> > > It's cold down here in Georgia and there is snow in Tennessee. I heard they were closing schools west of Nashville because of up to 4 inches of white stuff. I'll be glad when spring gets here.
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> > > Dogwood winter is gone, so this must be blackberry winter. By the time I left home this morning we had already gotten 2 inches of rain, so I guess that little dry spell is over. When that stump in the yard disappears, I plan to mow the grass. June, maybe?
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> > > In this area, about two traffic jams north of Atlanta, they had a low of 28 degrees F in 1940. That was the year when the Cumberland River froze over in Nashville and the Easter bunny left tracks in 8 inch of snow. Yes, I remember that.
> > > Howard
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> > We Canadians feel your pain. Really.
> >
> > Maybe you can go to Madeira and give some perspective to the misguided people there who wear buttoned-up winter coats in the 18 C (64 F) "winter".
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> 18 °C is "winter" these days? A few degrees more and we Finns feel it's so schorching it's barely bearable. I've managed to survive temperatures of almost 24 °C mostly by wearing only underwear indoors, and shorts and a T-shirt outdoors.
> What do those Madeirans call summer? Something like those temperatures we Finns normally have in saunas? (80 °C, 176 °F. None of that sissy 40 °C, 104 °F stuff I'm told they have in foreign saunas.)

I think summer in Madeira gets up to 30 C or so, and presumably very humid since it's an island. Seems to be a popular year-round vacation spot for Europeans. My wife and I spent two weeks there over the holidays, and it was actually 60 C warmer there than it was back home in Montreal (20 C vs. -40 C). What do you wear in Montreal, if you wear a winter coat in Madeira? Some kind of fire suit?

Canadians like our extreme weather. In the prairies, they get summer temperatures as hot as a sissy foreign sauna (but dry), and winter temps below -40 and windy. Makes you wonder how much some people are willing to endure just to grow wheat.

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