# The Great Freeze-Out (US weather) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665 "2010-01-04T19:37:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/41 "2010-01-05T03:27:10Z")
I hate these new winters. I believe this will be winter number 3 where it’s been really cold (and so far a good deal of snow). I remember most of the 90s being mild with little snow. I miss those years. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/42 "2010-01-05T04:05:06Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Electrically heated boots. Mittens with three inner fleece layers. A parka that is the size of a small igloo, a face mask, and electric blower goggles. A remote car starter and winter thermostat. A -35C sleeping bag and a couple of inches of closed cell pads. > > Might as well be comfortable. And remember, kids, always sauna with a cute friend. LOL, I keep a navy surplus [immersion suit](http://www.westernsafety.com/hellyhansen2005/hh08pg52-85201.jpg) in the trunk, I could sleep nestled in a snow bank comfortably in the damned thing 😃 Our roomie got stuck in a drift the other morning for 3 hours. We don’t have AAA, and we tried calling every towing service that claimed to have 24 hour service and nobody was answering their phones, not even answering services … and the town hadn’t plowed the roads for og knows how long. MrAru tried to get to her in the car, but he was stopped by a massive drift across the road about a mile this side of her. The town finally plowed her out at 6 am, and she was _not_ happy, but she and her aging cat were fine in my seriously oversized pumpkin suit. MrAru is considering just getting a freaking deuce and a half with a blade, our road is the last one in town plowed which is absurd because it is a major shortcut in the area. He was joking they would be baffled by the single lane plowed to the store and back … ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/43 "2010-01-05T04:36:06Z")
And so, food for thought, what if all of these global temperatures had been reported on the other side of the temperature scale? I’ll tell you what, we’d have an influx of scientists and media extolling the absolute certainty that AGW was killing the planet and we would all be going to hell in a hand basket. But, lo, instead we have merely another year (third in a row) of unreported global cooling. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/44 "2010-01-05T04:51:19Z")
I’m Facebook friends with one of our local weather guys and he’s giving us a 10-20% chance of Gulf-effect snow overnight tonight or tomorrow. This is ridiculous. I live in Florida for a _reason_, you know. There’s a freeze warning for all of central Florida – except my county, cause we’re surrounded by water on three sides – and the heat is on. I should never have to have the heat on. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/45 "2010-01-05T05:08:23Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And so, food for thought, what if all of these global temperatures had been reported on the other side of the temperature scale? I’ll tell you what, we’d have an influx of scientists and media extolling the absolute certainty that AGW was killing the planet and we would all be going to hell in a hand basket. > > But, lo, instead we have merely another year (third in a row) of unreported global cooling. You should look up the definition of the word “global.” Hint: It does not mean “within 200 miles of the snow globe I have on my desk.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/46 "2010-01-05T05:27:10Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > You should look up the definition of the word “global.” > > Hint: It does not mean “within 200 miles of the snow globe I have on my desk.” Huh? The planet is in fact cooling. ETA: Posted somehow prematurely before I could line up my cites, but they’re out there and credible. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/47 "2010-01-05T05:29:08Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > LOL, I keep a navy surplus [immersion suit](http://www.westernsafety.com/hellyhansen2005/hh08pg52-85201.jpg) in the trunk, I could sleep nestled in a snow bank comfortably in the damned thing 😃 Survival suits are terrific, but you have to be careful that the person who eventually comes to your aid is not a bubba who might mistake you for an anal probing space alien and shoot you in self defence. That, and perspiration is a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/48 "2010-01-05T07:25:20Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > [Roads gritted but caution urged](http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0104/weather.html) > > Very cold here. It usually only lasts a few days then it gets milder for a while. Been below freezing for about the last two weeks with no end in sight and more snow on the way. We also had one of the wettest summers in a long time. I just wish someone would grit or salt or whatever suburban footpaths. ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/49 "2010-01-05T07:48:32Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > It’s cold! Bundle up! Pure genius! Ranks right up there with drinking lots of fluids when it’s hot and humid and limiting outdoor activity on those days above 90. You’d be surprised. I once did volunteer rebuilding with a guy from Colorado who was proud that he had stopped sweating…while doing outdoor construction work…in the Mississippi delta…in July. He thought it meant he was getting used to the heat. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/50 "2010-01-05T08:46:47Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Huh? The planet is in fact cooling. > > ETA: Posted somehow prematurely before I could line up my cites, but they’re out there and credible. Sure they are. Start a thread in GD and post them. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/51 "2010-01-05T14:46:15Z")
> [@Caveat\_lector\_1](#): > > You’d be surprised. I once did volunteer rebuilding with a guy from Colorado who was proud that he had stopped sweating…while doing outdoor construction work…in the Mississippi delta…in July. He thought it meant he was getting used to the heat. Heh. And as if to illustrate the other side of that point, I ran outside this morning to crank the car in a T-shirt, barefooted. It went something like this with each step: What - the - fuck - is - going - on - with - this - shit - this - is - not - happening - to - me - why - do - my - feet - hurt? Yep, I’m a dumbass. Despite the fact that everyone talks about it, despite the warnings and the fact that the kitchen TV stays on the weather channel. Despite my earlier post, I went outside with no layers and no real weather protection because I somehow still believe that it just can’t be that cold here. That was two hours ago. I’m almost warmed up now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/52 "2010-01-05T14:48:05Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > So true! When I woke up Saturday morning the temperature was -26. My husband and I had to take a trip to the Twin Cities that day and on the way home we stopped at Dairy Queen for ice cream. Ice cream is usually stored in freezers anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees F, and some of the soft serve at DQ is actually closer to 30, so you are definitely getting warmed up from that! Even hard ice cream frozen at 10 degrees F is a 36-degree warm up! Enjoy! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/53 "2010-01-05T15:28:09Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Surprised there’s been no thread on this. Currently the temp has just now barely cleared 40 F-we (NE Florida) may see temps in the teens tonite-and the nice weather people recently said that it may get even colder. Definite possibility of snow this week if conditions are right. > > Usually when we get hit like this you Europeans are having heat waves-is that the case now? European, English, checking in from Sale, Greater Manchester Got up this morning and we already had 5" of snow, hasn’t stopped all day and we’re now up to about 8". Manchester Airport and most others around the country have ground to a halt, there are no taxis or buses on the roads, the whole country is in stop mode. Great joy, the weather forecast tells us that this isn’t the end of the sodding white fluffy stuff, not by a long chalk…we have another week or so to enjoy it :mad: Bah, humbug and other choice expletives ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/54 "2010-01-05T16:03:26Z")
Pro tip: It’s not a good idea to stick your keys between your lips when it’s 5F outside. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/55 "2010-01-05T16:50:57Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > So true! When I woke up Saturday morning the temperature was -26. My husband and I had to take a trip to the Twin Cities that day and on the way home we stopped at Dairy Queen for ice cream. Aren’t Dairy Queens closed in the winter? I grew up north of Minneapolis and the nearest one to me closed around October. Now I’m in Chicago and the DQ by me is closed, too. I talked to my mom yesterday… It was -24F in my hometown, not counting windchill. Knowing that I can’t complain about Chicago weather. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/56 "2010-01-05T17:18:23Z")
My furnace went out and my well froze. This is really unusual for this part of Missouri. I’m from Chicago, so it’s not terribly cold for me outside, but my house just isn’t built for this. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/57 "2010-01-05T18:04:36Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > Pro tip: It’s not a good idea to stick your keys between your lips when it’s 5F outside. ☹ Heh heh heh. You poor amateurs. I fully plan on visiting the Deep South in the US someday, so y’all can point and laugh at me when I come to visit (“It’s 35ºC {95F}! I’m dying here!”). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/58 "2010-01-05T18:48:47Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I fully plan on visiting the Deep South in the US someday, so y’all can point and laugh at me when I come to visit (“It’s 35ºC {95F}! I’m dying here!”). 😃 Come on down! We visited Kentucky, and while in Walmart we were asked, “Hot enough for you?” It was around 85 degrees and 30% humidity. We had a good laugh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/59 "2010-01-05T18:54:03Z")
Come on, baby. I’ll get you some tea and a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/60 "2010-01-05T19:24:13Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > European, English, checking in from Sale, Greater Manchester > > Got up this morning and we already had 5" of snow, hasn’t stopped all day and we’re now up to about 8". Are the gnomes out of sight yet? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665.md?page=4)