On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:38:37 -0900, (E-Mail Removed) (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:
>Blind Apertures <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> (E-Mail Removed) (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
>>>Dudley Hanks <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>>I've been tracking the temp at Barrow, and it has been hovering
>>>>around -27C to -35C.
>>>>
>>>>While a steady diet of that degree of cold is kinda depressing,
>>>>the folks in my neck of the woods are definitely not strangers to
>>>>that temperature range.
>>>>
>>>>Still waiting to see temps in Barrow that make my back yard seem
>>>>like a plot of tropical rain forest...
>>>>Caio ...
>>>
>>>The current temperature in Edmonton is being reported as 0 C
>>>(+32F), or right at freezing.
>>>
>>>Barrow's temperature has been -36C (-33F) for most of the time
>>>over the last few hours. A 62F difference is typical and isn't
>>>small...
>>>
>>>And yes you do seem to live in a place that is significantly
>>>warmer almost all of the time.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
>>>Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) (E-Mail Removed)
>>>
>>
>>But, as usual, you're avoiding the point.
>
>Dudley it isn't me that avoids the point!
>
>>In the normal course of a year, we get temps as cold as your
>>coldest ... :)
>
>Barrow never ever gets anywhere near as warm as Edmonton.
>
>And it is only in the normal course of a century that you get
>a temperature as cold as Barrow's coldest. The last time you
>got that cold was 1972! (Barrow was that cold 4 or 5 years ago.)
>
>Getting cold once or twice in a century doesn't make Edmonton
>as cold as a place like Barrow. The average difference in
>temperatures show very clearly that Edmonton is significantly
>warmer.
>
>It's just absurd to claim that a place on the *southern* edge
>of the Boreal Forest is warmer than a place far north of the
>tree line, where it is just too cold for trees to even exist.
Exchanges of this sort are often called "dick waving". I certainly
wouldn't be waving mine if there was a danger of frostbite, though.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando FL
Davidson) wrote:
>Blind Apertures <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> (E-Mail Removed) (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
>>>Dudley Hanks <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>>I've been tracking the temp at Barrow, and it has been hovering
>>>>around -27C to -35C.
>>>>
>>>>While a steady diet of that degree of cold is kinda depressing,
>>>>the folks in my neck of the woods are definitely not strangers to
>>>>that temperature range.
>>>>
>>>>Still waiting to see temps in Barrow that make my back yard seem
>>>>like a plot of tropical rain forest...
>>>>Caio ...
>>>
>>>The current temperature in Edmonton is being reported as 0 C
>>>(+32F), or right at freezing.
>>>
>>>Barrow's temperature has been -36C (-33F) for most of the time
>>>over the last few hours. A 62F difference is typical and isn't
>>>small...
>>>
>>>And yes you do seem to live in a place that is significantly
>>>warmer almost all of the time.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
>>>Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) (E-Mail Removed)
>>>
>>
>>But, as usual, you're avoiding the point.
>
>Dudley it isn't me that avoids the point!
>
>>In the normal course of a year, we get temps as cold as your
>>coldest ... :)
>
>Barrow never ever gets anywhere near as warm as Edmonton.
>
>And it is only in the normal course of a century that you get
>a temperature as cold as Barrow's coldest. The last time you
>got that cold was 1972! (Barrow was that cold 4 or 5 years ago.)
>
>Getting cold once or twice in a century doesn't make Edmonton
>as cold as a place like Barrow. The average difference in
>temperatures show very clearly that Edmonton is significantly
>warmer.
>
>It's just absurd to claim that a place on the *southern* edge
>of the Boreal Forest is warmer than a place far north of the
>tree line, where it is just too cold for trees to even exist.
Exchanges of this sort are often called "dick waving". I certainly
wouldn't be waving mine if there was a danger of frostbite, though.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando FL
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