Oh, the weather outside is...

[onejayhawk]

Texas?

Yup, Texas. Add single digit temps. I get to relive my childhood. Now, where is that shovel.

 

[Kyriakos]

The seasons have shifted considerably, compared to how it was when I was a child. We usually had snow in December-January. Now it is anything from mid February to even early April. Autumn as a season sort of disappeared here.

 

[thetrooper]

Texas?

Yup, Texas. Add single digit temps. I get to relive my childhood. Now, where is that shovel.

Global warming has turned Texan grassland into tundra.

Oh wait...

 

[Birdjaguar]

Cold today: Our back yard. Our mountain is hidden by the clouds.

 

[Arwon]

So put on a sweater and get on with everything. That's not even winter coat weather.

-2 is layers weather, for any significant movement beyond a few moments of exposure, that's a jumper, gloves, beanie and my warmest jacket. In Australia, we're the only city where winter gets below 0 at all, and where daytime maximums are often below 10 or 12.

Being a sole cold highlands city in a temperate to tropical country means most winter clothing sold here isn't made for conditions here. So most of those "sweaters" just aren't thick or warm enough for conditions here. I get my winter clothes online from cold countries.

The same would likely be true of long sleeved winter clothing in Greece, a locally-sourced "sweater" wouldn't be made to withstand those sorts of temperatures.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Cold. Balls cold, like getting down to 6 degrees F tomorrow. I live in Alabama, it's not allowed to get this cold. We're not even getting snow: the rain came before the freeze, so now we'll have ice to look forward to tomorrow. At least there's only a month or so of the cold stuff left..

 

[EgonSpengler]

Mild ice storm last night. Not enough to take down the power grid, but when I went out at 8:00pm to take out the trash, the front steps and sidewalk were a skating rink. It had mostly melted by this morning.

We've been spared the cold that the middle of the continent is getting. 40F/4.5C and raining right now. I worry about people in the Southern United States and Northern Mexico. I wonder how many people there even have cold-weather clothing. I can imagine expats from other places digging through the boxes in the garage for their old parkas and boots, but a lot of people must just be screwed. I think it's well below zero in places like Minneapolis and Toronto, but of course those cities are built for it and the people there are equipped for it. iirc, back in the '90s there was an unusual heat-wave in Chicago that killed dozens or hundreds of people because so few people had air-conditioning in their homes. At the time, it was one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's history. I think someone wrote a book about it. Sebastian Junger, maybe.

 

[CKS]

Being a sole cold highlands city in a temperate to tropical country means most winter clothing sold here isn't made for conditions here. So most of those "sweaters" just aren't thick or warm enough for conditions here. I get my winter clothes online from cold countries.

The same would likely be true of long sleeved winter clothing in Greece, a locally-sourced "sweater" wouldn't be made to withstand those sorts of temperatures.

My folks live in northern Minnesota while I live near St Louis. There, they sell sweatshirts to the tourists who come up in the summer, not expecting to need them. Every so often, my mother sends me some of these sweatshirts when they clear them out at the end of the summer, and they work to get me through most of the winter. She doesn't send us Minnesota winter-weight clothes, though, because we can't really use them here.

I have a winter coat for Minnesota that I can only wear a few days a year here, and a couple of sweaters that I can't wear here at all because they are too warm. (They are great for visits with my folks.) You can't buy coats and sweaters like mine in stores around here, though.

We are having a nice cold snap right now, and people are struggling because they don't have winter-appropriate clothes to wear, not even stuff to layer, so you see people wandering around in snow storms in hoodies without a waterproof outer layer.

 

[Kyriakos]

The last decade, a little snow is termed by the govenments as "extreme weather conditions", as if this was a tropical country.

3 people are already dead due to the covid restrictions acting together with the governmental failure to deal with snow.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Texas?

Yup, Texas. Add single digit temps. I get to relive my childhood. Now, where is that shovel.

It looks like The Day after Tomorrow in Texas.

 

[Zkribbler]

Predictions for the rest of the month are: scattered thundershowers, highs 28-30C...except 17th showers & wind; 19th wind; 20th rain & wind with a high of 27C. 30C = 86F.
I wonder if the rainy season might finally be ending.

 

[Farm Boy]

Got up to 18 degrees long enough managed to get the tub drain unfrozen. Dig out the mailbox tomorrow, I suppose.

 

[Kyriakos]

Apparently Athens learned how winter is in the north - the north of Greece, that is

 

[onejayhawk]

It's so cold the sodas on the porch exploded.

Saturday the sun comes out and the temperature will push above freezing.

J

 

[Sommerswerd]

Looks like 20s and 30s here for the rest of the week.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Snowing again today. More water...yea!

 

[Zkribbler]

Tropical Storm Auring is coming. It should be passing north of Bohol this weekend. IMHO, our central mountains should protect us on the south coast.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It was -21C this morning, warming up to -16C by the time I had to leave for my medical appointment in the early afternoon (no winter coat needed, just my fall jacket and light knitted gloves). Everyone I talked to agreed that it was nice to have warm weather again, after the recent cold snap.

 

[Lexicus]

freezing rain sucks

 

[Zardnaar]

It was -21C this morning, warming up to -16C by the time I had to leave for my medical appointment in the early afternoon (no winter coat needed, just my fall jacket and light knitted gloves). Everyone I talked to agreed that it was nice to have warm weather again, after the recent cold snap.

Derp.