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IT'S COLD!!!!!
Whisky Posted Oct 6, 2003
For gods sake woman! You're Scottish, you're supposed to be immune to the cold...
Have another glass of malt and stop winging 
IT'S COLD!!!!!
The Psycho Chicken -- self respect intact Posted Oct 6, 2003
It's pretty chilly this side of the country too 
. And it's nights like these I'm glad I got the windows replaced - it sounds like they're coming in with that wind!!!
IT'S COLD!!!!!
The Psycho Chicken -- self respect intact Posted Oct 6, 2003
I'm not sure how cold it actually is here in Glasgow, but apparently the wind is gusting at 65mph.
Zantic is further north, and on the east coast, so will probably be colder.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
The Psycho Chicken -- self respect intact Posted Oct 6, 2003
I'm not sure how cold it actually is here in Glasgow, but apparently the wind is gusting at 65mph.
Zantic is further north, and on the east coast, so will probably be colder.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Big Red Posted Oct 6, 2003
65 mph is a mighty powerful wind chill factor. I don't think we had gusts any worse than that during the hurricane last month.
Here, it's 18 C and sunny. Can't complain about that! One in a weeklong series of gorgeous, postcard-perfect fall days. The leaves are just beginning to think about changing color. Wednesday, it's supposed to be 23 C.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted Oct 6, 2003
I don't actually know what the temperature is, but the wind is well up and I've had to put the heating on. 
Dundee is basically on the mouth of the river Tay, BigRed, and built on a hill, on which I am at the top. So when I say the wind is up, I mean UP! When I get a bit more cash I'm going to buy myself a Gallileos thermometer (the beautiful glass ones with different coloured liquid in the bulbs) so I can tell you exactly how cold COLD is.... 
Whisky 
Leave me be, I've been living in London for the last four years, and for the last two years of that in a flat where the other occupant found 30C to be pleasantly cool. So the heating was always on. And I don't have an spirits in the house.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Big Red Posted Oct 6, 2003
No large furry cats or a big dog to help warm your feet? 
You can only drink so much tea. Sigh.
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Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted Oct 6, 2003
I made Chilli in hopoes of that making a difference. It's just given me indigestion..
I have a new cat, unfortunately it don't produce it's own head, but makes a perfect cushion while lying under the rug on the sofa. No pets allowed I'm afraid...
TEA! Great idea that BigRed, Ta!
Zantic 
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Big Red Posted Oct 6, 2003
Tea (or hot non-alky cider) is my usual response to winter chillies. But too much before bedtime, and you know what happens. ...
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The Psycho Chicken -- self respect intact Posted Oct 6, 2003
Ah, but isn't the thing with like a hurricane that the wind is sustained speed, as opposed to just gusts? Gusts of 90-100 mph aren't uncommon in storms here, but they'll be short bursts.
Ah, the northern States in the Fall - I took a lovely road trip up through Wisconsin and Michigan one year. Absolutley gorgeous
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Big Red Posted Oct 6, 2003
Re hurricanes: You are correct about the sustained wind, but it didn't pass right over us so we didn't get that. It was a 300-mile-wide storm though, so places that were hit got battered for HOURS with high wind.
But in hurricane Hugo, which I was in in 1989, the sustained wind speed was 74 mph when it passed over us. Barely hurricane strength but it took down four trees in our yard, one of them at least 12 feet in diameter at the base.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Big Red Posted Oct 6, 2003
Re hurricanes: You are correct about the sustained wind, but it didn't pass right over us so we didn't get that. It was a 300-mile-wide storm though, so places that were hit got battered for HOURS with high wind.
But in hurricane Hugo, which I was in in 1989, the sustained wind speed was 74 mph when it passed over us. Barely hurricane strength but it took down four trees in our yard, one of them at least 12 feet in diameter at the base.
In two weeks, I'm going to New York City for a few days and then on to Vermont. Vermont is GORGEOUS in the autumn, but we will have missed the peak of the leaves. (There it's early October.) We'll enjoy it up through New York state and Connecticut though.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Big Red Posted Oct 6, 2003
As King Crimson once said, I repeat myself when under stress.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Munchkin Posted Oct 7, 2003
I would just like to confirm that even in the southern latitudes of Glasgow and Edinburgh its well chilly and blowing the proverbial. And some A*se at work thinks we need the air conditioning unit on. 
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Big Red Posted Oct 7, 2003
So sorry to hear it! Here in Washington it's sunny and 21 C. 
Come get warm.
IT'S COLD!!!!!
Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) Posted Oct 8, 2003
I can only offer my mother's standard response to the phrase "It's cold," which is: "Pull your shirt down over it." 
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