Finns - a breed apart!

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The Finns and temperatures

+15°C / 59°F
This is as warm as it gets in Finland, so we'll start here. People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves. The Finns are out in the sun, getting a tan.

+10°C / 50°F
The French are trying in vain to start their central heating. The Finns plant flowers in their gardens.

+5°C / 41°F
Italian cars won't start, The Finns are cruising in cabriolet cars.

0°C / 32°F
Distilled water freezes. The water in Vantaa river (in Finland) gets a little thicker.

-5°C / 23°F
People in California almost freeze to death. The Finns have their final barbecue before winter.

-10°C / 14°F
The Brits start the heat in their houses. The Finns start using long sleeves.

-20°C / -4°F
The Aussies flee from Mallorca. The Finns end their Midsummer celebrations. Autumn is here.

-30°C / -22°F
People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth. The Finns start drying their laundry indoors.

-40°C / -40°F
Paris start cracking in the cold. The Finns stand in line at the hotdog stands.

-50°C / -58°F
Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole. The Finnish army postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.

-60°C / -76°F
Korvatunturi (the home for Santa Claus) freezes. The Finns rent a movie and stay indoors.

-70°C / -94°F
The false Santa moves south. The Finns get frustrated since they can't store their Kossu (Koskenkorva vodka) outdoors. The Finnish army goes out on winter survival training.

-183°C / -297.4°F
Microbes in food don't survive. The Finnish cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.

-273°C / -459.4°F
ALL atom-based movement halts. The Finns start saying "Perkele (=damn), it's cold outside today."

-300°C / -! 508°F
Hell freezes over, Finland wins the Eurovision Song Contest.

[ November 14, 2002, 12:23: Message edited by: Viking ]

 

Bah the finns have a nice dry cold with little or no wind, they should come to the southern parts of Sweden where the -10 degrees is accompanied with a moist blowing gale from the northern sea

 

That's the same in the UK too.

I've been in roughly zero degrees here which feels worse than -15 to -20 in Norway.

Humidity is a *****.

[Edit - I didn't think female dog was declared a swear word, but there you go. Live and learn]

[ November 14, 2002, 11:58: Message edited by: Viking ]

 

That is Vantaa river.
We must have breaks outside at school at -32 Celsius
Our outdoor physical education lessons (soccer) stop at -17 Celsius.

[ November 14, 2002, 12:16: Message edited by: Taza ]

 

Sorry about the Vantaa, that's what you get for cutting and pasting emails liberally.

Outside for breaks at -32! I think the case is proven! In the UK the schools would be closed at half that.

 

Come on, you can go farther than that! What are you, scared? Here in Canada, I'd say we should go to -750 C.

 

We have a +30 C at summer... but we use t-shirts at +10 C sometimes... It is rare here to the schools to be closed, but there was -60 C when they were (thank god i do not live in lapland).

 

You stop barbequeing at -5°C / 23°F?
Candy asses.

[ November 14, 2002, 22:33: Message edited by: Jack Funk ]

 

Bah! When it is cold, you can always put on more layers, but what about the heat??

Ya'll come on over to South Texas, you durned cold-weather sissy babies. You will be screaming for a bath in a tub of ice water when I am just deciding that it is finally warm enough to use the air conditioner in my truck.

 

I'm originally from Alaska and I still work there seasonally. We used to have a couple sayings about Texas. One was we pointed out that if you divided Alaska in two and made it two states Texas would then be the third largest state.

The other was if you wanted to find Texas walk south until you smell it and east until you step in it. A lot of Texans used to go to Alaska, so these things were bound to come up.

I work in the salmon industry in bristol bay and longlining in the bering sea. Coldest temp I've been out in in the bering is probably about -20 with 30 to 40 mile gusts and 15 foot swells. The place I work in bristol bay records temps at -50 below during Jan. Lowest temp I've heard is -68 in Fairbanks. Weird thing about Fairbanks is it can hit over 100 in the summer.

EDIT -- check that, McGrath Alaska hits -75 or so.

[ November 14, 2002, 23:11: Message edited by: Laches ]

 

Bah, bet it doesn't rain in Finland like Syracuse. I don't see tree-uprooting storms and torrential downpours anywhere. But then again, I suppose it's because you have to deal with falling sheets of ice.

(Yes, I'm aware that 'Cuse is in New York, not Maryland. So what? I used to live there. )

 

@Laches:

Ouch! That stings!

Besides, we can't help the smell...

 

I did check the temperatures... next to my bed 16.7 C (indoors)... no more breaks outside -25 C (they changed it)... Final barbecue at -20 C... "Real winter training" at -55 C... -40000000 C Finland wins the Eurovision Song Contest... Hotdog stands at -45 C... -30 C people in finland go swimming (in lakes)...

 

Next to my bed it's 15,4 righ now. And we had to have a break outside at -32 C. And at winters, when we have gymnastics, we have to be inside. It's just that to get to the building we have gymnastics to walk over 3 km..

 

It's scary watching my grand-aunt go swimming when it's -10 outside. Then againg, she does have a huge layer of fat on the outside, ahem.

 

Dudette_, that's called a 'whale'.

And Viking, I wonder what your underwear felt like after drying it outdoors at -20*C.

 

LMAO! That is class! Have you got any more such posts on other countries?

 

I dunno 'bout Finland.

But there's some Dutch girl that keeps wanting to talk to the about G-Spots on ICQ.

Euroeans are strange in general...

 

Oh oh, gimme her adres and I´ll explain her

P.S. thank god im an European and not some weird euroean

[ November 19, 2002, 14:07: Message edited by: Morgoth ]

 

That's really cool (geddit ). I heard it before on a radio programme about Scottish weather

Teeny
(***** English Weather)