Snow!

I'd agree if I knew what it meant... Googling didn't help. I suspect it's something to do with us wishing for snow and the weather delivering. I'm too uneducated to make sense of references like that.

are you talking about Baudrillard or Kylie? And that's a question I don't get to ask very often.

we're organizing a bike punks tour of Toronto this summer... but it's 30C from june - september, so it's not quite the same, but enjoyable none the less!

Sounds cool, keep us all posted. You coming to the pub tonight? Snow and sleet as an excuse to not show is just not gonna cut the mustard for you mate.

i think it can be too cold for snow. it has to warm up slightly. fuck i dunno i wish I'd never said anything. since i moved to Scotland it only ever snows down south. nice and wet up here.

um, it can't be too cold for snow. anyone who believes that has never taken a children's science course.

edit: hoonz i've got a dinner to go to mate but i'ma try to be there LATE. if i can!

It's pretty wet snow here, unfortunately I don't see it sticking...

...but I'm really hoping it does. Riding in the snow is awesome.

Riding in slush is miserable.

I'm picturing thousands of office parties turning out on Friday night into sub zero temps to find the transport system collapsed in drifting snow.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8416010.stm

-273 degrees is clearly too cold for snow as there would be no gas, and no thermal energy to create up draft even if there was any gas. What temperature it would have to be so that it was too cold to snow is an interesting one, I expects it's far colder than is possible in natural conditions.

I believe he was -273 degrees back in the day.

I found this via Google, therefore it must be true:

In the UK the expression "It's too cold for snow" is true.

In the UK the lowest temperatures are associated with high pressure systems and clear skies. The clear skies are because of the lack of humidity and the clear skies lead to rapid radiation cooling, hence the very low temperatures and no snow.

Moisture comes in on a maritime airstream from the west or southwest associated with low pressure systems. Because this comes both from warmer latitudes and from passing over warm seawater, the air temperatures rise. As it meets colder continental air, the moisture condenses and falls as rain, or if the temperature is cold enough, as snow.

Most snow therefore falls in the UK when the temperature is just a degree or two below zero. Much colder than that and you are most probably enjoying high pressures and clear skies (and no snow).

That's too dry for snow then.

Heh, perfect weather for this, really. o:)

http://www.hackney-cyclists.org.uk/winter_warmer_2009.gif

^Booze for cyclists?^ I am moving to Hackney

Baudrillard and Bloomsbury? The snow felt quite real in Russell Square, and I'd always thought that area more modernist than postmodern. But, as you were.

That's too dry for snow then.

exactly.

Now the met office are saying it'll start this afternoon and snow all night, 10cm of snow by midnight, up to 20cm on the higher ground, and it'll be windy, so big drifts everywhere too :0

This better not affect my plane flight out to egypt on saturday!!!!
AARRGGHH!!!

Awesome, rode the mtb in today, so looking forward to some snow

I'd always thought that area more modernist than postmodern. But, as you were.

Not in my office it's not. A small patch of pomo amongst the mo'.

Keeping it real*

*a simulacrum of the real, obv

fuck off plurabelle i always feel so inadequate when i read your posts

That would be that new welcoming spirit of the forum taking hold then!

That would be that new welcoming spirit of the forum taking hold then!

Shut it noob.

fuck off plurabelle i always feel so inadequate when i read your posts

A rare moment of honesty in a forum post. You speak for most of us.

fuck off plurabelle i always feel so inadequate when i read your posts

Ha!

A quick Google shows 17 hits for 'Baudrillard' in Lfgss posts and yet only 2 on Bikeradar. And those were by pj(pj).

fuck off plurabelle i always feel so inadequate when i read your posts

Yes, who can forget her "Wasabi peas are the tits"? Susan Sontag rides a fixie.