Re: Time in South Dakota (Date and Time on Cindu)

Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:
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> Incidentally --- one thing I've noted is that Scandinavians in Melbourne
> think it's cold here (lowest overnight low I've seen: zero degrees, in
> July), but Germans don't. Why? It doesn't make intuitive sense to me.
> Does snow have some warming effect, and it presumably snows less in
> (parts of) Germany, so the snowless cold of Melbourne is more familiar?
> Are Germans simply more reasonable in their expectation of Melbourne's
> weather (yes, we're Australia, no we're not Queensland), and therefore
> surprised less?
The later, I would guess. Zero centigrade and no snow cannot be unfamiliar to
anyone from Scandinavia.

Not that snow has any warming effect I've noted ...

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Andreas Johansson