Brrrrrrrr....so bloody cold

[Computer Generated Baby]

If I want culture, I just go to Fresno.

That's a joke, right?...

If I want to mingle with the intellectuals, I just go to Bakersfield.

 

[Mercutio]

Fookin' New England pansies. Oh! It's 30 below! Looks like we can't put on our ballerina slippers and merrily prance about Jack Frost's Icy Kingdom to-day. We'll have to stay in-of-doors and drink warm milk and think fondly of by-gone friends.

Do they not make coats, hats and gloves for you East Coast types?

Chicago gets 36 inches of snow in 24 hours, we dig out, no one except Chicagoans even knows it happens. But the minute there's anything but blue skies smiling at anything within a day's car trip of New York City, the whole country gets one layer of hyperbole from a plague of locusts o'er the land.

 

[timwhit]

Fookin' New England pansies. Oh! It's 30 below! Looks like we can't put on our ballerina slippers and merrily prance about Jack Frost's Icy Kingdom to-day. We'll have to stay in-of-doors and drink warm milk and think fondly of by-gone friends.

Do they not make coats, hats and gloves for you East Coast types?

Chicago gets 36 inches of snow in 24 hours, we dig out, no one except Chicagoans even knows it happens. But the minute there's anything but blue skies smiling at anything within a day's car trip of New York City, the whole country gets one layer of hyperbole from a plague of locusts o'er the land.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[e_dawg]

That reminds me of Vancouver, BC, which called in the army when they had 4 inches of snow

 

[Computer Generated Baby]

Chicago gets 36 inches of snow in 24 hours...

And Beefalo is THE windy city -- actually. Buffalo also regularly gets pounded by snow the worst of any US city. Chicago is certainly on near the top of the list with Cleveland. And Detroit, Toledo, Rochester should certainly get honourable mentions here for snowfall. And, I can personally testify that it's completely possible to freeze to one's nuts off in the greater Minneapolis / Eden Prairie metro area. I've not been the U.P. part of Michigan, but it snows like holy hell there during the wintertime.

On one of my business trips (1988-ish), I recall having to dodge mini-icebergs that were scooting across Lake Eire onto the I-90 roadway in New York between Cleveland and Buffalo. This was close to that little stretch of Pennsylvania on the lake.

 

[Computer Generated Baby]

I hate snow. I hate ice.

Unless there's a hell of a lot of snow, I don't mind snow anywhere near as much as friggin' ICE.

Ice, freezing rain, frozen rain, sleet, sleet+snow, all suck bad. Wet snow sucks bad, too.

 

[its.fubar]

HeHe Now you know why it is such a good idea to have a 4 by 4 to get around in such time`s.

 

[Pradeep]

4*4 is fine for acceleration, but it doesn't help jack s$$$ when you want to stop. I'd rather have a FWD with snow tires than a 4*4 with all-seasons.

 

[Pradeep]

Schools are closed again today, giving the brats a 5 day weekend! Honestly it feels colder than -27 when I was out warming the car up a half hour ago.

Current Conditions -16°C
Light Snow Feels Like -27°C

UV Index: 0 Minimal
Dew Point: -19°C
Humidity: 71%
Visibility: 6.4 kilometers
Pressure: 1,014.6 millibars and rising
Wind: From the West Northwest at 34 gusting to 51 km/h

 

[Corvair]

I'd rather have a FWD with snow tires than a 4*4 with all-seasons.

How 'bout a rear wheel driven Corvair!

Without proper footing, though, it would easily become a rear wheel drive Corvair going backwards!

• Current Conditions -16°C
  Light Snow Feels Like -27°C
  
  UV Index: 0 Minimal
  Dew Point: -19°C
  Humidity: 71%
  Visibility: 6.4 kilometers
  Pressure: 1,014.6 millibars and rising
  Wind: From the West Northwest at 34 gusting to 51 km/h

Stuff in RED is what's already got me aching: Coldness that cuts right thru ya :errr:

 

[Corvair]

How 'bout a rear wheel driven Corvair!

Actually, I meant rear-engined Corvair.

Anyway, the Corvair was actually a pretty good snow car. Plus, you could get cabin heat fairly quick with its air-cooled engine.

 

[Handruin]

Fookin' New England pansies. Oh! It's 30 below! Looks like we can't put on our ballerina slippers and merrily prance about Jack Frost's Icy Kingdom to-day. We'll have to stay in-of-doors and drink warm milk and think fondly of by-gone friends.

Do they not make coats, hats and gloves for you East Coast types?

Chicago gets 36 inches of snow in 24 hours, we dig out, no one except Chicagoans even knows it happens. But the minute there's anything but blue skies smiling at anything within a day's car trip of New York City, the whole country gets one layer of hyperbole from a plague of locusts o'er the land.

I agree...that was my point, but I didn't do a good job conveying my sarcasm that schools are being closed. People on the news last night were annoyed...said it was making our kids soft. I'm sure it's cold as hell outside right now...can't wait to get in my car to find out.

Is this what an engine block heater is for.

 

[Pradeep]

I agree...that was my point, but I didn't do a good job conveying my sarcasm that schools are being closed. People on the news last night were annoyed...said it was making our kids soft. I'm sure it's cold as hell outside right now...can't wait to get in my car to find out.

Is this what an engine block heater is for.

That's what remote start is for. I'm getting it installed as soon as the car gets out of the collision shop.

I sort of agree with you Doug about closing the schools. In our school district the bus stops right at our house, so there is no need to walk to a bus stop. But in Rochester City everyone walks to school, and I can see issues there. Also one school district the diesel in the school buses had turned to jelly!

Stuff in RED is what's already got me aching: Coldness that cuts right thru ya

GoreTex kept the wind out of the body but the exposed skin on the face got mighty frosty LOL to think a few short months ago I was boasting that I would wear shorts and thongs right thru the winter.

 

[CougTek]

4*4 is fine for acceleration, but it doesn't help jack s$$$ when you want to stop. I'd rather have a FWD with snow tires than a 4*4 with all-seasons.

Agreed. For the record, here we have a lot more winter time than pretty much anywhere in the States (Alaska excluded) and more people use cars instead of trucks than in the States.

4x4 are all about perceived security rather than true safety. I would take a Corolla with winter tires over a Land Rover with 4-seasons any day to drive when it's -20C and icy like it is here today.

 

[jtr1962]

My outdoor thermometer read -1° F last night. I heard with the wind chills it felt like -35° F. I walked a few blocks when it was about 10°. The wind made it brutal, sort of like being on a mountain during a whiteout. This is the coldest NYC has been since 1994. I can only imagine what Canada or upstate felt like.

 

[e_dawg]

The wind was ridiculous today. I was doing some banking today downtown and honestly found it difficult to walk forwards against the wind. I think it was around 50 km/h (30 mph) as measured at the airport, but it may have been more downtown with the "wind tunnel effect" with the wind being channeled between the buildings.

 

[Pradeep]

LOL, did anyone see Al Gore proclaiming Bush as the harbinger of global warming in NYC the other day? When it was below 0 degrees F? Still the same old Gore.

 

[e_dawg]

Yeah, I heard about that. Anyone see The Daily Show with John Stewart the other day? He was joking about how cold it was in Canada and said "don't worry guys. We're burning fossil fuels at an amazing rate and we'll take care of that cold weather you guys are having up there in no time!"

 

[Howell]

Some friends just got back from a week of skiing at Whistler, BC. One of them almost lost some toes to frostbite. They said the coldest day was -50F w/ windchill.

I was incorrect before. They went to Quebec. Some slope with a hypenated name. At the lift entrances they have mirrors to check your face for white spots (frostbite).

I have plans to go camping at Mt. Mitchell, NC (highest point east of the MS river) in a couple weeks. Should be nice and chilly.

 

[CityK]

Mont Sainte-Anne

 

[Howell]

Mont Sainte-Anne

Of all these, Mt. Tremblant sounds familiar. I saw it on a t-shirt so the name may not be officially hyphenated.

 

[CougTek]

I live less than 25Km away from Mont Ste-Anne. I've never been there though.

 

[CityK]

Of all these, Mt. Tremblant sounds familiar. I saw it on a t-shirt so the name may not be officially hyphenated.

Hmm, now that you mention it, I do seem to recall hearing some xxxxx-Tremblant several times before. In the past when I heard this name I figured it was something like Whistler Blackcomb, but looking on that site listing the resorts doesn't ring any bells.

 

[Mercutio]

LOL, did anyone see Al Gore proclaiming Bush as the harbinger of global warming in NYC the other day? When it was below 0 degrees F? Still the same old Gore.

..."In preparing this series of speeches, I have noticed a troubling pattern that characterizes the Bush/Cheney administration's approach to almost all issues. In almost every policy area, the administration's consistent goal has been to eliminate any constraints on their exercise of raw power, whether by law, regulation, alliance or treaty -- and in the process they have in each case caused America to be seen by the other nations of the world as showing disdain for the international community.

"In each case they devise their policies with as much secrecy as possible and in close cooperation with the most powerful special interests that have a monetary stake in what happens. In each case the public interest is not only ignored but actively undermined. In each case they devote considerable attention to a clever strategy of deception that appears designed to prevent the American people from discerning what it is they are actually doing. Indeed, they often use Orwellian language to disguise their true purposes. For example, a policy that opens national forests to destructive logging of old-growth trees is labeled "The Healthy Forest Initiative." A policy that vastly increases the amount of pollution that can be dumped into the air is called the "Clear Skies Initiative."

"And in case after case, the policy adopted immediately after the inauguration has been the exact opposite of what was pledged to the American people during the election campaign. The promise by candidate Bush to conduct a "humble" foreign policy and avoid any semblance of "nation building" was transformed in the first days of the Bush presidency, into a frenzied preparation for a military invasion of Iraq, complete with detailed plans for the remaking of that nation under American occupation.

Nothing to do with the weather, just some interesting comments from that speech on a very important day for the national political process.

 

[Jake the Dog]

whilst it's cold for some, for others (like us in Melb) -

current temp (08:30am): 24.3°C/75.7°F
today's forecast: 37°C/98.6°F with possible showers

 

[Buck]

whilst it's cold for some, for others (like us in Melb) -

current temp (08:30am): 24.3°C/75.7°F
today's forecast: 37°C/98.6°F with possible showers

In my opinion, that is horrific weather. Thank goodness for Maritime Temperate.

 

[e_dawg]

Man, I've just about had it with this winter. No end to this cold weather in sight: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/can/Pages/CAON0696.htm

Jake, save me a spot in the kennel. I'm moving down to Australia for the next month.

 

[CougTek]

e-dawg, what's wrong with the temperature in Toronto? Seems like a nice winter day to me.

 

[e_dawg]

It's about 10 deg C too cold for me. Not only is it cold outside when waiting for the streetcar (bus), but even when I'm at home it's cold with hardwood floors and floor-to-ceiling wall-to-wall glass in my living room and bedroom. You can feel the cold straight through both the windows and the floor.

 

[e_dawg]

P.S. In Toronto, we usually get average daytime temps of -2 C and nighttime temps of -10 C in January. We do get cold spells every now and then, but this year it seems like ever since the 2nd week of January, it has been extremely cold (relative to our usual)... the cold weather is expected to continue until February, which would make it 3 straight weeks of unusually cold weather.

 

[CougTek]

Put a strips of plastic on your window. You can find this at places like Home Hardware. It will create a layer of air between the glass and the plastic and it is a very effective method to insulate windows. And it's cheap to do too.

You shouldn't need to open your window too often until Spring anyway...

 

[Buck]

Just as a reminder.

San Clemente, California

 

[CityK]

some of the adhesives used in the double sided tape can leave a real mess on paint etc

 

[CougTek]

Two words Buck. First begins with an "F" and the second with a "Y".

 

[ddrueding]

Just as a reminder.

San Clemente, California

Yeah, we've got overcast here

 

[CityK]

Another outburst like that Buck and I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to remove me from your christmas card list

 

[Buck]

A host of friends.

I will soon get my small measure of cold weather when I visit Seattle next month.

 

[Jake the Dog]

whilst it's cold for some, for others (like us in Melb) -

current temp (08:30am): 24.3°C/75.7°F
today's forecast: 37°C/98.6°F with possible showers

In my opinion, that is horrific weather. Thank goodness for Maritime Temperate.

we're a bit tougher down here Buck, so it's not that bad :tounge:

 

[Jake the Dog]

Jake, save me a spot in the kennel. I'm moving down to Australia for the next month.

no worries mate! </goes to dig up the welcome bone>

 

[Bartender]

we're a bit tougher down here Buck, so it's not that bad :tounge:

Indeed four-legged one. Buck is very temperate, can't handle really cold or hot weather. He prefers it between 60°F and 75°F and for half of the year either foggy, overcast, or light showers. Very strange man.

On the other hand, I would enjoy visiting Australia during your Winter season, taking a nice tour up and down the East Coast.