Here in the high desert of sunny Southern California, we have had a low of
19 degrees F the past two nights. A bit unusual for this early. However, I must point out that in the desert there is often a 40 degree F difference between the daily low and the high (because of the clear atmosphere allowing the radiation of heat into space at night). The highs the past couple of days have been near 60 F.Merritt
Hence the name of the group, "Three Dog Night".
Well, there's lots of things worse than cold to think of Ray...I think I'll just stay here and stay indoors for the most part in winter, play computer and ham radio, the rest of the year is absolutely gorgeous here...I live right on the shore of Malpeque Bay. Have my own 100 feet of sandy beach.
Have a little motor-boat parked just offshore to poke around the many little islands around here and fish some. Dig clams within
50 feet of my back porch, watch Sea Gulls and Blue Herons fish, go into town 4 miles to have coffee and tell hairy flying tales with my ex-service cronies...life is good...
SURE you are! ;)
Hmmm 40 degree differences sound like summers in San Francisco!
Sound like the Good Life! You deserve it! I once worked with a guy from Toyota Canada that lived in Halifax, it sounded like he has the same surroundings as you, although his hobby is making something he called "swish," I think you and TeGGeR called it "screech." He brought me a sample, "screech" is a more descriptive name!
LOL! If we run out of cats, we have a Keeshond - a grey hairy dog and a rabbit.
Two days ago it was 4 degrees F in Chicago.
Now it's 29 and Midway is going to be very close to a foot of snow.
Charles of Kankakee
You poor buggers...you need to "move way up here to the frozen North" (Canada for some of the uninformed) where it's now +2C, (34F) on Friday at noon, (and NO SNOW on the ground)...gee...
Up here in the frozen subArctic, Edmonton, it's been near 7 or 8 CELSIUS all day long. Most of the snow is gone.
(that's 46F boys)
Sigh...I'm just trying to smarten up some of the brilliant Americans who think the Southern Canadian Border consists of a 15 foot wall of snow with nothing North of that but igloos and Polar bears...
(so many Americans...so little time)
I'm aware that not all of Canada is a frozen wasteland, like PEI and Vancouver. On the other hand, Yellowknife is supposed to be a tad chilly in the winter ;-)
I do NOT understand why so many of my fellow Canadians get their shorts in a knot when some American doesn't know some detail about Canada. It makes FAR more sense for occupants of a SMALL nation to be fully aware of any neighbouring LARGE nation. SO, fellow Canadians GROW UP, eh?
I absolutely fully agree Sharksie...it's just common sense, BUT, you gotta agree that there's not much 'world knowledge' taught in the US primary schools. The US is, of course a fairly large country, what?, ~300 million, that's ~10 times the population of a lightly inhabited country like Canada (even though Canada is larger in area than the US) but is pretty chintzy when compared to China at roughly 2.4 BILLION!...and is not even quite twice the area of the US...or Japan at 127 Million (and smaller than California)
I've travelled all over the US and find it amazing how little most of the population knows of any area outside their borders...I've attended airshows a lot in the US where we'd have a Canadian Forces aircraft on display with ourselves in flight gear around it to talk with the locals. Pretty bad I'll tell you...embarrassing to have to tell another adult that we're from a country a couple of hundred miles North of them who have a military, design and build our own aircraft (and sell some of them to the US...). I'm not kidding you. These scenarios aren't isolated either.
Damned right Ray...but look at where it's located...looks like about 100 miles North of the North border of Alberta which is at
60N, that's getting into the Arctic...so, sure it's gonna be cold. And I know cold too, I flew with Air Transport Command all over the Arctic for 10 years or so.We were into every air-strip (mostly gravel) up there that would accommodate a C-119 (medium sized twin engined transport)
I trained the guy who had Yellowknife in his territory. He had Vancouver before that and must have upset his boss to get banished to the hinterlands like that!
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