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It's bitterly cold outside...brrrr!
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Bigfeet



Joined: 29 May 2008
Location: Grrrrr.....

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:16 am    Post subject: It's bitterly cold outside...brrrr! Reply with quote

There's a steady cold, dry breeze blowing that makes your eyes water and your nose runs when you're out walking. Any exposed skin starts losing sensation. I couldn't even grab things in my pockets after a few minutes of walking outside. And I'm down south, I wonder if it's worse up in Seoul?
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wylies99



Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, it's cold. Wink Stay warm.
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Xuanzang



Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

-5�C in Seoul
Current: Clear
Wind: W at 16 km/h
Humidity: 46%

Bad enough...brrr.
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wylies99



Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SOMEONE will post "It is perfect weather. Korea is always perfect. There's a warm breeze coming from the ocean, where I live."
Rolling Eyes
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fromtheuk



Joined: 31 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went for a walk around 7am. I wore gloves. My head is shaved. I had to regularly feel my ears, to keep them alive.

I went out to buy my weekly pizza later on, but I'm staying indoors for the rest of the day.

It's nice and warm at home.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the bitter cold as well. Reminds me of home. Spent the afternoon snowboarding and constantly wiping nose drips off with the handy pads on my gloves. A friend who's from Florida has a slightly lower opinion of the weather.
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Css



Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

worst thing about this weather is that the koreans seem to use heating, as well as air con, to extremes...so its -5 outside but 30 degrees inside... Evil or Very Mad
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Css wrote:
worst thing about this weather is that the koreans seem to use heating, as well as air con, to extremes...so its -5 outside but 30 degrees inside... Evil or Very Mad


Buses are the worst. Freezing in the summer and sweltering in the winter.
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aka Dave



Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The uni gym was closed for some reason today, so I worked out outside doing chin ups and bench jumps and stuff like that. Wearing shorts. Shorts!

Our Uni is on the top of a big hill and the wind was whipping my legs. Oh man, jogging home, I literally could not feel my legs, and this after sprinting up and down some hills. The temps was -2 celcius, but God know what it was with the wind chill. I was hoping to get a better work out, but after my third set of chin-ups I just couldn't take it.
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Xuanzang



Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aka Dave wrote:
The uni gym was closed for some reason today, so I worked out outside doing chin ups and bench jumps and stuff like that. Wearing shorts. Shorts!

Our Uni is on the top of a big hill and the wind was whipping my legs. Oh man, jogging home, I literally could not feel my legs, and this after sprinting up and down some hills. The temps was -2 celcius, but God know what it was with the wind chill. I was hoping to get a better work out, but after my third set of chin-ups I just couldn't take it.


Why dont you wear those Under armour compression tights that NBA players wear under their shorts?
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sojourner1



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brrrrr.... Yes, it's a wee bit chilly. You can really feel it more near your outter walls. It's double and triple later clothing weather, even indoors I'm wearing double layers. Pretty cool how lots of people were playing on a frozen river today and there was an ice boat spinning and zipping around that works like a hover craft giving tours. Tried to get a ride, by didn't get how to pay and do it. I think it was a prepaid tour special as a tour bus brought people here to ride the ice and then skate around sitting down on little seats that work like ice skates or sleds. This is a really wide shallow stretch of the river where you got a lot of surface area like you would on a lake. Seen an old old man who could ice skate really well. It was so cold walking around out there.
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Gaber



Joined: 23 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wylies99 wrote:
SOMEONE will post "It is perfect weather. Korea is always perfect. There's a warm breeze coming from the ocean, where I live."
Rolling Eyes

I was more expecting someone to post "-5 degrees? That's not cold, man. Up in North West Territories we'd be sunbathing if it ever got to -5"
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aka Dave



Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xuanzang wrote:
aka Dave wrote:
The uni gym was closed for some reason today, so I worked out outside doing chin ups and bench jumps and stuff like that. Wearing shorts. Shorts!

Our Uni is on the top of a big hill and the wind was whipping my legs. Oh man, jogging home, I literally could not feel my legs, and this after sprinting up and down some hills. The temps was -2 celcius, but God know what it was with the wind chill. I was hoping to get a better work out, but after my third set of chin-ups I just couldn't take it.


Why dont you wear those Under armour compression tights that NBA players wear under their shorts?


Sounds like a good idea but I wouldn't know where to buy them. I'll check the internet.
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DCJames



Joined: 27 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wylies99 wrote:
SOMEONE will post "It is perfect weather. Korea is always perfect. There's a warm breeze coming from the ocean, where I live."
Rolling Eyes


It's just as bad as people who whine about the weather in Korea.

It's January in Northeast Asia, WHAT THE F*&K DO YOU EXPECT?? Rolling Eyes
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sunny and +11 C in my small Korean town today - almost took my jacket off on my walk

(where it snows once every six years I hear, not at all since 2006 for sure)
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