Doctor Damage
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Foot Guards in Londinium.
When you tell kids here in the UK that we are on the same line of latitude as Canada, you get that confused look that says: "And your point is what?"That's what my family over there said (they originated here in Canada). They said it's a lot of snow for people who've mostly seen snow only in a snow globe!
We got around 8" overnight. It's a winter friggin' wonderland today!
And on this side of the Atlantic we tend to forget that Washington DC is south of Lisbon! I understand that the North Atlantic Drift gives the north-eastern USA their humid summers. I'm glad I don't have to face the heat of North American summers!When you tell kids here in the UK that we are on the same line of latitude as Canada, you get that confused look that says: "And your point is what?"
Explain that if you follow the line of latitude you will enter polar bear country. It still doesn't register, anymore than trying to explain The North Atlantic Drift that laps our shores and gives us much milder winters than Canada.
Very funny! Har diddly har har!Cold front's moving in. Supposed to go down to the 70's tomorrow.
When I was 19 super-cold weather was fun, but now, in middle-age, I fear it, ha haI was stationed in Alaska in the late 1970's and arly 80's, our mission was inside the Arctic Circle in the winter, we saw -70 and below with the wind chill factor. It was not fun, but I was only 19.
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I was going to revisit this thread but @Doctor Damage beat me to it!
Out in the harbor the wind chills were -15 to -20 below zero; everything was shrouded in ice. Mighty COLD!
I was able to fit 3 cashmere wool sweaters under my leather jacket so I survived the deep freeze (and there’s at least a little heat up in the wheel house where I pilot the boat).
I was going to proclaim you all time winner until i realized it was in Celcius.