Oh baby, it's cold out

F1nut

7 last night, 13 right now.......brrrrrrrr

The level gauge on my oil tank is dropping faster than the gas gauge in a '68 GTO.

polk500

Yup I agree minus 38 not iincluding windchill in the frozen #$*^ing north.

Winter Sucks
Cheers
Roger

shawn474

It is painful!!! Stood at the bus stop with the kids this morning and it just made me angry.........my grandad used to call this angry cold because no matter what good was happening, when you step outside you just got angry. Tomorrow i am driving them to school!!!!

cnh

nbrowser wrote: »

Oh geez....it got to 12 degrees Celcius up here in sunny Abbotsford BC today...(DUCKS)

Sounds like SPRING to me. We're hitting 5 F or -15 C

And had -14 F last night or -25.5 C. Are you sure you live in Cannuck land?

Then again, that Northwest Coast stuff has never made any sense over here on the other side. It's an UNREAL weather pattern. Far too warm for its latitude!

cnh

chumlie

Another six months and everyone will be crying about the heat. Me included !!!

boston1450

Gosh i feel spoiled. Coastal Maine--Just stepped outside & its above 20 degrees. Blowing like a F'r. Feels like summer compare to yesterday morning this time it was -2 degrees & got up to 10/12 during day without wind chill factor. Oil tank fund always hurts

mrbiron

Yesterday I got up at 4am and it was -5 and around -31,with wind. Today is a steamy 9 right now. Time to break out the shorts.

deronb1

Minus 7 yesterday with minus 30 windchill. Today, still in negative windchills. Been off four days straight.

gudnoyez

Jeez Jesse rub it in why don't cha sounds like short pants weather. It was -1 this morning with 37 mph winds which = long Johns, parkas the works. We have a UPS driver round here that would actually wear shorts at 13 above.

drumminman

A balmy 24F here in central NC - 15F warmer than yesterday morning.

tonyb

....and you guys wonder why all the old folks move south. I know as I get older I get less tolerant of this winter stuff.

smglbrth

tonyb wrote: »

....and you guys wonder why all the old folks move south. I know as I get older I get less tolerant of this winter stuff.

Yup, the older I get the more I hate winter...

gce

A little damp and only 54° as I rode my motorcycle to work this morning.

mhardy6647

Didn't get as cold yesterday morning here in Almost Nowhere*, NH. The weather thingy said it was -11.4 degrees F outside.

It was amusing to watch the turkeys slipping and sliding on icy patches as they trouped (or is that trooped?) across the tundra out back...

This morning's much warmer (15 degrees F) but it's windy and altogether nastier-feeling outside. Turkeys are still slipping...

* We're not nowhere, but you can see it from here.

steveinaz

Global warming? It was a bone-chattering 69 degrees here Wednesday. LOL

boston1450

^^^^^ wife & i were out once in 34 degrees on the bike & it started to snow. We were pretty numb back 20+ years ago. Now she doesnt ride under 50 & i (still numb)under 30 degrees. Breathtaking experiences

krabby5

tonyb wrote: »

....and you guys wonder why all the old folks move south. I know as I get older I get less tolerant of this winter stuff.

I don't wonder at all. If it wasn't for family, I would have left MN years ago. 6-7 months of garbage. We get 3 months of just "ok" and 2 months of nice!

Driving home last night took 2 hours to drive 20 miles. I could have skated on the highway all the way home. It's too cold for sand or salt, so they don't even bother until it warms up (above 0).

ish.

tonyb

I hear ya man, Chicago is no different. 3 months, maybe 4 of nice weather. Heck, this last year our last day of snowfall was May15th, first day was around Dec. 15th. My pond plants just start growing before that cold autumn wind starts blowing. Even the fish are saying..."WTF man ? "

deronb1

So its agreed. Start a Polk cult commune in Miami. Ill bring the beer.

cnh

boston1450 wrote: »

^^^^^ wife & i were out once in 34 degrees on the bike & it started to snow. We were pretty numb back 20+ years ago. Now she doesnt ride under 50 & i (still numb)under 30 degrees. Breathtaking experiences

I'm almost never on a bike when October rolls in. It's not that's it's too cold then, it's just that whoever the GOD of WIND is decides that even 30 or 40 degrees will feel like 15-25 degrees. Damn, I hate cold wind in my face!

No classes today boys. So I slept in, made a nice three egg, ham and cheese omelet and some toast, full pot of hot coffee. Read the newspaper, watched CNN covering that MESS/TRAGEDY in France. Now we can get killed for drawing "cartoons"! Excuse my forwardness here. But I have always been amazed that religious types feel the necessity to attack what they consider defamation of their gods and prophets. I guess their GOD is just plain impotent, can't defend his own "honor"! And so has to rely on human "refuse" to defend him and...? Enough said.

cnh

tonyb

Freedom of speech is always under attack. I just don't see how one can justify killing over it.....and some actually are.

Anyway, nice to see ya chillin' with a full belly, now go play some tunes and turn off the news.

Mikey081057

So up in the 70's today... it went down to like 53 last nite but didn't have to turn the heat on yet!!!! Have to deal with 70's for 1 more day then back to the mid 80's... Actually had to wear jeans yesterday for the first time since I got here in December. We could use a little rain as it is very dry here.

steveinaz

Heard in Michigan: "I hope Summer falls on a Saturday this year."

BlueFox

steveinaz wrote: »

Global warming? It was a bone-chattering 69 degrees here Wednesday. LOL

Today's paper had an article showing 2014 was the warmest year on record for California. It also mentioned that soon data will be released showing 2014 was the warmest year on record for the planet.

Interestingly, it mentioned that the condition (persistent high pressure ridge on West coast) is the cause of the cold weather in the mid-west and East coast. Also, this is the only part of the world experiencing this cold phenomena. Anchorage Alaska did not have a single day below 0 in 2014. The first time in 101 years of record keeping. 2014 was also the hottest year since 1895 for Arizona.

gce

boston1450 wrote: »

^^^^^ wife & i were out once in 34 degrees on the bike & it started to snow. We were pretty numb back 20+ years ago. Now she doesnt ride under 50 & i (still numb)under 30 degrees. Breathtaking experiences

Yeah, I don't ride if its under 40°.

cnh

gce wrote: »

boston1450 wrote: »

^^^^^ wife & i were out once in 34 degrees on the bike & it started to snow. We were pretty numb back 20+ years ago. Now she doesnt ride under 50 & i (still numb)under 30 degrees. Breathtaking experiences

Yeah, I don't ride if its under 40°.

I keep forgetting that you're all referring to motorcycles. I'm strictly a "human powered" guy! And I don't ride under that temp either. But mostly because it's ALWAYS windy in Maine. ALWAYS in the FALL. You'd think Aeolus was trying to blow the state out to sea! lol

cnh

tonyb

BlueFox wrote: »

steveinaz wrote: »

Global warming? It was a bone-chattering 69 degrees here Wednesday. LOL

Today's paper had an article showing 2014 was the warmest year on record for California. It also mentioned that soon data will be released showing 2014 was the warmest year on record for the planet.

Interestingly, it mentioned that the condition (persistent high pressure ridge on West coast) is the cause of the cold weather in the mid-west and East coast. Also, this is the only part of the world experiencing this cold phenomena. Anchorage Alaska did not have a single day below 0 in 2014. The first time in 101 years of record keeping. 2014 was also the hottest year since 1895 for Arizona.

So that means that 1895 was the second hottest year on record, right ? You don't see a problem with that ?

For the U.S. as a whole though, a different story.
http://humanevents.com/2014/05/13/2014-is-the-u-s-s-coldest-year-ever-so-far/

BlueFox

tonyb wrote: »

So that means that 1895 was the second hottest year on record, right ? You don't see a problem with that ?

I see a problem with your assumption. All it means is that 1895 was when record keeping was started. It could be the coldest year on record, but is probably somewhere in the middle.

polkfarmboy

You guys need to come to Fargo to experience cold, leave a pop can with the window cracked and come back in 2 minutes and its a slushy.

dromunds

Ha, PFB I've been experiencing the same thing the last week, I don't think the normal temp has been above zero in days and its pretty much been -30 to -45 below wind chill for a week now day and night. You forget how bone chilling cold that is. Last winter was worse with those frickn polar vortexes one after another and -50 wind chill for days on end. And tomorrow is supposed to start a slow warming trend ....

tonyb

polkfarmboy wrote: »

You guys need to come to Fargo to experience cold, leave a pop can with the window cracked and come back in 2 minutes and its a slushy.

Speaking of which, hows that Boxster doing in the snowy frozen tundra ?