The Wordless Picture Thread

[celticcrusader]

Minus -17 in the Scottish highlands last night, I believe the coldest temperature in the UK was 1997 minus -27.

[spazola]

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[PaulFLUS]

Interesting. I thought temperatures were supposed to be more moderate in the UK. I think I read something that said, about Scotland at least, that it never gets very hot but doesn't get very cold either. Of course maybe that's an average or something. The coldest temperature ever recorded here was 6° but that was in 1899 so we were still in that colder period which I believe was caused by some volcanic activity in Indonesia. North Florida used to have a citrus industry until the turn of the century when there were several years of hard freezes and it never really recovered. The coldest I can remember was 13°. That's still colder than I want to be.

[cudarunner]

Minus -17 in the Scottish highlands last night, I believe the coldest temperature in the UK was 1997 minus -27.

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[Gasman]

Thats horrible, Roy.

[cudarunner]

Thats horrible, Roy.

Sorry, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to share the picture

[PaulFLUS]

I think that gave me eye cancer.

[celticcrusader]

Staying with the weather, turning colder here in the UK, around minus -6 to 7 in parts of Wales, up in Braemar in Scotland hit a minus -22 last night, If it wasn't for the warming effect of the Gulf stream the UK would suffer arctic winters quite regularly.

[tcrideshd]

Jaime that’s in Celsius right? Come on that’s not cold, although since I retired the weather here in the mid south is much less cold than where I have worked. Us yanks didn’t use a Celsius thermometer on the rig when in the North Sea drilling, but out there it got to the low single digits a lot. Up on the circle in Alaska, we would get to around 20-30 below not counting wind chill every now and then. But it’s a nice calm 70 in my house. We are having cold weather for Memphis and some ice in the 20,s

[BobH]

Staying with the weather, turning colder here in the UK, around minus -6 to 7 in parts of Wales, up in Braemar in Scotland hit a minus -22 last night, If it wasn't for the warming effect of the Gulf stream the UK would suffer arctic winters quite regularly.

It really is quite evident how much the Gulf Stream moderates European temperatures when you look at a map of European cities overlaid on a map of North America. European cities on similar latitudes as Canadian cities don't seem to suffer as cold winters.

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2011...latitude-maps/

https://www.macleans.ca/society/mapp...und-the-world/

Bob