What is the Weather like where You Live?

[Callaway]

It snowed several more inches today and it is currently 1 degree Fahrenheit (-17 degrees Celsius).

Can you go outside in that? I have never experienced that temperature before.

It is nice right now 31.5C. But next Wednesday is forecast to be 40C again. I will stay inside that day.

Sure, you can go outside in zero degree Fahrenheit weather with snow and be fairly comfortable if you are wearing a coat and snow boots.

The worst conditions are what we get the most of here; the temperature hovering a little above freezing with no sun, plenty of wind and constant light rain that lasts for days.  When it's very cold, it's also very dry, which makes it very easy to keep warm, but when it's wet, everything gets soaked, even if you've got a full shell of goretex on.  When the outside of the goretex gets soaked, as it inevitably does when exposed to rain for long enough, it stops being breathable and your clothes very quickly get damp and all your heat is sapped away. 

It's impossible to use down jackets here for anything serious, since they'd get soaked and would be useless, even the ones with goretex outers, and while wool doesn't become quite as useless when wet, it still loses a lot of it's insulating ability in damp conditions.  Also, the moisture in the air greatly increases the air's ability to carry away heat, so the wind chill is particularly severe here.  I'd take a blizzard over rain any day, and the colder the dryer the warmer, at least until you get to silly-cold temperatures and assuming you have the right gear.

I think that would be miserable, Peter.  I have a down coat with a waterproof shell which works well here.  I just wish that it had a hood.  When I lived in a wetter climate, I bought a waterproof London Fog raincoat with a hood and a warm zip-out lining, which worked well for winters there.  I also bought a huge golf umbrella, since even the largest folding umbrellas were a joke when it really rained there.

[Soph]

it rained today

[odeon]

6C, rain, windy.

[duncvis]

4C/39F, mostly clear.

[Soph]

es ist kalt

or whatever it is they say in deutschland

[DirtDawg]

I have a down parka, with an outer covering that is absolutely waterproof, too. It is fine in the misty, drizzly stuff.

Not considered adequate for the really cold temperatures, though, because it can not breathe. It seals not only the rain, but your body's persperation, as well. It is for short term in cold only.

[renaeden]

It got to 27C here today, real nice weather.

On the subject of umbrellas, they are pointless to have here because of the wind, they just get turned inside out.

[Parts]

28 °F  / -2 °C  clear It was in the 50's yesterday and I turned the heat off and forgot to turn it back on it's freezing in my house

[odeon]

0C, clear skies. The weather charts claim we could have snow by the end of next week.

[ozymandias]

WE're in line for two more snowstorms with 6-10 inches expected form both.   oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, my aching shoulders..

[odeon]

I've been lucky, so far.

[Calandale]

HAILING!   

[ozymandias]

I've been lucky, so far.

We're headed to the snowiest December in Maine recorded history!!!   

[duncvis]

cloudy, calm, 4C/43F.

[Parts]

Right around freezing with what they call a wintery mix (ice snow rain all at once)