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- Phalanxia, on 01/06/2009, -2/+308For non-British readers: The British Media has a fascination with the weather. As soon as an inch of snow falls in the Scottish Highlands, POW! You'd think blizzards had swept throughout the UK.
Also, the reasons it's warmer is because it's summer in Antarctica now. - ninjalooter99, on 01/07/2009, -4/+185What a bunch of sissy's. Up here in Canada -10c is warm. It was -30c last week.
- hadak, on 01/07/2009, -2/+141Why not drop by Michigan for a few days?
- vsaint, on 01/07/2009, -3/+140Oh my god, not 14F!
How many were killed? Tell me the bad news I can take it. - pushforpeace, on 01/07/2009, -2/+114That's like Chicago every night.
- cadam, on 01/07/2009, -5/+108I live in Fairbanks, Alaska. we've have -50F this week, almost every day.. and even some -60F. I'd LOVE to have a balmy 15F. The only thing colder up here than the weather is Sarah Palin's cooter.
- zacbro, on 01/07/2009, -1/+6614? Really? Is this reaching the front page a form of that dry British humor I've heard so much about?
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -4/+58Wait... 14F is cold? In Iowa a few weeks ago the tempature was around 0... and wind chill was like -30F.
- JohnnyQwest, on 01/07/2009, -2/+54Look, no offense to the submitter, but this is probably the dumbest thing I've seen on the front page in ages.
I was expecting some Day After Tomorrow ***** and what I got was my walk to work in Manhattan last Tuesday. - CrasyMike, on 01/07/2009, -2/+44This is a joke, right?
- nonpromqueen, on 01/07/2009, -4/+44Pffft. It was -50 in some parts of Canada yesterday. Pansies.
- Jo9100, on 01/07/2009, -3/+42If you think -10C is cold, try Montreal, Quebec, Canada in January/February where -25C is nothing unusual...
- thcobbs, on 01/07/2009, -2/+39Also, if you go look at a map:
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageg.htm
London is approx 10* of latitude further from its pole than the most northern tip of Antarctica.
Hell, even in Mississippi, I've seen temperatures in the 10-20*F range and we're ***** "sub-tropical". - HappyScrappy, on 01/07/2009, -1/+36It's summer in Antarctica.
- shawnsonium, on 01/07/2009, -0/+26On January 2nd and 3rd, 2009, we had temperatures drop to -35°C (-31°F), but that's not including the windchill, which reached a balmy -48°C (-54.4°F).
This is from the the Canadian prairies. - Verme, on 01/07/2009, -0/+26I'm in Winnipeg, and it's -35C right now without windchill. What a bunch of pussies.
- Asrrin29, on 01/07/2009, -0/+23Michigan, God's refrigerator.
So glad I live here. /sarcasm - hansbricks, on 01/07/2009, -0/+22what?! x amount below the yearly average? i'm going to write a strongly worded letter to lambeth council about this...
don't worry digg. i'll sort this out. - brownsound00, on 01/07/2009, -3/+25nobody cares about you
- Arramol, on 01/07/2009, -1/+23This headline is a bit like declaring, "Antarctica hotter than Texas" during one of the colder days of the Texas winter. While technically true, it's not that surprising that a place experiencing winter would be colder than a place in the middle of its summer.
- colonizemars, on 01/07/2009, -0/+22Basic comment format:
You guys are ____. It was negative ___ degrees F here today in ______. - Antz0rz, on 01/07/2009, -0/+21at 3c i'm outside in a tshirt.
Canada guy. - MyPlasticHeart, on 01/07/2009, -3/+24Big *****' deal it's -30 C here in Canada. Suck it up!
- FreckleEars, on 01/07/2009, -0/+21Vancouver does not count :P You guys are pretty much tropical.
- Kamill85, on 01/07/2009, -0/+20Maybe they did grow a pair, but it shrank due to the cold?
- winter360, on 01/07/2009, -8/+26why should i care
- xbxoxy1, on 01/07/2009, -1/+19pffft, it was -225 F last night.
regards,
Mars Rover - meandnips, on 01/06/2009, -2/+20well, all my friends in the UK and Ireland can talk about at present is the bloody awful weather, so I think the media and the public have a shared fascination going on!
- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -4/+21-10 Is t-shirt and shorts weather.
Stiff upper lips, chaps. - siliconglen, on 01/07/2009, -2/+18The Telegraph is a London (English) paper and like most people in England, especially in London it's a national crisis when there's a cold spell or a few inches of snow. Here in Scotland where it was once -27C and we have the UK's largest arctic landscape (Cairngorms), snow and cold weather are not unusual. It's winter, it gets cold, it snows. What's the story?
You have to learn to read London based newspaper articles with a pinch of salt, usually when they report stories they are implicitly only referring to England. For the view from Scotland, see http://www.theherald.co.uk/ - neillawson, on 01/07/2009, -2/+18Umm... try Canada? -15C today and had to take off my coat while playing hockey.
- thcobbs, on 01/07/2009, -1/+17Not to mention... Canada is about the same latitude as the UK (if not a little more northern)
- kidathinnes, on 01/07/2009, -0/+15This is true, there was a -30 degree windchill this year already. The recent 20s and 30s have felt like heaven.
- winter360, on 01/07/2009, -0/+15i don't think slightly below freezing temperature is something to joke about
- DouglasQ, on 01/07/2009, -1/+15I wouldn't say I'm OBSESSED with your granny. We both know it's just sex.
Oh, your mum says hi. - morcheeba, on 01/07/2009, -0/+14Here are the conversions to standard SI units:
15 F = 264 K
-50 F = 225 K
-60 F = 222 K - nowhereelse, on 01/07/2009, -0/+13Sure we Brits whine about the weather - hot or cold - but I think what all the northern US/Canada "That's nothing, it's ____ in ____ " crowd are missing is that the weather pattern is unusual.
Added to that, older UK housing stock is really poorly equipped to deal with this kind of cold, especially if you can't afford to heat your home anymore. It's news here because this spell will kill thousands of poor pensioners. - DirtyVicar, on 01/07/2009, -2/+15Meh, a bit of an alarmist headline. As I write this now (4 am GMT) it's 22F in London, but the vast majority of the UK is above freezing. I'm more impressed by Germany. Berlin is at -1F.
- SystemsGuy, on 01/07/2009, -0/+13Complaining about the weather is a national pastime.
- LordPhoenyx, on 01/07/2009, -12/+25I think the UK needs to grow a pair and stop complaining about the cold
- FreckleEars, on 01/07/2009, -1/+14Please stop with your nonsensical Fahrenheit! The system makes no sense and it hurts my brain. EVERYONE else in the world uses Celsius. Just convert already so it can be removed from existance.
- Asrrin29, on 01/07/2009, -0/+13Ok, so I claim Michigan is God's refrigerator, but Alaska is His freezer!
- coheedcollapse, on 01/07/2009, -0/+12I was thinking that same thing while I was reading that headline. I was expecting -30F or something like that and was greeted to temperatures that we experience quite often.
- Gudlyf, on 01/07/2009, -2/+14I think I can share a laugh with fellow New Englanders at 14F making headlines. And we're further south than London!
- thcobbs, on 01/07/2009, -2/+14Well, from the size of her family... I'd doubt it was very cold in Sarah Palin.....
- Azerael, on 01/07/2009, -3/+15So that's why you guys drink beer at room temperature...
- beloitpiper, on 01/07/2009, -13/+25Buried for ***** whiny ass English complaining about EVERYTHING.
I live in Wisconsin. Come HERE for some cold. - SmilinChris, on 01/07/2009, -0/+11I lol'd.
- t3hbagel, on 01/07/2009, -3/+14Don't mind the troll, people. Move along.
- mcquitty, on 01/07/2009, -0/+10I lived in Fairbanks, AK. I once saw -60 or lower for two weeks straight. After seeing that, at -20 it seemed like you could wear shorts outside. It was abosuletly warm by comparison.
In fact, it is only -42 there today. -
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