this is how winters look in Arkansas ;)

http://home.comcast.net/~leahmwiley/borrowed_pic.jpg


another.....

http://home.comcast.net/~leahmwiley/borrowed_pic3.jpg


and the river.....

http://home.comcast.net/~leahmwiley/borrowed_pic2.jpg

pics were borrowed from
arkansas ice page

brrr... looks cold..

Here are some from Iceland

Note he awesome Northern Lights... [img]smile.gif[/img]

http://www.iww.is/art/shs/photos/NL04.jpg

http://www.iww.is/art/shs/photos/NL05A.jpg

http://www.iww.is/art/shs/photos/NL12.jpg


More of those here

I think the coldest it got during that time was 16 (f) or -8.9 (c) it happened during christmas :D it was fun driving on the ice, where we used to live, there was a hill going on to the main highway, it was funny, I would make it up the hill, and have to stop due to traffic, and would slide all the way back almost into my driveway, got smart after the 0th time, and went through a resturaunts parking lot, where it leveled out before the road, now you ask....why was I driving on it to begin with right? well, it was christmas, and although we had no power, my family was coming to my house, where I had managed to cook with the gas stove, and I had to go get them [img]tongue.gif[/img]


Jorath Calar that is so beautiful [img]smile.gif[/img] I wish it would look like that here, but we do not see much snow, and never the pretty lights

[ 10-27-2003, 03:47 AM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]

comning from a country that is used to 30'C all year round.. i would freeze to death [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Try rowing when it's freezing, but not cold enough for ice yet [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Stormy, it seems Iceland and Arkansas are not so diffrent "winterwise" (is that a word?) the coldest it got here last winter was -9°c and the whole winter was very mild, we had snow here for about 8 weeks the most... but it rained a lot.

Actually the -9 was were I live in the south part, the north is always much worse and one time last winter they had -25°c!

wow, that does soound like us, last year, we got down to like 8 degrees (f) around -13 (c) and that was when we had no power :D talk about family get togethers, everyone hugged in the livingroom, with the back blocked off, and the kitchen stove, which was gas, going, and every gas heater we could find

Northern iceland sounds like it has the same kinds of winters as upstate NY...wow, thats really depressing.
For example, the lowest temp in my home town last winter, that I am aware of was -30°C on Jan 18th.

I'm not sure that -9°C for the low counts as winter weather, that mid-fall (November) weather.

Northern iceland sounds like it has the same kinds of winters as upstate NY...wow, thats really depressing.
For example, the lowest temp in my home town last winter, that I am aware of was -30°C on Jan 18th.

I'm not sure that -9°C for the low counts as winter weather, that mid-fall (November) weather. </font>[/QUOTE]-9 celsius still counts as winter, it comes out to 18.9 farenhiet, below freezing, and although it might not be as cold as some places, when you go through extremes like we do, anything below 40 gets cold, lol or summers consist of above 100 farenhiet then the winters get below 25 (f) so [img]tongue.gif[/img] just beause someones temp does not get as cold s other places, does not mean it is not winter winter happens when it is cold enough to produce freezing temps

You do realize, Stormy, that what you call "winter" we call "midway through autumn", don't you? And some of those folks around here call that "late summer". :D

It's all in the perspective... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Its all a matter of how you look at it.

Where I am from, if you count "below freezing" as winter, then winter lasts from October to April/May, (Last year, April 25th was the last day we had freezing, but it did get down to 0.2°C in May). There are weeks up here where -9°C is around the average high.

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I'd show you pictures of winters here, but it'd be all white :D
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If we had -9C as a average temp here in Alberta were I live I would be so HAppy. There was a few days last winter at work were it dipped down to -33C with a slight wind. That dropped it down to -40+C. Dam cold. But it is Canada.

I don't mind the cold, it is the wind that gets me, plus all the ice, as you all can see, there is no snow, it is all ice, we see a few flakes, but it never sticks, and it soons turns to sleet and or freezing rain, I want snow for a change