**This is Mur** @mur2501@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 03:51

**This is Mur** @mur2501@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 03:51

This is Mur @mur2501@qoto.org

Dec 06, 2020, 03:51

@1seidla
Yeah but I don't live in a cold place.
This is hot tropic, usual temperatures always above 30°C.
16°C freezes us, we are not adapted to cold.

**Trinsec @Qoto** @trinsec@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 07:39

**Trinsec @Qoto** @trinsec@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 07:39

Dec 06, 2020, 07:39

Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

@mur2501 Oh come on, 16C isn't even a freezing temperature! Try 0C here at night! ;) It's bad enough that in parts of my country there are salt trucks driving around, making the roads safe.
How much of India is tropical?
@1seidla

**This is Mur** @mur2501@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 08:20

**This is Mur** @mur2501@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 08:20

Dec 06, 2020, 08:20

This is Mur @mur2501@qoto.org

@trinsec @1seidla
Yeah 16°C is not any freezing cold, just until now it was mostly hot and suddenly it has become cold so that's it.
Geographically India is not too much close to the equator but the Indian ocean carries the hot moisture to the subcontinent which collides with the Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats (ghat means mountain chain) making the climate somewhat moist tropical and also giving the ghat regions very high amount of rain. The temperature in the summers goes above 40°C. (I live in the western ghats)
Where do you live?

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**birdy** @sojka@birds.garden · Dec 06, 2020, 09:16

**birdy** @sojka@birds.garden · Dec 06, 2020, 09:16

Dec 06, 2020, 09:16

birdy @sojka@birds.garden

@mur2501 @trinsec @1seidla
Hello from almost snow-free Russia! Today it is sunny and warm outside, you can even not wear a hat (if not for long).

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**This is Mur** @mur2501@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 14:15

**This is Mur** @mur2501@qoto.org · Dec 06, 2020, 14:15

Dec 06, 2020, 14:15

This is Mur @mur2501@qoto.org

@sojka
Ohh wow snow free Russia, that seems like you have salt instead of soil on ground
@1seidla @trinsec

**birdy** @sojka@birds.garden · Dec 06, 2020, 14:40

**birdy** @sojka@birds.garden · Dec 06, 2020, 14:40

Dec 06, 2020, 14:40

birdy @sojka@birds.garden

@mur2501 @1seidla @trinsec
However, this year they began to sprinkle the roads with sand. Hopefully, now there will be less of this nasty slush.

**Trinsec @Qoto** @trinsec@qoto.org · 2020-12-06T14:43:32Z

Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

@sojka
Oh, was it the salt specifically that turned it into slush? I thought it was just the many cars and stepping on and such that made the snow dark and slushy.
@1seidla @mur2501

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**birdy** @sojka@birds.garden · Dec 07, 2020, 04:33

**birdy** @sojka@birds.garden · Dec 07, 2020, 04:33

Dec 07, 2020, 04:33

birdy @sojka@birds.garden

@trinsec @1seidla @mur2501
> Oh, was it the salt specifically that turned it into slush?
I'm far from chemistry, but watching nonfreezing puddles of porridge-like something at temperatures below -20, strange thoughts come to my mind...

> How many days does it snow there?
I did not keep statistics (we can always see them on wikipedia); i can say that compared to my childhood there is almost no snow now.