OT: Baby its Cold Outside

[msf22b]

-16 F and dropping like a stone in St. Johnsbury: 11:37 PM
Sloan about to take the court.

 

[John Glass]

it is only 136 degrees warmer on the court in Sydney

 

[MilfordHusky]

Melbourne?

 

[John Glass]

Melbourne?

you are right

 

[pinotbear]

1 degree in Wayland, MA this morning. Very pretty last night, what with the stars and moon.

 

[ursusminor]

20 degrees in the DC/MD metro area and our first accumulating snow of the season.

 

[UConnChapette]

Bringing back memories of my days in the frozen plains of South Dakota. I do remember temps of -20s, wind chill as high as -60s, maybe even higher. As luck would have it, we are down one car due to an unfortunate parting of the ways between a wheel and axel. So I am working from home and I have no need to venture outside. I guess there is such a thing as good timing for car problems.

 

[meyers7]

 

[VAUConnFan]

You guys don't know cold. Back in December 1983, while stationed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, we went an entire week with the temperature never coming above zero. When the cold spell finally broke and it got up to a balmy 20 degrees, there were people out and about sunbathing, washing their cars, thowing frisbees...

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

At subzero temps in Western NY I walked to school , 5 miles, uphill both ways.

 

[MilfordHusky]

20 degrees in the DC/MD metro area and our first accumulating snow of the season.

1" in Alexandria, but no power. It's chilly INSIDE.

 

[pinotbear]

At subzero temps in Western NY I walked to school , 5 miles, uphill both ways.

into the wind both ways, too...

 

[EricLA]

it has been freezing the past week+ here in SD also. it just warmed up the past few days but it got down into the 50's at night at my house. Actually had to turn the heat on...

 

[meyers7]

it has been freezing the past week+ here in SD also. it just warmed up the past few days but it got down into the 50's at night at my house. Actually had to turn the heat on...

You have heat?

 

[EricLA]

You have heat?

Barely. I put my dog on the big hamster wheel, hang a treat in front of his nose, and use the energy generated to warm the house!

 

[meyers7]

Barely. I put my dog on the big hamster wheel, hang a treat in front of his nose, and use the energy generated to warm the house!

 

[UConnChapette]

You guys don't know cold. Back in December 1983, while stationed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, we went an entire week with the temperature never coming above zero. When the cold spell finally broke and it got up to a balmy 20 degrees, there were people out and about sunbathing, washing their cars, thowing frisbees...

OMG, VAUconn! I vividly remember that winter. I was in South Dakota in '83. For an entire month the average HIGH temperature was about 5 degrees above zero. Thank God for block heaters. With no garage, we plugged our cars in every night. And I plugged it in when I got to work, but after a snow and the car cabin heater melted the snow off my boots, I was often seen with a hair dryer unfreezing the accelerator. When you go outside and it is that far below zero you can feel and kind of hear the moisture of your skin instantly evaporate. Frost bite can happen really quickly. Damn, that brings back the memories. Kind of reminds me like the current ATTUvers commercials. "You New
Englanders got it so good".

 

[OneTrickPony]

OMG, VAUconn! I vividly remember that winter. I was in South Dakota in '83. For an entire month the average HIGH temperature was about 5 degrees above zero. Thank God for block heaters. With no garage, we plugged our cars in every night. And I plugged it in when I got to work, but after a snow and the car cabin heater melted the snow off my boots, I was often seen with a hair dryer unfreezing the accelerator. When you go outside and it is that far below zero you can feel and kind of hear the moisture of your skin instantly evaporate. Frost bite can happen really quickly. Damn, that brings back the memories. Kind of reminds me like the current ATTUvers commercials. "You New
Englanders got it so good".

But did you need to dip your key in antifreeze to open the car door?

 

[CL82]

At subzero temps in Western NY I walked to school , 5 miles, uphill both ways.

You got to walk? We had to crawl. I dreamed about being able to walk....

 

[msf22b]

It's climbed all the way up to +3 degrees in St J and -1 at Burke Mt.
I'm heading out to make a few turns.

 

[meyers7]

OMG, VAUconn! I vividly remember that winter. I was in South Dakota in '83. For an entire month the average HIGH temperature was about 5 degrees above zero. Thank God for block heaters. With no garage, we plugged our cars in every night. And I plugged it in when I got to work, but after a snow and the car cabin heater melted the snow off my boots, I was often seen with a hair dryer unfreezing the accelerator. When you go outside and it is that far below zero you can feel and kind of hear the moisture of your skin instantly evaporate. Frost bite can happen really quickly. Damn, that brings back the memories. Kind of reminds me like the current ATTUvers commercials. "You New
Englanders got it so good".

Never had it that cold. But growing up in IL I do remember a couple days with the Hi temp of -13, down into the -20s at night. A week or two of highs in the teens. Remember people using block heaters. Remember better, people who didn't have block heaters trying to gerry-rig some heat up in their cars and at least once a week there would be a car fire. Idiots.

Do remember delivering papers in the cold. Traipsing through the snow in the dark, wearing snowmobile suits and ski masks. Ah to be young again.

 

[VAMike23]

1" in Alexandria, but no power. It's chilly INSIDE.

Milford! Hope your power is restored *quickly*....... It may be time to head south again!

 

[FairView]

Ha.
Impressive cold stories, I do admit.
But they're downright toasty compared to the stares I get from my mother-in-law.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Milford! Hope your power is restored *quickly*....... It may be time to head south again!

Power was back at about noon. About 6 blocks were affected. Starbucks was just beyond the impacted zone, so I had a hot beverage and used the Wifi there. Time for a hot shower. Cancun, it is not! 82 last week, 22 this week. Brrr!

 

[ursusminor]

Weather Channel website has a story up about the coldest permanently inhabited town in the world (in Siberia, of course). There is no record of it ever being above 0 degrees Fahrenheit between December 1 and March 1.