It's snowing!

[Courk]

Snowed here. I'm going to blame extro for starting this.

[MatthewV]

Depends on which part of Alaska my friend. The warm places like Kodiak Island hang out around the freezing point for most of the winter. Here in Fairbanks we stay around -10 to -20 C. The first snow was in late September this year and there have been a few inches on the ground since then.

[Chuck]

91°F for me today. I didn't bring my mittens to work. Maybe it will snow next month.

[Poisonium]

55° north and it never snows.

I hate this place.
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[Chuck]

[referee]

It began to snow... in my Animal Crossing DS Village.
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[worm]

well, i saw some sleet just now...that might be as close as we get.

our temperature dropped about 40 degrees from this afternoon! shorts and sandals weren't such a good idea, i guess.

[Edit]I take it back...we have snow.

[Sessie]

Holy crap on a stick.







Seriously...this is south Louisiana. I have NEVER seen anything like this before. The area is basically shut down; no one knows how to handle this stuff. You Yankee northerners are used to this...anyone wanna come drive me to work?
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[Quailman]

I had to drive home through snow last night. It didn't stick on my side of town (north of Houston), but the east and south sides had snow like in your photos.

[MNOWAX]

its gonna be 50 in buffalo on sunday. i rare occurance indeed
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[referee]

You and your weird scale, I always have to calculate if you're giving a high or a low temperature. We here in Barcelona are now, 13:20, at 10 degrees.
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[Courk]

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[Jack_Ian]

Fahrenheit seems very arbitrary to Europeans.
I could never remember the numbers for conversion until I found out about the history.
What you have to remember is that, for the purposes of marking the scale, it was important that the main numbers could be continually bisected. It was therefore decided that 32 would be freezing point of water and that 96 would be the body temperature of a healthy male which allowed 0 to represent a temperature colder than it would ever get in Denmark, thus never needing to use negative degrees.
The idea that 0°F was based around that freezing point of an ammonium chloride solution is not actually true.
Well his calculation for body temperature turned out to be wrong and there turned out to be a need for negative temperatures after all, but at least 32°F stayed (it had to by definition I guess).

Celsius just seems so intuitive. I'm so glad they flipped it around.

[worm]

Fahrenheit's choices were questionable and more difficult to reproduce, but using the freezing point and boiling point of water is still quite arbitrary.

The centigrade system is simple and intuitive. Then again, choosing calibration points that allow for easy marking of the degrees by bisection isn't random.

[MatthewV]

I don't think that school is ever canceled in Fairbanks because of snow. Class at the university becomes optional somewhere past -40.

[Quailman]

[Sessie]

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[Courk]

[Ataraxy]

It usually snows here every year, but only about an inch or two. Then it melts by the next day. It has been snowing non-stop for the last two days. I don't know how many inches we've had, but it's too much. I haven't left the house since Saturday morning. I am a social recluse, but I was seriously thinking about going out Saturday night because it was my birthday, but I decided not to because of the weather. The city is basically shut down. ARRGH!!!

[Lepton*]

It was -31, or -51 if you factor in the Siberian windchill, when I was hiking at midday on Saturday (Celcius). I think I got a touch of windchill on the inside of one of my earring holes.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

[wordcross]

Holy crap, Raleigh has snow! this never happens. At least i have the day off
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[Zag]

[wordcross]

no, it was about 3-4 inches. But this is Raleigh. we shut down for flurries.
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[Courk]

We have probably at least a foot of snow. I measured several days ago and got 7 inches, and it's snowed quite a bit since.

Schools closed for a few days because it was too freakin' cold, not because of the snow.

[Scurra]

It's finally snowing properly here in central London, after some half-hearted attempts this afternoon. In recent years we've only had the odd snowfall here and there, but they'd been promising quite a lot for this winter, and so far we hadn't really seen any.

(edit: wow! It hasn't really stopped snowing all day. We haven't seen snow like this in London for decades. Which, of course, means that our entire transport infrastructure has ground to a halt because we don't have fleets of snowploughs locked in a cupboard somewhere, just in case...)
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[Lepton*]

I claim the first snowfall of the season. We got about 10 cm last night.

[Zag]

I thought you were in Mongolia, not northern Siberia.

[Lepton]

It's not hell, but we get their weather patterns?

[Poisonium]

[Courk]

Isn't that very, very warm?

[Zag]

[MatthewV]

Yes Courk, -40 Kelvin is very warm and pleasant. You should come visit Fairbanks in January to experience it. Too bad it probably won't be like last year where our cold snap heat wave lasted almost 2 weeks.

And as a side note, Fairbanks did get a little snow but nothing that stuck.

[Courk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_absolute_temperature

I knew I had read it somewhere recently.

[jesternl]

Hmmm all the highways leading home are closed because of the snowstorm.. Guess I'll take the long way home

[Courk]

It doesn't appear to currently be snowing, but it sure did snow.