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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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0:00.0 | And I'm a welcome to part two of weather. |
0:03.0 | Ooh, let's get on with it. All right, so I'm going to tell you all about the Great Blizzard of 1899 specifically in the US. Now you might be wondering just how cold can it get in Florida. |
0:26.7 | That question was asked in February 1899 when an unexpected cold snap plunged the mercury below zero across North America |
0:35.6 | from the Canadian Arctic to the northern fringes of the sunshine state. |
0:39.9 | The answer, how cold can it get in Florida, is minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the approximate |
0:46.4 | equivalent of minus 19 degrees Celsius in Florida. The only time on record that temperatures have gone below zero on the Fahrenheit |
0:56.0 | scale anywhere in the state. What, sorry, what's that in centigrade? |
1:01.1 | Minus 19. I like that you gave it centigrade. Minus 19. |
1:03.0 | I like you give it Centigrade, its full name, as opposed to it. |
1:07.0 | The coldest weather I've ever experienced actually is in America. |
1:10.0 | Went to Chicago at Christmas a few years ago and the intense cold whipping down those |
1:16.1 | high-building streets. A real sort of like strength and bitterness of wind that I |
1:22.2 | hadn't really experienced before. |
1:24.0 | It's incredible. |
1:25.0 | It's quite quite... Wind is annoying. |
1:26.0 | It just is. |
1:28.0 | And everything, oh good, it's windy today. |
1:30.0 | I had a like uncle go to Chikaga and I was was it he went oh so windy and I went yeah the |
1:36.2 | windy city you went yes a really windy city I know that's what they call it |
1:40.4 | it's the windy city yeah, it's really windy city. I forget it. |
1:46.0 | The other thing about wind, Ellis, if I have cars on the table. |
1:49.0 | Which I should know from school, but I'm not completely sure where it comes from. |
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