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On 28/01/2016 1:54 PM, Janet wrote:
> In article >, says...
>>> Moscow, having a continental climate, gets warmer summers than
>>> Scotland.
>>>
>>> Inland and Highland Scotland can get very cold in winter.
>>>
>>> The coldest I have ever experienced (at our last place on high exposed
>>> moorland on the mainland)
>>> was -24 C, which is -11F.
>>>
>>> Janet UK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> But add to that the humidity.
>
> Please don't rub it in.. this is the wettest winter since records
> began.
>
>> I visited the UK on business in February about 30 years ago and although
>> the temperature hovered around 0°C, I really felt the cold because of
>> the moisture. I was glad to get back to Canada.
>> Graham
>
> Our Canadian neighbour used to tell me every winter how he missed
> that lovely DRY cold back home :-) In the end they went back there.
>
> Janet UK
>
When it's -30C and one complains, the usual retort is: "But it's a dry
cold!"
It's still bloody unpleasant!
Graham