Why do people exaggerate about their winters in everyway? (how much, living in, places)
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Why do people exaggerate about their winters in everyway?
I hear common exaggerations like winter lasts 9 months. puhleese. Unless you live in the arctic(or antarctic as a scientist) your winters probably last 2 to 4 months in the USA and 4-6 months in central Canada. Let weather com show the facts:
The second exaggeration I get is people say oh its soooooo cold its -20. Were are you? Near the arctic? High in the mountains? Otherwise you probably have never experienced a -20 winter. Minuses are exceedly rare in West Virginia and other similar latitude/elevation areas. Charlotte, NC has never gone below 8 degrees(in the last decade, I dont care about some 100 year old record) and in fact its unusual to see temperatures in the teens!
Theres many other ways people exaggerate but those above two I had to get off my chest.
I guess when it comes to the cold weather it feels like it is much longer. When I was up in the cooler climate it always seemed like May would never come!
I do not miss the winter snowstorms, wind chill, scraping of the car, and ice storms, thats for sure!
Have you ever lived anywhere but Florida? You need to get out more man. I've found that the local news or paper never matches temps with what I've actually got in the yard. Temp's can change quite a bit just in terrain changes (humps and hollars). If you just watch the fronts that move in on occasion from Canada, yes many of these places you mentioned do get that cold. Don't rely so heavily on internets and TV. Get out there and experience it for real. Hellooooo...
I guess for the same reason that people exagerate about the summer- it lasts 10 months, soooo hot, I'm sweating every minute of the day.
Some people just like to whine.
Well in this case its not an exaggeration. I live in the tropics. Up north I only have to deal with 3 hot months. I got the a/c running almost nonstop as I type this reply.
Yes I do need to experience the winters, I did once in Toronto as a little boy but dont remember much except the snow soon melted so it must not have been very cold. My parents like to exaggerate about how bad Toronto is, I did not find it bad. Yes it was pretty chilly but I wasnt freezing, had a coat, long pants, gloves and boots. It does get colder than what I experienced.
Next winter I am gonna visit Oil city again and get a feel for it. Very good chance ill be able to tolerate those relatively mild winters. Will get temperatures as low as 5 degrees and as high as 50 there.
Well, it's hotter in Jax right now than Palm Beach (82 vs. 80), but as the humidity is relatively low in both places, it's very nice outside. I have my windows open with no paddle fans on and am quite comfortable. I don't consider this hot. It's glorious.
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Good Post I'm from Alberta, Canada (Now living in the US) and I have heard so many WILD exagerations! It is cold that's for sure and it's amazing how fast the body acclimatizes (sp?) Two stories of things I have heard (no joke): 1. I was chatting online and someone asked me if I lived in an igloo (ya our computers run on batteries!) 2. A friend of mine told a story about having to get out of your car once you reach the Canada/US border and put on your parka and climb the wall of ice and people actually, seriously believed it!!
NAH. who are you to say they exaggerate? Do you live there? NO. Have you lived there? NO. I've lived up North in Northern N.H. and believe me it's cold no matter how much clothing you have on no to mention how you can't move from the 3 layers of clothing you have on or that morning you wake up with a sheet of ice covering your car making it impossible to even get in it. Sure the weatherman may say it's such and such temperature but even here in FL the town next to me is always 5 degrees cooler. 5 degrees is a big deal when your talking colder weather. it's the difference between icing or not. when things starting freezing, it makes the air colder just as well as when the sun heats up the ground in FL, it makes it hotter. You seem to believe every statistic you find online. Maybe you ought to change your business to some kind of statistic relations since your always on top of these things.
We rarely get below zero fahrenheit in this part of Missouri. I think it happened maybe twice on two nights in January. I think it's fairly common to have single digit overnight lows and we had a long stretch of teens and twenties through most of January and February. Today is 75F and the daffodils are blooming! I even washed my sheepskin leather slippers because they stunk so bad and I figured if I washed them, they'd either survive or not, but if they did, I'd put them out in the sun to dry! They did! And they smell good now too
Our winter has been exceptionally cold this year, from most of November through the first week of March.
Last year, or in Jan. of 2006, I had pansies blooming in my front garden. What a difference a year makes!
Well NAH, Why do you CONSTANTLY moan about the heat?
I was trying to stay civil, but this thread is RIDICULOUS.
You can't say ANYTHING about cold weather just because you've visited. It's a whole different ballgame when you live in it. You think statistics should replace real people telling you the truth.
People could tell you that Oil City is slowly sinking into the ground and will disappear in 20 years, and as long as the stats didn't say so, you wouldn't care.
I don't understand your attitude. Real people tell you real facts and you ignore it when one person tells you what you want to hear.
I don't think people exaggerate about the cold, and I think what drives us all nuts is YOU moaning about the heat 24/7.
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puhleese. Unless you live in the arctic(or antarctic as a scientist) your winters probably last 2 to 4 months in the USA and 4-6 months in central Canada. Let weather com show the facts:
