Just saw this actual headline on the 1010 WINS news site (“you give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you a headache!”).
It was 7º this morning when I left my house, true; but does that make this cold wave “ridiculous?” My Webster’s defines it as “laughable; arousing or deserving ridicule; absurd; preposterous.”
I personally would prefer, say, a “zany” cold wave, or a “madcap” cold wave. And I look forward to this summer’s “wacky” hot spell.
That cold- here in Idaho it is T-shirt weather right now.(High 40’s - low 50’s.)
In my book, anything lower than 65 F is preposterous.
Eve, I hate to tell you this, but it’s called ridiculous because all of us in parts of the world where the weather behaves in a civilized fashion are laughing at all of you.
It may have been 7 degrees way up there in Manhattan Eve, but it was 7 degrees here. That’s ridiculous.
I find the snow and cold in NC (where I moved to escape the bad weather) completely ludicrous.
As long as it’s not a permanent wave.
A few guys at a bar last night were all complaining about how you northerners are bringing it with you :D.
Yes, but it was 3 degrees here. Although I don’t suppose it’s something to brag about.
We had the big goose egg yesterday. I think we soared to 4 degrees today. Stupid winter.
It was 15 with a windchill factor of 7 this morning in south Georgia. I call that icky.
Eve, it’s a ridiculous cold wave because when anyone suggests that such refined ladies as you and I venture out into this abominable climate, the immediate response is “Go out? In this? Ridiculous!”
Okay, maybe not quite, but I’m staying in as much as possible. I already have all-day-and-night morning sickness to deal with, I don’t need frostbite too.
It’s definately ridiculous, as in preposterous, I’m not really this cold.
Also ridiculous as in, when it snows some and gets this cold, everybody here in South Carolina goes to the grocery store to buy bread and milk. Which is kinda ridiculous.
When we visited my mom’s family in Pittsburgh earlier this month, we got this much snow between the airport and my aunt’s house, and nobody cared. The city certainly did not shut down. I know, for a fact, that other places in the world can deal with this.
Yet somehow I found myself wanting to buy milk and bread. Gosh, do we have enough? Am I sure? It’s just me and the dog, but…
points and snickers
Remember when you all offered to swap with the North a few months back? We decided to take you up on it.
Suckers. 
Bah. It’s ridiculous to call this a cold snap. You’re all wimps.
Mr. Visible, in whose world is reaching 100 degrees Farenheit civilized?! Around here, I can always throw on more clothes and hide under more blankets when it gets cold. There’s a limit to how many clothes I can take off!
CJ
Ah, but my esteemed cjhoworth, we have a marvel known as evaporative cooling, augmented with air conditioning. Sure, we don’t go outside much during the summers, and when we do, it’s uncomfortably warm. But at least we don’t spend a big chunk of our years dealing with snow and ice. Last time I was back north, I was amazed at how inconvenient that stuff is. We’d never put up with it down here.
So: spend a season mostly indoors, and when you go outdoors having to deal with absurd temperatures, ice, snow, hazardous driving conditions, and general misery. Or spend a season mostly indoors, and when you go outdoors, you have to deal with absurd temperatures. You decide.
Besides, I once flew from Tucson to Rhode Island in the summertime. It was 105[sup]o[/sup] here when I left, and it was 96 when I got there. With 95% humidity. I was miserable; it’s worse than any heat I’ve experienced down here, and I’ve seen the thermometer hit 117.
But, hey, to each their own. Feel free to take off all the clothes you like. 
Oh, just look at my location here to the left.
That will be my sole comment.
It was negative 17 yesterday morning.
You all can go to hell.
Mine too, but I’m SOL eight months of the year…
The magical weather morons, oops I mean the weather channel, showed a chart for the last two weeks temperatures: the temps were between 10 below and 14ish above(in F, mind you, not C). The person explaining the chart commented that " It’s been hovering near freezing in New England for the past ten days." Really? I’m not a trained professional like him, but I was taught that freezing is 32F. If we do math like he does I must be almost 40 years old, or maybe closer to 10. Repeat after me: we shall not learn our vocabulary words from the weather media.