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I’m having way too much fun talkin bout the weather hahaha!
Weather Where You Are
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I’m having way too much fun talkin bout the weather hahaha!
It’s about the same here in NZ, every few years it will snow to 200meters, and maybe once a decade down to sea level…. But snows in the mountains every winter.
How many times do you think it has snowed there in say your lifetime so far?
We brought a unit of Australian SAS here in the winter to conduct some winter warfare training...
When they got here and saw the snow they were out frolicking in it, building snowmen and having snowball fights....
That quickly wore off when we deployed into the training area OBUA site and did a few attacks on the village in waist deep snow wearing snowshoes....then did a few overnight stays sleeping in improvised shelters......
They were ready for warmth and sun after that..........they really liked the snowmobiling though....
Now my recolection was here in Houston, I lived in Alaska for 7 years and while stationed there did a lot of artic warfare training and extreme cold survivle training. I like the cold of Alaska cause you get used to it. Its not the same cold as here. This cold can be miserable, bone chilling, wet cold. -30F up high in the mountains is more comfortable than 20F here.
I feel that almost a humid cold where it goes right through you........I did a lot of training in the high arctic myself where the snow is like Styrofoam with less moisture than a desert......the wind chills were the killers there....
And I hated to be inserted or extracted by helicopter because the downwash made it crazy cold....
Rotorwash can be deadly at those temps. I remember a time at Ft Greely, we were at the valley basin and was -50. The winds cutting through took it over -80 quickly. You have to bring portapottys out there per military law so thats what we used. You would have to take off your monkey feet as we called them, artic mittens, and sit on them. Well one guys mittens slipped into never land and he froze to the seat. We had to pull him off it, and with that he was named PP. Had a toilet seats worth of skin removed from his rear. Everything from that day forward was a 2 person ordeal. Take a battle buddy with ya just incase. I know he didnt want to be out there but damn thats a hard way to get sent back to the rear.
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Yeah, we're definitely not used to the extreme cold and conditions you guys get. Snow is something you have to drive hours to get to. And it really only lasts maybe 2 months.
I can't imagine being snowed in like this pics
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