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DXTR wrote:Just for the Europeans: ~50 °F is equal to about 13-14 °C, and 0-10 °F means -about -10 °C...

TuomoH wrote:

DXTR wrote:Just for the Europeans: ~50 °F is equal to about 13-14 °C, and 0-10 °F means about -10 °C...

Umm... isn't 50 °F more like 10 °C and 10 °F below -12 °C?

Rich Nagel wrote:We had a bit of the white stuff Saturday morning, down in the "Sunshine State" of Florida <G>

The Great Falcon wrote:

Rich Nagel wrote:We had a bit of the white stuff Saturday morning, down in the "Sunshine State" of Florida <G>

Nice to see ya' here Rich and good luck with all the snow everywhere in USA...

The lost Ninja wrote:

The Great Falcon wrote:

Rich Nagel wrote:We had a bit of the white stuff Saturday morning, down in the "Sunshine State" of Florida <G>

Nice to see ya' here Rich and good luck with all the snow everywhere in USA...

I thought you were going to react on the dog-pic, like in "By-Thor and the snow dog"!

The lost Ninja wrote:Another Snow picture (our dog after having a good meal of fresh snow).

The Great Falcon wrote:hahaha! just found a wiki page ofthe snow situation in europe... according to photos and the writtings mostly, non-finnish guys, let me tell you that you haven't seen nothing yet!! It was saying somehing like "as much as 10cm in belgium"... LoL! Got 2 feets ofsnow in my backyard, the airport jusr near and let me tell you that's it's not an insignifiant 10cm that will paralyze planes Truelly, Finland seems to be the only european place to have real winters... others are just epic fails of snow... And what's the problem with winter tires? Please put them on or stop doing 130mph on icy paths!!

Ivo Porc wrote:

The Great Falcon wrote:hahaha! just found a wiki page ofthe snow situation in europe... according to photos and the writtings mostly, non-finnish guys, let me tell you that you haven't seen nothing yet!! It was saying somehing like "as much as 10cm in belgium"... LoL! Got 2 feets ofsnow in my backyard, the airport jusr near and let me tell you that's it's not an insignifiant 10cm that will paralyze planes Truelly, Finland seems to be the only european place to have real winters... others are just epic fails of snow... And what's the problem with winter tires? Please put them on or stop doing 130mph on icy paths!!

Don't count Belgium's 10 cm as average, it's something like coast of Virginia in USA. And even more be sure, that people there can really surprised by the 10 cm sometimes too.

I'm reporting fresh news from Prague, there is about 30cm of snow regularly, which is total disaster for urban people of the city. During 5 years of studying there I've never seen there more than 5 cm. BTW this reminds me one great song of Jarek Nohavica old few years and related to another massive snowing. Here it is on youtube, you can read official German or Italian translations (sorry, no English or French).

The Great Falcon wrote:Do you have any place that snow is picked up from the roads and stored there to make a so enormous hill that last until august? Any trucks going in your streets to put stupid salt and sand? Any people traveling in Sky-Doo only for fun? Your winters, even this year, are nothing, believe me When you'll have 6' of snow on the front of your house, you'll give news... Stop crying!

The Olympic Games put on a cape. In Vancouver rain falls and snow is melting

What would now give Vancouver for snow troubles of the Czech Republic? Weather in Canada is anything but not winter. Don't scare, there is no reason to panic, soothing words come from the organizers of the Olympic Games.

But there is no reason to smile because of the current weather. On sport facilities, where sportsmen will fight for medals and glory in barely a month, ropes of rain fall.

Thermometer jumped to four degrees above zero, that is twice than normal, and forecast reports the maximum daily temperatures of up to nine degrees. Such "hot" should take up to 17 January.

Raindrops cannot make much damage in Vancouver City itself, gathers are made to Canadians mainly by conditions in Cypress Mountain - that is the scene of events in snowboarding and freestyle skiing. Nikola Sudova and Tomas Kraus will have to possibly wear capes.

"We simply need a frost to use snow cannons. But in these conditions is not possible," said a nervous Tim Gayda, vice president of the Organizing committee for sports.

Snow on the slopes in the ski resort is so wet, that all activities in widely used resort has been suspended for at least next two days. Organizers are so scared by on-coming of warm and humid air, that they'll maybe close the entire resort for the public in the foreseeable future, about two and a half weeks sooner than originally planned.

The Organizing Committee has suspended a massive snow splashing (from November was splashed almost one million hectoliters of water to the slopes) and Mr. Gayda admitted that maybe the snow will be imported from the above-lying places to ensure good condition for Games' race tracks.

"It is now the biggest challenge we face. Mother Nature is always unpredictable, you must have a backup option for each scenario," said Mr. Gayda. "Fortunately the tracks in Whistler are in good form."

Last year's test events in the Cypress Mountains were also facing with problems: a downhill on lumps was postponed for hours due to dense fog, which hid almost the whole course for judges sitting in the finish line, parallel giant slalom was even canceled because of poor snow conditions.

"The snow is enough to run all of the disciplines," calming yet Mr. Gayda. "And a lot of it will be, even if rain will come at the time the Games again as similar as current rain flood."

The lost Ninja wrote:Great photo Ivo, very athmospheric and moody.
I heard autumn is a good season to be in Prague, but this looks nice too.

Ivo Porc wrote:

The Great Falcon wrote:Do you have any place that snow is picked up from the roads and stored there to make a so enormous hill that last until august? Any trucks going in your streets to put stupid salt and sand? Any people traveling in Sky-Doo only for fun? Your winters, even this year, are nothing, believe me When you'll have 6' of snow on the front of your house, you'll give news... Stop crying!

Are you sure that your winter is so harder? I'm just reading newspapers, news about preparing for Olympic games. Here is full translation:

The Great Falcon wrote:Our Quebeker winters rulez Vancouver is kinda gay-ish... I'm kinda surprised though, this year is quite calm, snow talking, but in replacement we've got some great temperatures Still, I have about 6 feets of snow at the front of my house

The Great Falcon wrote:But don't worry about the Olympic game's quality: They have some snow cannons running like 24/24 to be sure they have a great amount of snow so, it'll be great, trust me...

Ivo Porc wrote:I have no doubts, that they'll be amazing, even if snow cannons (snow guns in previous version of translation) had to be stopped there for this moments. Especially I cannot wait of start of Olympic hockey tournament.