Just happened to land on a page where I saw the temperature on the coldest recorded day in Finland: -60.7F (-51.5C).
I do remember that winter, although it didn't get that cold where I lived. (stayed at a comfortable -40F). Car tires rock solid, shocks frozen solid, all rubber and plastic parts rock hard... :)
Glad to live in Florida now :D
Jan
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.
J
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
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