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Post by Jaga on Dec 6, 2005 21:23:03 GMT -7
You Poles do not know what really cold is...  I took an early bus from work and I was at the parking (after 5 pm) and the information panel showed.....-16 C!!!! ~ 7 F tonight we will have negative temperatures (in F) than means that -20--30 C then, I watched the weather broadcast to Poland - the tempeatures there are still positive (in Celsius) Now, my question - what is a latitude of Idaho Falls as compared to the latitude of Warsaw? |
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Post by Jaga on Dec 6, 2005 21:45:40 GMT -7
I did not see anybody in shorts today, but our driver had to get off the bus for a while and he did not have even long sleeves, but I could see that he was really cold....
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Post by rdywenur on Dec 6, 2005 22:13:51 GMT -7
Jaga...we need to visit Franek for at least a few months. At least till spring  |
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Post by zooba on Dec 7, 2005 1:34:06 GMT -7
We do know what real cold is - -16 Celsius is very cold but I remeber even colder, -20, 25 Celsius. In such low temerature the schools are closed down - I loved it as a child.
Now I would be worried about heating bills.
It's snowing now in Poznan but the snow is melting, cars are going slowly and it's beautiful.
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Post by Eric on Dec 7, 2005 3:45:21 GMT -7
Wow - it's a lot colder in Idaho than in Petersburg! Here, our average daily temperature is only 0..-2 C! Try to stay warm! I don't know the difference between Idaho and Poland, but St Petersburg is considerably to the north... we're at the latitude of Anchorage, Alaska, but kept far warmer than we would be otherwise at this latitude, because the Gulf Stream keeps the Baltic Sea warm.
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Post by suzanne on Dec 7, 2005 8:29:49 GMT -7
Now, my question - what is a latitude of Idaho Falls as compared to the latitude of Warsaw? I haven't had a chance to look it up, but I would imagine Warsaw is actually further north on the globe than Idaho, since most of Europe is further north than most of the US. It's pretty darn cold here too. I am using our unheated sunroom as a giant walk-in freezer to store all the extra holiday food I'm having to buy! |
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Post by piwo on Dec 7, 2005 8:43:05 GMT -7
Idaho falls is 43 degrees North
Warszawa is 52 degrees North
St. Petersberg RU is 60 degrees north.
Idaho falls however is 4,700 feet above sea level, where as Warszawa is only 350 feet above sea level. I think the fact that you are in the mountains a bit Jaga contributes to the cold air you are experiencing.
It is -11C right now in St. Peters, MO. It will be -16C overnite tonight.
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Post by Jaga on Dec 7, 2005 8:54:58 GMT -7
Piwo,
thanks for your calculations. Is it nor strange that we have a local Siberia here in Idaho where sun is much higher? The masses of air from Northern Canada can easily penetrate here causing such a cold.
Zooba,
you are right of course. I still remember the temperatures about -20, -25% in January during my first year at work (I started working on December). And I had to wait for the bus for a half of hour maybe 40 minutes on the bus stop. It was really cold.
Today in the morning at 7:20 am exactly was -11F (-25C). What is strange - that this cold started so early this year.
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Post by franek80 on Dec 7, 2005 10:23:26 GMT -7
Geeze, we too had a cold spell here in Florida.. It went down to 62 degrees last night..No snow though.. It did not matter to me,I baked a key lime pie LOL!
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Post by Jaga on Dec 7, 2005 10:24:26 GMT -7
It is not really cold yet. Polish writer Kapuscinski in his book "Imperium" writes what Tanya - from Jakutsia in the middle of Siberia describes WHAT REALLY COLD IS or HOW COLD IS REALLY COLD
It is so cold that there is a continuous mist in the air. Every person creates a transparent corridor in this mist by walking. When she walks in such a day to school - she can recognize who walked already to school by a shape of a corridor created by this person.
Sometimes a drank man walks and then he fells.... and then the corridor stops.
When there is no any corridors in the morning that means that it is so cold that even the school does not work
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Post by bescheid on Dec 7, 2005 10:51:44 GMT -7
Jaga
That is darn cold! Boy, is this the normal winter type weather there?
Here it is 38F (3C) we had some snow for two days, and then it melted with the rain fall.
Sweet people, if they are made out of sugar, will surely melt in the rain.
Charles
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Post by Jaga on Dec 7, 2005 19:58:03 GMT -7
Charles,
but it is beautiful, very white - the snow never gets dirty here
Kai - how warm is in your place of the world?
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Post by kaima on Dec 7, 2005 20:15:48 GMT -7
Charles, but it is beautiful, very white - the snow never gets dirty here Kai - how warm is in your place of the world? Sniff!! Whine! Whine!   We are up to around +40F or +5C. The road at my house is ice covered with water, and my normal maneuver of coming down the hill, stopping and reversing into the driveway did not work. I could not back up the hill to the driveway even though I was almost parallel to the driveway. I had to sand the ice in order to back in. That is in a two wheel drive Pickup truck. 20F or 10 F would be far, far more comfortable! Kai the Whiner |
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Post by kaima on Dec 7, 2005 20:18:15 GMT -7
Oh,
To judge the relative cold in winter: When I moved from Fairbanks, Alaska to near Frankfurt Germany, it took me two full years to toughen up to the European winter! By the time I left I was so tough I would close my bedroom window perhaps 4 times a year.
I imagine it is so in Warsaw and Krakow.
Kai
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Post by Jaga on Dec 7, 2005 20:38:06 GMT -7
Kai,
so all the cold air from Alaska came to Idaho!
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