Re: 'snowstorm vs. blizzard'

Tristan McLeay wrote:

>
>>Yesterday, it was -5C to -10C, 10 to 15 meter visibility, snow hitting
>>the ground at about 45-50 degree angle, but the flakes was of such a
>>type that it didn't have the usual sander-effect on exposed skin. (The
>>low visibility was also due to the type of snow, it wasn't really a
>>storm. Dry, small, very light flakes, so easily pushed even by a little
>>wind. Wet, big flakes are worse.) Today it's been a pleasant -7 to -3 C
>>though no sun.
>>
>>
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>-3 is *pleasant*? That's freezing---literally! Last few days its been
>particularly present with minimums of 18 C or below (so it's possible to
>sleep at night) and maximums in the low to mid twenties (though today it's
>forcast to reach a high of 31 (feels to cold for it but), and the very
>suitable 30 on Christmas.
>
>
-3 is fairly average winter temperature.    See, in Norway, -15 didn't
really seem that cold, but here, even -3 makes my ears hurt.  I wonder
why...


>>t., who lives by the mild and pleasant coast, where the winter is wet
>>and icy more than white and cold. I hope the snow stays the week.
>>
>>
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>--
>Tristan, from the cold, as my NSW and Qld* neighbors to the north would
>have it, south, where the winter is six months ago. (Of course, they're
>wrong; we just have the good sense to interweave summer and winter for a
>few weeks in December.)
>
>* Funny. They say its cold here, yet call us Mexicans ('south of the
>  border'). Silly Bananabenders.
>
>
Joe, who lives in the fairly mild southeast England, where it is wet and
cold,  but not unbearably so, and the snow doesn't start until  January,
just in time to miss Christmas.