Let it Snow

I have a cruise leaving from NYC in February.

Has anyone ever embarked in the snow? What is it like? How can I make it a grand experience if it should happen?

Bruce

Hello,

Different ship, but you get the "drift"..............

Enjoy your sailing!

Alan

Snow on sail away! How fabulous! Please let it snow when we sail, but only after we have got to NYC and got onboard! Just how cold does NYC get in January, we went once in December and my god it was freezing!

As long as we can still see the QV and QEll, let it snow!!!:p

Hello,

 

Different ship, but you get the "drift"..............

 

Enjoy your sailing!

 

Alan

 

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Alan,

Thanks for the pic.

Was the hot tub open?

It's always fun to go thru the snow and climb into a steaming hot tub!:D

That would make the cruise quite an experience.

Bruce

Snow on sail away! How fabulous! Please let it snow when we sail, but only after we have got to NYC and got onboard! Just how cold does NYC get in January, we went once in December and my god it was freezing!

It can easily go below zero F in January.

Bruce

No need to wait until 10 to go off on this one. I won't be offended.

Bruce

I have a cruise leaving from NYC in February.

 

Has anyone ever embarked in the snow? What is it like? How can I make it a grand experience if it should happen?

 

Bruce

Try the Hurtigruten from Kirkenes. During the winter it isn't snow you worry about, but ice. The only way out from port is with an icebreaker.

Departures daily including Christmas.

And a trip worth doing - although I did it in early summer, when there was 24 hour sun....

Matthew

I really hope the runway isn't icy the night we land. I'm scared to death to fly!:(

Try the Hurtigruten from Kirkenes. During the winter it isn't snow you worry about, but ice. The only way out from port is with an icebreaker.

 

Departures daily including Christmas.

 

And a trip worth doing - although I did it in early summer, when there was 24 hour sun....

 

Matthew

Matthew,

Ice..That's what got me thinking about this topic. This past February the whole NorthEast US had a major ice storm and we got stuck on a JetBlue flight on our way to DisneyLand for our anniversary. An ice breaker escort would be cool:cool:

Bruce

I really hope the runway isn't icy the night we land. I'm scared to death to fly!:(

No worries...they won't let you land unless the runway is de-iced.

Bruce

No worries...they won't let you land unless the runway is de-iced.

 

Bruce

Thank goodness! I'm such a chicken! :rolleyes:

Snow on sail away! How fabulous! Please let it snow when we sail, but only after we have got to NYC and got onboard! Just how cold does NYC get in January, we went once in December and my god it was freezing!

In NYC in December or January it can be either a wretched snowstorm, rather warm, or inbetween, and an ice storm. The storms tend to be few and far-between, so hope you have luck and you don't happen to show up on one of those errant weekends with weather.

Really, it's just the occasional storms from the ocean (Nor'easters) that wind up from the south and move up the coast northward that cause the big trouble, and there aren't many of them in a winter season. The one thing to dress for in NYC is the wind, if you're in the city in the winter. It's always crazy windy there, then. Yes, as Lexxity said, even my god freezing! From the wind, again. They get the breezes.

Boots, gloves, hats, scarves, sweater, warm coat....I'm a former coastal New Englander. I know how raw it can be on or near the Atlantic in winter. Now that I'm a "flower of the old south", where such things aren't necessary, I have all of the above lined up and ready to go for my Nov sailing!!! OK, maybe not the boots...even I know that's not likely to be necessary then.

Cheers, Penny

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I'm scared to death to fly!:(

Try Bach Rescue Remedy, I find it really helps to keep me calm. Me, who works for an airline! Honestly I am such a chicken. It's turbulence I HATE. Luckily there is much less of that in winter as it is summer thermals that have you bumping all over the skies!

It's always crazy windy there, then.

That's what I remember from when we went one December. The wind literally whips down the street and into you. It was so, so cold, but so clear and the blue skies! I will pack lots of layers. Hopefully the bad weather will wait until we get in.:D I know we rarely cancel our Chicago flight, even in the depths of winter, like last year when it was a whopping -20! It was late, but it got in ok.

It's always fun to go thru the snow and climb into a steaming hot tub!

Ah yes, extreme hot tubbing! We did it this September, round the top of Scotland!:D It was quite a cool day.

Regarding the wind--it's called the Venturi Effect, and it's the tall buildings that compress the wind into a narrow space (the streets) and increases its velocity.

Not that you really needed to know that--I just wanted to say Venturi Effect. :cool:

One day that fact will win me a pub quiz, perhaps in the Golden Lion, it is just the right sort of useless fact.

We left on the transcanal leg of the WC several years ago in a light snow. As we sat in the Chart Room having our pre-dinner drinks, the Officer of the Watch made an announcement over the loudspeaker system warning passengers that the decks were getting slippery and to please use extreme caution out on deck. The pianist in the bar had stopped playing during the announcement. When it was over, he played "Let it Snow'!

One day that fact will win me a pub quiz, perhaps in the Golden Lion, it is just the right sort of useless fact.

When I was in high school (10th grade?) someone said I should major in Trivia in university. I've noticed that the level of trivia expertise has risen so high since then I really don't think I could compete, but am happy to possibly help you, Lex. ;)

When I was in high school (10th grade?) someone said I should major in Trivia in university. I've noticed that the level of trivia expertise has risen so high since then I really don't think I could compete, but am happy to possibly help you, Lex. ;)

Kirsten is good at things like this. There was need during a teambuilding exercise for the only year in the twentieth century that a British Soldier was not killed in action.

She knew.

And yet she laughed at me for knowing, in a quiz on QE2, the exact tonnage of the ship......

Matthew

Kirsten is good at things like this. There was need during a teambuilding exercise for the only year in the twentieth century that a British Soldier was not killed in action.

 

She knew.

 

And yet she laughed at me for knowing, in a quiz on QE2, the exact tonnage of the ship......

 

Matthew

Is that with or without people? :p

So, what was the year? Now I'm wondering.

No worries...they won't let you land unless the runway is de-iced.

What you mean they just keep you flying round and round and round until.........

What you mean they just keep you flying round and round and round until.........

Oh goodness! don't tell me that!:eek:

Betsy

Do you want to know what the use to de-ice runways?

Pig wee. Honestly!

Do you want to know what the use to de-ice runways?

 

 

Pig wee. Honestly!

I thought they used those aerosols that one can buy at a petrol station?

Am I wrong?

Matthew

PS Why pigs?