Hell just frose over...

[Megabot]

Thast's a pretty normale temprature here and i thot it was colder than that on Iceland all the time Jorath hehe

[Jorath Calar]

Nope, strange isn't it? I looked it up and the lowest temperature recorded here was -35 in 1965... there are far colder places than Iceland in this world... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Sir Goulum]

Really?! I thought Iceland was like this little chunk of freezing temperatures. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Even here we've gotten down to -43C, -44C once or twice in my lifetime.

[Cerek]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Really?! I thought Iceland was like this little chunk of freezing temperatures. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Even here we've gotten down to -43C, -44C once or twice in my lifetime.

I saw a bit about Iceland and Greenland on the History Channel a while back. The names are deceptive and - according to the show I saw - that was deliberate.

Apparantly, the Vikings were among the first explorers to discover the two lands. They discovered that one was mostly a barren, frozen wasteland while the other was surprisingly warm for it's location. To decieve any future explorers that might try to find these lands and lay claim to them, they named the frozen one "Greenland" and the more temperate one "Iceland"....at least that's the story I heard. Don't know if it's true or not, but I thought it was pretty interesting.

[Megabot]

Originally posted by Jorath Calar: Nope, strange isn't it? I looked it up and the lowest temperature recorded here was -35 in 1965... there are far colder places than Iceland in this world... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Strange.. maybe it have something to do with the Golfstream or something that you have a pretty calm weather and temprature over there you are pretty long north..anyway the coldes't we have had here i think was -56 C in Finnmark in 1923 or something not sure about this but i read something about it somewhere.

Edit...darn typos all the time lol!

[ 12-24-2004, 03:03 AM: Message edited by: Megabot ]

[Intrepid]

Oh... about 20c this fine morning
terific to sleep with your windows open

was about 25c yesterday, and we are expecting much the same for today .

[Luvian]

A couple days ago, we got in the -30 celcius and I had to work outside...

[Megabot]

It's not so bad if you have the right clothes on Luvi and move around to keep the cold oute i knove this i work oute 10 months of the year [img]smile.gif[/img]

[spydar]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Really?! I thought Iceland was like this little chunk of freezing temperatures. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Even here we've gotten down to -43C, -44C once or twice in my lifetime.

It ain't winter if it ain't AT LEAST -20C with 3 feet of snow, and it has to hit -40C at least twice. I'm sick I know, but then again I am from northern Alberta so to me that's winter. and if you can believe it I love winter and hate summer. go figure huh? I should just move up to Tuktoiuktuk (sp?) on the Arctic coastline.

I'm going to school in Calgary right now, however, and the weather there is annoying. it'll get nice and briskly cold for one day, and then it's above 0. I don't know if it's the green grass in February that bothers me or just the fact that Calgary weather can't seem to make up it's mind. why do we even bother with a forecast down there?

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

-25c tonight! We just had a big blizzard, 40-50cm. We were lucky and the wind did almost all the work of cleaning the driveway. [img]smile.gif[/img]
God is good!