The Guardian: ‘It’s brutal’: Las Vegas cooks amid blazing heatwave – and it’s going to get worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/19/las-vegas-heatwave-nevada-us-west-temperatures
Looks like a major heatwave in Vegas ATM.
So recalling that previous relocation to China, on December 7, 2003; the change in weather was very remarkable. Sydney had begun really cooking and it was easily in the 90s (Fahrenheit).
Prior to switching over to the coldest winter of my life (Jilin province is cold in winter), I had experienced the following northern hemisphere winters:
92/93, Amsterdam and Madrid. Madrid is typically -5 to - 10 degrees but the altitude is five hundred metres above sea level and this cold is extremely invigorating and refreshing for the skin also, very healthy. Being on the Iberian Peninsula somehow felt most comfortable to my genetic estate. The winter in Amsterdam was brutally cold. Paris was also cold but not as cold as Amsterdam.
96/97 again in Amsterdam and Madrid in January. Again cold. But no worries in the south of Spain: the winter is like California, or Sydney, quite mild. In general i do like the winter.
2000/2001 Barcelona and Madrid. Similar cold to two previous Madrid winters.
2001/2002 Paris. Not particularly cold as I recall.
2003/2004 this was the winter mentioned earlier in Jilin, extremely cold like everyday minus 20 Celcius but one day it plummeted to minus 30 or more. Minus 30 is actually kind of painful on the exposed skin of the face. With the right thermal longjohns and beanie and gloves, minus 20 is bearable, albeit crisp. But minus 30 is like you need to not go outside, at all. You'll freeze to death if you blackout in this weather.
2004/2005 south of China, extremely mild. However south Korea was crisp over Xmas. I seem to remember the cold a lot more in NYC in the middle of March and end of March 2005, my only winter experience in NYC.
2005/2006 again in the south of China, not at all cold. I flipped over to Sydney to visit my parents, it wasn't especially warm either. Tale end of winter in Seoul around February was quite magical, snowing in the soccer stadium. Great.
2006/2007, los Angeles California. Very mild winter. In the homeless shelter one standard issue blanket was enough and shorts was ok. Very light winter, possibly warmer than Sydney winters. Tale end of winter, February 2007, was in Bulgaria, I barely remember the cold. Just my wife telling me how to buy a ticket from the tram driver in Bulgarian: edin billet molya.
2007/2008 Bulgaria and Spain/Ireland. Spain and Ireland had unusually warm winters however Bulgaria was quite cold with snow and ice.
2008/2009 the following winter in Bulgaria was also quite cold, and as I recall it, Vlad and the bigwigs in Russia had shut off the cheap gas spigot so the buses in Bulgaria weren't heated for a few days and were extremely cold.
And that's all she wrote. I did fly in to LA a few years later for a few days but it wasn't cold although possibly winter, can't remember. So not counting that, that's a total of ten winters around Xmas time (so 35 Xmas times in summer), it definitely feels more xmassy when it's cold, but you can be sure Xmas is a pagan holiday based on ancient pagan winter solstice festivals which the church conveniently manipulated into Jesus's birthday (baloney since he was a Libra and born in early October, not in zero a.d. either but probably 4 years off that date). Actually it's like the winter solstice right now: June 20th. That's when the daylight is shortest.
Anyway it's a sure nice pagan holiday in the winter, that's for sure. So ranking the coldest: Jilin January 2004. Amsterdam December 1992.
Ok, so for $500, did chalk fly up? Consult the video footage...
https://youtu.be/ransFQVzf6c
Now ask Pete or someone for $500, don't just assume I'll give you squat whenever.
Listen to Katy for a while, talk amongst yourselves:
https://youtu.be/kTHNpusq654