Originally Posted by ann m (Post 9077742)

Seems much colder a few degrees under 0 in the UK, than -10 or -15 here.

See - dead scientific me - it seems so much colder .....

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 9077871)

Perhaps I'm reading this wrong but isn't this comparing somewhere in Canada with somewhere else in Canada whereas we're comparing anywhere in Canada with the UK? :confused:

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 9077882)

Err, what's your point mate? Physics in canada is the same as physics anywhere else.

<BTW the original article wouldn't load for me>

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 9077882)

Err, what's your point mate? Physics in canada is the same as physics anywhere else.

<BTW the original article wouldn't load for me>

Originally Posted by Tangram (Post 9077885)

Is that a euphemism ?

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 9077964)

The heading on the article is

That would seem to be saying that perceived differences within Canada are not really differences.

Physics may be the same anywhere but there are variations in the way things are from place to place aren't there? Different effects of gravity and all that. Different climate to the UK so is it so unlikely that something used to UK conditions might react differently to something apparently the same?

I dunno...there may be better examples but put a glass under cold water and nothing happens. Put a hot glass under the same temperature water and it reacts differently doesn't it?

It's entered the water in a different state and reacts differently.

So someone from the UK who feels very cold in UK -5 may not feel as cold in Canadian -5.

Is there not a certain logic to that?

I'm not altogether serious, but there's something to question isn't there? Like questioning the experts who said the world was flat? Or those experts that one day say something is bad for you but then change their mind?

Time was when Cholesterol was bad for you but now there's good cholesterol.

So when these experts say humans can't detect these climate differences, maybe they can if they come from a different climate.:confused:



Maybe there's insufficient differences in North American air for there to be much variation while the air of another continent might behave differently. Can some expert answer that in layman's terms? :rofl:

Shoot me down but it's a reasonable question isn't it? :)

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 9078131)

Have we perhaps been drinking? ;)

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 9078131)

Certainly it (how cold it feels) depends on your recent experience. That article simply and correctly reports that relative humidity (i.e dry/less dry) at very cold temperatures is irrelevant since it affects heat loss from exposed areas of skin barely (groan) at all.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 9078158)

So what is the reason that so many of us who are used to more mild temperatures feel more comfortable in -20 than we did at zero in the UK?

If our recent experience is mild temperatures, then -20 should seem bloody cold shouldn't it? But many Brits on this forum actually seem to do better in the considerably colder temperatures here than we're used to.