Posted on 01/22/2011 1:59:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (AFP) – There is a brutally frigid point on the thermometer -- minus 40 degrees -- where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet, and it was even colder than that in parts of the US Midwest as an Arctic blast struck over the weekend.
Americans were bundling up Saturday as the coldest weather of the season was forecast to sock cities from Chicago to New York and Boston, with temperatures that have already prompted weather service warnings.
The coldest weather in two years slammed Minnesota, where International Falls -- which proudly proclaims itself the "Icebox of the Nation" -- recorded a shocking 46 degrees below zero (-43 Celsius).
The Friday temperature tied the town's coldest reading since it began keeping records in 1897.
By Saturday morning it had risen to a balmy -13 degrees (-25 C), the town's airport reported, but the forecast wind-chill factor was far colder, and the National Weather Service issued a hazard advisory warning of frostbite and "life-threatening hypothermia."
Much of New York state and the US northeast region known as New England will see temperatures barely reach the Fahrenheit teens on Saturday, forecasters at The Weather Channel (TWC) reported.
Friday's -4 degrees (-20 C) in Chicago marked the coldest January 21 in the Windy City in 27 years, broadcaster WGN reported.
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Nice. Here in SW Arkansas, we had two mornings around 20 degrees when I went off to work. I was glad to have a leather coat.
I should have said this past week.
Well, as a matter of fact we DO know what driving on ice is like my friend trust me. Snow turns to ice quickly and we have periods where it rains/sleets and then BAM! the temps drop and it’s a nightmare driving. Trick is not to drive fast, obviously. Course up here where used to this and the highway depts. salt and plow the roads. Usually that is. No, you don’t want these kind of winters. We don’t get a break here in the Summer either. It gets into the ‘80’s and 90’s even to 100 and the humidity is a bitch.
Did that too. With a Schwinn bicycle. Delivering The Newark Star-Ledger. Liberal rag. Usual winter temps were anything from 10 to 25,30. Cold enough for a 12 year-old like me in 1968.
“Now you’re all loly-gaggin’ around like it’s a hundred ‘n’ twenty’’. Can’t be more ‘n’ hundred ‘n’ fourteen!’’. —”Blazing Saddles’’.
You missed my point, which was ... whenever I see an article about the wrecks we have down this way when it gets icy, a lot of the comments seem to be about how southerners can’t handle it. I’ve seen a lot of video recently about many wrecks in NY state and other areas. They don’t differ from the videos here. It’s dangerous no matter where it happens and a lot of people can’t handle it.
But yeah, you’re right .... ya just gotta take it slow and easy. Or just stay off of it if at all possible.
I remember one year ... 88, I think ... I drove up to Sherman, TX from Austin in my Chevy truck. It was dang cold and there was ice everywhere. Normally, it’s a 4 hour drive ... give or take. Took me almost 8 that day. My first slip was on an overpass in Dallas, but I quickly recovered. The farther north I went, the deeper the ice was. Got up to 8” by the time I got to my parents house. And that’s where I finally got stuck ... trying to get up in the driveway. Good thing they lived at a dead end ... I just parked it and went in the house. Worst conditions I’ve ever driven in, but did fine.
Are you in Chicago? Yeah, I've been up there during the summer. It gets dang hot. 90+ there is too warm.
The moving thing was fun at first. It got old after the 3rd move, I was done then. We didn’t move around as much as you did. Averaged a move every 3.5 years.
If one drove from Cal. to Brazil what are we talking hours and miles? Just curious.
I am in such demand that my services by air in business class are the norm.
So I can’t help you figure out how to drive here. We are enjoying 87 and sunny weather this weekend. Very humid.
Well I lived in an older big home for a time. You’re right hard to heat. So I found a solution. Closed off all rooms but one nearest the kitchen, took a beach umbrella and slide the poll down the side of an easy chair...opened it up just above the backside of the recliner...and put one of those electric oil heaters under it and ME!. Umbrella kept the heat hoovering down instead of rising to the ceiling. It was pretty cozy actually. Would watch movies or cuddle up with a good book. It worked very well...and worth the 70 dollars for the heater...that thing put off a “warm” heat you could feel all the way to your bones!
I suppose a large umbrella might do the same. But the beach umbrellas have a good size span.
I have acquaintances who moved to Brazil and love it there. Though they say they don’t have the political freedom of the US...they have enormous social freedom.
Maybe someone will begin a GW anonymous for those who just can’t’ stop.
I heard a report on NPR today that blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on Climate Change. Did the leave anything out?
Mostly white people wearing parkas. And I mean a parka, not a hoodie.
It looks like a Southerner who read my post and went outside in a short-sleeve shirt for a couple of minutes to prove that southrons aren't intimidated by cold. :)
You would have just loved my childhood ..
I took my first long distance trip at six months of age when my great-grandmother took me to Los Angeles on the train from Ft. Ord, so my mom could deliver my little brother four months later.
Not long after my brother was born, we headed off to Japan to be re-united with my dad. Over the next three years we lived there, we moved a couple more times while my two other brothers were born.
We headed back to Ft. Ord just long enough for my sister to be born, then headed off to Ft. Benning, Georgia for a year, before returning to California for another round of house moves.
At that point, I was seven years old, and we were only getting started. It didn't stop until I was fourteen. What a whirlwind.
About 40 minutes.
No I live in southern central NJ. Summers in Jersey are always the three ‘h’s, hazy, hot and humid.
I got a job offer recently but I would have had to move from Texas to Madison, Wisconsin. I told them to ask me again in July if I was still interested. January is the wrong time of the year to be making that offer.
Wanna have fun in -30 weather? Toss some hot coffee against a wall and watch it freeze before it reaches the ground.
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