# How cold for you this morning? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591 "2009-01-16T14:09:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/41 "2009-01-16T16:26:52Z")
My co-worker in Michigan said some guy went out to walk his dog last night and slipped on his patio and broke his leg. His carpool found him frozen to death this morning.:eek:☹ ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/42 "2009-01-16T16:33:34Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > What are you doing in Fond du Lac? Treating frostbitten prisoners? I’ll bet it’s warmer at your Lake Michigan home. Mine only went down to -8F last night (see pic in sig). At least I don’t have to plow to drive out today. I get around. It was -11 at home at 5:30 AM. The lake was making giant slushie sounds again, as the waves roll in. A neat effect, listening to it while sitting in the hot tub, when it’s minus double digits outside. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/43 "2009-01-16T16:57:59Z")
> [@taxi78cab](#): > > They said -21 on the radio for MSP airport. I didn’t look at our thermometer. Too depressing. Ours is stuck at 20. I think it was 20 one day last week. Minus 6 now. Yesterday was the coldest since 1996 – minus 23. **Kalhoun** , that’s awful! ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/44 "2009-01-16T16:58:47Z")
Sorry guys, but it’s about +50F (+10C) here right now. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/45 "2009-01-16T17:01:57Z")
+7F in Chattanooga. It didn’t feel that cold, really. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/46 "2009-01-16T17:17:55Z")
I don’t feel so bad now; we only got down to -9F. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/47 "2009-01-16T17:22:57Z")
-5F this morning in York, Maine, about normal for the area this time of year, meh, I’v dealt with worse, like the time I lived in Vermont and it never got above -20F for almost a month, average was -35F, without wind chill The cats were begging to go out this morning… Wannagoout!wannagoout!wannagooutNOW! \No!Nowannagoout!, Icanhazwarmbedspread?! the car started right up this morning, two slow turns of the starter motor and it was purring like an extremely cold kitten ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/48 "2009-01-16T17:26:09Z")
Cool season now, and it’s actually getting down into the mid-60s Fahrenheit at night now. Brrr! Should be back into the 70s and 80s at night in a couple of weeks. (Still in the 80s daytime, pushing 90.) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/49 "2009-01-16T17:30:28Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Right now about 82 F. With the trade winds, it’s rather pleasant. > > I _love_ to hear about how cold it is elsewhere. 😛 Yeah, we actually dipped down into the 40s, maybe 45-48F at the worst. It is very windy, so it’s not exactly “pleasant” out right now, at 55 F it’s bearable. You know we’re going to hell for this, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/50 "2009-01-16T18:18:15Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Right now about 82 F. With the trade winds, it’s rather pleasant. > > I _love_ to hear about how cold it is elsewhere. 😛 Eh. I was in Tampa for a conference in October and it was high 80s. I was miserable. We have that kind of weather around here, but that’s for **summer**. If it’s not gone by mid or late September, it’s abnormal. It was -17 F without windchill when I left the house this morning to walk several blocks to the train station, as always. The only bad part (besides the usual “trying to wrap the scarf around the face in such a manner that it doesn’t end up frosting up my glasses” puzzle) was that the gloves I bought this year are really substandard, and only showed that during the last two days when it actually got cold out. My fingertips started getting numb after less than two blocks. Plus my earmuffs press too hard on my ears. ☹ Think I’m making a trip to REI or a similar place tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/51 "2009-01-16T18:23:16Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > **checks flights to sunny California** > \* > _might just make it if I leave now and…_\* I’d better get some barbecue food if I’m having a party. Just to rub it in some more I’ve been working in the garden in shorts and a tank top. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/52 "2009-01-16T18:39:12Z")
65 right now. I’m freezing!! Should warm up into the 70s and 80s by next week, though. I haven’t had to turn on the heat yet this winter. The a/c is still on, just not kicking in. ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/53 "2009-01-16T18:50:18Z")
> [@SanibelMan](#): > > -17F this morning in Madison. (It was probably colder a couple of hours ago.) I’ve lived here since Saturday and already they’re having near-record cold? Is this some sort of a test? Since you asked, yes, it is. Where did you move here from? ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/54 "2009-01-16T18:53:47Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > We bottomed out at -24 this morning, right when the puppy needed to go out. Did he do the doggy doo doo dance? You know, lifting a leg at a time. I caught my first dog once walking on just her front feet. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/55 "2009-01-16T19:25:03Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > Sorry guys, but it’s about +50F (+10C) here right now. In Calgary? Is it moving our way? Woo hoo!! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/56 "2009-01-16T19:27:06Z")
Heat wave. We’re at +5F here at Kasa Kalhoun. ---
**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 16, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/57 "2009-01-16T19:31:05Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > My co-worker in Michigan said some guy went out to walk his dog last night and slipped on his patio and broke his leg. His carpool found him frozen to death this morning.:eek:☹ Oh man. In the winter, I’m always just a little uneasy that I might find a frozen dead guy outside when I leave my apartment in the morning, ever since the time I slipped on the ice at the top of the two steps and landed flat on my back on the sidewalk below. I was so bundled up that I was unharmed except for having the wind knocked out of me… but my head was ten centimetres from getting cracked open on the concrete edge of the lower step. Unconscious = dead. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/58 "2009-01-16T19:43:53Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > My co-worker in Michigan said some guy went out to walk his dog last night and slipped on his patio and broke his leg. His carpool found him frozen to death this morning.:eek:☹ I think I might have made Mr. Neville worried last night that something like that had happened to me. I had a doctor’s appointment, so when I stopped by home before that, I left my cell phone at home, so it wouldn’t ring in the doctor’s office. Then after that, I shoveled the walks by our house, then went to the pharmacy to drop off my prescription for my new medicine. While I was out, I went to run some other errands, figuring I’d be home before he came home from work. Of course, errands always take longer than you think they will. He was home by the time I got home and wondering where I was… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/59 "2009-01-17T00:59:11Z")
Damn, we’re supposed to go down to -11 tonight. I have an enclosed patio, off the living room, that I use as a greenhouse. It has double-paned windows and two baseboard heaters . . . usually enough to keep the place warm. I usually close the living room door at night, but in this weather I have to leave it open 24/7, to let more heat into the patio. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591/60 "2009-01-17T01:38:23Z")
It was 23 F this morning, but tonight it’s supposed to get down to 18 F or so. Pretty cold for us delicate hothouse flowers. 😛 **Harmonius** , I hope the repairman in your OP charged that old biddy double price. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-for-you-this-morning/481591.md?page=4)