Baby it's coooold outside.

[polkanut]

Our high temp. at noon today was -5f, with a wind chill of -17f. How's that for friggin' cold? Schools started canceling classes last night at 9:30pm.

 

[paulg]

Balmy in Chicago

Boy it's almost summer here in Chicago with temps teetering around zero and sub-zero wind-chill. Yesterday we had a high-wind snowstorm with white-out conditions. Fortunately no accumulations. Yeah, Wisconsin - you got it baaaad.

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Tim. And it is cold here in Tucson. Going down to 32 tonight and only in the 50's during the day LOL...

Ross

 

[hoover1060]

BRRRR!!!

I just got home from choir, its 9 degrees out here, and I am chilled right through to the bone!

 

[maytagbear]

A tropical

15F here in Kent when last I looked. Of course, overnight, it will be colder...no snow, yet.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[vinvac]

Well yesterday we started out at a 46 degree day, by mid afternoon the temp was dropping, it rained, turned to snow, the temp kept dropping, by the time I got home from work, it was -11 with winds blowing at 35 to 40 miles an hour. Semi's were pulling off the roads, there were not more than 30 cars in the parking lot at Wal-Mart...a first since I started working the for the credit union three years ago.

To top it off, I started my car, got out to scrape the windows and the security system on the car locked all the doors...car running, wind blowing, and the spare set at home...

Only in Iowa can things change so quickly...LOL

Morgan

 

[tuthill]

Duluth, MN

-6 here with -30 below wind chills... i LOVE minnesota!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

I think it was Tuesday night when the Weather Channel had Big Jim Cantore in Chicago. He was outside in the blowing snow with a fierce wind chill. He said that he had just left the heated van so the snow was melting on his face, but almost instantly refreezing. The studio folks told him that his nose was turning white and that he should get back in the van. He reached up and felt his nose and said, "That's not good" then signed off.

 

[hoover1060]

Tuesday night...

It was snowing and blowing so violently here I could hardly see 10 feet in front of me as I was walking Jack...
I had the wind in my face at one point, and it a very short time it became painful!
In all my life I don't ever remember another night like Tuesday nights!

 

[whirlcool]

When you are at the airport in such conditions at night those blue lights you see around the aircraft are hand held propane torches. They are used to defrost the gaskets around the baggage bins so they can open the doors to get the baggage out.
Can you imagine being a ramper at an airport in such weather?

I heard that this winter was the third worst in 25 years in Chicago. Brrrr.... I went thru ORD the other night and talk about delay after delay! What a mess!

 

[oldhouseman]

What???

Lord a Mercy, how do you folks live in that cold? Sounds like you're livin' in a freezer. The winter is what keeps me in the south (Georgia). It's getting up to 49 here today but looks like rain. A bit windy too. I don't like the cold but I know I will be wishing for it come summer when it gets over 100 and 97% humidity. Hope y'all got someone to snuggle up to! Stay warm and be well.

Greg in Georgia

 

[toggleswitch]

Speaking of flaming...

There are little gas flames by the track "switches" and curves by the Jamaica transfer station (the MAIN transfer place) of the Long Island Rail Road to ensure that the tracks stay defrosted and that the switches still move!

Someone had mentioned in another thread the joys of hydronic home heating. Lovely, but if the system conks out or fuel runs out you have a lot more pipes that can freeze. In my area very few have anti-freeze in the pipes except on the far end of Long Island where there are seasonal vacation cabins/homes/McMansions. Apparently one needs to have heat to get a mortgage.....

 

[rp2813]

I don't think anbody is escaping the cold this winter except maybe way down south in Florida. We have been 10-15 degrees below normal high temps for this time of year during most of January. Even Los Angeles is cooler than normal, and that's where I usually go to warm up!

 

[hoover1060]

3rd worst in 25 years?

I don't know, maybe...its not been that bad this winter, but it does seem like we've had more snow than normal, and they are predicting 6-12 more inches tonight...
Sorry guys, but 12 inches of anything at one time is too damn much...
I do remember two other occasions when it was extremely brutally cold, January 1985 when the temps dropped to -27, and January 1994 when they went even lower to -40.

The last two winters have been odd in that we've had some sub-zero cold in February. We'll see if that holds true this year.
Spring will be here soon enough!

 

[mickeyd]

buffalo got walloped yesterday; storm said to have come from

temp dropped from 53 to 19 overnight
gusts @68 but one from top of HSBC Tower broke a record @93
lake levels were second highest in history rising 11 feet
the giant ice/snow igloos were pushed ashore
schools closed; Adelphia cable out all day--wonder if we'll get a day's credit ;'D

 

[toggleswitch]

WIMP!

~Sorry guys, but 12 inches of anything at one time is too damn much...

Speak for yourself. A 12 inch (30cm) stack of legit/good (i.e. not couterfeit) $100 bills would be VERY nice. And I don't mean Hong Kong dollars either!

 

[rp2813]

Now is the time we should be getting bare root roses into the ground but we have had so much rain that it's too soggy. My partner and I are hoping that we'll get a break in time to plant a few new roses and enjoy some nice color this spring through fall in the area where the kumquat tree used to be. But lately it's been too wet and ugly out for anyone to bother hitting a nursery. I'll bet sales are way down at nurseries and in garden centers around these parts as people haven't been able to get out and do the usual things in their yards during the dormant season.

 

[mickeyd]

A New York Times photographer caught me flailing about in th

and asked if he could take a few pix. He said it would be in today's paper. It's not. Wonder if it's in the on-line version. I'll have too see. Anyway, it was very exciting. Wish y'all could have been there. The frigid blasts are intoxicating, and you feel so alive, even if your member goes temporarily numb.

 

[rp2813]

Oh Mike, even where I live, this time of year I wouldn't dream of throwing on a pair of button fly 501's without a pair of boxers underneath. My member seems to gravitate towards the cold buttons which creates the effect of a non-existent wet spot, and it annoys me.

I'm really looking forward to shorts weather again. Lots of men around here wear shorts all winter but this year even my partner who is a die-hard shorts wearer has thrown on a pair of cargo pants more than a few times already.