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Oh What A Time...

#44 Weather (Part 2)

Oh What A Time...

CBW Productions | Wondery

Comedy, History, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday! This week we’re talking about unique weather events through history. From the great freeze of 1899 that plunged Miami to sub-zero temperatures, the great storm (in the UK) of 1987 (and how badly Michael Fish got it all BANG WRONG) and of course, the LONG-HOT-SUMMER-OF-NINETEEN-SEVENTY-SIX (which Elis’ parents WILL NOT STOP GOING ON ABOUT). Plus there’s even more Jeremy Bentham bantz. And if you want to get in touch with the show, you know what to do: [email protected] And YES! You may have spotted a new numbering system. Well, we haven’t gone straight from episode #39 to episode #44 by accident (!), we have in fact retroactively applied episode numbers to old subscriber specials: #40 Heroes (OWAT: Full Timer Edition) #41 Gifts (OWAT: Full Timer Edition) #42 Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll (OWAT: Full Timer Edition) #43 Protests (OWAT: Full Timer Edition) When informed of this, Tom Craine said he felt “absolutely no emotion whatsoever” - but nonetheless, there’s the explanation for those who need it. If you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER? In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get: - two bonus episodes every month! - ad-free listening - episodes a week ahead of everyone else - And first dibs on any live show tickets Subscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.com You can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepod And Instagram at @ohwhatatimepod Aaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice? Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk). Chris, Elis and Tom x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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