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People here keep telling me that this winter is unseasonably warm. If that's true, then I don't want to be here during a 'real' winter. This morning, on my way to school, it was -18C, and with windchill it felt like -26C. Isn't blood supposed to freeze at this temperature?
I've found that nature plays a little trick on me when it gets this cold. First, it's very uncomfortable to have your gloves or hat off for even a minute. Your face remains uncovered, unless you wear one of those bank-robbing ski masks, which I haven't seen at all. So my nose gets hit with a double whammy. First, the second I walk outside, my nose starts to run. By the time the mucous gets to the bottom part of my nose, it's no longer protected by the warmth of my nasal cavity, and it freezes. My nose is now filled with frozen little snotcicles which thaw a bit on every exhale and freeze up solid with the inhale. All the while receiving constant reinforcements. Fun times for all.
Posted by Owen at January 21, 2004 03:39 PM | TrackBackActually, -18 C is pretty warm, for St. Petersburg. I'm not sure what the regulations there are like, but in Moscow, they cancel school if it ever gets to -30 C (which happened once or twice when I was there). But I think St. Petersburg is colder on the average.
Posted by: Bugmaster at January 21, 2004 05:33 PMEw, that is nasty. Thanks for the visual.
Posted by: Andrea at January 22, 2004 02:11 AM