Re: OT: Merry Christmas!

On 27 Dec 2004, at 12.51 am, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:
>
>> On 25 Dec 2004, at 7.14 am, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:49:05 +1100, Tristan McLeay
>>> <conlang@...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's been freezing here today! Low twenties, and the same is
>>>> predicted
>>>> for tomorrow. But no snow round here either; I am talking celsius.
>>>
>>> How is "low 20s C" freezing?  I mean, 20C is what we set our
>>> thermostat to in
>>> the winter.  It's not balmy, but it's certainly not freezing.
>>
>> Well, considering that it's no longer generally jumper-weather, and
>> considering that it was high twenties at least and generally over
>> thirty earlier this week, it's relatively freezing.
>
> 20 Celsius is not jumper weather?!? A few degrees more, and it's too
> _hot_ for a
> jumper ...
Yeah, that's what I'm saying... One wears jumpers when it's cold, i.e.
during winter, so it's no surprise it's not jumper weather in summer...
If anything, I would've thought a Scandinavian would be more likely to
accept 20 as not being jumper-weather (a friend of mine's mother is
Finnish, and when she first came to Australia she apparently would wear
shorts-and-a-t-shirt in the middle of winter and die in summer).

B. Garcia:
> Jeesh.... you call that freezing? We've had temperatures of  61F here,
> which is 16C. That's a pleasant day for us here. Where do you live,
> the fiery part of hell? (Has it frozen over? :))
16's about normal for winter... But it's because we're wearing summer
clothes, not winter ones. (The nice thing about Celsius where I live is
it rarely if ever gets bellow 0; a normal low in July is about 3 or 4,
which gives you a couple of degrees before you hit the bottom. Negative
temperatures are for the mountains (though that's typically a high).)

Most other Australians seem to describe Melbourne as 'freezing' at the
best of times; we're the furthest away from the equator you can get a
city on the mainland. In any case, it's freezing because most people
are wearing summer clothes, not winter ones atm.

> Here's a typical SUMMER day for us: 12C. It can even dip as low as:
> 10C depending on how much fog we get.
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?

--
Tristan.

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