Posted on 01/07/2014 2:31:44 AM PST by knarf
Until this morning at 5AM
I read a great analogy of the polar weather last year ('Polar Vortex' these days). It was described as a yarmulke. It seems to always stay about the same size, but it doesn't always stay directly on top. It happens to be tipped down over Toronto about now.
Growing up in Port Macquarie it was rare to see a frost and it was regarded as cold whenever the temp got below 15C (59F).
THAT would be OUTstanding !
The damned things were EVERYWHERE last year !
Here I thought that matering was something you did to chickens.
I thought alpacas were cold weather animals?
...when you look forward to 15 degrees....
A lot of people looking for work, and that isn't a bad thing, but there have been a few n'er do wells as well. Different from the boom of the late '70s.
The state I grew up in has been overrun by nanny staters and other vile liberals, and I seldom return there. For now, there is still a lot of freedom here, good people, and that is worth the weather.
The clouds came in and kept the overnight low up to 26 here in Wacahoota, Florida. This freeze is a Godsend as it will knock back the skeeters which were bad in this AO all through the fall and early winter.
But I guess winter could be worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKy2lLNQYrI
Sorry to hear that. But that's our predicted high today. On the bright side, that's six degrees warmer than yesterday's high.
Hang in there.
Where were you in 1994? It was -22 in Pittsburgh.
Have they ever put in a hot lunch program in their schools?
I was amazed that they had none when we were there—those kids walked home for lunch every day—rain, shine, sleet, snow or ice. When the thermometer-—not the wind chill factor-—read minus 34, believe me—that’s cold!
OTOH, my parents in Texas visited us one summer, and my Dad swore that the hottest he had ever been in his life was one July day in Williston........We had double glazed windows that we couldn’t raise, there was no air conditioning, no ceiling fans, etc...........
Western suburbs of Chicago reporting in. It is about 7:30 in the morning and is now a whole -9 degrees out. The sun is shining though while we freeze our bippies off.
It is sad the way children are so coddled these days. No wonder so many turn out the way they do.
You know, my dad lived in the north woods, out of Deer River, Mn. he and his 8 siblings had to walk to school. A new school teacher decided he would walk across a small lake instead of around it, since the ice was thick and it would save him steps.
Well, he must have been from the city and did not account for wolves and when they found his body there was little left.
16 years in Minnesota and I don’t remember it being quite this cold.
I thought alpacas were cold weather animals?
They are and the rest of the herd is doing fine. This one is very small for her age (seven months), and has issues with her thyroid. So she is weaker than the others and this much colder weather than she is used to hit her hard. Her Rumen shut down and she had a body temperature of 94 degrees. Normal is 100 to 102.
We managed to get her rumen going again with lots of extra heat and warm water, supplements etc. I just took her temperature and it is 100.4. So after the temps go above freezing I’ll let her out of the heated vet stall to rejoin the herd.
I can’t get my Mitsubishi Mr. Slim to blow hot air this morning. It’s up to 80. We have 0 outside this morning in NE PA.
True, but there apparently were a bunch of parents whining about it on FB (again, I’m not on - this was from my brother - he uses it to keep in touch with his son in Afghanistan). And that’s out point too, we use to have the temporary trailers in grade school for about a dozen classes and never had school cancelled for temperature.
Hmmm ... 94 I was in the New Castle area ... don’t remember THAT kind of cold then.
A couple decades ago, working in Yemen, I made friends with a young bilingual clerk we had hired from Kenya.
Once in confidence, away from others who might laugh at him, he asked me if snow was real. He had seen the white on top of Kilimanjaro from a long distance, but had believed it to be bright rock.
He thought snow was something made up to laugh at the ignorance of folks who hadn't traveled up to Northern climates.
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