bringing kitchen utensils to the beach
So for those of you who live in a place where you never see temperatures like -20C, I can tell you that once you've had three or four days of it, you'll get used to it and it won't be as cold as how it felt when the weather changed to that temperature.
The high temperature for the last week or so has been between -15C and -20C. I appreciate that those temperatures aren't high, but when it drops to -18C to -25C at night, it is higher.
Every once in a while in our winter here we'll get an anomalous day where the temperature rises above zero. This is the forecast for Friday where it is supposed to go up to 5C and it is supposed to rain. The next day we'll drop below zero again. While you might think this kind of anomaly is welcome, it really isn't. The rain will fall into the snow and make the snow very wet, given enough time it would melt the snow, but there usually isn't enough time, considering how much snow there is. Once the temperature drops the next day all of that wet snow freezes into ice. Believe me, ice is more difficult to deal with than is snow.
For those of you who live in a place where you do see temperatures like -20C, I hope you have warm outerwear.
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I know -20C. 0˚F is about -17C, two weeks when it doesn't go above that, plus wind chill, means I know quite well how it feels. And explains why I loved my parka, even though it was OD green, with orange lining.
Does it get that cold where you live? I know it gets cold enough for snow...
Yes, not every winter, but most of the time, for a few days or a week at most. In Boston it was two weeks every winter I was there. In Detroit growing up, at least a week every winter, sometimes more.
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