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The Polar Vortex

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I'm not ashamed to admit that the cold is one of the few things the genuinely scares me! I've had anxiety attacks waiting for buses in the freezing winter winds.

So I'm wondering what the liklihood of the weather that's presently hitting the Eastern USA making it's foul way over here..? On Monday, temperatures in Central Park were 13 celcius. 24 hours later, by middle of yesterday, they'd had dropped to minus 15 celcius! That's a drop of almost 30 degrees C in 24 hours! It's like the Day After Tomorrow!

Winter has been a little wierd here already, I've never seen so much wind & rain & we've even had a fair bit of lightening & thunder, not something thats common at any time of the year here. It's been surprisingly warm too, I've saved about £100 on central heating compared to this time last year.

So, the Polar Vortex, you as scared as I am..?
 
Er...no. But I really hate the cold weather and have always maintained, since I was about 9, that I was born in the wrong country (Jamaica would have been nice).

Two things about this polar vortex thingy. The US is getting all the credit (news/attention, you know what I mean) when Winnipeg, which last time I checked was in Canada, is currently -50C.

The second thing? -41F is the same as -41C. How cool is that? (First person to say -41 gets an internet slap)
 
You people are hardcore! I'm ascared!

And Canada, Jesus! Bit chilly up there!
 
Thunder and lightening is very very frightening but I wouldn't call it a rare event. I love wild and stormy weather unless I'm on route somewhere and not dressed appropriately. I generally hate cold but walking outside when it's a clear, cold crisp day is nice. Wet and cold is fucking miserable, snow is a bit of a cunt as well.

Saying that, I'm currently in spain rocking shorts and t shirt so suck on that biatches.
 
Yes, it's been pretty warm here compared with recent years, but it makes a refreshing change to be honest. It feels more like it did when I was a kid and desperately wanted some snow but it never turned up. Nowadays I'm quite glad if it doesn't. Long live the Gulf Stream and God save the Village Green.

Though it's important to remember that the actual winter proper has barely begun.
 
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I actually enjoy the cold, especially when there's snow and ice (skating) involved. I've been waiting for winter for some time now, but forecasts say this and next week it'll be around 14C here.
 
Sammy G said:
Yes, it's been pretty warm here compared with recent years, but it makes a refreshing change to be honest. It feels more like it did when I was a kid and desperately wanted some snow but it never turned up.
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Really? It may all be rosy-tinted fantasyland but I remember winters being bastard cold with plenty snow. Lots of snow for weeks at a stretch sometimes. Like wot winter is meant to be.

Septonn said:
I actually enjoy the cold, especially when there's snow and ice (skating) involved.
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In relation to above, I remember (only just but I do remember) one particular winter when I was at primary school. The playground was like an amphitheatre with a rather long and steep slope down to it. Was thick snow on top of thick ice. So naturally, being small boys, we decided to see who could skid/slide down the slope as fast as possible. Great fun so it was. Until a Bigger Boy (school bully, if I recall) stuck his foot out to trip me when I was going full pelt. Next thing I recall is coming round to find myself being carried off to the staff room by one of the teachers and feeling like somebody had embedded a hatchet in my skull. Turned out I had concussion so spent a few days in hospital which I remember being a surprising amount of fun. At least once the insanely intense headache and nausea faded.
 
Shambles said:
Really? It may all be rosy-tinted fantasyland but I remember winters being bastard cold with plenty snow. Lots of snow for weeks at a stretch sometimes. Like wot winter is meant to be.
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Maybe time has distorted things a little and I only remember the times it didn't snow. Then again I really can't ever remember there being snow for weeks at a time!

I do live in a city that's pretty low on the snowfall charts though. Rain, yes. Snow, not so much.
 
i just about remember a winter (s.w.wales, early 80s?) when we had snow up to the bedroom window and my dad had to pour a kettle out the front door letterbox to get out. Also had a helicopter dropping food. So my coldest winters are still back then.

However, it's obvious to me (and more importantly practically all scientists) that the world's weather is getting more unpredicatable with more extremes. More energy in the system means more frequent and bigger storms (like the polar vortex or the atlantic one that just battered us). Just how extreme will it have to get before it starts to counteract the power of the lobbies interested in denying what's happening is another thing

In my more paranoid moments i sometimes think the elite must know what's happening, and are maybe letting it happen in order to get a bit of free population reduction in poor countries (the elite'll all be alright in their pods or underground bases); although this may be as paranoid as thinking thousands of climate scientists are all in on some worldwide communist conspiracy...
 
Sammy G said:
Maybe time has distorted things a little and I only remember the times it didn't snow. Then again I really can't ever remember there being snow for weeks at a time!

I do live in a city that's pretty low on the snowfall charts though. Rain, yes. Snow, not so much.
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"Weeks at a stretch" may be a bit of an exaggeration - time moves a lot slower when you're a nipper so everything seems to go on for ever. Was definitely heavy snow most winters I recall from childhood days. May well have just been that I happened to live under a snow cloud, or perhaps just a bit of the country where it's particularly snowy. At one of the schools I went to where there were lots of us that travelled by bus, we'd quite often have days off during the winter cos it was snowed in (well, not actually snowed in but enough of a hassle to get enough teachers and pupils in at the same time that it wasn't worth the bother). Trying to think when winters stopped being wintry but must've snuck up on me during one of me blackouts or summat.
 
Vurtual said:
i just about remember a winter (s.w.wales, early 80s?) when we had snow up to the bedroom window and my dad had to pour a kettle out the front door letterbox to get out. Also had a helicopter dropping food. So my coldest winters are still back then.
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That would be the winter of 1981/82. I have a pretty cool photo of myself in a 6ft snow drift somewhere.

And....SW Wales? Wanna say where? You can PM me if you want. I live there now. But I didn't in 1981.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Winnipeg, which last time I checked was in Canada, is currently -50C.
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Fuck, i believe that kind of temperature can freeze up your lungs and kill you in double quick time. :? I remember the winter in wales with the 6 foot drifts etc, we lived really right out in the sticks and my grandfather and stepdad had to gradually shovel their way through the snow just sos we could get out of our houses. Ever since that winter my mother went a bit OCD about stockpiling food incase such a winter should ever happen again. They had to stop buying food about 6 months before they emigrated as they had so much. :\

A couple of years ago it was -12c on the high ground near where you live. Coldest day time temp i can remember in this country.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Winnipeg, which last time I checked was in Canada, is currently -50C.
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Which is pretty apt given that Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole.

That is bastard cold though. Unimaginably so. Knowing my luck it'll be -50°C from Monday through Saturday then 0°C for a couple hours on Sunday which means the social won't have to dish out the cold weather payments.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
A couple of years ago it was -12c on the high ground near where you live. Coldest day time temp i can remember in this country.
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My car that morning said -16, though I guess those car temp. things aren't that reliable. But I remember exactly when you mean.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
My car that morning said -16, though I guess those car temp. things aren't that reliable. But I remember exactly when you mean.
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For once im gonna disagree with you, though i spose it depends on what car you have, but my car thermometer allways seems to match up pretty accurately with what it says in the forecasts. The only exception is leaving the car sitting in the heat on rare hot and sunny days, that temp can be way out, it was reading 34C in the lake district this summer after it had been baking in the sun for several hours, once the car got moving it came down to a more acccurate 26C or something like that, cant remember exactly now.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
In other news, summer's gonna be a hot one. Well, the Met police think so. I think that's what this means isn't it?

Met want water cannon ready to use by summer

Bring it on...
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Some within the Met have privately told the Guardian they are sceptical about the need and effectiveness of water cannon on London's streets. They say streets here are much narrower than in Europe, where water cannon are already in use, thus making them less effective and potentially vulnerable to capture.
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Not all bad news then :D
 
Pussies Russia has this every year, they have to use vodka for anti freeze... as the anti freeze doesn't even work
 
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