# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/141 "2010-01-10T18:54:31Z")
We had a fundraiser for my boyfriend’s mayoral campaign last night in my garage, and it was so cold (19 FUCKING DEGREES) we just kept the keg outside. So every time I’d go out for more beer, there’d be twenty or thirty smokers out there. Goddamn, I can’t imagine loving anything as much as those morons loved smoking. 19 degrees! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/142 "2010-01-21T01:44:58Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > -6 C in Little Rock, Arkansas. > > It’s warmer in _Canada?_ > > I hate you. > > 🙂 At 7:30 at night, on January 20, it is 75F in the house. I have turned on the air conditioner. Eat sh…snow and…er, well, eat snow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/143 "2010-01-22T14:36:23Z")
Ah yes, **carnivorousplant**. I have moved into the barefoot part of my year here in January; I never even put on shoes to take the kids to the bus this morning. We’ve officially shed the jackets and the kids got off the bus yesterday and asked if the pool was open yet and this morning they were mad because I haven’t gotten their short sleeved uniforms back out yet. Sweet. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/144 "2010-01-22T15:31:18Z")
Here in Iowa we got anywhere from 1/2 inch to a full inch of ice on everything. There are some towns that are completely without power, have been for 2 days, and will be for like 2 more days. Now its supposed to fucking rain on Saturday! Hopefully the weather forecasts are exaggerating, but they are talking possibility of floods cause there’s nowhere for the water to go. Its awesome. And then snow on Sunday/Monday and again Wednesday. Fucking quit already! :mad:☹ ---
**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 22, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/145 "2010-01-22T15:56:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > At 7:30 at night, on January 20, it is 75F in the house. > I have turned on the air conditioner. > Eat sh…snow and…er, well, eat snow. > 🙂 See, this is why you should allow us our small gloating moments. The chinook has left town; it’s -9ºC this morning (15F), going to a high of -8. ☹ ETA: We went to see Craig Ferguson live last Wednesday, and he and one of his opening comedians starting with how freaking COLD it is here. It was +3ºC that day (40F), which by our standards is a beautiful day in January. I went for a walk in the sunshine earlier in the day. All I could think was that if they had come here in December when it was -30ºC (-25F), they would have died. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/146 "2010-01-22T16:01:42Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > They’re having some kind of insane cold snap in the south. A friend of mine posted on her Facebook profile that it was 10 degrees in Memphis, where she lives. It’s been warmer than that here in Michigan. (It was well into the 20s here this afternoon, warm enough that I took my hat off while walking to the grocery store.) Yeah Michigan has been strangely mild this year. I guess the lakes are forming some kind of bubble or something wierd. Everytime I look at a national map east, west, and south of here are much colder. I don’t think the temperature ever got below 20 or above 27 between Dec 15 and Jan 15, but since then it’s been dancing higher , usually above freezing most of the day. P.S. Holy crap, checking my weather forecaster it’s going to be 46 on Sunday… In January… In Michigan 😕 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/147 "2010-01-22T16:41:38Z")
I feel so cheap… ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/148 "2010-01-22T19:16:38Z")
I’m about 50 miles north of **Otternell** and we didn’t get as much ice – no damage or power outages that I’ve heard of anyway. The trees and power lines do have a little bit of ice on them though, maybe from condensation (it’s still sorta foggy), and it’s so cool to listen to the ice chunks falling from the trees, and to watch the ice fall from the power lines – it falls in sort of a long tube shape. I do hate winter. I used to poke fun at snowbirds but the older I get, the better it looks, moving south. ---
**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 23, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/149 "2010-01-23T04:22:41Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > \ > I do hate winter. I used to poke fun at snowbirds but the older I get, the better it looks, moving south. Oh yeah. I have already pre-emptively apologized to all the Arizona Dopers for when I start showing up for a couple of months in winter, like so many of my compatriots. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/150 "2010-01-23T06:53:35Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > Ah yes, **carnivorousplant**. I have moved into the barefoot part of my year here in January; I never even put on shoes to take the kids to the bus this morning. We’ve officially shed the jackets and the kids got off the bus yesterday and asked if the pool was open yet and this morning they were mad because I haven’t gotten their short sleeved uniforms back out yet. > > Sweet. Anybody else want to launch ShelliBean’s canoe into hell? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/151 "2010-01-23T22:38:51Z")
Get in line. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/152 "2010-01-24T01:08:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > **Where the heck…** > Ahem. > Pardon me, I’m cold. > Darn cold. > > Where are you? > > 19 damned degrees… A bit further north than you, which also meant a bit colder than you. I think we were at 14 when you wrote this. We actually had a white Christmas, as it started snowing Christmas Eve. It got warmer for a bit afterward, the snow started melting, and then the cold snap hit. During which, it we got freezing rain and eventually sleet. There was no school until January 8, and it was still pretty slippery then. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/153 "2010-01-24T01:21:15Z")
And where are you, Shellibean? ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/154 "2010-01-24T23:09:50Z")
Northeast Mississippi. I don’t worry about it too much, I am sure we will have another surprise week of cold weather before spring. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/155 "2010-01-24T23:24:25Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > Northeast Mississippi. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for any untoward comments I have made about your noble state. Most probably concerning Mississippi and West Virginia being the only two states behind mine in most things. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665/156 "2010-01-25T00:25:50Z")
Yeah you really ought to eat those words. We’re number one in a lot of things. Things like morbid obesity rates, teen pregnancy, infant mortality… The list goes on and on. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-freeze-out-us-weather/523665.md?page=7)