Weather

[shmeep]

Our low today is six. Yep, six. I don't know if it's been this cold since I moved here, but no snow! Booooo! I want snow! Cold without snow isn't any fun at all! But it's not so bad. I bundled up good today because it gets really cold on the metro platforms waiting for trains. Luckily all my trains matched up today and I didn't have to wait for anything so I didn't get truly chilled.

It's shocking that we were in the low seventies just a couple of weeks ago. Weather is really strange this year.

[Duchess of Lashes]

To quote the temperature correctly one must also factor in the wind chill and while we are no where in the range of Minneapolis (sitting at a healthy -30 which is more than enough to make a hearty Canadian shiver), we were also below the 0 mark for the first time I can remember since moving here!

You also have a very valid point - if it is going to be this cold, we could at least get the snow to go with it. To me, that's like eating a cookie without the chocolate chips!

Pray that for once, our weather prognosticators get it right - they are forecasting snow, with potential accumulation tomorrow night!

[Deleted]

my nose just froze off.

[rducasey]

divinemrse said:

my nose just froze off.

Oh my gosh, Barb. Mine too. @&#%&*, it is pretty darn cold out there. I think it is -15 with the wind chill. OK, groundhog, you said Spring was coming, we want to know when.

[Colorado girl]

I totally feel all your pain... This is the first week since Christmas that we are not getting a major snowstorm. I can't wait for spring. I haven't remembered such a cold or snowy winter and I am a native of Colorado. Stay warm all you midwesterners and Easterners.

[Eyphur]

The low temperature here tonight is predicted to be -3F. The wind chill is suposed to be -25F.

I only remember one time before when it was this cold, in the winter of 1994. My dad took a picture of the thermometer that morning when it read -22F!

[krissie]

Reading these posts, I've suddenly realised that our current cold snap isn't cold at all. In fact, our cold is positively balmy compare to what some of you guys have been getting.

After about three months of regular gales and severe gales and more rain than I think I've ever seen in my life, we're going through a period of cooler and calmer weather. Thankfully! In fact, this week, we're having what I think of as a series of perfect winter days.

Perfect, to me means, frost at night -- with lots of car windscreen scraping in the mornings -- and clear sunny days during which the temperature gets above freezing.

In fact, these last couple of days, the weather has been so great that I've been out walking in my lunchbreaks with friends. (Yes, we keep walking boots in our cars and head into the hills behind the office whenever we get the chance.)

According to the forecasts, we might get a little snow at the weekend, but if we do, it won't last and there won't be much of it.

Krissie.

[carl1951]

We were minus 10 (Farhenheit).

Good thing I'm not in Scotland (wearing a kilt) my knees would freeze, not to mention other parts of my body.

(just kidding, Krissy).

We warmed-up to 30. Grab the suntan lotion.

Later, Carl

[egw]

carl1951 said:

We were minus 10 (Farhenheit).

Good thing I'm not in Scotland (wearing a kilt) my knees would freeze, not to mention other parts of my body.

(just kidding, Krissy).

We warmed-up to 30. Grab the suntan lotion.

Later, Carl

Well, today it got up to near 60. That's after an ice storm, and a snow storm, but we have another cold front coming in.
I saw two robins during the ice storm. They are suppose to come in the spring. I don't know what they ate. I put out bird seed, and dry cat food. Hope they did OK.

[carl1951]

Karma to you for feeding the birds.

We always throw bread and seed out during the cold months.

We even have a homeless cat (can't get her coaxed to come in) we feed everyday during the winter, not to mention the during the other three seasons.

Later, Carl

[janna]

I have heard in the news that there are pretty cold in US.

He, he ;D We have weather like in spring, 10°C (I don't know the Farenheit scale ). It is good to me, I don't feel cold... But I can say it is pretty unusually. When I was a child there was big cold times (-10°C ) with big snow. Now it is like that.

[Eyphur]

janna said:

I have heard in the news that there are pretty cold in US.

He, he ;D We have weather like in spring, 10°C (I don't know the Farenheit scale ). It is good to me, I don't feel cold... But I can say it is pretty unusually. When I was a child there was big cold times (-10°C ) with big snow. Now it is like that.

I was bored so I converted them. 10C = 50F and -10C = 14F.

ETA: I used this website to do the conversions www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm.

[krissie]

carl1951 said:

Good thing I'm not in Scotland (wearing a kilt) my knees would freeze, not to mention other parts of my body.

(just kidding, Krissy).

Just so you know, wearing a kilt isn't obligatory here. Well, not unless you're in a pipe band, anyway. (And even then, I've seen players on frosty days wear nylons under their kilts and knee-length socks for added wamth. There. I bet that's shattered a few illusions, eh?)

Krissie

[housemouse]

We have our first snow day. We got about three inches last night and the snow is still falling. No school! The boys have already been out playing in the drifts. Until today, I have never experienced a snow day in all my life. Chalk one up for Nebraska.

[shmeep]

housemouse said:

We have our first snow day. We got about three inches last night and the snow is still falling. No school! The boys have already been out playing in the drifts. Until today, I have never experienced a snow day in all my life. Chalk one up for Nebraska.

Congratulations, Mouse! I still haven't had a snow day. Here, when it snows a lot the government shuts down so I can either take a sick day or go into my interpreting agency and sit there all day doing nothing in order to get paid. Even that hasn't happened since I moved here. All we've had are a few instances of the government calling a voluntary leave day for government employees--and this means I still always have to go in because I'm not a government employee and I need to be here even if only one Deaf person shows up. And the Deaf people here always seem to brave the elements no matter what so I have to as well. Shucks!