So you think it is cold here

[very-near]

I've been having a bit of dialogue with one of my customers in Finland, as the cold we have here at the moment has made the news over there:-

Hi VN.
Have you still snow as news told us? Here was last friday when i was driving car -33,5 degrees and yes that´s right, minus!!

We have about 50cm for snow.


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Hi J.
We still have the snow on the ground, but it is beginning to melt a little now and the main roads are clear as the temperature is about +1c in the day.

We are expecting more snow over night tonight though, but they always say it is going to be worse than it usually is so we may get nothing. It is drifting to about 1 metre in places on the top of the hills above Cheltenham.

-33.5c Wow, that must be hard on the lungs and any skin exposed to it. I expect you put things in the deep freeze to warm them up

Do you plug the cars into heaters in the winter to keep them going in Finland ?

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Hi VN
In Lapland snow thickness is about 80cm now and i think they still get more before snow start to melt.
You can go out even there is -33, if you put enough clothes on! J ,but you are right, if you do exercise, it is very hard for lungs.
Yes we use engine heaters and usually diesel cars has petrol heater into the engine. They working like, if you warm up your houses in
England for heating oil? Same system in a car but of course smaller.
It is very tough for cars driving when -33. Coldest place in this winter was in Kuusamo what is east of Finland, -37 degrees.

 

[Unkraut]

Yes, but they can expect this kind of cold weather every year, so it pays to be prepared.

You started this thread, and perhaps I could be the one to Finnish it?

 

[very-near]

They say that you have to ru the car heater flat out all the time as well over there when driving.

 

[Davidc]

Not sure where it's that cold, but certainly Finland is much colder than here.

1. That means that the snow stays solid and generally is less mobile
2. The snow and ice are not slippery in the way they are near to freezing (because the pressure needed to melt them goes up with falling temperature)
3. They get it regularly which makes it worthwhile having the ostly upmarket clearing kit, and laws governing winter provision for vehicles.

And a few more issues. Basically, they have it very much easier over managing cold and icy weather than we do.

 

[Globalti]

Coldest I've experienced in the UK was minus 25 in Aviemore about 12 years ago. It was so dry that wading through the snow built up static and I got a belt off the car door handle. Managed to get the car started and drove over to The Lecht to ski, rivers were steaming and the car heater didn't give out much heat, even on full.

Breckenridge in Colorado was pretty cold, I got a touch of frostbite on one nostril from sitting on a T bar on a very exposed windy ridge going up for a back bowl.

 

[very-near]

Im curious as to why your customers call you VN

They don't. I edited that bit so you would understand who was saying what. They usually call me 'Paul'

 

[661-Pete]

They don't. I edited that bit so you would understand who was saying what. They usually call me 'Paul'

Is this a revelation of something hitherto undisclosed ? It would be a delicious irony, if VN and Mister P turned out to be one and the same person! Ah well, one can dream....

 

[Fab Foodie]

I've worked in Finland when it's been -22C. It's chuffing cold! Cars are plugged-in to the leccky to keep them warm. Drove around in a Renault Clio with studded tyres, most excellent on the packed-ice roads. Only 4 hours of daylight too. Quite an experience!

 

[telesonic99]

Is this an exercpt from your letter to Santa Claus ?

 

[al78]

Not sure where it's that cold, but certainly Finland is much colder than here.

1. That means that the snow stays solid and generally is less mobile
2. The snow and ice are not slippery in the way they are near to freezing (because the pressure needed to melt them goes up with falling temperature)
3. They get it regularly which makes it worthwhile having the ostly upmarket clearing kit, and laws governing winter provision for vehicles.

And a few more issues. Basically, they have it very much easier over managing cold and icy weather than we do.

Agreed. I once went to a conference in Lillehammer in February and walking around on dry snow in -5C temperatures was a doddle compared with the +1 and wet ice all over the pavements you get over here.

 

[very-near]

Is this a revelation of something hitherto undisclosed ? It would be a delicious irony, if VN and Mister P turned out to be one and the same person! Ah well, one can dream....

I tried to borrow his avatar as a supreme complement, but he deleted it off my profile with his mod powers