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How cold is it?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by spnited, Jan 14, 2011.

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  1. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Heard something on Weather Channel last week I hadn't heard before, about temperature transferrance. As the air moves, it picks up the temperature of whatever's on the surface. If it's warm water, then the air warms up. If it's ice/snow, then the air cools. In the weather of the last week, this perpetuated the cold weather.

    Perhaps it's just TWC 101 and everybody else already knew as much. Just never occurred to me.
     
    novelist_wannabe, Jan 18, 2011
    #25
  2. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    I returned to NYC from La Jolla on Saturday. Now I'm wondering why.
     
    cranberry, Jan 18, 2011
    #26
  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The freezing rain, and the resulting slush I had to wade through this morning, was a real treat.

    FYI, courtesy of my girlfriend, who grew up in France. When it's cold, they say "Gla gla gla."

    I feel silly saying that, and I make plenty fun of it -- and many other things about the French -- but honestly, it is gla gla gla out there.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jan 18, 2011
    #27
  4. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Snow started about 1 a.m., turned to freezing rain for a while, now all rain.
    Ankle deep slush is just wonderful to slog through.
     
    spnited, Jan 18, 2011
    #28
  5. doogie448

    doogie448 Member

    It's so cold that people actually become more stupid.
     
    doogie448, Jan 18, 2011
    #29
  6. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Cold as a witch's tit wearing a brass-plated bra doing push-ups in the snow.
     
    novelist_wannabe, Jan 18, 2011
    #30
  7. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    It has nothing to do with the topic, but the phrase east Tennessee always triggers in my head these lines from Jason Isbell and the Drive-by Truckers' Decoration Day:

    Well, I got dead brothers in Lauderdale south
    and I got dead brothers in east Tennessee
    My daddy got shot right in front of his house;
    he had no one to fall on but me
     
    YGBFKM, Jan 18, 2011
    #31
  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    There's something you see every day!
     
    The Big Ragu, Jan 18, 2011
    #32
  9. Rosie

    Rosie Active Member

    One of the bands I sang with used to sing that song.

    It actually warmed up to 10 above today - very much a heat wave.
     
    Rosie, Jan 23, 2011
    #33
  10. KevinmH9

    KevinmH9 Active Member

    It is a blistering 2 degrees here. Wind chill is -17, though. Supposed to see -30 by tonight.
     
    KevinmH9, Jan 23, 2011
    #34
  11. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Hit about -30C with the windchill today (about -22 F). Sure felt that standing on Lakeshore this morning waiting for the streetcar.
     
    HC, Jan 23, 2011
    #35
  12. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    So you mean you sang that song? :D
     
    Double J, Jan 23, 2011
    #36
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