it was -9deg here at the lake this morning...
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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I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee;
I’m goin’ to Lou’siana my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Susanna don’t you cry.
Trust me, you wouldn't want to.
I've got family in east San Jose, and I also remember what that town was like 40 years ago. It's nothing like you remember. You couldn't pay me to live there now.
Maybe Texans can, but I remember my sister being perplexed that after the first half-inch snowfall in DC someone slid into her.
Roasting my butt off down in Brazil right now. Lots of work to be had, but it’s all south of the border now. Pays well, but being away from the family isn’t the most fun.
Then again, when they get 8 inches of snow, I don’t have to deal with it.
England is the same way. The moist air blowing in from the North Atlantic goes right through most clothing and freezes you to the bone. I've never been so cold in all my life, as when I lived there.
It wasn't until years later that it dawned on me that wool is the answer .. doh!
Another Upstater here and I remember some pretty nasty winters in the 60’s and early 70’s and have old family photos of the all the snow in the 50’s and early 60’s.
Knoxville hit -24 in 1985. I was in charge of the fireplaces. That was no fun at all. The oil lines had frozen.
Yeah, they're watching it. The NWS started talking about it yesterday.
CNY is looking at it for Tues PM through Thurs Am, but it'll hit you guys a little earlier.
I must have thick skin or sumthin’;-). One of the rare cases where my life experience matches my usual habit for hyperbole, as it does many others as well.
Most of it spent as a kid growing up in Minniesoda.. we had some good weather and we had some cold weather, Thank goodness not every year,, I’ll leave that kind of living to the True Northerners up North in Canada and beyond,,
I never took to mountaineering so I can only imagine what the sensations are of slowly freezing as you climb higher and higher.
it was -9deg here at the lake this morning...
Ah yes. I asked my hubby why he brought me to this godforsaken land. He said, it’s not godforsaken. The weather keeps the riff raff out. Yea well, whatever....lol
Yea 30 is a heat wave. Think I’ll get out the bathing suit and slather on some suntan lotion..lol
I saw a PBS program about a terrible incident on Mt. Everest, where multiple climbers froze to death. It was about a two hour program, and they interviewed many of the survivors, and documented the whole incident from beginning to end.
The stories those climbers told about hypothermia, and cold so deep that it gave you hallucinations, was riveting. The producers dramatized the events as they unfolded, which really put the viewer inside the experience.
What those climbers endured is nearly beyond description. The lucky ones simply lost their soft tissues and some fingers and toes. Many others just wandered into the arms of death.
I respect anyone who routinely braves temps like that in the northern tier of the US and Canada.
Well, I'll just keep my hiney in Texas and y'all can call me riff-raff all you like! LOL
I’d say they already have brain freeze.
“Good Grief! I was bitching about -6 here in Colorado”
Good Grief! I was bitching about 58 and sunny in Tampa.
Maybe he’s going fishing too.. Hook’em Horns!!
The Weather Channel says that melting glaciers are causing the cold temps....and proves global warming.
But when we had unusually warm winters were the glaciers getting bigger? No mention...only that warm winters are proof of global warming.
So warm or cold...they both prove global warming. Do they really think we buy any of this bunk? They are so desperate to be something more than just weather people....they want to be more relevant than something as meaningless as a temperatures that rise and fall with the seasons.
Hey Weather Channel...tell me if I should wear a coat or bring an umbrella...save the rest of your tripe for the mom...she’s the only one who cares about your opinion on warming.
If had been up to me, we wouldn’t have moved here and yet I love it. We are 4.5 hours from the nearest city. It is peaceful and the summers are sometimes perfect. And sometimes chilly, but, after June, pretty much no bugs. It is a balmy 7 degrees right now, and the wind is up to 20mph. I think that’s about -20 or so. Think I’ll go take a sauna, pretend I’m in Texas...lol
Brazil?! Business?
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