[AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 22:52:42 PST 2010


Yes, Larry is right on track. We don't have especially cold weather because
of the Gulfstream. The most common wind usually is SW bringing typical
British weather that ain't that fun but now we could do with some rain if it
weren't for the buildings. The highland areas SW of here usually have more
winter than us bot not this winter with NE winds, they usually have the
weather of southern Norrland. We in the coastal areas usually benefits from
a lot of open water but now the whole archipelago is frozen. If we were this
far north in the American or Russian in land we would freeze our a...s of.
It's all about wind, how far from the sea, streams and altitude.

Why the ground isn't cold is very simple. Since the cold weather didn't
arrive till after the snow the ground never froze (except for the streets
etc.) and now that #%%¤# white stuff insulates. There has been so much snow
as far down as Denmark so they had trouble with roofs falling in.

What always amuse us are the British and French a inch of snow and it
becomes chaotic. They don't even heat their homes properly. A customer  of
mine that lives in England (he cashed in some bonuses, though nothing wrong
according to the courts he's probably better of living in England ;-) said
that one day the gas company came to their home searching for leaks. After a
lot of searching they found no leaks but realized that he heated his whole
house to the extent that you could walk around in a shirt, so they mumbled
something about crazy swedes and left.

Got to work

Mattias


2010/3/4 Larry Goss <rlgoss at insightbb.com>

>
> I'm in a hospital rehabbing from knee replacement surgury, Charlie, so I'm
> not going to go into the details, but the entire eco-system of the Baltic
> has more to it than just the N-S latitude.  The Baltic moderates the entire
> weather pattern of the region.  The tail end of the Gulf stream flows
> between Sweden and Denmark.  It has no tides, and northern Poland has more
> moderate winters than other portions of the country which lie farther south.
>
> It's one of those "Mr.  Science" things.
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 21:01
> Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
> > Ralph and Mattias, that is what has me confused about what
> > Mattias is
> > describing.  I understand about the wind over the sea
> > creating basically
> > what we call lake effect snow.  Our big snows here in
> > coastal NC happen that
> > way.  What I didn't understand is Mattias is that you said
> > the snow melts
> > because the ground is warm and I'm having a hard time figuring
> > that out.  As
> > far north as you are I would have thought that the ground would
> > be frozen
> > like Perma-frost in the tundra.  I guess it just isn't
> > normally as cold in
> > Sweeden as I imagined.
> >
> > Charlie
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???
> >
> >
> > Mattias, you'd like our weather I think. Daytime highs around -
> > 4c, thats
> > about 25F for the rest of you. No major snow fall for a few
> > weeks now but we
> > still  have all the snow that fell since early December of
> > course. You've
> > had far more snow than us. At a guess I'd say over the whole
> > winter we have
> > had about 16 inches (less than half a metre) . I don't know what
> > the ground
> > temperature is because it is generally frozen solid for a few
> > feet down by
> > this time of year and pretty hard to get a thermometer into.:-)
> >
> > Ralph in Sask.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???
> >
> >
> > The ground is warm here to, luckily. I don't want to know how it
> > would be
> > outside otherwise. It has fallen 2.70 meters of snow but it's
> > only 80 cm
> > since it has melted from below and a whole lot the last weekend.
> > The last
> > weekend was the first days above freezing since dec. 12. Since
> > it has been
> > melting from underneath the small creek we have has been like in
> > the spring
> > since Dec. 15th but with some ice.
> >
> > We sure don't want this weather, you can keep it Ralph!
> >
> > Mattias
> >
> >
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