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    Watchimg my cat play in the snow was cute.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Futan View Post
    Got like 3-5 inches I think.
    Quote Originally Posted by Denmark View Post
    my parents were supposed to fly out of hartford, ct today. they rescheduled.

    we only got like 8 inches here, and it's all cleared out now. dry and fluffy, easy to move.
    How wrong is it that I can't read this without giggling.

    There is no snow here. Ever.

    Apparently it snows a few centimeters here sometimes, but I have yet to see this.

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    Got about a foot here. Had to miss work this morning because my parking lot wasn't plowed yet.
    You think a minor thing like the end of the world was gonna do me in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Shorty View Post
    You would not believe how jelly I am.
    I might be jealous if I had a clue what those temperatures meant or the desire to convert them to a real system of temperature measurement.

    Went outside this morning to see how much snow was on the deck and driveway since it was blowing all over yesterday and we got some snow in the late afternoon/early evening. Found maybe a centimeter. I literally just pushed the thin lair of snow off the deck with a shovel one handed and went back inside less than a minute after I went out.

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    59F is like 15-ishC


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    Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
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    You would not believe how jelly I am.
    I might be jealous if I had a clue what those temperatures meant or the desire to convert them to a real system of temperature measurement.

    Went outside this morning to see how much snow was on the deck and driveway since it was blowing all over yesterday and we got some snow in the late afternoon/early evening. Found maybe a centimeter. I literally just pushed the thin lair of snow off the deck with a shovel one handed and went back inside less than a minute after I went out.
    Just google calculate them or something. An easy way to approximate it is that the human body holds roughly 100F and -40F is approximately -40C, and both scales are linear. I don't use fahrenheit myself but it's not all that hard to deal with if you remember this.

    In either case, 50F is around 10 C. It's not extremely warm, but I would kill for that sort of temperatures in winter over here.
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    Saw this today and lol'd



    the caption said "well done Vermont, well done."

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    Quote Originally Posted by shion View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Futan View Post
    Got like 3-5 inches I think.
    Quote Originally Posted by Denmark View Post
    my parents were supposed to fly out of hartford, ct today. they rescheduled.

    we only got like 8 inches here, and it's all cleared out now. dry and fluffy, easy to move.
    How wrong is it that I can't read this without giggling.

    There is no snow here. Ever.

    Apparently it snows a few centimeters here sometimes, but I have yet to see this.
    And I live 2 hours north of you and still have some snow piles from two weeks ago.

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    We just got done with a week of like an inch of snow on the ground and everyone was complaining the whole time.

    I can't even fathom what three feet of snow is like. O__o
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    I drove up the mountain to see the snow last weekend. There was almost enough to make a snowman! It was amazing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    Just google calculate them or something.
    What part of don't have the desire to convert wasn't clear enough?

    Seriously though, unless it's something obvious like -40 degrees I'm just lazy and don't bother. I shouldn't have to conform to the ass backwards behaviour of the one nation on the planet that actually matters that still hasn't converted to the semi-correct system of temperature measurement. I say semi-correct because while it is more useful for everyday life, I'd like it if we could all switch to kelvin instead.

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    Kelvin really is the only rational system of temperature measurement. The rest are pretty arbitrary.

    Anyway, we've gotten a decent amount of snow for this area: two "storms" of about 2-3 inches each. Enough to shut down public schools in for a day or two, because everyone's a wuss and freaks out about any snow. As someone who grew up in Colorado (where we did not have snow days; we only had ice days), the panic still amuses me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
    Kelvin really is the only rational system of temperature measurement. The rest are pretty arbitrary.
    Celsius is fairly rational as well though. Sure it's rational in the scientific sense. Obviously absolute zero should be zero degrees. But it at least calibrates it's scale based on the freezing and boiling temperatures of water. Which being essential to life and all that, as well as pretty useful to everyday life is at least something that makes sense. Fahrenheit is just a big bag of I have no smurfing clue what they were thinking though.

    I never really understand people freaking out about a few inches of snow. I was out around 10:30 am yesterday after some snow had fallen during the night and high winds blew a lot more around. The plows hadn't really gotten most streets and there was no one on the road and a lot of stores either opened late or stayed closed because people didn't come in. And you know what my one thought was when on the roads running errands? The roads are perfectly fine. The major roads had very little snow and even the ones that still had some snow cover weren't slippery at all if you weren't driving like an idiot.

    I'm always secretly ashamed when I see half the city shut down over what amounts to basically nothing. People need to slap on their snow tires and grow a pair.

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