# The Arctic Front Has Arrived **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269 "2014-11-10T20:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/61 "2014-11-15T06:25:14Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Go away, European. What have the Esquimeaux ever done for us? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/62 "2014-11-15T06:51:35Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > What have the Esquimeaux ever done for us? Look, we can send a polar vortex your way. You think we can’t, or we won’t? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/63 "2014-11-15T14:07:13Z")
Looks like we are at about 18-20 inches of snow so far. Another 6 inches last night and coming down heavy now We are trying to figure out how we are going to get my wife’s car into the shop to get the radiator replaced. It will need to be towed, it’s leaking that bad. We are mountain rural, and on a dead end road. A part time ‘resident’ thought it would be a good idea to park a trailer full of construction crap at the dead end turn around cul-de-sak. It’s going to make it hard for a wrecker to turn around. Winter pretty effectively makes this a one lane road. Gonna be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/64 "2014-11-15T14:58:16Z")
24 degrees in central South Carolina this morning. Brr. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/65 "2014-11-16T02:48:43Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > So where is all that global warming again? Right where I’m sitting. But this is why the term “global warming” is considered inaccurate as opposed to the more correct “climate change.” You get extremes at both ends – hotter summers and colder winters. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/66 "2014-11-16T03:36:03Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > What have the Esquimeaux ever done for us? Yeah, apart from snowpack and aquifer replenishment, thermohaline downflow sustainment, polar bear maintenance, throat singing, syllabics, and hosting Santa Claus, what have the Esquimeaux ever done for us? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/67 "2014-11-19T07:22:19Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > It’s going to reach 57 F tonight, I can’t take much more of this brutal winter weather. Also, it’s not even close to winter yet. Me either! It was so cold here today that I put on a sweater when I left the house today, but then it got too warm from the exertion of a few minutes’ walking. I had to take it off and carry it; I hate that! ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/68 "2014-11-19T17:35:57Z")
It got down to 54 degrees F last night. I almost had to close the window. I blame global warming. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/69 "2014-11-19T18:19:08Z")
Here in frigid Washington DC, my agency’s HVAC is blowing cold air. We’ve been assured that the agency has top men working on the problem, though. Top. Men. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/70 "2014-11-19T20:31:27Z")
I’ve been stoically putting up with this crap for about a week now, but I have to start whining. It was 13 °F (-11 °C) this morning. That’s the sort of mid-winter deep freeze we usually see in late-January/early-February, not before freakin’ Thanksgiving has even arrived! At least we haven’t had much snow around here. Just a dusting. I can’t even fathom getting 6 feet of snow in 1 day. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/71 "2014-11-19T21:02:44Z")
If you are stuck, and bored, and hate the cold, you can watch the blizzard of 1977 and feel better about your current situation. [In search of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nprY2jSI0Ds&feature=youtu.be) [Old TV news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7eXnIqUV4) > **[Blizzard of 1977](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1977)** > > The blizzard of 1977 hit Western New York and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1 of that year. Daily peak wind gusts ranging from 46 to 69 mph (74 to 111 km/h) were recorded by the National Weather Service in Buffalo, with snowfall as high as 100 in (254 cm) recorded in areas, and the high winds blew this into drifts of 30 to 40 ft (9 to 12 m). There were 23 total storm-related deaths in Western New York, with five more in northern New York. > Certain pre-existing weather conditions... None of that truly can convey just how bad it was. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/72 "2014-11-20T15:03:19Z")
…and we just got about an inch of snow last night. Dammit. Hopefully the hardware store has stocked rock salt already. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269/73 "2014-11-27T00:30:05Z")
I heard tell there was yet another winter storm happening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-arctic-front-has-arrived/704269.md?page=3)