Re: Let it snow
Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:59 pm
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Re: Let it snow
Posted: 09 Feb 2009 09:33 pm
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Re: Let it snow
Posted: 09 Feb 2009 11:20 pm
Only -3 or so...
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 09 Feb 2009 11:22 pm
That's for girls, -14C lowest in good ol' blighty at the weekendjtbo wrote:Only -3 or so...
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 09 Feb 2009 11:53 pm
Hmm, I believe someone should update that last part, I believe we did won that already and it was not even cold thenWhat are the Finns like?
+15°C. People in Spain put on winter coats and gloves. Finns take a sunbath.
+10°C. French try, with no success, to switch central heating on. Finns plant flowers in their gardens.
+5°C. Italian cars do not start. Finns use cabriolets.
0°C. Distilled water freezes. Vantaa river water gets a bit denser.
-5°C. Californians nearly freeze to death. Finns organise a last barbecue party before winter starts.
-10°C. Brits start heating their houses. Finns put on long-sleeve shirts.
-20°C. Australians escape from Mallorca. Finnish autumn starts.
-30°C. Greeks freeze to death and vanish from the Earth. Finns do laundry indoors.
-40°C. Paris cracks under the cold. Finns queue for hot dogs.
-50°C. Icebears are evacuated from the North Pole. The Finnish Army delays its winter survival training for weak weather.
-60°C. Korvatunturi (home of Santa Claus) freezes. Finns borrow a movie and stay at home.
-70°C. Santa Claus moves to the south. Finns are upset because Koskenkorva cannot be stored outdoors. The Finnish Army starts survival training.
-183°C. Microbes in food die. Finnish cows complain of farmers' cold hands.
-273°C All molecular motion stops. Finns say, "... it's cold today".
-300°C Hell freezes up. Finns win the Eurovisio pop song festival.
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 12:46 am
"-10°C. Brits start heating their houses" Haha, more like +20 for most softies
I've seen something like that before but it was Southerners Vs Northeners
I've seen something like that before but it was Southerners Vs Northeners
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 12:50 am
-18°C in Aviemore last night. I just drove through, snow was 3 ft deep at the side of the road.sven360 wrote:That's for girls, -14C lowest in good ol' blighty at the weekendjtbo wrote:Only -3 or so...
My sister is snowed in. Can't get up their drive so I had to go on a rescue mission to her place South of Loch Ness:
Single track road, all passing places choked with snow, but didn't matter because there was no one else out there. Driving on snow/ice all the way. Didn't dare slide it into corners too much since it was a good few miles walk in the dark to get help if I came off and no phone reception. I loved every minute of it.
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:54 am
Ronnie, those are best kind of roads at winter 
I doubt that good old Nessie will have warm enough clothing for that kind of weather?
It is really funny, you have as much of winter as we up here, no logic can explain that, but in some time 1800-1850 they did skate on ice of Thames river, I believe it have been even colder winters back then
Maybe weather is normalizing for you now
I doubt that good old Nessie will have warm enough clothing for that kind of weather?
It is really funny, you have as much of winter as we up here, no logic can explain that, but in some time 1800-1850 they did skate on ice of Thames river, I believe it have been even colder winters back then
Maybe weather is normalizing for you now
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 02:24 am
Yeah, but we don't have proper winter tyres like you do!
Coldest winter in 13 years apparently here in the UK. I just hope the North Atlantic drift hasn't switched off otherwise we're in serious trouble
Coldest winter in 13 years apparently here in the UK. I just hope the North Atlantic drift hasn't switched off otherwise we're in serious trouble
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:25 am
We can ship them directly to your door, with fair priceRonnie wrote:Yeah, but we don't have proper winter tyres like you do!
Coldest winter in 13 years apparently here in the UK. I just hope the North Atlantic drift hasn't switched off otherwise we're in serious trouble
I believe that North Atlantic drift is running just fine, I can still see reading in my temp gauge, surely it would broke down if drift would stop as it would mean ice age for us
I also have noticed that you are lacking one other very essential winter equipment, no make that two:
Getting snow removed from vehicle is forced here by law, so everyone has one of these in car and removing snow is almost daily operation, other end is used to remove ice from windows.
However I prefer this, it is called Murska, which is crushed something, like crushed ice which is jää murskam, eh.
This product has metal edge, which removes ice very easily, no matter how strong ice is this will get it off, unlike some girlie products.
Together these two products will costs perhaps 5 euros, maybe less, Murska does typically cost around 1 euro, good wooden brush can cost even 5 alone, but usually less.
So how many sets you do need?
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:32 am
we have these:
and somepeople have these
we have like 500 of the green type one's they seem to apeare everywhere 
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we have like 500 of the green type one's they seem to apeare everywhere Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:41 am
I see, you are indeed needing very urgent assistance with this snow and ice issue, I found that department for transport is not very quick on their actions, must be more than 5 minutes since I mailed list of hand picked elite team which should be send immediately to Finland where they would learn more from snow conditions and equipment needed, I hope they don't make me call the Queen, she would be very unpleased to deal simple matter like this
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:42 am
....But! ohh nooo guess what!? its snowing again!!!
il get some pics in a sec EDIT: pics very poor ones at that!
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Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 03:54 am
I did try to see if there are any troubles on roads, but they are telling me that map is taken out because of high usage, I wonder why is that, could it possible be that people are actually trying to get information from the map? Of course that is something unexpected, no one can be prepared for such situation, specially at this time of day when there are very high traffic.
http://www.traffic-england.co.uk/map.as ... rseweather
It is not any better here either, our map service says just Page load error, these hours must be busier that I thought
Oh, that is snow in there, in few hours morning traffic starts and it will be another day of traffic chaos, I believe
http://www.traffic-england.co.uk/map.as ... rseweather
It is not any better here either, our map service says just Page load error, these hours must be busier that I thought
Oh, that is snow in there, in few hours morning traffic starts and it will be another day of traffic chaos, I believe
Re: Let it snow
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 04:03 am
How odd?? and its 3am here who's awake at this time? just me i see noone on the roads either. 
i see that there is sheet ice under the snow from the rain earlyer today and people are driving semi-slick summer tyres
all the weather reports say sunny... and erm its night time.. i think there must be some real bad weather coming as they are not telling the truth.
who's awake at this time? just me i see noone on the roads either. i see that there is sheet ice under the snow from the rain earlyer today and people are driving semi-slick summer tyres
all the weather reports say sunny... and erm its night time..
i think there must be some real bad weather coming as they are not telling the truth.