It’s sunrise and -9F which is the coldest it’s been this season in Portage. It’s a nasty, cold, loud scrunchy snow, frigid, brittle metal breaking, face freezing morning here, and the truck started. 
Not meaning to seem rude or anything–but why the &%@$ would you want to live somewhere where it gets that cold?
“Location: Beirut”
Well, maybe because there’s no civil war going on there, nobody shooting mortar rounds & rockets into apartments, etc.?
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But… here is one of the reasons I live where I do. That’s not even a very good pic. Sometimes, It’s just absolutely spectacular (not much of a shutter bug, need to take more). That’s from my front deck.
Yep it can be a pain. We have snow on the ground about 6 months out of the year. -20 f is notable, but not unusual. Happens every year.
I’ve never even experienced anything below about 25 or so Fahrenheit. That was pretty bloody cold by my standards, although I’d like to experience extreme cold.
- posting this at 12:25am with all the doors and windows open, sitting in my underpants (as one does).
Yep, it’s very brisk here in Wisconsin. Even the dogs wanted to come right back inside after the morning business. This is the kind of weather where you must not squeeze your nose, since your nostrils will freeze shut.
My furnace works and my refrigerator is full. Life is good.
Please be smart if you are going anywhere and take a couple blankets with you just in case.
:eek: Seriously?
It got down to negative 13 last night. Right now it’s a balmy ten below.
Why do I live here? Well, for one, in my opinion negative 13 is easier to deal with than 110 above. Also, there’s something in me that longs for Big Winters. I never got them in Colorado (we lived in the Front Range, not the mountains. Front Range simply doesn’t get winters) and I missed them horribly.
I like the snow, I like the occasional really cold snap - it tends to stay a bit warmer here next to the Lake, negative ten is not normal, but it’s fun when it happens. I like going outside and feeling the silence (snow very much dims sound.)
There’s a lot of reasons why we might eventually move away from here, but for me at least, the weather isn’t one of them.
This is the forecast for the city in Ontario where I was born. Forecasts like it are a major factor in why I enjoy living in Florida. Because even though it was at or just below freezing here last night, up there it was near seventy degrees colder with the windchill. I don’t miss that a bit!
Seriously. It gets so cold that if you’re out for more than a few minutes, you can’t even “expand” your nostrils (ya know…like a horse). They just get frozen.
Signed – Freezing in Chicago (-5 degrees)
(Go Bears)
As I type it’s -14F here in Minneapolis.
Dammit, people! Let’s get out there and burn some fossil fuel!
Wooo! Compared to some, it’s practically balmy here in my section of NE Ohio - it’s 5 degrees with wind chills of -13.
I think I need more hot coffee. And to turn up the heat.
Makes me feel a bit better about the -15C (5F) temps we have here in the greater Toronto area right now. Mind you, with the wind chill right now it feels like -27C (-16F) so, yeah … maybe not.
I’m feeling tropical at 12 above this morning. We’re getting November’s weather now since we got February’s weather last Nov. when it was -20. Had a chinook a few days ago when a ‘pineapple express’ came through and warmed the place to 50. Crazy winter this year.
Yeah, it’s -10 F here in southern Minnesota, or around -30 F if you count windchill.
Or as we like to call it, “A bit nippy”.
A few weeks ago, my hubby was talking to his sister, who lives in the mountains above a ski resort in Idaho. We were having an unusually warm spell and she was having an unusually cold spell. It was -30F where she was – and 70F where we were. That’s right, there was a 100F difference in temps between Idaho and Maryland! :eek:
My mind is still boggling. (At least we’re down below freezing all week now, so it finally feels like winter here, too.)
We like to call it “A bit nipply.”
It’s not that bad. They just stick together. But when it’s that cold, it’s a good idea to wrap a scarf across the lower part of your face.
Really, as long as you dress in enough layers, you can be perfectly comfortable at that temperature and even much lower. I used to walk to work all year round, including in -23F and lower weather with cold windchills. And I’d arrive at work warm. You can always put more clothes on if it’s cold out which is why I prefer cold to heat. When it’s hellish hot you can only take so much off before you’re down to skin with noplace else to go.
Denver sure does have it’s nice days in the winter. Which is kind of nice.
This CNN article is a bit misleading. Denver pretty much shut down. Few people could get to the mountains to ski for days. Many people where home bound for about a week or so.
Denver got about 3-4 feet from that one storm alone.
And this winter, I suspect they have got about 5-6 feet at least. I live in the mountains about 100 miles to the west. I’ve been to Denver a few times in the last month. It’s a mess. For many days, if you did not have a 4x4, you could not go anywhere.
This year in Denver and the front range, winter is back in force.
Yep. You get used to it.
Where I lived (the “North” part of my name), it is currently -22c or -8F. Unseasonably warm for this time of year.