" I watched some news video of someone taking care of skiing route interviewed, and he smiled broadly at saying -25C is nicer than +2, and it is so that if one has the weather skills and enjoys -25C it is often more beautiful and untouched snow etc, only people liking such a weather there. On the other hand +2C is more common for people being outdoors and even skiing, so how to make such weathers nice? On a skiing route that reminds me of a quite soft ground, largely melted or not yet much snow, as if with the needle trees which lise their needles for the winter like leaf trees, is it a German species? So one has part of the time snow to ski on and some parts are just melted. There may be water dropping from the branches, and the whole thibgs is like can we go here or is there better. So one is tuned to sensing and experimentkng what is like what and how lne can go, which is also otherwise quite typical for such a weather, since also when walking there are often water puddles in the snow. But it is in a way quite relaxed since there is no danger of frostbites, but on ghe other hand weathers may vary or change, and so one needs to keep an eye on the weathers and how are they developing, and nit go so far from indoors. Above 0C there is often a moist feel in the air and in the ground, but below 0C the air does not feel moist in a vapour like way, but instead freezing weather feels dry or like biting one's face, maybe it feels factual too.
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26th of January 2025 This is a weather skills oriented subject. So if you like this kind of subject, you propably would like weather skills at large. See for example my book about the four seasons https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html or about weather skilks for all climates my blog WeatherSkills.BlogSpot.com . You just need to find out what kinds of climates suit you, what is the charm you long for. https://winelikefascination.blogspot.com/2024/07/snow-covers-melting-seen-thinking-of.html and https://miraclelikenature.blogspot.com/2024/04/magnifient-views.html .
Or liking nature and music. https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/01/skills-of-christmas-gnomes.html , https://miraclelikenature.blogspot.com/2024/01/book-wonderful-miracle-like-beings.html and many other blog posts of mine, songs etc.
Of sports https://learntalents10.blogspot.com/2025/01/of-wider-perspectives.html
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11th of February 2025 After I had written my book "Living with the four seasons" I have to my surprise gotten lits of influencies from Canadan ways of living the weathers, which seem mistly interested only in bearing the cold, so they most spend most of the year indoors and lots of time under a thick badded blanket, which at least here in Finland is for the coldest winter only, not even for every year. They seem to have a tendency to check if heat accumukates or is lost, and seem to retune their ways only every half a minute or two minutes, which is very little even compared with Africans in Africa tuning their body and ways according to sunlight or shadow, wind, moisture, sweat, time of the day, thibgs done, place, social inflyencies affectibg etc. In Finland one needs to retune obe's ways according to various weather related factors always every second, also indoors.
But during these last few years after the death of my apricot minuature poodle, I have not been on walks and also outdoors more seldom than in the beginning, which is a pity since the weathers and nature are important here. But I so I have paid also some attention to Alaska in North America, which is famous for tge weathers being too cold for most. The people from Alaska seem sportier than Canadians, but tgat is maybe just ibdoors sports giving content to life. While the impressiln is thatthere are a lot of deaths and murders in Alaska. The imoression of them goibg out is that there is some first aid like fuss already just outside tge outdoor, and since freezing injuries are difficult to notice, it means that a large part or jyst about all who go out die, or get handicapped, when it is below 0C. Obe of tge problems is of course moist air near the house making freezing injuries more likely. But on the whole it seems that when there is not a large enough part of the year above zero, people do not get enough practice in weather skills to manage the below zero temperatures via trying harder but from a simikar background. So it seems that one ought to learn the weather skills where it is above zero at least a half a year, and some under 0C weathers too. My impression from this winter with unusually warm weathers and my backgroubd of being a Finn but somehow via some influencies under a thick vadded blanket quite much of the day too, that with previous good lical weather skills, most days a little bit above 0C and some days a little vit under 0C, for example 0C - -2C, is much easier than almost always under 0C and one oneself somehiw emphasizing the melted sides as goals, as places to go out. And this about the coldest winter, which here is from the late January to the end of February, and usually not so very cold either. But such kearning too woukd need interest in learning all the weathers, in spending some time outdoors every day of the year, preferably in daylight time. After the initial basic weather skills such is often learned by walking a dog of a breed suited to the local weathers. But the ground around 0C is very tough for the oaws of a dog, so if it were possible to have dog boots that shelter the paws it could help a lot.
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" 30.1.2025 Jos talvella on epätavallisen pitkään tavallista lämpimämpää ja siitä tulee jollekulle huono olo, niin yksi syy lienee, että jotkut olettavat talvella kuitenkin kuuluvan ottaa kanadalaista vaikutetra tai muuten elää mm kanadalaisittain, mm lämmitellä täkin alla yms pakkastalvimaista ainakin välillä, mikä tulee ympäristön elämän kirjon mukana oletuksena. Lulnto ei talvella jaksa kantaa vakkka olisi lämmintä, vaan keväällä vasta, olivat säät miten olivat. Eli keskellä talvea tarttis vaan rauhassa kulkea ja antaa hyönteisten horrostaa rauhassa terveiden elämäntapojen tyyppisen viisautensa carassa, sillä se on vuodenaika, talven vaihe niin kuin pakkasellakin. Vaikutelmani myös on että joku tarvitsisi erityisesti margariinia, vaalean leivänpalan päällä.
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