# Baby, it's cold outside. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851 "2014-01-04T05:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/41 "2014-01-06T12:56:36Z")
It is -9 f in my back yard right now. The winds have calmed down a bit. I just started my truck. The company put a rebuilt engine in it this past summer, and it was hard to start. I am off to the dentist. I just can’t get a break today… ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/42 "2014-01-06T13:23:20Z")
-21F in Minneapolis right now, windchill -44F. Suffice it to say, I’m staying indoors all day today. Went out last night when it was -11F, the gym was packed. Taking that first breath outside after spending an hour sweating and puffing - not fun at all. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/43 "2014-01-06T13:35:08Z")
It’s cold enough here that clicking the C and F buttons on the weather page doesn’t do much of anything. -36/windchill -47 C, or -33/windchill -53F. Hope my block heater timer worked, as I’m back at work today. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/44 "2014-01-06T13:52:17Z")
For old timers and youngsters alike, the difference between then and now, when it comes to wind chill. [http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/?n=windchill](http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/?n=windchill) ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/45 "2014-01-06T13:57:58Z")
It was -21 about an hour ago when I drove to work. The “high” is supposed to be in the negative teens today. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/46 "2014-01-06T14:24:48Z")
It’s not as cold as was promised. -12 instead of -18. It isn’t supposed to get any warmer today, though, which freaks me out. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/47 "2014-01-06T16:11:18Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > For old timers and youngsters alike, the difference between then and now, when it comes to wind chill. > > [http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/?n=windchill](http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ddc/?n=windchill) Eh, we should go back to reporting it in watts per square metre, like they did in the seventies. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/48 "2014-01-06T16:44:32Z")
Well, the weather seems to be already ahead of you on that. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/49 "2014-01-06T17:30:16Z")
Currently -19F with -45F windchill here in sunny South Dakota. Time for a picnic!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/50 "2014-01-06T17:47:07Z")
Will somebody from Chicago please report? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/51 "2014-01-06T17:54:54Z")
NW Burbs of Chicago. -15 (F). ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/52 "2014-01-06T17:56:31Z")
The one good thing about the frigid temps, when I take Cooper out for his walks/bathroom breaks, he is very prompt, does both eliminations, and asks to go back in right away, 5 minutes tops… Normally, he’ll just run around at the end of the leash, then stop and just… Stare off into the distance, at nothing, he’d do this for as long as possible, just staring, and when I have to go to work in the morning, this can be very annoying… Cooper, do your business and go back in, I gotta go to work here… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/53 "2014-01-06T17:57:39Z")
Balmy -13 here at noon in Minneapolis. -36 wind chill. I think I’ll take up jogging. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/54 "2014-01-06T18:06:36Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > One of our neighbors couldn’t get his car started early Friday am and it was only in the low 20s. Tuesday morning there’s going to be a huge number of people in that boat. And today in their driveway they have a brand new vehicle. That’s one way of solving the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/55 "2014-01-06T18:48:21Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > NW Burbs of Chicago. -15 (F). Was just about to report a heat wave - I looked at my thermometer on the wall by the window and it says -8! Which was all good until I realized the dryer vent is blowing on the probe. It’s still -15. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/56 "2014-01-06T19:07:29Z")
There is just something so wrong when the high temperature is taken at 12:01 AM cause the mercury is dropping like crazy, and will keep doing so all day. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/57 "2014-01-06T19:39:36Z")
It’s global warming! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/58 "2014-01-06T22:09:03Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > There is just something so wrong when the high temperature is taken at 12:01 AM cause the mercury is dropping like crazy, and will keep doing so all day. I blame Obama. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/59 "2014-01-06T22:44:18Z")
Its 80F right now in Los Angeles, lows of 51F overnight. I read that an unusually warm front has pushed what is called a “polar vortex” further south than usual from the arctic north. That’s why its so cold, we’re getting North Pole weather! ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851/60 "2014-01-06T23:11:02Z")
I should be at work right now. My truck refused to start. It got up to about -12F this afternoon and is now cooling off from there. Earlier I set off for the hardware store to see if they had anything that could help me get my truck going. I slipped on ice and (I hope) didn’t twist my ankel on the way down. It’s hard to say if I damaged anything because I’m arthritic in that ankel so it hurts as a matter of course. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to get up when it happened. I was in an area very exposed to the high wind when it happened. Luckily I was able to limp away. This kind of cold can quickly become dangerous. If I had really been hurt I could have been there for a long time which could have been potentially deadly. Everyone stay safe out there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-its-cold-outside/677851.md?page=4)