Re: OT: Merry Christmas!

On 27 Dec 2004, at 9.55 am, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Ah, misread you; thought you meant that 20 C was too cold for only
> wearing a
> jumper.
>
> At 20 C, I wear a jumper or not depending on activity. I suppose that
> part of
> the source of confusion is that I don't consider "jumper weather" to
> be cold -
> when it's cold, you've got a jacket over the jumper. Outdoors
> temperatures of
> twenty or more centigrade are decidedly summery.
Well, I don't even own a jacket and doubt I'd need one unless I found
myself waking up on the other side of the world (but I have a higher
tolerance for colder weather than most around here, and didn't wear a
jumper for most of the winter (except when it was raining heavily, I
had a nice warm woolly jumper that kept the rain out)). But yeah,
jumper weather is definitely the cold stuff.

>> I don't want to know what your winter temperatures are... Though ISTR
>> last year someone---possibly Yitzik---talking about blizzards like
>> they
>> were warm?
>
> Possibly you're refering to my and John Cowan's discussion of
> blizzards? It
> transpired that the far from a "blizzard" being worse a very severe
> snowstorm -
> as I had thought -, the term includes weather I wouldn't describe as a
> snowstorm
> at all.
>
> Alternatively, Yitzik or someone else may have pointed out the rather
> mundane
> fact that it usually doesn't snow when it's seriously cold.
Possibly... it's been a year... I'm probably confusing half-a-dozen
different conversations... I'm sure someone was saying it was a warm
winter; temperatures-you'd-die-in are so very warm, or the like.

--
Tristan.

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