Nothing Quite Like A Cup Of Coffee On A Cold Day

[Blackrat]

273 Kelvin is the temperature at which water freezes. Ergo, -273 would mean it's snowing 'backwards'...but it's not (un?)sticking to the ground yet.

This is a quite old finnish joke and I don't know if it's taken from somewhere else but I'll translate it as best as I can. Not word to word but rather the idea.

Thermometer in celcius degrees
+10 Swedes turn on the heat. Finns plant flowers.
+5 Finns sunbathe, provided the sun get's over the horizon.
+2 Italian cars won't start.
0 Water freezes
-1 Breath turns visible. Time to plan for a holiday in mediterranean. Finns enjoy ice-cream and cold beer.
-4 Cat wants to get in your bed.
-10 Time to plan holiday in Africa. Finns go swimming.
-12 Too cold for snow to fall.
-15 French cars won't start
-20 Breath turns audible
-22 American cars won't start.
-23 Politicians start to worry about homeless people.
-24 Japanese cars won't start
-26 You can cut breath to building blocks for iglu
-29 Cat wants to get in your pyjamas.
-30 German cars won't start. Finn curses, kicks the tire and heads to start the Lada.
-31 Too cold to kiss, lips would freeze together. Finns clean the driveways.
-35 Time to plan a two-week hot bath. Helsinki Soccerteam starts to practice for spring-season.
-39 Mercury freezes. Too cold to think. Finns button the shirt up.
-40 Car wants to get in your bed.
-45 Finns close the bathroom windows.
-50 Sealions leave Greenland. Finns put on gloves.
-70 Polarbears leave the pole. Helsinki University holds a sportsday.
-75 Santa leaves the pole. Finns put on a hat.
-250 Alcohol freezes. Finns get angry.
-268 Helium turns liquid.
-270 Hell freezes over.
-273,15 Absolute Zero. All molecular movement ceases. Even finns agree that "Well it's starting to get a bit chilly."

[sblock=Same in °F]
50°F Swedes turn on the heat. Finns plant flowers.
41°F Finns sunbathe, provided the sun get's over the horizon.
35°F Italian cars won't start.
32°F Water freezes
30°F Breath turns visible. Time to plan for a holiday in mediterranean. Finns enjoy ice-cream and cold beer.
25°F Cat wants to get in your bed.
14°F Time to plan holiday in Africa. Finns go swimming.
10°F Too cold for snow to fall.
5°F French cars won't start
-4°F Breath turns audible
-8°F American cars won't start.
-9°F Politicians start to worry about homeless people.
-11°F Japanese cars won't start
-15°F You can cut breath to building blocks for iglu
-20°F Cat wants to get in your pyjamas.
-22°F German cars won't start. Finn curses, kicks the tire and heads to start the Lada.
-24°F Too cold to kiss, lips would freeze together. Finns clean the driveways.
-31°F Time to plan a two-week hot bath. Helsinki Soccerteam starts to practice for spring-season.
-39°F Mercury freezes. Too cold to think. Finns button the shirt up.
-40°F Car wants to get in your bed.
-49°F Finns close the bathroom windows.
-58°F Sealions leave Greenland. Finns put on gloves.
-94°F Polarbears leave the pole. Helsinki University holds a sportsday.
-100°F Santa leaves the pole. Finns put on a hat.
-420°F Alcohol freezes. Finns get angry.
-450°F Helium turns liquid.
-454°F Hell freezes over.
-459.67°F Absolute Zero. All molecular movement ceases. Even finns agree that "Well it's starting to get a bit chilly."[/sblock]

 

[Gulla]

I have gotten the same from relatives in USA, but about Norwegians. The one not in my old list:

-250 Alcohol freezes. Finns get angry.

made the rest of my landscape look at me wondering what I was reading and not sharing.

Håkon
who went drinking with Finns once. Only once.

 

[Blackrat]

Håkon
who went drinking with Finns once. Only once.

The preceding trick was performed by a trained professional, never try this at home .

 

[ssampier]

18 degrees F; still snowing.

I enjoyed my brief work trip to sunny Mesquite, NV, where the low was our high.

 

[Mycanid]

Almost 54 inches of snow here ... and still snowing ...

AND I had a lovely cup of coffee this morning!

Oh ... it's 25 degrees or so here ...

 

[ssampier]

*looks outside to the snow and ice*

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

The weather here is going crazy, from cold to hot and back again in a week. We'll get snow only to have it melt the next day and temps in the 50s. This is just really, really odd. The weather round here didn't used to act like this, we even had thunderstorms last night. Weird and just weird, the farmers (who as a rule are all oldish, no-one seems to want to stay) are definite in that they've never seen the weather act like this before. Quite a few have lived here for better than seventy years, their livelihood depends on the weather. They may not be meteorologists but they understand the overall flow of things pretty well and this has them stumped because it's not acting like any winter in living memory.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

It is very weird, where I live in Souther Ontario, just a couple days ago we had a snow-storm so we went from almost zero snow, to tons overnight and just tonight there was a thunder storm in the middle of winter!

 

[frankthedm]

I like my coffee luke warm to cold. Though hot is ok in a travel mug if while outside.

 

[ssampier]

Iced coffee is good, I have a fondness for the Starbucks Frappucino. Of course, it's a bit cold to drink one of those.

I enjoyed my tea this morning and my hot chocolate in the afternoon.