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[hermanntrude]

it's been stupid-cold here the last few days. yesterday the windchill temperature was -27°C (246K).

 

today it's a balmy -16°C!

 

the snow is so deep that they're picking it up with backhoes, filling up trucks and dumping it outside town to prepare for the next snowfall.

[Phi for All]

Where's "here"?

[ChemSiddiqui]

Where's "here"?

 

I think canada, I remember him talking about canadian education system somewhere so i guess thats where he is talking about. But thats stupid cold that is.

[DrP]

been stupid-cold ...... -27°C (246K).

 

 

 

dude - is that cold enough to pour boiling water from a kettle and have it freeze before it hits the ground? I know that happens at -40C, but I not sure if it will at -27C.

[npts2020]

Save some of that cold up and send it down here in July or August.

[Sisyphus]

The best thing to do in cold like that is pretend it doesn't bother you in front of weak-blooded southerners who complain when it's 50 degrees (10C) out.

[hermanntrude]

it's newfoundland, which is part of canada.

 

I've experienced -40°C (without the windchill) before when I lived in northern alberta. I never tried throwing boiling water into the air... it might have worked but I am suspicious of claims about that. And i'm certain that pouring it straight from the kettle wouldn't work. You'd need to throw it into the air to give it a bigger surface area.

[Klaynos]

Last week most of the UK ground to a halt when we had a couple of inches of snow...

[hermanntrude]

ha yes I know. I was laughing the whole time. we're due to get 5-10cm of snow tonight and then another 15-20 on saturday followed by a few more on sunday. Life will continue as if nothing had happened. I probably won't even get a day off work tomorrow :0(

 

One day last year in a nearby town (on an island) had 63cm of snow and winds of 147km/h in a single night.

[Klaynos]

The difference is you've the infrastructure to deal with it it seems... Our councils ran our of salt for gritting the roads...

[insane_alien]

funny thing about that, this year is the first year i've actually drove around a significant amount int th weather that seems to grind britain to a halt. and what i've found is, it really isn't that bad at all and most of the roads i've been driving on are backroads that haven't seen grit since they were dirt paths(a few still are).

 

the only problem i had was in a carpark with a very slight incline, i would get half way up, wheel spin and slide back down, a little run up sorted that out.

 

the mind boggles about how the rest of people find it difficult to drive in such conditions, perhaps we should have a section of the road test done on a skid pan.

[Klaynos]

funny thing about that, this year is the first year i've actually drove around a significant amount int th weather that seems to grind britain to a halt. and what i've found is, it really isn't that bad at all and most of the roads i've been driving on are backroads that haven't seen grit since they were dirt paths(a few still are).

 

the only problem i had was in a carpark with a very slight incline, i would get half way up, wheel spin and slide back down, a little run up sorted that out.

 

the mind boggles about how the rest of people find it difficult to drive in such conditions, perhaps we should have a section of the road test done on a skid pan.

 

Where I live there are alot of hills, not big, but very frequent, it doesn't take much ice to make them quite difficult to cope with... Of course this few inches of snow is the most I've ever seen so it's not often an issue.

[hermanntrude]

winter tyres with little studs in them helps a lot. Also most cars are large four-wheel drive beasties. Also snowploughs. Salt and grit isn't very helpful in deep snow.

[DrP]

I've experienced -40°C (without the windchill) before when I lived in northern alberta. I never tried throwing boiling water into the air... it might have worked but I am suspicious of claims about that. And i'm certain that pouring it straight from the kettle wouldn't work. You'd need to throw it into the air to give it a bigger surface area.

 

I've seen the video of it thrown into the air. I've definately seen it poured straight from the kettle as well - it freezes as soon as it hits the ground. Can't remember the video - was some documentry I saw a good few years ago.

[hermanntrude]

I've seen the video of it thrown into the air. I've definately seen it poured straight from the kettle as well - it freezes as soon as it hits the ground. Can't remember the video - was some documentry I saw a good few years ago.

 

 

i'm still suspicious of both. But the throwing-into-the-air one has more chance of working, since the high surface area would increase the rate of evaporation which would reduce the temperature massively, and of course the high surface area would also cool it quickly too.

[mrsemmapeel]

There are videos of this on you tube, with buckets of boiling water and hot cups of coffee and they throw the liquid up in the air first, it looks fairly cool:-)

[hermanntrude]

OK so it's warmer now, but the snow is REALLY coming down. Last week I made a snowman. this is what he looked like:

 

That's my baby girl there with the snowman, which she immediately dubbed "frosty"

 

Then it snowed. The first frosty died from melting. This one met a far worse fate... buried in his own flesh...

 

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[CDarwin]

The difference is you've the infrastructure to deal with it it seems... Our councils ran our of salt for gritting the roads...

 

Haha, I live among mountains in the (our) South. That means we simultaneously have snow, it poses a legitimate danger to travel, and no one has any idea how to deal with it. Everyone runs on the supermarkets, whole counties shut down, it's very sad.

[D H]

I've experienced -40°C (without the windchill) before when I lived in northern alberta.

I've experienced -40°F=-40°C in northern Minnesota, and -30°F (-34°C) in Minneapolis (Jan 1, 1974). I don't remember that New Year's Eve much, other than that lots and lots of antifreeze helps one think the cold is bearable, even bare-able (had a naked roll in the snow) and that a football at -30°F is very, very hard. I've been moving southward ever since that winter.

 

Last week I made a snowman. this is what he looked like:

It snowed in Houston 4 years ago, enough to make a snowman. This is what he looked like:

Notice the bare yard. That snowman used up my full quota of snow (plus some more from the neighbor's yard).

 

OK so it's warmer now, but the snow is REALLY coming down.

We got a dusting of snow this year. It's a bit warmer now. Today's high was 79°F (26°C). It looks like we're in for a cold front this weekend; high of only 63°F (17°C) on Saturday.

[Dudde]

I remember working in a freezer warehouse that was kept -60 F, and seem to remember having to mop some concentrated juice spills on the colder parts. The water actually stayed quite liquidy for at least 5 seconds (whereupon I would use a torch to evaporate and do it again) - although that was several meters of cement, so not much of a comparison to outside -

 

I grew up in Washington though, one of those crazies who frolics outside at the -10 (again, F) and jumps into the Pacific at a good +10! - Now I live in the south...and I fully agree to both their pansy-hood and inability to drive as soon as the snow is forecast.

[hermanntrude]

another 10cm forecast for tonight. Some mysterious stranger cleared my driveway with their quad-mounted snowplough today. If i knew who it was i'd lick their boots clean. My whole body hurts.