OT: Cold record from 1999

Well, it was kind of cold... I have skied (downhill carving) in like -32 C (-26 F) though. Not that bad. It is all about what you wear ;)

Umm, I have rolled around naked in the snow at -40F :D

(Just because there was an opportunity and I could)

Jan

MMm, yes, and the Pope is a nazi!(Hold on! He's Austrian, right?)

Admit admit, it was only -28.. Well, perhaps 32 but not a degree lower! :}

Must say I do not think I have ever seen below 29-30 minus, which was plenty cold for me.

The worst is when it stays that cold for a week or so, not good for outdoors activities like you know what.

I've always wondered why in the distant past when human populations were migrating out all around the planet that any particular tribe would get to a place like Finland, experience a winter with -40ºC temperatures and then decide to stay? As for me, it would only take one -40ºC night to convince me to head southward asap. In fact, the temperatures would have to get no where near that cold to convince me to leave.

I've experienced -40F up in the mountains in Idaho. I liked the place for other reasons but I haven't been back in 20 years...

Tony

I remember sitting on plastic Honda seat at -31 degrees and it breaking in all directions like ice would. When it warmed up the seat looked like it had been cut by a razor blade.

Its 42deg C at the moment wher I am in Australia. Know a bloke in Wagga Wagga where it got so hot the road tar was squishing out from under the tyres! Pity we couldn,t swap a few degrees between us. Cheers John