How cold is it?

[slappy4428]

Am I the only one who has seen 30 below this month? Anyone?

I figured as much.

When it gets to 40 below you don't have to give a ****.

 

[patchs]

I was grilling with the temp in the teens with snow all over the place.
No big whup, you just adapt.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

It got down to -10 today. But I'm in Montana so that probably doesn't count.

I don't know why, but this post made me laugh.

Wait, I do know why it made me laugh. Someone I know recently moved to Montana and gave herself the nickname "Dumb Ass" for doing so, knowing how cold the winters are there.

 

[SoCalScribe]

How do you like your gas grill, patchs?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

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.

 

[cranberry]

I returned to NYC from La Jolla on Saturday. Now I'm wondering why.

 

[The Big Ragu]

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.

 

[spnited]

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.

 

[doogie448]

It's so cold that people actually become more stupid.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Cold as a witch's tit wearing a brass-plated bra doing push-ups in the snow.

 

[YGBFKM]

In East Tennessee, we've had one day that it got above freezing since Christmas. We don't have a ton of of snow, maybe 6 inches (top of the mountain has 12-14 reportedly). It's just not going anywhere. It started really last Friday night. Kids haven't gone to school all week.

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

 

[The Big Ragu]

Cold as a witch's tit wearing a brass-plated bra doing push-ups in the snow.

There's something you see every day!

 

[Rosie]

Am I the only one who has seen 30 below this month? Anyone?

I figured as much.

When it gets to 40 below you don't have to give a ****.

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.

 

[KevinmH9]

It is a blistering 2 degrees here. Wind chill is -17, though. Supposed to see -30 by tonight.

 

[HC]

Hit about -30C with the windchill today (about -22 F). Sure felt that standing on Lakeshore this morning waiting for the streetcar.

 

[Double J]

Am I the only one who has seen 30 below this month? Anyone?

I figured as much.

When it gets to 40 below you don't have to give a ****.

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

So you mean you sang that song? :D

 

[holy bull]

-3 and falling. Again, I'm a wuss for bringing this up, but you asked, right?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

it was 50 degrees here today, yet I still have a chunk of frozen snow next to my front door.

 

[HC]

Now THIS is cold: . Friend of mine tried this last night and verified the results.

 

[Huggy]

Hit about -30C with the windchill today (about -22 F). Sure felt that standing on Lakeshore this morning waiting for the streetcar.

Today is another day here in the Centre of the Universe when it wasn't advisable to be waiting for public transit.