gougou Posted November 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 at 11:00 AM Vodka can also be helpful in terms of warming you up... Not exactly. Alcohol does nothing to warm us up and is a quick way to get hypothermia in a cold environment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankwall Posted November 21, 2012 at 01:28 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 at 01:28 PM Yes sure it doesn't really work in reality - it does help psychologically though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted November 21, 2012 at 01:43 PM Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 at 01:43 PM Vodka can also be helpful in terms of warming you up... Very bad advice. You won't feel psychologically better when you are dead. When I lived in Moscow, almost every day I read reports of people dying from hypothermia after drinking vodka. It got so bad that Gorbachev banned vodka sales for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smurese Posted November 22, 2012 at 05:08 PM Report Share Posted November 22, 2012 at 05:08 PM Here's another vote for long thermal underwear. I really feel the cold. Fancy "miracle fiber" fabric? Well, I sometimes saw sold on the streets and in the cheaper bazaars, long underwear that was made of knitted yarn. I loved mine. Like a sweater for your legs that you wear inside your clothes! And of course I also had long undershirts. If you enter China via Hong Kong, you can buy China-made winter clothing there - especially in the Chinese-style departments stores rather than the modern ones. I got my down jacket there before heading for Beijing. But I wouldn't buy a down jacket just for a two week trip. Other things I had in Beijing were leather gloves (you can get them with fur or other warm lining inside) and thick warm insoles you can buy to put inside your shoe to protect yourself from the freezing ground. (I also had a fur hat with ear flaps from a previous trip to Europe.) And it's true about the extreme dryness, so you should have some moisturizer. If you've stayed in Beijing before, you may have heard that it's a place where it's so dry that the ice outside doesn't melt but just evaporates straight into the dry air - a case of H20 sublimation?? I remember I had some tangerines in my room. After a couple of days, they still looked orange in color, but the outside peel was parched like Egyptian mummy skin, and I could not remove the peel at all - it was mummified and stuck to the fruit! Now imagine what happens to your skin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhouhaochen Posted January 3, 2013 at 01:15 PM Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 at 01:15 PM yesterday we made -14 with a nice breeze straight from Siberia. All the advice above is very useful, but in that case the only thing I found to work was to run into the next bar and drink a lot of beer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Jones Posted January 4, 2013 at 02:35 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 02:35 AM It was -16 this morning apparently. How I love my thermal long johns! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted January 4, 2013 at 09:14 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 09:14 AM Well if it makes you feel better, it hit 41 degrees today in Melbourne. (Celcius) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted January 4, 2013 at 09:25 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 09:25 AM Fire and Ice (Robert Frost) comes to mind ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted January 4, 2013 at 11:40 AM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 11:40 AM Well if it makes you feel better, it hit 41 degrees today in Melbourne. (Celcius)How is this supposed to make us feel better?? Give me 41 degrees over minus-anything anytime.Everyone is right about the longjohns, do get those. As to handwarmers, a colleague of mine would buy xiaolongbao for that. Two in separate bags in his pockets and his hands were kept warm for a while. Only one kuai and they can be eaten once they cool down a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaoMiHua Posted January 4, 2013 at 05:37 PM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 05:37 PM It was -16 this morning apparently. Well if it makes you feel better, it hit 41 degrees today in Melbourne. (Celcius) Luckily zhouhaochen's suggestion of: run into the next bar and drink a lot of beer. Will help with both of these, and with all of life's other problems!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted January 4, 2013 at 05:40 PM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 05:40 PM Can't believe I never thought of the Xiaolongbao trick. Although there was one Beijing winter I pretty much got all my calories from McD's hot chocolate - very drinkable, and you get something hot to hold. And by the time you've finished it - look, you're passing another McDonald's. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AucklandLove Posted January 4, 2013 at 10:41 PM Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 at 10:41 PM Whats the weather like in February in Beijing? Still that cold? Does it get any better at any point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcdefg Posted January 5, 2013 at 02:09 PM Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 at 02:09 PM #32 -- Whats the weather like in February in Beijing? http://www.beijingobserver.com/beijing-climate-weather.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhouhaochen Posted January 6, 2013 at 08:26 AM Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 at 08:26 AM http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/world/asia/travel-disrupted-in-china-amid-unusually-cold-weather.html?_r=0 according to the NY Times it is China's coldest winter in 40 years. How cold I do not know, as they give all temperatures in Fahrenheit which are just random numbers to me. Fittingly it got warmer in Beijing today. Even more, it is boiling in my apartment, even with all heaters switched off, I assume the guys downstairs started a private sauna in their living room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea.dispe Posted January 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM The weather is absolutely fantastic in winter! Sonetimes it reached -12/-14 but actualy is a dry cold and not humid so you will not have many problems and you'll get used to veru fast! Consider that i come from italy. Damn I love so much the cold! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterlkj Posted January 12, 2013 at 12:49 PM Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 at 12:49 PM What the heck is going on with the pollution in BJ this weekend? I'm seeing 755 on the BJ Air Quality Index site. Is this an all time high? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianlondon Posted January 12, 2013 at 02:06 PM Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 at 02:06 PM (edited) http://www.bbc.co.uk...-china-20998147 Pollution levels (small particles) today : 400 says the trustworthy government, 800 according to those stirring Americans. Edit: Some photos (obviously, if you're already in Beijing this isn't so exciting, but it's probably safer to see Beijing online than actually step outside at the moment). http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-21005228 Edited January 13, 2013 at 08:06 PM by adrianlondon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted January 13, 2013 at 09:31 AM Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 at 09:31 AM I don't think I've ever seen it so bad (in 2+ years here). I can actually smell the air as I go outside. It's in the Chinese media too, but I wonder why it suddenly is so bad. Does anyone know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebear Posted January 13, 2013 at 01:27 PM Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 at 01:27 PM I don't think I've ever seen it so bad (in 2+ years here). I can actually smell the air as I go outside. It's in the Chinese media too, but I wonder why it suddenly is so bad. Does anyone know? More people use coal for home heating in the winter (e.g. Rural farmers in Hebei), which supposedly accounts for just under half of the air pollution. I've read that in the winter it's more likely for a high pressure system to occur, which keeps most of what is being generated at ground level near ground level, and if there is no wind for a few days it will just build up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiminchina Posted January 23, 2013 at 02:23 AM Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 at 02:23 AM Lets see if the wind tonight will clear up things. Needs to be done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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