# Leavin’ on a jet plane - at 4am - at 45 below ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397 "2020-01-14T10:53:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397/21 "2020-01-15T01:42:12Z")
I think my extremes were arriving to -17F in Milwaukee one January (-33F wind chill) and arrival in Abu Dhabi at 10pm at night and 96F. Been to over 110 airports so have survived most everything. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397/22 "2020-01-15T01:48:40Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Tensions have been running high since the election in October. > > Justin’s decision to grow a beard, thereby throwing in his lot with the hipster generation and abandoning the clean-shaven baby boomers, has not helped the situation. … and apparently there’s an unsolicited and ambit claim for the importation and formal restoration of the monarchy floating around to raise the angst of the Canadian populace almost to the stage of politely complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397/23 "2020-01-15T02:21:09Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > You’re supposed to go south this time of year, not north! I know! I only half-jokingly suggested to the organization I have to meet with, that we hold our February meeting in Las Vegas. Unsurprisingly, they didn’t go for it. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397/24 "2020-01-15T07:19:23Z")
Varied locales define specific ranges of “cold”. A winter Kansas reading of -40 (f or c, same-same) is noticeable. Sub-freezing in sub-sea-level Palm Springs CA is noticeable. “Too cold to pee” is noticeable almost anywhere. An old (ca. 1960) book on Arabs mentioned a resident of Oman complaining of the bitter cold - 80f. We drove through Yucatan in late November. The car thermometer displayed 93f. A local fellow bicycled past wearing a heavy sweater, no doubt to avoid chills. I prefer cold to hot weather. Cold, one can always dress warmer. Hot, one can’t strip past a certain limit. “It ain’t no sin / To take off your skin / And dance around in your bones” but that gets messy. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397/25 "2020-01-15T08:12:08Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > “Too cold to pee” is noticeable almost anywhere. It’s never too cold to pee, if you have to pee. I well remember relieving myself behind my friend’s barn, in -25C temps, when I was helping him out with farm work, one cold winter’s day. Of course, when doing so, you put your back to the wind. If you don’t, things get messy. 😉 > [@](#): > > Cold, one can always dress warmer. True, but that carries with it certain challenges. Ever tried to undo your seat belt when you’re wearing a heavy parka (that overlaps the “seatbelt release” button) while wearing heavy gloves? It’s difficult, if not damn near impossible, to do. So off comes a glove, up comes the parka, you get cold, and one of your hands gets frozen. Then, you need to use your key fob to open or lock the car from the outside. The buttons on the fob are too small to hit with heavy gloves; you need to remove your gloves in order to hit the button. I must have removed my gloves ten times, in -25C temps tonight, with a wind chill, on a couple of simple errands that I needed my car for. My hands were so frozen and stiff, that it was ten minutes before I could put my groceries away when I got home. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397/26 "2020-01-15T08:25:44Z")
Hey, it’s super foggy in Arkansas tonight (:)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leavin-on-a-jet-plane-at-4am-at-45-below/846397.md?page=1)