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I'd have to drive some 300km one way to enjoy winter sports. So it would be an occasional thing. Besides I'm not big on sports anyway.
Shovelling snow for me was fun about 10 years ago when I was a kid seeing it fall for the first time....
But for alot of people in snowy climates, I'd wager that the majority would rather get an extra 30 minutes in bed rather than shovel snow in order to be able to get to work.
I'd have to drive some 300km one way to enjoy winter sports. So it would be an occasional thing. Besides I'm not big on sports anyway.
Shovelling snow for me was fun about 10 years ago when I was a kid seeing it fall for the first time....
But for alot of people in snowy climates, I'd wager that the majority would rather get an extra 30 minutes in bed rather than shovel snow in order to be able to get to work.
Usually people are understanding about weather induced lateness (unless you live in a place where snowstorms happen almost daily in which case you should have a snow machine and your car equipped with snow tires and all wheel drive). In NYC, snowstorms happen only a few times per winter.
Anyway, you walk your dog every morning, don't you? Not that different.
Daytime readings (as opposed to maximums) below 10C are quite common in Melbourne.
I did that once and ended up with a runny nose, and a splitting headache.
Temperatures usually reach their peak in the afternoons so naturally temperatures will be below 10 in the early hours of the morning/late evenings (Sydney gets this too) but the point here is maximums still go over 10 degrees during the afternoons. Prove to me in recent years where Melbourne has hovered below 10oC ALL day.
No sympathy from me then. The more you do it, the better it is for the body.
Temperatures usually reach their peak in the afternoons so naturally temperatures will be below 10 in the early hours of the morning/late evenings (Sydney gets this too) but the point here is maximums still go over 10 degrees during the afternoons. Prove to me in recent years where Melbourne has hovered below 10oC ALL day.
No sympathy from me then. The more you do it, the better it is for the body.
I do not feel sympathy either for §AB having to endure Melbourne's winter season.
Temperatures usually reach their peak in the afternoons so naturally temperatures will be below 10 in the early hours of the morning/late evenings (Sydney gets this too) but the point here is maximums still go over 10 degrees during the afternoons. Prove to me in recent years where Melbourne has hovered below 10oC ALL day.
No sympathy from me then. The more you do it, the better it is for the body.
Here's a few examples:
Melbourne, Vic - August 2008 - Daily Weather Observations (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/200808/html/IDCJDW3050.200808.shtml - broken link)
This is just the CBD, outer suburbs have more days below 10C.
plus there are several instances when the 24hour max temp is just a few tenths of a degree above 10.
This is just the CBD, outer suburbs have more days below 10C.
plus there are several instances when the 24hour max temp is just a few tenths of a degree above 10.
Aug 08: 9.9 degrees is practically 10 degrees.
Jul 07: 9.2 degrees can almost be classified as being well below 10 degrees but this happens once in a blue moon and also doesn't happen every year.
Aug 04: 9.8 degrees is, like Aug. 08, practically 10 degrees.
Not by a considerable margin though. On TV it would have been rounded up to 10 degrees. Give me some (<8.9oC) days.
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