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posted by [identity profile] willowgreen.livejournal.com at 10:01pm on 20/12/2004
Some of my friends are dealing with zero-degree temperature and blizzards this week, but I'm still complaining about 50 degrees and foggy. (Hey, it's a damp, chilly 50.) And I'm from New York, so I've got no excuse other than 20 years in California.

But as for 40 degrees being winter coat weather--if I waited till it got below 40 to wear my winter coats, they'd sit in the closet all year!
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posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 08:04am on 21/12/2004
"if I waited till it got below 40 to wear my winter coats, they'd sit in the closet all year!"

It's not quite that bad here, although my first few winters in Nashville were mild even by local standards -- so much so that I did leave my winter coats in the closet all year, and even forgot to dig one out and take it along when I drove North for Christmas one year. I discovered the hard way that an unlined jeans jacket over a sweater and turtleneck may be sufficient down here, but is simply an express ticket to pneumonia in Milwaukee.
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the evilness of the damp chill

posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 08:09am on 21/12/2004
Forgot to say -- damp chill is the worst, especially in a region where cold weather insulation and central heating may not be the primary concerns of builders. Who was it, Mark Twain or someone who said that the coldest winter he'd ever spent was a summer in San Francisco? And the coldest winter I've ever spent was in the Midlands of England, where it was almost never cold enough to snow but always damp and the heating and insulation were next to non-existent.
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