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I love it.  Getting around can be a pain, but I like the cold, I like the snow.  I like to snow shoe, so getting a lot of snow is aces in my book.

I could do without wind chill, however.  Twenty below is fine if it doesn't have a smurfing 30 mph wind attached to it.

I think it's just great to be able to outside without passing out from heat exhaustion.

What I do get of winter I love. There is just no feeling like the first cold front that blows in for the season.

I love it.  I want rain and snow all year round!  (Which incidentally may be why I hate my time in Southern California.)

I HATE WINTER.

It's useless and I hate it.

Denali wrote:

We are talking about moving to Alaska, however. Not sure I'm ready for the extremely short days, and longer winters.  I've got a few years to prepare though.

My dad spent all summer up there working on one of his projects, and is still making rather frequent trips there and to the arctic circle, even this late in the season (his fields will eventually freeze over and be inaccessible or something like that). We went and visited him this summer. Southern Alaska was quite something, I love the temperate rainforest climate.

I don't think I could handle such short days and such extreme cold, but my dad said he loved it, even though he is a perpetually cold person like me. He loved walking around downtown Anchorage as the sun was rising around 10 a.m. and sitting in his office with the window that overlooks downtown and watching the sun kind of circle around the horizon (it doesn't get very high). He said it was really eerie some days and kinda magical. He walked all over the place, and other than falling on his butt if he slipped on some ice, he thought it was fantastic. However, it might be like my brother and the snow in Golden, CO when he went to school there - fun the first year, crappy after that, and nice to think about when you don't live there.

It iced over pretty heavily here last January for a few days and I thought it was pretty cool. The start of classes was delayed, I had about 1/2" of ice stuck to my car. I spent three days inside playing video games, drinking hot chocolate and living off my stores of popcorn and pasta. It was fun, but I wouldn't want it all the time.

Last edited by keprydak (2007-12-03 4:01 pm)

iMan wrote:

Love it. I would die without snowmobiles.

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I love winter.... too bad texas doesn't know what winter is

I love winter, but right now it's like minus 8 and ridiculous. I like it cold, but not that cold. Mostly because downhill skiing in freezing cold weather really sucks.

I like winter, but mostly because there's no snow here.

LeeBarnes wrote:

Phydeaux wrote:

I think it's just great to be able to outside without passing out from heat exhaustion.

QFT!

FutureDreamz wrote:

333imacman wrote:

I love winter, but right now it's like minus 8 and ridiculous. I like it cold, but not that cold. Mostly because downhill skiing in freezing cold weather really sucks.

minus 8 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?

does it really matter?  it's smurfing eight below!!!1!!one!!

in Celsius, it's just below freezing, and i believe 0ºC is equal to about 40ºF, therefore  0ºF is appx -40ºC, which is just almost bearable.

Last edited by FutureDreamz (2007-12-03 6:16 pm)

keprydak wrote:

0˚ Celsius would be 32˚F... the point at which water freezes on both scales...?

so -8ºF would be in ºC what?