# JESUS IT"S COLD!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901 "2004-12-21T02:11:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![maleinblack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@maleinblack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maleinblack)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/21 "2004-12-21T07:24:20Z")
I can understand the cold weather worries. Recently moved from sunny, humid Bombay where it was 95F in the summers to Minneapolis where it is single digit temperatures. Still learning to adjust to the cold cruel weather. ---
**Author:** ![Spongemom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Spongemom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spongemom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/22 "2004-12-21T07:26:55Z")
I wish it would start getting colder here. It was in the 60s today. It’s starting to piss me off, because the warmer winter is, the hotter next summer is going to be. I hate triple digit temps, and I know for damn sure next summer is going to be like that, because we’ve only been below freezing maybe twice this year so far. Normally, we would have a foot of snow on the ground right now, and it would have snowed a few times already. Not this year. One flurry, and nothing stuck to the ground. Next summer is going to suck balls. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/23 "2004-12-21T13:54:37Z")
> [@Spongemom](#): > > It’s starting to piss me off, because the warmer winter is, the hotter next summer is going to be. Cite? 😃 > [@Toddly](#): > > Yeah we have been suffering in the high 60’s most of the week. That’s why California is a state of sissies. It was 10 here in Bodymore, Murdaland yesterday, but that’s not cold until you have it for 2 weeks straight, with wind. I grew up in Maine and lived in Ithaca, NY. I’ve known cold. It doesn’t get cold in Baltimore. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/24 "2004-12-21T15:17:58Z")
It was 5 degrees when I drove to work this morning. We’re supposed to have a high of 8 and a low of maybe -10 tonight, I heard. Still no snow, though! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/25 "2004-12-21T15:19:35Z")
That was supposed to be -10. As in 10 below. I still want snow. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/26 "2004-12-21T16:19:50Z")
I’m glad it’s 15 F today. So much warmer than yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/27 "2004-12-21T16:21:47Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > That was supposed to be -10. As in 10 below. > > I still want snow. I spent a very cold winter in Rochester, MN in the late nineties. I’m still thawing out. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/28 "2004-12-21T17:33:09Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Amateurs. > > _has been walking outside in -35 Celsius weather_ Oh yeah? Well, I spent a winter in The Pas, Manitoba, where it was -40°C for nine months! Before the wind chill! (Not really, but damned close.) For those of you in the south, you know it’s reallllllly cold when you get square tires on your car. I do have sympathy for you Southerners who aren’t used to cold, though. I have a “winter skin” theory - tolerance for cold needs to be developed over time, and if you’re not used to it, you have no way of developing a tolerance for it. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/29 "2004-12-21T18:10:46Z")
> [@gfloyd](#): > > It’s 1.6 F here with high winds and a snow cover. And I have to walk across two gargantuane parking lots tomorrow morning before 7:30 am. I would love 15 degree weather. Well, rejoice. After getting down to -4 F last night, it will be in the 50’s tomorrow. Massachusetts weather is just wackily inconsistent. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/30 "2004-12-21T18:24:47Z")
Oh, we used to _dream_ of fifteen degrees Fahrenheit! We used to get up in the morning half an hour before we went to bed… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/31 "2004-12-21T18:42:29Z")
It’s currently hovering around 2 or 3 degrees C in London. That’s mid 30s to you. But I wish it would get colder. I love crisp frosty days. There’s currently much hoopla in the press because it appears we might get a few flakes of sleety snow on Christmas Day, which means the bookies have to pay out on a white Christmas. Let it snow, let it snow… (Anyone who’s seen a love story set in London knows that it always snows here :rolleyes: ) ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/32 "2004-12-21T22:04:43Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > I spent a very cold winter in Rochester, MN in the late nineties. > > I’m still thawing out. It wasn’t the winter of '96-'97, was it? That was one of the worst winters I can remember. Anyhoo, we’re under a Wind Chill Advisory now. I think I’ll go Christmas shopping after work. I may have to put my winter jacket on, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/33 "2004-12-21T22:07:34Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > I have a “winter skin” theory - tolerance for cold needs to be developed over time, and if you’re not used to it, you have no way of developing a tolerance for it. I think there is something to this. At the start of winter, when it dips down below 0C, I am cold and I wear a coat. At the end of winter, when it gets back up to 0C, I quite happily pop about in a windbreaker. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/34 "2004-12-22T00:14:30Z")
She didn’t elaborate in the email, but some part of my manager’s car had frozen and required thawing this morning. She’s in Minneapolis, where I understand the temp’s in the -10 to +5 area. And I’m going there in three weeks? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/35 "2004-12-22T00:36:44Z")
It’s not insanely cold in _all_ of Canada… here in the balmy West, we were about 6 C (43 F) today, but cold wimp that I am… that’s cold enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/36 "2004-12-22T01:02:50Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I think there is something to this. At the start of winter, when it dips down below 0C, I am cold and I wear a coat. At the end of winter, when it gets back up to 0C, I quite happily pop about in a windbreaker. I think part of it is also because a 0° day at the beginning of winter is a bad weather day (grey & gloomy) but at the end it’s a good weather day (sunny & bright). ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/37 "2004-12-22T01:44:08Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > (Has slept in an unfinished uninsulated house in -35C temperature. > > The house was designed to be heated by the sun, and was actually +6 inside, so all I needed was a huge pile of blankets. But still, getting out of bed was not fun. Neither was using the outhouse in -35 weather.) Outhouse… -35… Oh _hell_ no. I would improvise a way to take care of those functions without exposing the organs to that kind of temperature. It may sound disgusting, but a jug or a plastic bag is better than frostbite on the bell end or ringpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/38 "2004-12-22T05:22:42Z")
> [@maleinblack](#): > > Recently moved… to Minneapolis Welcome to MN! 🙂 It’s -2°F right now, and that doesn’t factor in the Wind Chill, which I would guess to be somewhere around -10,000°… It’s COLD. And we have but a light dusting of snow, which totally grates my cheese. WTF? It’s nearly Christmas, damn it! I want snow drifts that are taller than me!! I want to look outside in the mornings and panic because my car’s not in the driveway, but only for a moment before I realize it’s completely buried under a bajillion feet of snow! I want roof-to-ground icicles! :mad: Can it just be tornado season again now? ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/39 "2004-12-22T15:13:35Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > It’s COLD. And we have but a light dusting of snow, which totally grates my cheese. WTF? It’s nearly Christmas, damn it! I want snow drifts that are taller than me!! I want to look outside in the mornings and panic because my car’s not in the driveway, but only for a moment before I realize it’s completely buried under a bajillion feet of snow! I want roof-to-ground icicles! :mad: You and me both, **Silver Fire**! I can’t stand the thought of a “brown Christmas” and that’s exactly what we’re going to get. The wind chills could get down to 35 below here tonight, with an actual temp of 12 below. Sounds like a good night for cuddling on the couch under a pile of blankets! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901/40 "2004-12-22T15:18:24Z")
Just read my “location” line. That’s all I gotta say. Here, let me raise a frosty, ice-cold drink to all of ya. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-it-s-cold/280901.md?page=3)