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Vicious cold snap puts northern US in deep freeze ("Icebox of the Nation" Int'l Falls -46 below)
Yahoo ^ | 1/22/11 | AFP

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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KEYWORDS: coldsnap; deepfreeze; globalcooling; vicious
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To: MsLady

Perhaps I am hallucinating from the cold, but yesterday, it was around 10 above at noon and sunny, with no wind. Just standing on the deck, I could feel the warmth of the sun on my face. This usually doesn’t happen until February.

-15 again tonight, but then it will be seasonal and all the way up to 30 next Friday, or so the forecast says. That is a heat wave!

We are waiting for the real thaw.


41 posted on 01/22/2011 3:12:58 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: HighWheeler
Even MORE proof of Globull Warming....

Colder means warmer.

Globull Warming. Embrace the insanity.™

42 posted on 01/22/2011 3:16:39 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: redpoll

Gee, I have this nice photo of the thermometer on Thursday morning at -52 degrees... I’m trying to show it here... but I can’t figure out how to post photos.


43 posted on 01/22/2011 3:19:07 PM PST by redpoll
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To: HighWheeler

I remember - 70 in Wisconsin in early 1961. That was long before the words “wind chill factor’ were strung together.


44 posted on 01/22/2011 3:22:25 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: NormsRevenge
Going up to 76 here tomorrow.

I am liking the Beach better....wonder what it is in KC and St Louis?

May have to call someone.

45 posted on 01/22/2011 3:23:15 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: jmacusa

I lived in southern Indiana during the 60’s. Had a paper route in 63 and 64 and remember delivery papers when it was -10 to -15 degrees for 3 or 4 days in a role. I had a ski mask, parka, cigarette lighter style hand warmer, wool socks and shearling lined boots, but the paper got delivered every morning.


46 posted on 01/22/2011 3:37:35 PM PST by redangus
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To: NormsRevenge

You live in San Jose? I grew up there! East side, up in the foothills, went to Piedmont Hills High School when it was first built. SJ was an agricultural town of 100,000 when my parents moved there in 1958. The Santa Clara Valley was full of orchards: apricots, almonds, walnuts, and plums. Different world back then. I couldn’t afford to live there now.


47 posted on 01/22/2011 3:37:49 PM PST by American Quilter (Everyone please donate to FreeRepublic! Where would we be without this wonderful site?)
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To: MsLady
One year right before we moved here there was one day when with the wind chill factor it got to -75.

And you still moved in anyway? I shall call you Antifreeze Annie .. LOL

48 posted on 01/22/2011 3:49:25 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: NormsRevenge
85oF out by the pool here in Rancho Mirage two days ago. Cooled off slightly since then. Bright sun, clear skies, almost no wind; perfect.

Have a warm day!

49 posted on 01/22/2011 3:51:27 PM PST by goldbux (When yer odd, the odds are with you.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Good Grief! I was bitching about -6 here in Colorado.


50 posted on 01/22/2011 3:54:56 PM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: NormsRevenge

Where’s the satellite dish?


51 posted on 01/22/2011 3:57:07 PM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: reg45

-40F=-40C just to keep things in perspective.


52 posted on 01/22/2011 3:57:33 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: dljordan

Wireless. :-) Verizon.


53 posted on 01/22/2011 3:58:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Texas Eagle
The temperature didn't even hit 60 today here in Northern California.

Meanwhile, here in North Texas, we topped out at a bone-chilling 54°F today ... brrrrr!

54 posted on 01/22/2011 3:59:20 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: NormsRevenge
It can crispify your skin when it gets that nasty.. and more.

The air makes your lungs crackle and burn when you breathe it in too fast or hard.. icicles hang off your eyelids from your own perspiration after awhile and get frozen in place

That has got to be a life-affirming experience. I mean, we humans were not meant to endure temperatures like that. When we do, it's basically cheating death.

I would think that besting nature at that level must make you appreciate the most basic things about your existence.

I've never experienced cold that deep in all my life, so I have no reality on it at all.

55 posted on 01/22/2011 4:04:54 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: jmacusa

“You Southeners don’t know what cold is.”

Shore we do. It gets a might chilly here in Texas when the temp. drops to 90, but it’s downright cold if it goes below 75. And the lakes here freeze solid if it hits 60.

We prefer a more comfortable range of 110 - just right for backyard BBQs and rodeos.

Here’s a little song for all those liberal leftists up Narth:

Freeze A Yankee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOzOIofXtGc

/humor


56 posted on 01/22/2011 4:08:28 PM PST by RebelTex (Liberal Leftist Democrats = Amoral A**H***s)
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To: jmacusa
Aw. Hells Bells. You Southeners don’t know what cold is.

I'm not talking about the cold. I was referring to driving on ice. It's not an easy thing yet northerners tend to slam us southerners when they see all the wrecks we have down here during iceovers.

No ... we don't have that kind of cold down here. Thank God!

57 posted on 01/22/2011 4:10:06 PM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Celtic Cross

See my previous post.


58 posted on 01/22/2011 4:10:36 PM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: Celtic Cross

“Southerners have a weak constitution regarding cold temperatures. I recall, when I lived in the south, seeing people wearing parkas when the mercury hit 60. I couldn’t help but wonder, why the heck would they even own parkas down there?”

I’m from Nashville and in the 50’s and 60’s it snowed quite a bit in the winter. The year I was born it snowed three feet and my Dad and his crew with the Nashville Electric Service had to sleep in the Nashville jail because they couldn’t get home. I’ve camped in the Smokies when it was -4.

When I moved to Colorado I went down to the local airport for a check ride when it was 95 degrees and the guys were sweltering. I wasn’t even breaking a sweat and was wondering what the deal was.

I guess it’s what you’re used to but people are wonderfully adaptable.

I still freeze my butt off here in the winter.


59 posted on 01/22/2011 4:11:13 PM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: SoothingDave
The fact that no one can drive on ice doesn’t excuse southerners from being ill-equipped for driving on snow.

Oh, Dave. We can drive on snow, no problem. Driving in mud trains us well. :-)

How ya been, man?

60 posted on 01/22/2011 4:12:08 PM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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