“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” my ASS I am! For once I’d like a Christmas without any snow anywhere, since it’d be a good signal of it not being cold enough to freeze your nads off out there. But no such luck in Finland, no. Second day of -25C in row. It’s such a joyful feeling to have your eyelids cracking ever so slightly when you blink your eyes - not to mention when your nostrils freeze.
Of course, I have no-one to blame but myself for going out there. I just thought that now after Christmas might be a good time to return the books and the records to the library. Sigh.
Stupid wintery season. Why can’t summer come already?
I’d like to add, it feels like it’s -13 C. According to weather.com, anyway.
I don’t get this. If it feels like it’s one temperature, why isn’t it that temperature? I mean, what else are we measuring, other than how cold it feels? What’s the point?
I opened this thread to join you in railing against the cold, but I see you have it much worse than I do. I still hate it with every fiber of my being, and impatiently await the day I can leave the cold behind forever.
Here I am, in one of the warmest areas of the USA. I go outside about 7:30 this morning, and what do I see?
A thin coating of frost on the cars, on the railroad tracks on the other side of the parking lot, and on the grass in the park across the tracks. I’m exhaling giant clouds of steam and my nose is going numb from the cold.
What–is Tempe the cold spot in the so-called Valley of the Sun?
Of course, the sun is shining and there isn’t a cloud in the sky–and it gets up into the high 60s (F) this afternoon.
I guess the moral is: don’t go out so damn early in the morning.
Well, as I understand it, apparent temperature is based on the rate heat is leaving your body. This is influenced by a number of factors, not just the external temperature. Wind and moisture, mainly. So while the actual temperature might be -3, you could be losing heat from your body at the same rate as you would if it were -13.
Does that make sense? I don’t think I’ve explained it very well.
I was taking a coat to my aunt’s earlier today so she could repair the sleeve and when I walked back to my house,the wind was so strong that my eyes began to water. My eyelids promptly began to freeze together. Not too nice.
Well, at least is isn’t snowing… right now.
Oh, wait, never mind. Small flakes, though. The kind that sting when the wind blows them against you.
