[St Charles Owl]

Scotland does a special brand of cold and snow.

I used to think that until I moved to Chicago, the weather they get in the northern plain states over here truly is a special brand!!! Aside from getting about 4-5ft of snow every winter and sometimes up to 7ft, its not the snow that will kill you, its the temperatures!! In January, the daily high temperature will not get above freezing at all and it will drop as low as -35 degrees C with wind chills making that feel as low as -60 degrees C!!! Having said all that due to the number of snowploughs and snow removal experience the cities have it is rare to find any real problems on the roads once the snow has stopped. Schools there will end up having about 3 or 4 snow days per year but they are usually due to the extreme cold rather than the snow itself.

Winter in Chicago is a fascinating thing when you first experience it but after 12 years of "suffering" them I am so glad we made the decision to move to LA, yesterday it was 27 degrees C here!!!!!!