Not entirely true. I visited San Francisco on the 4th of July and would have been more comfortable in a parka than a sweatshirt. Fortunately, we had a rental car and it was a more temperate 80 degrees over the Bay Bridge.
Having once lived there for many years I speak from first-hand experience when I say it does indeed snow in Christchurch.
Not every winter, but I rememember having to dig my car out from under snow* at least once, and another two or three days where I got the day off school/work because of snow.
And that’s without getting into the frost/ice/sleet/hail/cold, cold rain as well. One of the reasons we left was because of the weather, actually. It wasn’t cold all the time (summer and spring were quite pleasant) - but I did seem to have a disproportionately large amount winter clothing.
*Nothing by US/Canada standards, I’d imagine
Christchurch has a fairly similar climate to English cities, and I think it’s true to say that a maritime cold climate can be more unpleasant than a continental cold one. Of course we don’t get the bone-chilling temperatures, but a damp, rainy day at 3ºC can somehow feel colder than a clear, sunny one at -10ºC. Once you start getting into negative Fahrenheit temperatures, though, I’ll take the sleety rain!
Is it possible to ski all seven continents?
According to wiki, there are ski resorts on six of the seven continents. I’m guessing that it’s possible to ski in Antarctica, too.
Well, you can certainly ski at established resorts in Africa (mainly Morocco but also Algeria, Lesotho and South Africa), Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Australia. The only one that doesn’t have any ski resorts is Antarctica, but you could certainly ski there if you made the effort.
Does it snow in the southern hemisphere? I saw a guy shovelling the crap in Oamaru (a coastal town on New Zealand’s South Island) on December 24th, 2004. That’s summer, yet they still had a white Christmas.
Thanks. I’d have guess that Australia would have been the only continent one could not ski.
There are ski resorts in three states of Australia – New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
I once tried to climb Mt. Kosciuszko so I’d have the highest peak on at least one continent, but it was snowing so hard I had to turn back.
I’ve been in a bad blizzard in New Zealand too.
My one time up Kosciuszko was in the middle of summer, so there was very little snow about. Part of the trip there was up a ski lift, which was still running even though there was no skiing at that time of year. (And from the top of the ski lift it was quite a long walk, but pretty easy walking.)
I remember all too many nights at Candlestick, watching the Giants from the Upper Deck, wearing what I would to a football game and thinking that the loneliest guy in the place was the one selling, “Malts here! Get your malts here!!” :smack:
Pretty much this.
It’s rare enough within the city limits here that it’s always mentioned on the local news and even then, when it does snow the pictures in the story Colibri linked to are about as deep as it gets.
The Brindabella Rangesget snow regularly but around Canberra it rarely stays for long. Further south it’s different, I was camping in Namadgi National Park one year in November (late spring here) and a cold snap hit us, depositing an inch or more of snow which lasted for a few days in sheltered spots.
Since I think the OP has been properly answered, I’ll take a stab at fighting ignorance.
Here in Texas, we’re at over 3200ft altitude and it not only gets cold enough to run the heater, it gets cold enough you have to have heat. We had several days last winter with single digit F high temps. You not only can’t go out in just a tee shirt, or even sweat shirt, but you will need insulated under ware and preferably insulated outer ware. Carhartt insulated coveralls are extremely common in winter. Plus it’s windy, negative double digit wind chills are common.
Already this year the overnight lows are into the lower 20s F range, I’ve had the heater lit for a month.
Just to clear up a few of the misconceptions, I live in Melbourne Australia.
For those talking about the size of continents, Australia is actually a pretty big place, similar in size to the USA. Most of our major capital cities are coastal so little chance of snow there and in general our winters, even down south, are mild compared to what you get in the northern USA and Canada.
However, only a couple of hours drive north east of Melbourne was have a mountain range where It snows every winter. Mt Hotham, Mt Buffalo etc do a thriving trade come ski season.
Canberra is inland and gets far colder than the coastal cities and does have snow in winter sometimes, but not a regular day to day event.
Lesotho is a mountainous country, and snow is quite common. Snow is also common in some parts of South Africa.
I think it snows in Bolivia.
It snows throughout the Andes all the way up to Colombia. Cotopaxiin Ecuador is not far from the Equator.
I know some places in the north closer to Canada where Jun ,July ,Aug are the only months you can go out with t-shirt and shorts !! And May and Sep being kinda some **times **hot other time you need sweatshirt.
I read where people who are living in desert you can be roasting in the day and freezing in the night not sure why that the case.
Where New Mexico and Arizona is kinda of like desert but not true desert like in the middle East or some parts of Africa.
You turn on heat plenty in Florida.
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