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The Gender Race v5.something

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Yep. It's going to be bitterly cold all week, as the lows from Tuesday to Friday are -14F, -21F, -3F, and -9F. How fun.
 
donavannj said:
I'm aware you have things that are very, very dangerous, as well as mosquitoes (we have those, too, but usually only in the summer at night because our winter freeze kills them off before they overrun us).

You and I experience opposite ends of the extreme human "tolerable" range of temperatures. You experience temps in excess of 40C with some regularity, which I know will induce heat-exhaustion with prolonged exposure and should not be considered fit for human habitation, yet you call it January. I experience temperatures colder than -15C with some regularity, which will induce hypothermia after a short period of time even if wearing protective gear. It's a level of cold that you can feel even through multiple layers of clothing. Most people would call that not fit for human habitation. I call that January, and people in Manitoba call it December and February. Most of us spend in excess of 10 minutes having our cars warm up so we can actually not freeze our fingers off while driving.

Point is, it's damn hot where you are (so hot that I wouldn't want to live there), and it's damn cold where I am, colder than you might realize.
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Well the Winters here are quite a tolerable cold, no ice or snow making roads undriveable. Sometimes we get lots of rain on some Winter days, but even then it's not an extreme cold.

So does that mean the Summers you experience are of tolerable heat? Or do you get badly hot Summers as well as badly cold Winters?

It's incredibly difficult to avoid getting even one mosquito bite during the Summer here. They're everywhere. You'll probably also see (and have to kill) at least one big spider crawling around the house at some point.

That's why I much prefer the Winters here. They're better than Summers in almost every way, the only bad thing you might say is the rain stopping you from going outside and stuff. Other than that Winter's much more comfortable in terms of temparature and insects/arachnids.

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The only reason why I would think that snow is better than rain would be during big, tornado-producing thunderstorms, which come around quite often in Iowa.
 
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I like both rain and snow but snow is more handy in getting out of school and other things. Rain is just good for sleeping. You know User 101 you're just one state above me, it just now hit me.
 
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Did you forget what state you lived in or something...? 'Cause I mentioned living in Iowa in at least 2 of my recent posts, and I have it as my location...
 
I have family in warspirit's state.

GreenFlame said:
Well the Winters here are quite a tolerable cold, no ice or snow making roads undriveable. Sometimes we get lots of rain on some Winter days, but even then it's not an extreme cold.

So does that mean the Summers you experience are of tolerable heat? Or do you get badly hot Summers as well as badly cold Winters?

It's incredibly difficult to avoid getting even one mosquito bite during the Summer here. They're everywhere. You'll probably also see (and have to kill) at least one big spider crawling around the house at some point.

That's why I much prefer the Winters here. They're better than Summers in almost every way, the only bad thing you might say is the rain stopping you from going outside and stuff. Other than that Winter's much more comfortable in terms of temparature and insects/arachnids.
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Compared to yours, summers here are very tolerable. To locals who spend half the summer reacclimating to the temps, they tend to be a bit jarring at first, but they usually give you enough time to adjust before reaching their apex.

Fortunately, few poisonous spiders even live anywhere in my state. Mosquito bites are unavoidable if you're within a quarter mile of the woods or a body of water and are outside. Lakes, ponds, bogs, and swamps are everywhere here.

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donavannj said:
Compared to yours, summers here are very tolerable. To locals who spend half the summer reacclimating to the temps, they tend to be a bit jarring at first, but they usually give you enough time to adjust before reaching their apex.

Fortunately, few poisonous spiders even live anywhere in my state. Mosquito bites are unavoidable if you're within a quarter mile of the woods or a body of water and are outside. Lakes, ponds, bogs, and swamps are everywhere here.
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I'm literally itching from at least two mosquito bites on me right now. Owwwwwwwww...

I guess it's better in Winter here then, and Summer for you. But that makes a lot of sense with opposite hemispheres.

By the way, don't the males always win this gender race?

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When it was 2012 and I knew about what was going on here, the number ALWAYS went down to 0 and not 1000.
 
235. They still test the severe weather sirens in the winter at your school?

Also, reporting in from around Minneapolis: blue skies, current temperature of -8F, wind chills currently somewhere between -15 and -20. Still feels something like -30 outside, though. 249 school closures notices were issued in the area last night in anticipation of the cold or because the state told them to. Probably the former, though.
 
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Yes, UI tests the tornado sirens at 10 AM every first Wednesday of the month.

There are some unlucky students in Iowa that only got a delay from school...
 
232 because over in England there's literally been no snow.
 
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In fact, the last time I've seen snow is in like April.
 
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