Hello From Indiana

wondo · Post by **wondo** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:16 pm

It is cold here and we have had snow. My wife and I like to hike and I like to garden. Weather not fit for either, so it is going to be a beer and football weekend

grouchy · Post by **grouchy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:05 pm

Hi and welcome to CC! I'm from Wisconsin (Go Packers?) and we're at twice the normal snowfall - 53" instead of 27" - for the season so far. Do I win the contest??

Have fun here and if, after you read the editor's blogs and FAQs and some of the forum posts, you still have questions, don't hesitate to post them at the appropriate category. The people here are helpful.

Annetta Holmes · Post by **Annetta Holmes** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:04 am

Hello.

Welcome to CC.

I'm from the South Coast of South Africa.

Boiling hot, high humidity and tonnes of sunshine. I've been watching the snowfalls in the US on Sky - freezing!

wondo · Post by **wondo** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:57 pm

To Grouchy
Packers are my second team. Since I am from Indiana, you can guess my favorite team. Led by #18. I have a cousin living near Green Bay.
You can have the 53 inches of snow. That is two years worth for us.
It is supposed to warm up over the weekend.

Annetta
Southern Africa, huh? Cool. But you guys are in the middle of summer there right now. How is the winter?

Annetta Holmes · Post by **Annetta Holmes** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:40 am

Wondo, winters are mild on the coast. Min. 10 degrees C but inland, Johannesburg, can go to zero. Nothing like you up there. We have snow on the Drakenberg Mountains.

wondo · Post by **wondo** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:49 am

Sounds great. I have a niece living in Seattle Washington. Sounds like your climate is something like theirs.
Let's see, you are using centigrade, we use Fahrenheit. So it sounds like it maybe gets to around 50 of our degrees.
Criminey, we have had zero degrees F the last couple of nights. That is about -17 on your scale, I guess. Want to trade places?

Annetta Holmes · Post by **Annetta Holmes** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:32 am

No thanks. I think one needs to get use to cold weather from tiny. I have SA friends that have moved to Canada and they really have to work at getting use to a lot of cold weather.

wondo · Post by **wondo** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:06 pm

Yes, I guess you do. And if you are used to it and move away, you lose your cold tolerance mighty quick.
My brother moved to Florida. The climate there is probably similiar to yours. He freezes to death if he comes here to visit at Christmas.
Canada is much colder than it is here. We have maybe two to three months of cold. By March it sort of starts to get warmer, though we can still get cold. June, July, August are probably pretty much like what you have now. Hot, humid.

CRDonovan · Post by **CRDonovan** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:12 pm

Hi wondo - it's pretty nippy here in Vermont - mornings at zero or below; and yet the kids here wear shorts to school, or go without a hat or even without a jacket. If asked they'll say - not cold.

And even I feel like 20 degrees is balmy weather.

Elizabeth Ann West · Post by **Elizabeth Ann West** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:09 am

I grew up in Virginia, now live in South Carolina and am thoroughly allergic to snow.

My parents lived in New Hampshire for 2 years during my college years, and I never went anywhere without 2 pairs of jeans on, a t-shirt, sweater, and sweat shirt, plus coat, hat and gloves.

Thankfully, hubby is of the same mind.

Give me heat and humidity anyday, just no cold white stuff!

JD · Post by JD » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:18 am

Wondo

"Canada is much colder..." How true is that?! This is my first winter in Alberta (I'm originally from London, England), and I'm beginning to understand what people meant when they said that the winters can be a little challenging! Around -27 C (daytime high) for much of last week and I lost my lower legs in the snow when I walked out one morning at back of our apartment block!

But only another three months to go...

Jane