To our European friends:

[Rafiq]

I know they said last year the weather fucked Europe but sparred the United States because of some kind of imbalance in the jet stream. However here in michigan, it's currently around -20 degrees. How's the whether in Europe?

[ВАЛТЕР]

Here (Novi Sad, Serbia) it has been pretty cold the past few days. We had some snow last week but it's gone now. Although, more is expected tonight (none so far )and tomorrow. It has been hovering at between -2 to +5 or 6 degrees Celsius the past 10 or so days.

[The Cheshire Cat]

Here in the Netherlands, about 12 cm snow has fallen and because of low temperatures for the last days, all water is solid frozen. It is about -5 at day and -15 at night. But I live close to the sea in the North, where the land is completely flat. Could be warmer at other places.

[Comrade Samuel]

No kiddin' it's -7 where I'm at right now.

On the bright side most of the schools in the northern part of the LP got closed today. :cool:

[Manic Impressive]

About 2 inches of snow for the last 3 days it's thawing now though.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

It's been pretty chilly (-2 to 2 celsius) here in Albion, and a few days ago we had some snow that is now melting away.

Although it's not been as snowy as the forecasts have said it should be. Nuts!

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

In Holland too, but more eastern, farther away from the sea.

Same here as Chesire Cat described, but some more snow, about 30 cm here. Took me more than twice as long to get to work yesterday.
Holland is quite good in handling snow or frost on the main roads. So today all was almost normal for me.

It is terribly funny to see that the west, where the pressure on the roads is much higher, gets completely derailed, everytime mother nature passes gas :laugh:

[piet11111]

Here in the Netherlands, about 12 cm snow has fallen and because of low temperatures for the last days, all water is solid frozen. It is about -5 at day and -15 at night. But I live close to the sea in the North, where the land is completely flat. Could be warmer at other places.

Wait a damned minute i live on terschelling where are you at ?!?

edit: i see you have groningen as your location maybe i should spend less time posting while inebriated

[TheRedAnarchist23]

In Portugal it is 12ºC, which is considered really cold in portuguese strandards. It has been extremely windy here, the meteorology association actualy gave red alert for most of the coast on saturday, because of the wind.

[Rafiq]

Interesting. According to some it's supposed to go up to 30 F next week here. So... Is it too early to tell whether the weather is going to be ridiculously out of the ordinary this year? It was last year, for sure.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

In Holland too, but more eastern, farther away from the sea.

Same here as Chesire Cat described, but some more snow, about 30 cm here. Took me more than twice as long to get to work yesterday.
Holland is quite good in handling snow or frost on the main roads. So today all was almost normal for me.

It is terribly funny to see that the west, where the pressure on the roads is much higher, gets completely derailed, everytime mother nature passes gas :laugh:

It's not terribly funny at all.
It's terribly annoying.

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

It's not terribly funny at all.
It's terribly annoying.

I'm sorry if you are being fucked the weather, but an entire economy coming to a stand-still? Feels a bit like mother nature wants to make a point. (pssst...she's on our side, i think!)

[Crux]

It was around -26 Celsius during the party wintercamp up in Luleå.
Been between -6 to -10 today, tomorrow and the day after that will be even colder between -9 to -14. Yeah. And I have a massive cold.

[Yugo45]

This is the hottest winter in a long while for my city (Sarajevo). November was cold (avg. -15 C) but from december until now it's on average 0 C, maybe even higher, which is really hot for winter here.

[l'Enfermé]

It's -13 degree C right now in Stockholm. That's like 9 or 10 degrees F. I think it was almost -30 C in Kiruna when I was there a few weeks back.

[Zukunftsmusik]

It's -13 degree C right now in Stockholm. That's like 9 or 10 degrees F. I think it was almost -30 C in Kiruna when I was there a few weeks back.

i can swear you're on a new place or in a new country every time you post


Near Trondheim, Norway it's between -5 and -10 C, but sadly no snow :(

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

the weather is nice in iceland as always.:)

[Hit The North]

Here in the UK, there's been around 5cm of snow and the media are worried it'll push the British economy into a triple-dip recession! :lol:

[Os Cangaceiros]

The lowest it got where I'm at right now was -66 degrees this year, which I believe was some sort of record (for where I live). Beat that. :(

[Prometeo liberado]

I feel your suffering folks. Here in Los Angeles it was near 80 and slightly humid! Oh what tragedy! I have a new cardigan that I can't even wear. Oh the humanity!:(

[L.A.P.]

It's hotter than normal in Florida, even for the winter. I remember when I used to wear sweaters in the winter time.:(

[Red Banana]

It has been an unusually warm winter here, it's been hanging around the low to mid 40's all month and even got as high as 60 degrees on Sunday. Now all of the sudden it's in the 20's.

I like it, but it's concerning. I'd much rather be in my position right now though than some of you. I can't even imagine how uncomfortable it must be to experience sub-zero temperatures.

[Ostrinski]

Got down to -4 F here in the bluegrass last night. Cold as fuck. Funny thing is, the weekend before last we hit a record for warmest temperature in January ever recorded for Kentucky, 73 F.

[svenne]

It's -13 degree C right now in Stockholm. That's like 9 or 10 degrees F. I think it was almost -30 C in Kiruna when I was there a few weeks back.

I think it passed - 20 degrees C this last weekend (in Stockholm). (Dock fungerade SL, vilket är ett mirakel större än Jesu återkomst)

[Blake's Baby]

About 2 inches of snow for the last 3 days it's thawing now though.

He means 5cm. Apparently Anglo-Marxism is still using Imperial measurements.

[Ostrinski]

The imperial measurements are still the official form of measurement in the US as well (or our own version of it or something, they're pretty much the same), making it one of three countries yet to officially adopt the metric system along with Liberia and Burma.

In school we learned them both and we use them pretty much interchangeably in the case of the smaller forms of measurement with sometimes the metric system even being more used in that regard, but you never hear about kilometers as opposed to miles except in the case of things like the study of space and the universe.

[Blake's Baby]

Yeah, Britain's pretty similar (and I'm sure any Australian or Canadian board users will have similar experiences - I believe in Australia the convention is 'km for written distances, miles for spoken distances'). We use miles and pints and inches and ounces all the time, especially if we're over 40, though allegedly we agreed to adopt the metric system around 1890, when the rest of Europe agreed to GMT being the Prime Meridian, or something.

As for temperature, the Great Stephen Fry pointed out that we use Farenheit when it's hot ('it's 80 degrees out there!' rather than 'it's 27 degrees out there!') but Celsius when it's cold ('it's -6 out there!' not 'it's 21 degrees out there!') - just because that way the temperature always seems more extreme. But again I think it's mostly a generational thing, about the only thing I have to convert now is body temperature, because I really can't get my head round the fact that 37 is hot but ok while 38 is dangerous. You can at least see the transition coming with Farenheit.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

This is so weird to read considering yesterday was fucking 46oC here.

[Blake's Baby]

Calling 27 degrees C "hot", you mean?

'If you can't take the heat, best get out of the tropical country with fucking huge deserts', as I think the popular saying has it.

I'm going to look a real idiot if you're not in Australia.

[Thirsty Crow]

It's sunny now, finally. Fairly warm for this time of year.
But it snowed a lot before and for the last couple of days there's been rain as well. The city was kind of blocked by all the snow some 10 days ago, it was funny to watch the mayor take all the shit for the response of the responsible services :lol: Though one particular menace was the hardened snow falling from building roofs. That shit could kill you.

And of course, all of this water has to go somewhere. The result, the ceiling and walls in my condo, soaked. Great.

[Hit The North]

Coming back to winter weather and the economy. When it snows in the UK the country comes to a standstill. What happens is that thousands of schools close which means workers can't get to work because there's no one to look after the kids. The Treasury reckons that it costs the UK economy millions in lost production.

It demonstrates the unexpected economic power that teachers wield. An all out general school strike would bring the country to its knees and the ruling class would have to draft in the army to provide crèches to enable the wheels of industry and commerce to continue turning :lol:

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

At 7 PM it was already -11 celsius. It's gonna be a clear night. I expect -15 or so tommorow-morning.

[Blake's Baby]

Pretty chilly here too but not down as low as -11. More like -3. Looking at the sky it looks like it might snow again.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

What backwards country in europe still uses Farenheit? Celsius is way better system.

The lowest temperature I have ever felt was 0ºC, and the highest was 42ºC. At 40º you constantly sweat, and you feel like taking off all you clothes and diving into the atlantic.

[Thirsty Crow]

What backwards country in europe still uses Farenheit? Celsius is way better system.

I agree completely. It's waaay more accurate and not bound up with cultural backwardness.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

What the fuck is Fahrenheit based on, anyway? Celsius/Centigrade makes sense because it's based on the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level. Especially since water is involved in a many meteorological phenomena...

[Thirsty Crow]

What the fuck is Fahrenheit based on, anyway? Celsius/Centigrade makes sense because it's based on the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level. Especially since water is involved in a many meteorological phenomena...
I think that the Celsius Supremacist International is ready to be formed!

Wiki says:
...on Fahrenheit's original scale the freezing point of brine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine) was zero degrees

While


Brine is a solution of salt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28chemistry%29) (usually sodium chloride (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride)) in water (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water).

This is an unacceptable seawater heresy.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Celsius has centigrade division, frenheit has something else. I understand Kelvin better than Fahrenheit, because at least Kelvin uses centigrade, so you just have to subtract 273 to get celsius.

[Ostrinski]

I cant be bothered to give a fuck

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

8 Degrees here, will be +1 C on the weekend. Well, I must admit it's a bit sad not having snow, but on the other hand one has a total different experience and can do fall stuff in winter. I heard it snowed just 15 minutes away from my house last weekend though, above 1,000 feet.

[Ostrinski]

Hehe, California is known for never getting snow in the winter. Do you get a lot of snow back home in Germany?

[Goblin]

Currently its -10 here in Norway. Yesterday it was -23!

[The Feral Underclass]

It's currently about 36 degrees in my house.

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

It was -11 celsius outside yesterday 7 P.M. (like i said before). I thought it was going to be -15, but it turned out to be -6 this morning. It fucking warmed up at night...with clear skies!:confused:

[Blake's Baby]

Ah, the balmy Dutch spring...

Actually, I've never been to the Netherlands in January, but I once drove across Belgium at this time of year and it was bloody freezing.

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

Ah, the balmy Dutch spring...

Actually, I've never been to the Netherlands in January, but I once drove across Belgium at this time of year and it was bloody freezing.

Yup, still does...

I said -15 celsius, that's 5 fahrenheit. Freezing my ass off here.

[Regicollis]

It's -7 degrees Celsius here. There is snow outside. It is a little on the cold side but not unusual at all for the season. Our summer was terrible though - cold, rainy and grey.

[TheRedAnarchist23]

I cant be bothered to give a fuck

Obvious american.

[Domela Nieuwenhuis]

It's -7 degrees Celsius here. There is snow outside. It is a little on the cold side but not unusual at all for the season. Our summer was terrible though - cold, rainy and grey.

That sounds quite normal for a ducth summer ;) (hey the Dutch like to complain a lot, summers are actually okay...mostly)

[Blake's Baby]

Yup, still does...

I said -15 celsius, that's 5 fahrenheit. Freezing my ass off here.

I know. I was being sarcastic.

And the British like to complain a lot too, it's one of the many things Britain and the Netherlands have in common (pointless monarchies, beer, disapointing national football teams, casual racism, languages descended from badly-spelled dialects of German...)