picture. Big temperature gradient here in Sonoma, CA. Very cold in the am and then daftly hot in the afternoon. We don't get a lot of cloud cover which perhaps explain the cold mornings but it certainly feels too hot and sunny later in the day for Jan / Feb.

 

[aebbern]

It is even too cold to go skiing, the ski hills close in this ridiculous weather

Paul - it was -25 deg C at the trailhead yesterday morning (that's Mount Ogden in the background in Yoho park). Good thing about the cold, not many other idiots out playing in nature's backyard

 

[helicopterjim]

It was -25 this morning in the British Columbia interior. If I can get the orange triple started I will go out and clear snow off the neighbours driveways and then may get in some snowshoeing afterwards.

Jim

 

[Paul LeClair]

Hi Andy

good on you!!! I see from the photo you are doing the CoVid working from home beard thing....

According to tonight's weather forecast for the rest of the week, HIGHS of minus 25 C for the next couple of days, minus 40 to minus 55 Celsius with wind chill. It is bloody crunchy out there. I was out working on the garage refit tonight, gas furnace is bellowing trying to keep up.

 

[Dellortoman]

I don't understand what motivates otherwise sane humans to live in such a climate.

Edit: Perhaps by using the word 'sane' I'm assuming too much.

 

[chrisk]

Me either. I prefer to have 365 days of the year I can do something, not wait half a year doing nothing while waiting to do something.

 

[helicopterjim]

It is 9:32 pm and the temperature is -30 and still dropping. I did get the orange triple running today but it took a bit of preheating. I'll see if I can get it fired up again tomorrow as I can as I'll "not wait half a year doing nothing while waiting to do something." and I'll go make snow fly through the air just because I can!

Jim

 

[Paul Marx]

Plenty of things to do at home.
My guitar playing has improved immensely recently and my pile of "to read" things has diminished.

Paul

 

[helicopterjim]

Temperature was -37 when I got up this morning. It has warmed up to -31 now. I suspect the orange triple will need a lot of preheat before starting!

Jim

 

[Paul LeClair]

I don't understand what motivates otherwise sane humans to live in such a climate.

Edit: Perhaps by using the word 'sane' I'm assuming too much.

well, it was work opportunities that brought me here in 1975, and has kept me staying here. But each and every late January, early February my family and I have always gone somewhere warm for as long as possible. As a result, we have seen a lot of the rest of the world over the years. This year however, with CoVid travel restrictions, my family and I are stuck here living through this ridiculous cold weather. Summer's here are typically very nice, but in addition to the brutal winter the shortish motorcycle riding season of mid May through mid October is also very trying.

 

[henrywillms]

And we all thought Covid was a big deal and keeping us locked down. Here in the Canadian Prairies we are in a Polar Vortex which is keeping temps in the -30c range with wind chill factor -40c.....for over a week. ....will probably break some records for a cold stretch in February . Mind you January was the second warmest in history.....ie not so fricking cold. People have built toboggan slides, hockey rinks and skating trails on the rivers and lakes to have something to do with Covid shutting down most public entertainment. Certainly different than the usual escape to Mexico or Florida for many Canadians. I'll take the winters over the summers I experienced in Florida or Saudi Arabia anytime. Its actually pretty invigorating if you get out and enjoy it, but it's the day to day going to work or just staying inside that wears at you. And I can ride my snowmobile, 850cc 2 stroke with 165hp that gets your adrenaline flowing pretty fast.

 

[helicopterjim]

It was -39 two nights ago ...... last night only -38 because it clouded over.

Forecast to be highs of zero and lows of -8 in a week. I'll be unpacking the shorts soon.

Jim

 

[markQLD]

One born in the cane fields cannot even begin to imagine a temperature of -39c. Negative! FFS!
Today, it was +35c at my place. That's '+' positive i.e. warm nudging hot.
Fortunately it was summer when I visited Winnipeg. I do recall the Canadian locals talking about dealing with their ice storms. WTF! Ice storms!
So, I'll see you Canadians your negative temperatures and raise you some radiation. That's UV radiation.
Unfortunately, it's something we do rather too well in Queensland Australia.
My poor skin is well past it's 'use by' date. These days, dealing with skin cancer is just part of my routine maintenance. But that's another story.
Take care blokes.

 

[helicopterjim]

Thanks Mark. I think your post has helped. It was -29 when I went to bed and this morning it was only -17. You broke the cold!

I'm off to find my shorts and sandals.

Jim

 

[Tippie]

People born and raised in arctic climates generally really struggle badly when it is hot and find it hard to function or even sleep. Conversely people from tropical climates, like myself, struggle to operate in the arctic, and really suffer from the cold, for me even after almost 20 years. I try to acclimatise, like today cycling 65km in minus 11, which seems to help more than succumbing to the instinct to eat more chocolate. I remember a heat wave in Melbourne of around 40 deg, and having just come from a year in Darwin it didn't feel hot at all.
Stinking pandemic, I want to go to Spain.

 

[sideshow]

People born and raised in arctic climates generally really struggle badly when it is hot and find it hard to function or even sleep. Conversely people from tropical climates, like myself, struggle to operate in the arctic, and really suffer from the cold, for me even after almost 20 years. I try to acclimatise, like today cycling 65km in minus 11, which seems to help more than succumbing to the instinct to eat more chocolate. I remember a heat wave in Melbourne of around 40 deg, and having just come from a year in Darwin it didn't feel hot at all.
Stinking pandemic, I want to go to Spain.

I hear you. Nz isn’t so much the tropics, but Majorca can be toasty and humid in summer, My Danish wife doesn’t take the heat so well here. In a few years we are off to Denmark .... hopefully only Danish summers. But I would follow her anywhere.

 

[helicopterjim]

 

[Dellortoman]

I'll take the winters (in Canada) over the summers I experienced in Florida or Saudi Arabia anytime.

It's not necessarily a choice between extremes of Canada or Saudi Arabia. There are places in the world with moderate climates where it never gets too hot or too cold to function normally, and you can ride a bike any time of the year if you want to. I know because I live in one of those places.

 

[piranha-bro2]

You could probably say Melbourne has a moderate climate too, Cam - we can't be more than 200-300km north of you - but when the mercury goes into the 40s here, and the north wind howls, it feels extreme to me. I farken hate it, in fact happy when the summers temps are in the mid high 20's max. I never complain about winters here though - I LOVE winter and I loved being in northern Europe and Norway during winters. I'd say it's the Scottish ancestry that helps there.
Can well understand how months of 'lockdown' due to freezing temps (and not Rona) and roads and conditions that make riding motos or bicycles difficult or impossible might make people feel a little glum ... my mad brother Lee on his spiked tyres out cycling in -20 excepted of course!!