Sini TuuliaI have sought out the Finnish winter, and had a nice walkies in -26C with a wind chill of about -30C! It was reasonably nice, only bothered by not seeing shit with the glasses freezing over and it being quite dark already. 😂
"What's that behind you, Sini?"
Oh, just some wind damages from the recent blizzards. Somebody clearly put a bunch of them in a pile and left it, it's about twice my height in reality. 😄
It was definitely mittens over gloves weather and my feet were not warm, but other than that quite refreshing. Good walkies!
Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)Ooo, it used to get that cold here sometimes! I remember the skin on my forehead, the only exposed skin, getting weirdly stiff ;-)
cuan_knaggs@sinituulia glasses are such a pain sometimes
@mensrea I like how easy they are to take on and off, but yeah, while the basic technology does exactly what it should there remain a few bugs we could probably iron out
SuperIlu@sinituulia as much as I love FI, this would be to much for me. I'm hating on -10C over here already... 🥶
@dec_hl It's not too bad if you're just properly dressed! Except for the glasses, that's just going to be terrible in pretty much any freezing weather
@sinituulia I haven't found anything yet to keep my feet warm 😩
@dec_hl Thin thin thin socks, then thicker, warmer, more air-containing socks, then the shoes, then leg warmers rolled down so they cover both ankle and as much of shoe as they can! Today I just had on normal socks, my spring-autumn-winter ankle boots and woollen leg warmers and that was adequate
Kate Harris@sinituulia I do not miss that kind of weather at all (used to live in Canada). I complain enough about British weather where it rarely gets below zero.
moved to @@sinituulia sorry, what, -26⁰C?!
@daria That's just Normal Winter!
But we've also had Cold Winter recently, which has been -29C and colder, and it dropped to -41,1C in one city in Lapland. Those temperatures, those are too cold. Anything colder than -30C can go fuck itself, that's no longer reasonable
@daria When I was a child, it had to be -25C until ice skating, skiing or other outdoors activities in school were stopped, as long as it was only a little bit warmer legions of children were just expected to do two hours of outdoors sports per week. 😆
@sinituulia I see, the Scandinavian-Finnish upbringing method
Elena ``of Valhalla''@sinituulia and here I was talking with people about the fact that it took some effort to get outside in the evening with temperatures between -5°C and 0°C :D
I don't mind them, but I admit that the idea of -20something°C and less scares me :D
@valhalla You get used to it and it's fine as long as you're properly dressed and keep moving. 😄 Waiting for a bus can be absolutely miserable, but... If it's too hot you can't escape the warm, with very cold you just have to put on more clothes!
@sinituulia true!
at -20°C I'd be “this is scary, can a native please check that what I'm wearing is correct and I'm not doing something stupid” (I think I know most of the theory, but yeah, that's just the *theory*)
at 40°C nope, I'm not going to a place where they get such temperatures, humans are not made to survive that.
@valhalla On either end of the thermometer 40 Celsius is too much!
I remember going to school in a miniskirt, nylon stockings, knee high boots and a long coat when it was -20C, often without a hat, with just a shawl wrapped around my head or my hood up. This is unwise, and I have no idea how I never once got frostbite, and absolutely would never ever do that again. 🙃 Nah, it's layers upon layers for me now, my nervous system does not enjoy lower body temperatures! But -20C is not really that bad, it kind of ramps up on a curve from there though... -26 is a different animal from -28 etc.
Lauma Pret ♡ ᪲᪲᪲🌈@sinituulia @valhalla
Unpopular opinion, but I take -10..-20°C every time over ~0°C. Because 0 here is wet and wet is hard. Though I would prefer that the abovementioned -20 waits for me to make my wool walking skirt.
Unpopular opinion, but I take -10..-20°C every time over ~0°C. Because 0 here is wet and wet is hard. Though I would prefer that the abovementioned -20 waits for me to make my wool walking skirt.
@laumapret @sinituulia you would enjoy our cozy, dry, ~0°C then :)
@valhalla @sinituulia
Probably! Because wetness somehow finds a way to creep in all of your layers to the bone.
But also I absolutely can't imagine dry zero 🤣
@laumapret @valhalla Finnish early spring and early winter are miserable because of the almost but not quite freezing temperatures, with slush, sleet and ice covered by water everywhere! It's terrible!
I'd rather take -20C, at least it's nice and consistent. 😄 CanNOT imagine a dry zero degree weather, it's always rainy or melty...
I'd rather take -20C, at least it's nice and consistent. 😄 CanNOT imagine a dry zero degree weather, it's always rainy or melty...
@sinituulia @laumapret to be fair, our dry zero degree weather also tends to be pretty dark: the typical day would look like:
* clear sky
* some wind (or a lot of wind)
* air that smells clean (as long as you're not too inside a town :) )
* a warm sun that brings the daytime temperature up to maybe even 10°C, but feels even warmer when in the sun
* as soon as the sun sets, temperatures drop to around 0°C, and then go down into the -5°C-ish during the night
rinse and repeat until the weather conditions change :)
the days when the sky is cloudy tend to be on average warmer, with temperatures between 1-2°C and 5°C through the day and night, and are more miserable.
Traveling OSM Salesgirl Problem ✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸@valhalla @sinituulia I’ve been having a hard time of late, because Delhi winter’s got the temperatures plummeting to the single (positive) digits…but then I remember how cold it gets in other places, and am reminded of the times when would I chide people who said that >35°C is too hot for them 😅
Temperatures of up to 45°C have become common in peak Delhi summers in the past decade. It’s not difficult to survive it…you stay indoors as far as possible, and keep the doors closed. Outside, you stick to the shade - trees, buildings, anything - like your life depends on it. And the usual…hydration, clothing, et al.
But it’s not fun, and I too would rather deal with extreme cold than extreme heat, for the same reasons given by Ms. Tuulia 🙂
Jay Elbey@sinituulia
Pic has that "early Black Sabbath album cover" vibe happening. 🙂
Pic has that "early Black Sabbath album cover" vibe happening. 🙂
@JayElbey I don't think my parents had this one or I'd remember the album art! Or maybe it was a re-release on CD with a different cover, because I grew up listening to pretty much all the albums but on CD because the record player perpetually had a blunt needle and nobody wanted to play the nicer, original real records on it... 😄
@sinituulia
I bought that when I was in high school.
Thanks for making me feel old! 👴
@JayElbey 😆 Such is time!
Me, I made myself feel old the other day when I thought "Hm I should really check out the new albums of this one band, I'm only up to date until... *checks date of release* 2006, holy shit"
Me, I made myself feel old the other day when I thought "Hm I should really check out the new albums of this one band, I'm only up to date until... *checks date of release* 2006, holy shit"
@sinituulia Beautiful photo! Love the silhouette of the outfit, the color of the hair, the snow contrasting with the wood… 🙂