On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:59:48 -0700, graham > wrote:

>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

Correct - these days past -5C with a wind to make it feel like -15C I
do not walk outside, just can't hack it anymore - do a building walk,
go from one end to the other, climb up a floor, do the next floor,
etc. my fitbit shows it as pretty good exercise.