A little rant here.....

[FairyInTheFlowers]

Originally Posted by james mickelso

Now Saskatchewan winters are simply masochistic.

You could say all Saskatchewan weather is like that. In my city, our record high is 40.6*C (105.1*F), the lowest recorded temperature is -50*C (-58*F), and our record low with wind chill is -60.9*C (-77.6*F).

Originally Posted by vjo

Hey blazing august, what the heck is a bunny hug?? Sounds comfortable....Jean

A bunny hug is a Saskatchewan term for what most others call a hooded sweater.

Originally Posted by desertanimal

NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo! I think I might die! That sounds terrible!

Haha, it's MUCH better than the extreme heat you American weirdies face! I start melting at 29*C (84.2*F), and this is in a pretty arid climate.

[desertanimal]

Originally Posted by TheBlazingAugust

Haha, it's MUCH better than the extreme heat you American weirdies face! I start melting at 29*C (84.2*F), and this is in a pretty arid climate.

I can happily live in a tent in the xeriphytic forests of SW Madagascar for a year with no AC, but I HATE being cold. My hands get too stiff to type when the house is 68F/20C.

While I don't dispute that weather might be quite variable in certain places, having a location still can help a person weigh the applicability of advice from different people. The odds are high that someone's growing experience in NH is going to be a lot more similar to mine (in Boston) than is someone's growing experience from NC.

[theroc1217]

Originally Posted by Wild Orchid

Good point, Rosie!
That's why I say, Lower Mainland, BC.

While I agree with the idea of geographical specifics, unless you live in the neighbourhood, I'm not sure one can figure out the local climate. For example, while it may be sunny in Vancouver, it rains in Fraser Valley, and this is only an hour of drive.

I remember once having my car stuck in the snow and two strangers helping me to push it - because I was blocking their way. Anyway, when I've got to Vancouver (40 min by transit) - there was not a single flake on the ground, it was even dry! So... go figure!

Climate and weather are not the same things. Climate takes hundreds of years to change, but weather can change daily.

[kindrag23]

@ TheBlazingAugust, holy crap -58*. Give me my 100+* weather any day of the week over that. BRRRR...I have always said there was a reason God placed me in Texas and that was because he knew that I HATE extreme cold weather.
My family and I went to New York for Christmas a couple of years back and the temp before wind chill was 10* I thought I was going to DIE!

[james mickelso]

For me I like to know where someone lives because I know when the weather will change. or season. In the humid south I know the humidity will stay up until Sept/Oct but it will get dry after that while in NH/Vermont the temps will start falling around August. While in Tejas it can be all over the place. Up north the temps can stay down around freezing one day then the next day be in the 60's. I'm an old navy weatherman.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Originally Posted by hcastil3

hooray Cal friends. I feel lonely I have yet to find another member from Utah ..

You and me.... I haven't seen any one from Wyoming either. Yes wind chill is what gets us also. It hardly ever gets much below -20 F and never seems to stay that way for long but the wind blows especially where I live. And when it does we just try to warm the air as it goes threw the house hahahahaha

No wonder my orchids get mad at me sometimes.

[maroonmudskipper]

Originally Posted by TheBlazingAugust

A bunny hug is a Saskatchewan term for what most others call a hooded sweater.

That is just adorable.

[Rowangreen]

My rant would be people who post huge pictures or several side by side so the thread gets streched out and you have to scroll side to side to read it!

[butterfly_muse]

I guess I'm lucky that my state is so small that it doesn't really matter WHERE you are, it's basically the same. Except the panhandle...that's just a whole nother level there. xD But nobody lives there.