Re: Winter weather predictions.
Posted: Sun 04/04/2010 22:29
The issue is assertions about values - temperature readings and the like - not memories. I haven't been to Siberia, let alone Yakutsk or Oymyakon in particular. However, I know that if a resident or ex-resident claimed that temperatures there routinely dropped below -50C in winter, they would be right. If however they claimed that they regularly dropped to -80C, they would be wrong. End of story.Twizel Dave wrote:It seems very odd to me that some of the ruder people here are so ready to criticise me and my memory even though I have lived around Twizel for a long time and they haven't! How would you feel if I claimed your experiences and memories of your own area were wrong? You'd think I was being very impolite and you'd be right about that!
There were many times in the past when the weather if Twizel was ferocious. We used to put bottles of milk into the fridge to stop them freezing! That was a regular sort of thing a long time ago, many around here share the same memories, but the thing of it is that we have not had to do such things in recent years. Or are you going to claim that isn't right as well?
Good night chaps.