Beyond brutal cold

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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2009
    Willow wrote: »
    what's it like there ?

    actually looks like a nice warm spell up there
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  • BIZILL
    BIZILL Posts: 5,432
    edited January 2009
    yeah, it's currently 73 degrees here. outside, of course.:cool:

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,995
    edited January 2009
    janmike wrote: »
    It's actually warming up. -18C with the windchill at -30C. Sure beats -44C before the windchill a week and a half ago. That's -47.2F. No heavy coat today.


    With temps like that you'd expect a boom in newborns in the next 9 mths ;)
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited January 2009
    i just wish this brutal cold of -30 -40 would spend a week in the Colorado rockies that would do much to kill the beetle plage that is killing off the Douglas fur higher altitude forests.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2009
    Pretty cold, but it's time for me to head out to bowling... but then, it's only down to around 6 above right now. They're not calling for it to get much colder overnight, but we all know how that goes.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,185
    edited January 2009
    23 f here but windchill is -1. It's effin cold and I'm already tired of it.
    Winter has it's moments like a nice snow, Christmas but after that it sucks.

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  • Polkitup2
    Polkitup2 Posts: 1,621
    edited January 2009
    I had to slum around DT Mpls. today and yea it was cold. Black ice almost got me on Hwy 62 just before the Cedar exit on an overpass. Bunch of cars piled up, I was able to successfully re-route, but got that oh **** feeling for a few seconds. :eek:
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited January 2009
    I dont understand how you guys live in that weather. It's almost 60* here now. In the mornings, it been in high 20s and 30s lately.

    I'm hoping after tonite we wont have any more 20 degree weather for the year!
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2009
    exalted512 wrote: »
    I dont understand how you guys live in that weather. It's almost 60* here now. In the mornings, it been in high 20s and 30s lately.

    I'm hoping after tonite we wont have any more 20 degree weather for the year!
    -Cody

    You know how in the summer in TX, you can't go outside for more than 5 minutes without heat stroke, and woudln't dream of having a building without air conditioning?

    Same thing, except opposite.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited January 2009
    Global warming is only affecting California and Arizona, or it seems like it. We are basking in high 80's this week.

    I need to find a state that do 50 degrees F with 30 percent humidity all year long. suggestion?
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited January 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    You know how in the summer in TX, you can't go outside for more than 5 minutes without heat stroke, and woudln't dream of having a building without air conditioning?

    Same thing, except opposite.

    Big difference. I can sleep walk outside in Texas and not die from freezing.

    I'll take my 100* summers over your sub 0* winters any time!
    -Cody
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2009
    polkatese wrote: »
    Global warming is only affecting California and Arizona, or it seems like it. We are basking in high 80's this week.

    I need to find a state that do 50 degrees F with 30 percent humidity all year long. suggestion?

    Move to San Francisco. Or the Pacific Northwest (they had some aberrant weather this year but for the most part it doesn't swing that far)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited January 2009
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    I remember the days when we had to walk 12 miles uphill in a blizzard and 80 below just to get to an audio shop and listen to speakers we could not afford.. now we have them in our warm cozy homes and never have to leave because the folks at dominos deliver and all I see is complaints... turn up the volume real loud have a hot cider/coffee or other beverage and relax
    and another plus... the wife cannot run up credit cards at the mall because its to cold to park and walk to get inside:D:D
    lol... i hate the cold

    I had to walk 12 miles uphill in a blizzard, 80 below BOTH WAYS; so you had it easy.:D
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited January 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I had to walk 12 miles uphill in a blizzard, 80 below BOTH WAYS; so you had it easy.:D

    WOW - You guys are tough and full... :D
    Never mind. Stay warm boys. :):p
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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited January 2009
    67*F in the Las Vegas valley. I got sunburn on my legs yesterday while hiking at the Lake. I would have got sunburned on my back too but I put my t-shirt back on just in time.
    : )
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  • Midnite Mick
    Midnite Mick Posts: 1,591
    edited January 2009
    Sick of the stupid cold round here lately as well. Weekend looks outstanding as it is supposed to go up to about 0 degrees Celsius.....can't wait.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited January 2009
    We are in the -30F range. Sold lots of car batteries today.

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  • Lowell_M
    Lowell_M Posts: 1,660
    edited January 2009
    Lorthos wrote: »
    And, all the guys with -20 that are whining.....You do remember where you leave at don't you???

    I am lobbying for global warming to fix this all.

    I missed my chance to be senator though with the whole Blago thing blowing up and all.
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  • opus
    opus Posts: 1,252
    edited January 2009
    I am really happy right now. I bought a generator for our big ice storm three weeks or so back and did not get to use it. Tonight I came home to a house of flashlights, hooked up the new generator and presto..................only house on the road with power and heat. WOOHOO
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2009
    well every evil conservative bunker should have one.........
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited January 2009
    janmike wrote: »
    It's actually warming up. -18C with the windchill at -30C. Sure beats -44C before the windchill a week and a half ago. That's -47.2F. No heavy coat today.

    Yeah, I don't think it's cold 'til janmike says it is.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2009
    opus wrote: »
    I am really happy right now. I bought a generator for our big ice storm three weeks or so back and did not get to use it. Tonight I came home to a house of flashlights, hooked up the new generator and presto..................only house on the road with power and heat. WOOHOO

    Glad to hear it - hope you're taking care of those neighbors! Just went through an extended power outage myself, NO FUN.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited January 2009
    Well, here in Vegas, if the power goes out and it gets too hot inside we just go sit on the porch.
    again... : )
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited January 2009
    its going to be -5 today and i hope they cll a act of god so i get the day off with pay.
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited January 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    I had to walk 12 miles uphill in a blizzard, 80 below BOTH WAYS; so you had it easy.:D
    Then he had to go to work for 12 hrs :D

    Actually I wonder how many can truthfully say that have experienced -80 or colder not wind chill but as an ambient temperature. All I can say from my experience at those temperatures is that strange things happen.

    Transmission fluid tends to jell up while your driving and can actually bring a car to a standstill. If you were to take a cup of coffee and throw it up in the air it would freeze before it hit the ground and make a noise similar to a gunshot. All kinds of odd things happen and none of them are good :eek:


    Last week at this time it was -45 here, this week it rose to 45 above, a 90 degree difference.



    REGARDS SNOW
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,185
    edited January 2009
    It's 9 deg right now and only going up to 19. It's very effin cold for Phila. I'm really getting tired of it. At least when it's really hot, you can get cooled off but cold gets you in your bones.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,995
    edited January 2009
    Who ever divided the border needed a slap up side the head. The border should have gone north and south not east to west, that way we'd have some warm spots too. Heck Florida is almost another province to us as all our old people move down there 6mths of the year.
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  • Igo
    Igo Posts: 411
    edited January 2009
    44 in Vegas this morning. I ain't leavin' the house until the sun comes up.
    : )
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited January 2009
    Igo wrote: »
    44 in Vegas this morning. I ain't leavin' the house until the sun comes up.
    : )


    LOL 60 degrees warmer than here

    we are at -21 but will break 0 for the first time in over 90 hours

    thats -21F not C a very BIG difference in temps between F & C

    32 F equals 0 C so -20c is cold but nowhere near frigid
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited January 2009
    Yeah, it's 44 here in Tucson as well.

    They're saying 70's for the next 10 days.

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