How cold does it get where you live?

[♥ Lily ♥]

Lowest temperature

Lowest (Scotland) -27.2°C 11 February 1895 and 10 January 1982 and 30 December 1995
Lowest (England) -26.1°C 11 January 1982
Lowest (Wales) -23.3°C 21 January 1940

People who've lived in or visited both the UK and Scandinavian nations have told me that they felt colder in the UK than in Scandinavian nations - due to the dry cold / damp cold differences we have. More people statistically die from hypothermia each year in the U.K. winters than in Sweden - although we also have a much larger population than Sweden, to be fair.

When my mother and her friend went on their cruise trip to northern Norway earlier this year, she said the tides in the North Sea caused the water in the swimming pool on the deck of the ship to splash and rise up into the air... and as the water splashed high, she said she saw it instantly turned into icicles in the cold air!

My mother said she trekked in knee-high snow in Norway with her friend to observe the wildlife and see the Northern Lights, etc. She said she was wrapped-up warmly and didn't feel cold.

However, upon returning to her countryside cottage that she shares with her friend on the south-west coast of England, she said she started shivering and feeling cold... even though the recorded tempature had been colder in Norway than in southern England at the time of her trip.

[♥ Lily ♥]

The Moscow Ballet Company once arrived in London and it was a colder recorded temperature in London than in Moscow on the day of their visit. They said they shivered upon arrival.

I've met a few Swedish people in London who were shivering and complaining that it was cold. I said to them I thought they'd be used to cold weather... coming from Sweden. They explained that it's a different type of cold in Sweden to the U.K. Sweden has a dry type of cold and Great Britain has a damp type of cold that the Swedes here said to me, 'goes through peoples bones.'

Each year disruption is caused by thin sheets of invisible black ice on the roads. It's a lot more dangerous than snow.... because people can see snow... but you can't see black ice;- which makes it lethal.

We also get a lot of strong cold winds coming from the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea, etc. It's not a far distance on our island to the coasts surrounding us.

The sea waters surrounding our island are often grey, choppy, rough and cold.... like the often cloudy and cold grey skies here. The thick grey clouds frequently block out the sunlight.... just how I like it. I love grey skies and rain so much and I hate the sun as I'm heliophobic.

Also we live at a low altitude from the sun and only a short distance above sea level, and cold water from the North Sea flows into the River Thames.

Last winter in London, a strange blizzard stemming from Siberia dubbed as 'Beast from the East' hit us for several days. I didn't feel cold at the time of the arrival of Beast from the East, because it was a very dry type of snow blizzard and unusual here.

I love winter and much prefer the winter to the very uncomfortable and hellish summer season... especially after the global heatwave nightmare this year where there were also bushfires in Sweden, fires in the Arctic, etc. It affected our trees as lots of tree bark has fallen off the trees and lots of leaves fell to the ground by the end of July, due to the intense global heatwave that killed thousands of people this year in the world (especially in Japan,) who died from heatstroke.

It's easier to warm yourself when you're feeling cold than trying to cool down in a heatwave.

[calxpal]

In the middle of winter occasionally down to -30 degrees Fahrenheit or -34.4 degrees Celsius.

[Ritz06]

Record cold is -16,4C/2.7F, but usually daytime -2C to +6C and at night -4C to +2C. Occasionally snow.

[Finnish Swede]

Lowest temperature

Lowest (Scotland) -27.2°C 11 February 1895 and 10 January 1982 and 30 December 1995
Lowest (England) -26.1°C 11 January 1982
Lowest (Wales) -23.3°C 21 January 1940

If we are talking about the records .... the coldest ever measured in Finland is -51,5 °C (-59,8F). In Sweden? −52,6 °C (−62,7 °F)
But of course those are not typical.

[Richmondbread]

I keep forgetting a lot of people on here don't speak American, lol.

[frankhammer]

Very mild here. The average winters day is 11 to 14 degrees Celsius but warm in the sun. No snow except far to the south or high in the mountains. (The last time recorded snow hit the ground in this city was in 1930) Tee-shirt, jeans and hoody will get you by every day. However the summer sun (and associated UV) is amongst the highest in the world. Consistently rated at 12.

[Iloko]

Most of the climate here is tropical (like 80s/90s degrees farenheight), unless you were to venture outside of Manila proper into such regions as Baguio City where the weather there is pretty much the equivalent of what is Autumn in the States (60s/50s degree weather) which is much cooler and comfortable.

[Jana]

In my hometown on Adriatic Sea it gets down to -10/-5 at coldest days, but usually it is around zero and above that. In Budapest obviously it is much colder, can go below -20 with lot of snow and Danube can be full of Ice Sheets.

I hate mild winters of my town and can't wait for real winter in Budapest with Stears

[RandomGuy20]

Coldest it got this winter was around -5C