I’m in NOVA, but grew up in Chicago. I’ve lived here for a bit over two years and my winter coat hasn’t left the closet. It’s still double digits! And it’s not windy!
Yeah. -6 right now, “feels like” -24 (Fahrenheit.) And it’s supposed to get colder towards the weekend.
The coldest I’ve experienced is the winter I spent in Saranac Lake, NY. Often times it was the coldest place in the US, excluding Alaska. It’s -16 there right now.
Elsewhere, and it can damn well stay there! I don’t care how cold it gets, but snow is a pain. Despite the fact that it snows here every year only half of the people living here know how to drive in it, and there are accidents and unnecessary slowdowns all over the place.
It’s about five degrees here, where I am. My poor little doggie’s feet freeze with a few minutes outside. My Mom bought him some booties which are basically like heavy duty balloons. I didn’t think they’d work (or that he’d put up with them) but he’s much happier when he wears them. I was surprised but they’re a hit with him.
I returned from St Martin (82 degrees) to Pittsburgh (-1 degrees). I was wearing shorts, Hawaiian shirt and sandals. Ouch.
Maryland here, and it’s too friggin cold.
I don’t want to go out but I have to and I have to stop for gas too.
At least there is no snow but I hear that’s coming too.
I feel like I can’t get warm.
With the wind chill, it’s close to -40 degrees here in Montreal. (Minus 40 is the same Celsius or Fahrenheit.)
Exposed flesh freezes instantly at this temperature. Plus, my lung problem acts up. And it’s a 20-minute walk to the bus. So I’m not risking anything, and I’m staying the hell inside today.
I think most of you have got the wrong idea- the key isn’t to think warm thoughts. The key is to think of fire ants. Or army ants. Or bullet ants. Picture them all ganging up, constantly marching northward, thinking that the warming planet means they can finally wipe the humans out once and for all. Picture their mandibles clacking together gleefully as they cackle to themselves. Now picture every last one of the little creeps freezing solid.
If that doesn’t make you leap out of your chair, rush outside, and do the ‘Eat it, cold-bloods!’ dance, you’re not picturing it right.
It was 10F when I was up at 6:30 in suburban Philadelphia this morning. Cats were reluctant to leave their warm positions in bed, but did eventually move for food. Dog was in and out pretty fast, no stopping for sniffs around the yard.
I feel bad for those having to wait out on the train platforms or for any public transportation. Too cold to do that.
When I was in college, we had some killer storms, including windchills of -80°F - they actually closed the university for 2 days!! I can’t recall how long we went without getting above 0°F, and it was even longer before we broke freezing. I was lots younger and even then I was not a happy camper! Two of the 3 winters I was there were record-breakers, and the third was close behind.
I still don’t like Indiana…
-31 F here in Ottawa today. It’s 10 degrees warmer in Iqualuit! I dug out my long underwear, the Arctic Program parka and James Bay mitts and my military surplus mukluks just so I could wait for the bus without freezing important bits of anatomy. Now the office is too hot :smack:.
1F currently in Maine - it was lovely waiting for the bus out with my daughter this morning (-3F at that point). Thank goodness for mad bomber hats!
One of the Montreal people I follow on Twitter pointed out that it’s also warmer in Iqualuit than Montreal.
(Iqualuit is a town in Canada’s north - the capital of Nunavut.)
Das Glasperlenspiel, let’s get a plane to the Arctic, where it’s warmer.
As other from my area (Montreal) have stated it is freezing, it’s been a long time since it’s been this cold in winter. The elevators at work have little screen in them giving you news. Every morning I look at the temperature in Calgary and it’s always so much colder than here, but this morning Calgary was -4 while here was -24 (not counting windshield).
And to think I had to take my car out of its nice heated garage to park it outside. And tonight I’ll have to sit in a frozen car and hopefully it will start.
As I saw on Facebook, “it’s so cold I saw a teenager pull his pants up”… cracked me up!
We’re expecting a HIGH of 1 degree today.
I’m good for that.
I’m in Cockeysville/Hunt Valley, and it was 12F when I woke up this morning. It was 56F in my kitchen. Man, I need a house with better heating and insulation.
We have been bitching in Las Vegas that it has been dipping down to the high 20’s at night and only the mid 50’s by day. This week it will be low 40’s at night and mid to high 60’s by day. Don’t laugh…when you have lived here awhile, your blood seems to thin and you get cold really easily and this is damned nippy for us!
Then again - I do recall winter in Berlin and New York City - but most of all, I recall the Chicago winters…how I lived through them is a miracle. I recall one day I was running late for work in Chicago - took a very quick shower, got dressed and went out to catch the bus to the Loop. I thought there was a twig in my hair (long hair in my youth) and broke it - it was a frozen hair! And I can still recall how much it hurt to breath that cold air!
No, I don’t miss Chicago in the winter.
Forgot to mention a story from an ex-Chicago dude I met in Los Angeles. He got up one morning in Chicago and went to the bathroom to take a shower. He and his roommates always left the window in the bathroom opened just a little crack to let air in. Over night, the toilet had busted, frozen over, and there was a huge ball of ice where the toilet should have been. He took a look at it, called and booked a flight to LA and left that day. Last I heard, he was still living in LA.
Because it is fairly quiet at work today, a few of us decided to try out the “cupful of boiling water tossed into the freezing air” trick out behind the office. Absent immediate access to boiling water, a cup of Tim Horton’s coffee was offered up. It worked! Coffee-scented vapour and "snowflakes’ everywhere! Unfortunately, my iPhone didn’t catch it, but we are going to try it again later today.
Gotta make your own fun in this weather!