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[ewt]

I must remember that a 'Severe Weather Warning' over here does not mean the same thing in terms of amount of snow that it would in Canada, it just means it might actually snow.

Snow would be nice, though. I could make my snow angel. I could go clomping around in it and listen to the crunch. I could do lots of other snow-related things.

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[horngirl.livejournal.com]

*grins*
You have snow warnings, we have 37C (98-99F) degree days.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

We have those in Canada too. I spent summers in a place where there would always be a few weeks of weather where it was more than 35C out there (and 40C, while not common, probably happened nearly every summer for a day or so), and in the winter -20C was not considered particularly cold. I think the coldest I've been in was -42C (_without_ the windchill factor), and the hottest was about 43C in the shade.

This does beg the question of what the hell I am doing in England, but never mind.

[elmyra.livejournal.com]

Snow would be very nice indeed... :-)

[yady.livejournal.com]

I want snow! (the weather phenomenon, not the person ;) )

[dizze.livejournal.com]

what would a "Severe Weather Warning" bring in Canada? It tends to mean that our crappy transport infrastructure is about to come to a grinding halt (again).

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Ice Storms (http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/weather/p/icestorm.htm)

[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

Snow would be very welcome indeed. A shame we don't get enough of it to justify anti-snow equipment, but then a few days of enforced do-littleness is good for the country. Its a pity there are people in sub-standard accommodation that freeze every year due to not being able to take enough precautions or though ignorance :/

Snow

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Last winter I went up to Newcastle (http://www.livejournal.com/users/livredor/36594.html), and was fortunate to do so the weekend they had six inches of snow. This was more snow than I've seen in years and years and years. I got to use the sledge I got for Chanukah in the late eighties for only the third time, and went sledging down Cow Hill, and built a snow Buddha, and showed livredor what a snow angel was (which I learned from reading Was... (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140178724/ref=br_lf_b_10/026-8254753-0592408) -- written by another Canadian living in the UK: Geoff Ryman; I'm not sure the concept even exists in this country), and generally had lots of fun in the snow with livredor.

Then I got back to London and discovered they had had one millimetre of snow there. I felt sorry for my brother missing it all, so got him some artificial snow (http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/INSSNOVAR.htm) for Chanukah this year.

(Oh, and if you were wondering, this post is all justinep's indirect fault (http://www.livejournal.com/users/justinep/53664.html). :o))