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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009How is your weather?
Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise > Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. > http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise This morning is the beginning of the first day in 2 weeks where the maximum is expected to be less than 32° - most have been over blood temperature. Better than that, last night was well under 20°, so I got a good night's sleep for a change. Beautiful sunshine outside as usual.  SignatureRob Bannister >> Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. >> http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > temperature. Better than that, last night was well under 20°, so I got a > good night's sleep for a change. Beautiful sunshine outside as usual. How much is that in old money? > >> Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. > >>http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > How much is that in old money? Speaking of which, today was a bright cold day in January, and none of the clocks struck thirteen. -- Jerry Friedman >> >> Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. >> >>http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >Speaking of which, today was a bright cold day in January, and none of >the clocks struck thirteen. But was it a dark and stormy night? While driving to a clay-pigeon shoot on Sunday, we noticed that the outside temperature reading displayed by the car was minus one, Celsius. On Monday it was plus nine. SignatureRobin (BrE) Herts, England >>> Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. >>> http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > How much is that in old money? I never did understand Fahrenheit, so I'm happier with the new. SignatureRob Bannister >>>> Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. >>>> http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I never did understand Fahrenheit, so I'm happier with the new. At college I made some careful effort to absorb Centigrade; some time later I checked the scale and discovered the trailers to "C" were transmogrified and I seem to have lost my oneness with it. No matter: I live in an environment where the only reason to know the ambient is on days like today and these past (and coming) few, in order to mention "t-shirt and shorts weather" with the intent of creating an increased level of stress of some kind in those confined to less tepid climes. Yesterday I took a recreational drive, of two hours and a bit, to Mount Palomar and return via twisty and relatively unoccupied roads. Today I took a slightly longer but no less enjoyable drive to Tecate, California (across the border from the beer), at one point catching up another, less-vigorously-touring oldster pair who very kindly pulled over and waved me by with a friendly thumbs-up and smiles. Old money? Mid- to high-70s inland (above 2500 feet), low- to mid-80s shorely, reversing tomorrow and for the remainder of the week. Inland lows in the 40s; 50s coastal. SignatureFrank "Paradise Dessicating Before My Very Eyes" ess >No matter: I live in an environment where the only reason to know the >ambient is on days like today and these past (and coming) few, in >order to mention "t-shirt and shorts weather" with the intent of >creating an increased level of stress of some kind in those confined >to less tepid climes. "Less temperate" covers both "hotter than temperate" and "cooler than temperate". Does "less tepid" similarly include the ranges "hotter than tepid" and "cooler than tepid"? SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > No matter: I live in an environment where the only reason to know the > ambient is on days like today and these past (and coming) few, in order > to mention "t-shirt and shorts weather" with the intent of creating an > increased level of stress of some kind in those confined to less tepid > climes. The problem is that the kind of temperatures a person may consider to be pleasant or unpleasant depends a lot on where you live and what you are used to. I imagine that my idea of comfortable is a lot warmer that what a Scotsman would like, and that someone in Phoenix would choose something warmer than that. I remember walking around Moscow in -5°C in only a t-shirt and jeans, although I had to put my jacket on when the wind got up. When I moved from Meekatharra (about 800 k north of Perth) to Busselton (about 200 k south of Perth), I was continually cold until I realised that sitting around in singlet and shorts and no shoes was probably not a good idea. From there, I moved to Albany (about 400 k south of Perth) and lived there 11 years before coming to Perth - it took me a couple of years to used to the heat here. SignatureRob Bannister Western Australia >> No matter: I live in an environment where the only reason to know >> the ambient is on days like today and these past (and coming) few, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > (about 400 k south of Perth) and lived there 11 years before coming > to Perth - it took me a couple of years to used to the heat here. Absolutley. One of the lasting memories of a driving trip into Mexico is the vision of a very early morning street scene in a Sonoran pueblo where we stopped for bread, tortillas, and cheese. The people on the street had shawls over their heads, or hats on, all showing signs of bundling-up to avoid the chill air. We were t-shirted and shortsed, and the ambient temperature was probably no lower than the mid-60s F. We had driven all night to avoid the heat of the day, which they probably endured without undue stress. In survival terms, though, at some point relative becomes absolute. You can either survive or not; you can stand it without major adjustment, or you can't. Fewer and lesser adjustments are more desirable, my view. I can't imagine voluntarily traveling to a place like Chicago in the winter, but if I am ever forced to, I'll have to invest in a whole new class of clothing. SignatureFrank "Complacency ain't all bad" ess > Cold and foggy start but now sunshining.http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise Ver' nahce. -- Jerry Friedman > Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. > http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise Lovely photo. Your own? (I'm not familiar with the "imagehost" site.) SignatureMaria C. >> Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. > >> http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise > > Lovely photo. Your own? (I'm not familiar with the "imagehost" site.) Thanks Maria, and Jerry. Yes my own picture, taken with a Sony W300. Imagehost is an easy site to use for transferring pictures to the web or forums. > Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. > http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise Last Wednesday we had our first serious snowfall since 1987; photographic evidence at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1607584558&ref=profile but you may need to be registered with Facebook to see it. The whole city ground to a halt, and our wimpish trees dropped large branches onto whatever was underneath them (and in some cases were uprooted). Since then it has returned to normal and the last three days have been cloudless and sunny, with comfortable temperatures (maximum yesterday of about 17°). Signatureathel >Last Wednesday we had our first serious snowfall since 1987; [...] >The whole city ground to a halt There are some U.S. cities where that happens every winter. -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness >Cold and foggy start but now sunshining. >http://a.imagehost.org/view/0529/misty_sunrise Wonderfully atmospheric. We had cold and mist (in the UK) for a while, and it was beautiful, but it's now defaulted to the standard murk and squelch. SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ |
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