Interesting idea! In the UK it's said that we don't have a climate, we
have weather, but although we famously talk about the weather all the
time, and the weather forecasters are nationally famous, we really lack
extremes. Winter temperatures rarely drop below freezing, and summer
days over 30C/90F don't happen every year. Having said that, last week
when we had two inches of snow the south east of England literally
ground to a halt and national panic ensued. Roads and airports were
closed, and even the London Underground suffered massive disruption.
Despite this recent 'extreme', if this was a TOPE event I think the
window would need to be about two years to give those of us in the UK a
fair chance of capturing an extreme! I too wonder how people cope in
more brutal climates - I visited Sweden over New Year and saw that
everything functioned extremely efficiently even when blanketed in snow
in -15C temperatures, but I imagine it must be pretty tiresome coping
with such temperatures for 4-5 months every year.
Cheers,
Roger
Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Wayne Culberson's response to me in the last couple of days that he had
> just come in from removing ice and snow from his driveway and had frost-
> bitten cheeks as a result, really made me think.
>
> OK, it is high summer here and short of putting my hand into the deep
> freezer cabinet, it is difficult to imagine "cold". Just as Wayne
probably can't
> imagine "hot" right now.
>
> A good topic could be "Living among the cold" or "Coping with daily
> (extreme) cold" or some such.
>
> Of course "cold" is relative, and cold in Hong Kong would be
different to cold
> in Edmonton or New Brunswick.
>
> Here we seldom get things below 10 degrees C (and certainly not since
the
> mid 1980s) so I find it difficult to comprehend how people cope with
such
> cold in their daily life, and what they do as a matter of course to
make sure
> they continue to survive. How do poor people cope in these
conditions?. I've
> heard of it being necessary to plug cars into sump heaters so that
they will
> start again. What else is needed? What do you do when you travel? How do
> you ensure you survive if there's some mishap on the way? Do you avoid
> travel in extreme cold?
>
> Brian
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