Okay, stoidela your work is done here. I just checked the temp in Anaheim and it’s 85F. I don’t know what kind of weather control technology (or MAGIC! . . . from SATAN!) you’ve been using, but it’s time to turn it off.
Does body fat composition really have that much to do with cold tolerance, though? I can’t find any cites either way. Two of my best friends are obese, and both are utterly cold intolerant. As in, keeping the indoor temps at 75-80, which makes me want to peel my skin off.
A woman who worked for me for several years, back when I smoked: she and I are both real skinny but she was always cold, it was a running joke. We’d go out for a smoke break in winter, she bundled to the max, would smoke half a cigarette in about three minutes and her face and ears and hands would be red and freezing cold to the touch, she’d be shivering uncontrollably. She was seriously, legitimately cold. I’d stay out for a whole cigarette wearing a fraction of what she was, and my extremities would be normal and warm and I felt fine.
On the other hand, once it hits 80 and humid (my thermostat changed during menopause) I am practically useless and very, very, truly, physically unhappy. I don’t understand people who are happy when it’s really hot, I truly don’t. I can push through and deal, but I fucking loathe it. So I wonder how much is hard-wired metabolic settings, and how much is truly acclimation.
We had a high of 8 and a low of who the fuck knows today, and it was icy and snowy and sparkly and beautiful. We followed various wild animal tracks in the snow and after a commute on icy roads, there’s a sort of survivor glee: HA! I made it safely! Again! Up yours, Winter!
What sucked was I do not have a garage and the rear and side doors on my work van were frozen shut all day. I had to climb over the seats to get stuff out. Oh and the heavy ice on the power lines shut the power off to the job for several hours. But walking in to a warm house after being cold feels great. I love living in four seasons because there’s something primal and elemental and connected about it.
Its 25 degrees outside (it was snowing when the OP first posted).
One of the Xmas presents this year was a bread machine with a timer. I used it today & I timed it badly: the bread wasn’t ready until 7:30, well after dinner.
Also, my firewood ring is full, but I still had some good wood outside that would just rot w/o being burned. That, and someone sent us a nice bottle of Merlot for an Xmas present as well.
So, tonight… our house had a wood fire, with good red wine & hot fresh bread to enjoy by it. 
Happy Monday to All! (…and to All a Good Night!)
*my youngest just hugged me & went to bed as I just typed that.
You have weird frost if it’s occurring at 37.
It probably gets lower overnight, the 37 is 7am when I leave for work. That’s about the lowest it gets all year. I don’t count lower because I’m not awake. If it starts snowing, I’m calling in sick! 
It hit 32 a couple of times last week in Pasadena… as anyone who saw the Rose Parade heard about, I’m sure…
It was so cold a couple of the plants in the yard got damaged… I wasn’t sure how we’d survive if that the guavas or papayas had been damaged… AND we had to put another blanket on the bed… Last week was horrifying! It was enough to make us think about moving south - to Hawaii!
Luckily today it was 77… we’re staying… 
I’ve always preferred the cold – at least when it’s cold outside, you can bundle up, and just add more layers of blankets. But when it’s hot out, well, there’s only so much you can strip off. You can’t take off your skin. You know?
Plus I’ve always been able to tolerate the cold better – not a big fan of the heat. I mean, I can DEAL with it, but I don’t like it.
Well shucks man/ma’am. 61 is right fine motorcycle weather.
No he doesn’t. Frost routinely occurs when the air temperature is slightly above freezing.
Sure, but the surface still has to be below freezing, which seems unlikely if the temperature never dropped below 37 (I realize YogSosoth has already addressed this. Just saying).
There are several sources around the web, including wiki, that attribute this to radiative cooling. Surfaces that are colder than the air temperature seem to be quite common. Also, there can be pockets of air that are colder than the lowest recorded temperature.
Eh, I’d rather just assume it’s because LA is weird.
We prefer Barbarians.
Welcome to Paradise. I’ve been here for going on 25 years.
The original Kahuna Grill in Goleta is still around. SB has some excellent restaurants but not so much with certain types of food.
Yeah. E-bar is long gone but it was mediocre food anyway. It was a TGI Fridays clone. I heard that something is finally going to be put into that space soon.
We set ours to 50 to save propane, and crank up the electric blanket or mattress pad (but not both at once!)
If you don’t ming my asking, how much is your A/C bill in the summer? $50 a month for heat is a pittance, but on the flip side we don’t pay too much for electricity in the summer.
And yes, finally the single digits this morning! Now I feel alive!
On one hand, (generic) you should retain heat better as a result of having more mass. On the other hand, you’d have more skin surface to react to the cold. So I could see where you’d technically stay warm longer in terms of body temperature but the most temperature sensitive parts of you (your skin) would suffer more in the meantime.
Just a guess though.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.
84 right now.
As it should be.
Perfect January weather!
Just wanted to say, if the title had used “core” instead of “marrow” it’d be much more fun to say. Even in mind-speak.
Perhaps cochrane is a “snowbird”? One of the migratory species that spend winters in the sunbelt region and move north for the summer? My aunt and her husband did that for several years, living in Yuma (Sonoran desert) in the winter, but at some point they decided that NW winters were manageable enough that the cost of migrating and living in a 25’ RV for six months was too much, or maybe grew to fear that they were getting soft or something.
-17 predicted for tomorrow morning’s temp (without windchill) – at least one school has already scheduled a two-hour delay. Ah, the refreshing feeling of one’s face prickling with cold and then losing any sensation.