Favorite City

I don't have a favourite town. I guess I have still to find the place where I want to settle.

Originally posted by Colchis It <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span> a bit much, if you ask me. The thing is, as Cywr says, there is no Gulf Stream or Mediterranean to warm things up and yet it is right by the Atlantic Ocean. What's more, in Manhattan, because of the way the city was built you get the worse corridor effect from the Hudson River to East River once the windstorms start and it's the windchill that does you in rather than the cold. New York is cold and humid, you really feel it to your bones. Last year the -30C days were more than 10 days at least. I saw the temperature below 0 in Fahrenheit, it was unbearable. For three days my school was out because of the cold, because the windchill was lethal to people with weak lungs (asthmatics etc.) New York gets colder than Reykjavik, not on average but in minimum temperature. I'm hoping it won't be as cold this year but the way it's going it's not promising.

Hate to reply to such an old post but posts about cold weather are something a Swede just can't let go . Seeing that the cold record of NYC is -18C, I believe you messed up the F->C conversion a bit, zero F correspont to roughly -15 C, not -30. Free from school? We would have been free the whole winter if we also had such temp limits. -25C/-15F was the limit of having PE outdoors iirc, no limit on school as such

But it's true Reykjavik is a pretty warm place.

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