The first snow of the Year... - Page 2

ora · #9 November 3rd, 2006, 11:53 AM

Wow, major differential. In Jordan I had a day from +40 C daytime to -10 C with a blizzard at night, it was very strange in deed for a Brit who got sued to weather that never really gets hot or cold.

This year in Geneva has been lovely though, after a miserable, september and october have been balmy and now its cold but very clear and sunny, and Mont Blanc is towering over everything, bathed in the pink alpenglow.

Ferdinand · #10 November 3rd, 2006, 12:44 PM

In Vienna it has between 35 and 39 degrees and with horrible snow storms every half an hour, it feels a lot colder...

bbloke · #11 November 3rd, 2006, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by dlloyd

ora: Colorado mountains. Everything froze last night and it was about 20º earlier this week, but today I bet it gets to 60º, just as it did yesterday.

Fahrenheit, I presume; otherwise that would be rather warm indeed! Hehehehe

Ferdinand · #12 November 3rd, 2006, 12:48 PM

whew I wouldnt want to live there at 60 C... I'd need _very_ good air conditioning...

lurk · #13 November 3rd, 2006, 12:50 PM

A couple of years ago I was back in Wyoming for hte 4th of July and we had snow abot the 7000ft level, it did not quite make it to the house but you could see it on all the hills around town.

Esquilinho · #14 November 3rd, 2006, 01:37 PM

Here (in Lisbon) we had snow in February for the first time in 50 years (we do have snow every year in other parts of the country though).

Now, it's around 20ºC... A bit warm for the season, don't you think?

eric2006 · #15 November 3rd, 2006, 04:35 PM

It's 6 degrees C.. we've gotten snowflakes, but nothing that sticked..

I need some snow to justify my new nordic stuff, and, unlike downhill skiing, you actually need snow to nordic ski.

Rhisiart · #16 November 4th, 2006, 02:59 AM

I once stood at a bus stop in Toronto. I was well dressed, complete with one of those sinister-looking facemasks that protesters wear at anti-G8 rallies. The bus shelter had a temperature gauge showing -20˚C. Curiously, I didn't feel that cold.

This is in complete contrast to freezing my nuts off every Christmas in County Cork (when we stay with my out-laws), where -5˚C makes your bones shiver. Dampness as opposed to the dry Canada cold perhaps?

P.S. I once went up Mont Tremblant outside Montreal on a winter ski holiday wearing a Paddington Bear coat, a bobble hat, sunglasses and a yellow scarf. With wind chill it was -35˚C. It was a scary ride down. My eyelids kept sticking together and my yellow scarf became rigid, making me look like Biggles (UK readers will know what I mean). It took five minutes to peel my sunglasses off when I go to the bottom, where I was met by a first aider who threatened to lock me up in a an institution if I didn't go straight to the ski shop and buy the appropriate clothing. They are very caring these Quebecoise.