65°F/, 18⅓° C here in Imperial Beach, California
I had to look up Imperial Beach, CA just in case you were making some kind of metric/imperial joke 😂
Border town hey? Looks like a nice spot from the google maps photos. Right next to the party town Tijuana! Must get a lot of party buses/limos through there.
wow. near the great lakes in the us and pretty much the same temp.
I’m pretty sure that they are close to 100 degrees F.
It was about 105f in Perth yesterday. It reached 115f at my friend’s place a bit to the northeast.
-3 degrees here in Denmark. Our main issue is that everybody in our family is sick or is recovering from being sick. Panodil helped us through Christmas.
I want to ask dumb questions about how do you drive in snow/ ice conditions. In fact how do you even walk as in what footwear do you have? I have never experienced snow.
For driving, it depends on the condition of the snow/ice. Is it deep snow, packed snow, solid ice, slush (half melted snow), etc. Generally speaking though, you get winter tires that give better traction on snow/ice and drive slower. The more icy it is, the slower you want to be, because when you try to turn or stop, you may just slide instead. You can also get studded tires that have little spikes in them to give better traction on ice, and chains you can put on/take off when you’re going through mixed conditions (ie driving up to the mountains to go skiing, but the roads are dry in the lowlands).
Same idea with walking, you wear boots that have better traction, and walk very carefully. Soft snow isn’t much of an issue traction-wise, but exhausting to trudge through if it’s deep. If you need traction on ice, you can get spikes that strap to your boots (crampons), they work great.
Dunno about Denmark, but in the US snowshoes used to be a thing, but someone basically made footwear chains for our shoes and boots to give traction, much like the chains we put on our winter tires. They’re called Yaktrax
Sorry 41.7⁰
It’s 0⁰ currently here in the Northeast US. 2:48 am Christmans morning.
41’s hot, yeah? Celsiusesssss, not Farenheits… Am thinking Perth, means it’s just turned summer and is hot as balls, no?
God, hope everyone’s got something cool to drink!
Merry Christmas!
it’s just turned summer
Been summer for 25 days now, so nearly a third of the way through the season. But yeah, it’s hot.
Not everywhere in Aus though. Reached 35 last week here in Brisbane, but only 30 today. And down in Melbourne, today is only 15 (59 F). It even snowed yesterday (Christmas day) in parts of Tasmania.
30 is hot. 41 is incomprehensible. Shudder.
My coastal rainforest brain cannot grok.
Ugh, I did a conversion… Yaah… that’s 105⁰ farenheits… That’s Phoenix, Arizona hot. (Been there once as a kid, back in the early '70’s.) Can only imagine what it’s like now. Ugh. Hard pass. My own coastal temperate forest brain shudders at that.
Beers on ice for the adults, icey poles for the kids.
icey poles… fruit pops?
Sugar, water, food dye, a flavouring (for the fancy ones), all frozen together.
-4 in my part of the Netherlands with a top of -1 this afternoon
It’s mild for us, left the build-up to come down to Perth.
Tasty lunch, and then aircon with ice-water whilst listening to live carols played on a double bass.
All round enjoyable day with family.
Having a nice relaxing day.
Great in the aircon, but looks like a storm is rolling in novw?
@ryannathans @wildwhitehorses going to be one of those dry thunderstorms me thinks: all action but no rain and even then only if you’re in the Hills.
Where the rain evaporates before it hits the ground and simply makes it humid.
Fled Perth for the northern hemisphere, but not too far north. It’s currently 29 C here with clouds and a light breeze. It’s lovely.
Where to, if I may ask? What where the reasons? (/me in the Netherlands currently. Love the cycling paths and many cultural aspects, hate investing time to learn a language that is widely spoken by… 1/500th of the world population.)
It’s only for the holidays. Back to Philippines where I used to live before moving to Australia. Be back in Perth in January to enjoy the dry heat.
Dry heat :)
-1C here north of Stockholm, I’m shortly heading out for some soft tunnbröd ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnbröd ), butter and carrot juice for breakfast.
The 25th is the day to finally relax after a fun but stressful christmas eve.
