31F is NOT fucking frigid

[look_ninjas]

@Derleth

You should move here. We get down to below -20 and up to over 100, both Fahrenheit. Not often, but often enough that the newscasters know that freezing isn’t frigid and that 85 isn’t scorching.

We also lose people to both hypothermia and heat stroke, but not that often and never on the same day.

I think I’ll stick with the weather I’ve got, thanks.

The odd thing is that we do get high temperatures in the summer - 100F is very rare, but it has ever happened, and we always have a few days above 90F. So I don’t know why this particular weatherperson was so freaked out about eighty degrees. Maybe he’d forgotten that summer was coming.

[Derleth]

look!ninjas: I don’t blame you. It’s just that when people think Montana must always be freezing, I laugh: Sure, we probably get a lot colder a lot more often than Los Angeles, but we’re coming out of a period of mid-thirties to low-fifties right now. (We’ll be around -10 by the weekend, but it isn’t always that cold even in the middle of winter.) When it’s summertime, this place gets hot. Hot enough that the heat is opressive without any humidity, in fact, and hot enough you can die standing outside without shade or sufficient hydration.

Eastern Montana is high plains. There’s usually no humidity and there’s rather less atmosphere than costal people are used to. Recipies have to be modified, the temperature drops twenty degrees after sunset, and when a warm wind blows in from the Gulf, we get rain (or snow) and we get pretty warm. Then an Arctic wind blows in and we’re keeping the cats indoors because, for all their fur, they’d freeze to death if we left them to their own.* All within the period of less than two weeks.

*(Well, one of the cats is smart and well-traveled enough to make it to a neighbor’s barn and get food and heat there. Scared us pretty good the last cold spell, until we found the little shit walking around mewling for attention once the freeze had broken. Damn cat. :D)

[LifeOnWry]

I have never heard of anywhere having as broad a range of temps as the Midwest. Windchills of -30F are not usual, but we get one or two per winter, and while summer temps average in the high 80s, we get enough 100+ days (with 90% humidity) to give any greenhouse a run for its money.

Right now it’s 12F and WINDY - the damned wind feels like it’s blowing through you.

[tdn]

@smiling bandit

Were you up in Asheville at the time? Asheville is rather elevated.

DING DING DING DING DING! We have a weiner!

Yep. Way up in the mountains. Which probably explains it.

My family tells me that just after I left, the temps got up to the high 80s. Yeah, sure.

[tdn]

@LifeOnWry

I have never heard of anywhere having as broad a range of temps as the Midwest. Windchills of -30F are not usual, but we get one or two per winter, and while summer temps average in the high 80s, we get enough 100+ days (with 90% humidity) to give any greenhouse a run for its money.

I don’t doubt it, but it sounds like New England as well. 100+ days (with the humidity) are pretty rare, but in the last few years we’ve seen it all too often. And a week ago today I went to work in -10 frigidity with a wind chill of something like -100000.

Time to move to Hawaii.