Crackheads need for crackpot solutions to frosty problem.

[Rob Stow]

Paul Busby wrote: Thus spake Rob Stow:<Snipped>The average temp here for January is about -16'C, soobviously we get a few nice days to balance out thecold ones. In some respects I envy you Rob: the only reliable way to tell the seasons in Blighty is by the amount of leaves on trees. Then again, I haven't lived in a truly cold climate, so I may have an over-romantic view.

We get the best of both worlds here: cold, snowy winters;
warm rainy springs; hot dry summers; pleasant autumns.

Of course that doesn't stop me from grousing when it
hits -40'C in the winter or +40'C in the summer. ;-)
Even -30'C annoying if it lasts more than a few days.

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Bitstring <RRWCd.716970$%k.38805@pd7tw2no>, from the wonderful person
Rob Stow <rob.stow.nospam@shaw.ca> said
<snip>We get the best of both worlds here: cold, snowy winters;warm rainy springs; hot dry summers; pleasant autumns.

Yes, we get all that too .. sometimes in the same week. 8>.

--
GSV Three Minds in a Can
Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

[Charles Howse]

Thus spake Rob Stow: Paul Busby wrote: Thus spake Rob Stow:> <Snipped> The average temp here for January is about -16'C, so obviously we get a few nice days to balance out the cold ones. In some respects I envy you Rob: the only reliable way to tell the seasons in Blighty is by the amount of leaves on trees. Then again, I haven't lived in a truly cold climate, so I may have an over-romantic view. We get the best of both worlds here: cold, snowy winters; warm rainy springs; hot dry summers; pleasant autumns. Of course that doesn't stop me from grousing when it hits -40'C in the winter or +40'C in the summer. ;-) Even -30'C annoying if it lasts more than a few days.

Damn your wonderful weather Sir! I just phoned my brother on the subject who
runs a modest weather station. He suggested the phrase "Feels like" isn't
just wind chill but also factors in humidity to more closely resemble the
subjective feeling of coldness. Seems fair enough.

I used to take daily temp & humidity readings for a test equipment cal house
which involved using a swinging wet bulb thermometer, we never used the
bench hydrometer/thermometer which used a sprung-loaded multistranded horse
hair mech attached to a pen against a cylinder of paper! One could improvise
with a violin & clock of course (should they be to hand)!

[Rob Stow]

GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote: -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

Something at a site I was just at used the phrase
"micturition to windward".

Why did I immediately start thinking that somewhere in the
Culture there simply must be a GSV with that name ? D:)