-23 C and counting... :(

Morbyd

Morbyd

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We've just had the temperature drop from -2 C this morning to -23 C tonight, and the forecast calls for it to not get above -21 C for the rest of this week (and as low as -30 each night) :evil: :evil: :evil:

Even for Moscow, that's unusually cold. Apparently it's a cold front coming back from Siberia where temps have been well below normal for the past couple of weeks. I know people in one Siberian town where -30 C is not uncommon but last week was -55 C. 8O

Sorry... just felt like sharing the misery. Hope it's warmer where you are. :lol:
 
Morbyd said:
We've just had the temperature drop from -2 C this morning to -23 C tonight, and the forecast calls for it to not get above -21 C for the rest of this week (and as low as -30 each night) :evil: :evil: :evil:

Even for Moscow, that's unusually cold. Apparently it's a cold front coming back from Siberia where temps have been well below normal for the past couple of weeks. I know people in one Siberian town where -30 C is not uncommon but last week was -55 C. 8O

Sorry... just felt like sharing the misery. Hope it's warmer where you are. :lol:
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Damn dude, sorry for the cold spell that you are having right now. It's unusually warm in Denver, but we are getting pounded with snow in the mountains. Anyone who ski or snowboards out there, consider Colorado this winter, we are having an unbelievable year in the high country. Plus, we have good weed!!!! ;) :twisted:
 
Morbyd said:
We've just had the temperature drop from -2 C this morning to -23 C tonight, and the forecast calls for it to not get above -21 C for the rest of this week (and as low as -30 each night) :evil: :evil: :evil:

-30 **** thats cold. the coldest i`ve been out in is -25 in tignes french alps last year. I had frostbite on my nose
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I've seen -30 (plus or minus a couple of degrees) a few times in different places and it's never pleasant. I can't quite imagine -55.

It would be a lot more bearable if we had some skiing nearby. Unfortunately, all we have is a couple of small hills in the suburbs where you wait in line two hours to ski for 5 minutes... I've never bothered to make the trip.

Colorado sounds like a much better option, Bri. Do you get much time on the slopes?

Congrats on the Broncos win, by the way. The Skins fought valiantly but couldn't overcome the Seattle juggernaut.
 
Morbyd said:
I've seen -30 (plus or minus a couple of degrees) a few times in different places and it's never pleasant. I can't quite imagine -55.
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Morbyd said:

It would be a lot more bearable if we had some skiing nearby. Unfortunately, all we have is a couple of small hills in the suburbs where you wait in line two hours to ski for 5 minutes... I've never bothered to make the trip.

Colorado sounds like a much better option, Bri. Do you get much time on the slopes?

Congrats on the Broncos win, by the way. The Skins fought valiantly but couldn't overcome the Seattle juggernaut.
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Thats bad. waitin for two hours in a que just to ski for 5 mins.
I would love to go to colorado for a 2 week ski hol. But i just do`t have the money to go this year. After spendin 5 months in tignes last winter
 
I cant understand why people choose to live in such a cold place. It gets me down living in England in the winter but it's mild compared to Russia. Isn't your top summer temperature about 16 degrees or something aswell?
 
stuie said:
I cant understand why people choose to live in such a cold place. It gets me down living in England in the winter but it's mild compared to Russia. Isn't your top summer temperature about 16 degrees or something aswell?
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My first winter here ('01-'02) was really mild and I thought, "I can do this", so when I changed jobs in '02 I agreed to stay on for a few years. Then I found out what the winter here is really like :evil: It was all a trap :lol:

I don't mind the normal temperatures (-5ish to -10) so much, really... as long as it's not windy, snowy or icy (the latter is key... every year, you wait for the inevitable slip-and-fall incident :evil: )

Summer here is really beautiful, though. There's usually a range of 20-30 and if it's not a rainy year (like '04) then it's one of the best seasons anywhere. It is usually a bit short though :?
 
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I'd love to visit Moscow when it's all nice and snowy but I definately couldn't live there. I get the winter blues enough in England when it's like 5 degrees and raining lol, I'd probably kill myself if it was freezing for the main part of the year!
I'm just waiting til Spring when I can finally get some sunny rays to perk me up a bit! :D
 
Morbyd said:
Summer here is really beautiful, though. There's usually a range of 20-30 and if it's not a rainy year (like '04) then it's one of the best seasons anywhere. It is usually a bit short though :?
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Really? I thought summer in your region was like 15-20 max? -20 is a temperature i couldn't even imagine :lol:
 
I would die of cold and sun-depression over there.

Actually I think I woudl die of cold and sun-depression anywhere that less than 0C is a standar and that gets dark at 4pm
 
stuie said:
Really? I thought summer in your region was like 15-20 max? -20 is a temperature i couldn't even imagine :lol:
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Nope, summer is quite nice. In Siberia, it actually gets even hotter... continental climate and all. Some places that get to -40 in winter can get up to 35-40 in the summer.

As for -20, it's not so bad if you don't stay outside for more than 10 minutes at a time. I didn't really feel the -26C this morning when I walked to the corner to catch a taxi to work. Even the cigarette break outside was bearable, though it's slightly more noticeable if you're standing still. :?
 
silvia said:
I would die of cold and sun-depression over there.

Actually I think I woudl die of cold and sun-depression anywhere that less than 0C is a standar and that gets dark at 4pm
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i agree sil...........i go into my shell anyway in the winter and not even long(ish) summers are going to be enough to keep me in this country.

morby - i honestly don't know how you get out of bed in the morning...........brrrrrrrrrr.........frezzzzzzzzzing8O
 
grego said:
morby - i honestly don't know how you get out of bed in the morning...........brrrrrrrrrr.........frezzzzzzzzzing8O
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It's funny.. taxi drivers always ask me how I'm handling the cold, even after I tell them I'm not African but American. They can't quite get it in their heads that Washington gets cold (ok, not -20 C cold but 0 is not uncommon) or that Boston (where I went to uni) has a similar climate with the added fun of the occasional meter-high snowstorm.
 
Morbyd said:
It's funny.. taxi drivers always ask me how I'm handling the cold, even after I tell them I'm not African but American. They can't quite get it in their heads that Washington gets cold (ok, not -20 C cold but 0 is not uncommon) or that Boston (where I went to uni) has a similar climate with the added fun of the occasional meter-high snowstorm.
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I think it might be partly because during the cold war the USSR was always presented as a place that was miserable and cold all the time, and I think a lot of people find it hard to shift that image.
 
Morbyd said:
My first winter here ('01-'02) was really mild and I thought, "I can do this", so when I changed jobs in '02 I agreed to stay on for a few years. Then I found out what the winter here is really like :evil: It was all a trap :lol:
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My first (and only) glorious sunshine-filled three days in Manchester did that to me. Then it pissed down for the next three years:lol:
 
Scoobie said:
I think it might be partly because during the cold war the USSR was always presented as a place that was miserable and cold all the time, and I think a lot of people find it hard to shift that image.
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Google/Scoobie knows!:p
 
morb - have you read/seen gorky park??

the descriptions/images are exactly how I imagine moscow.

Scoobs, i disagree because I feel the conotation between Moscow/Russia and cold weather are more embedded in the historical failings of particularly Napoleon and Hitler to conquer Russia via its western front.

cold war to me means isolation, ideology, political tension, STAR wars, nuclear threat, and later the effects of glasnost and perestrokia.

cold weather in russia for me conjures up images of the nazis getting it wrong and half their army turning into ice statues:lol:
 
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