Deep Freeze In The Deep South

[roadwarrior]

30* high today with snow tonight. 20's for highs and 11* low through

NEXT WEDNESDAY!

 

My dog doesn't even want to out.

 

[A-Jay]

You'll be OK

A-Jay

[DaubsNU1]

Holy crap A-Jay! Wife was complaining because it's -5 here in Nebraska this morning with a wind-chill of -27. 

 

You win!  (or lose)

 

Stay warm brothers!

[MN Fisher]

This too shall pass.

[Catt]

That might back em off a tad!

 

And no @A-Jay we ain't ok!

 

 

[FryDog62]

...But its a "dry" cold..

[bulldog1935]

It's true, there's no cold more penetrating than freezing rain conditions (except my example below) - layers don't help because the wet cold cuts right through.  It's not about the thermometer, it's about what goes with it.  

 

I've been on the North Slope in December at 40 below, and you can walk between buildings in your shirt sleeves, because your body carries a film of warm air (the Inuit bus drivers wear short sleeves).  

But 10 below is dangerous, because there's a 50-kt wind with it.  It's actually a desert up there, with less than 4" new snow every year - it's just the old snow there blows back and forth as it slowly evaporates.  

It the white blindness, our driver drove off the berm into the soft blowing snow.  We had to don our survival gear and walk 120' to the next vehicle.  The wind pushes you back a step for every 3 you get out.  

After that short walk wearing survival gear, and back in the warm dorms with chefs waiting to feed us anything we wanted, my feet were cold and numb for 4 hours.  

[J Francho]

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

[bulldog1935]

try running or bicycling when you're breathing steam

 

Every May 1 here, runners and cyclists on the greenways are stopping, panting, looking at their watches, and trying to figure out when they got so far out of shape.  It's kinda like God's joke on the healthy.  

[Spankey]

I have no problems with the sight of my boat at the bottom of the driveway with a cover on it. If snow gets on the cover that bothers me. I’ll broom that off first before touching her car or my truck. Snow setting on that cover is down right depressing. Try like heck from getting depressed. 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

I’ve encountered some impressive humidity near the Great Lakes 

[FryDog62]

A friend of mine is a PhD Geologist and has studied the earth’s crust all over the world. Some great stories and experiences. 
 

He’s also been to Antarctica a couple times including temps 50-100 below. He has the best definition of “True Cold” I have ever heard:

 

“When you go outside to pee through 4 inches of clothing with only a 2 inch _______.”

 

[Tennessee Boy]

5 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

My dog doesn't even want to out.

Southern dogs can’t pee when the temperature drops below 20 degrees.... and neither can I now that I think about it.

[Way north bass guy]

Haven’t had too many days below -40 here for a few winters now, but I remember it hitting -48C several times when I was younger. One day when I was about 14

( young and dumb), I fired up the snowmobile one -45 morning to go for a 1/2 hour run down to the ice hut to fish with my buddy. It was so cold that my buddy took a live minnow out of the bait bucket and tossed it at the hut. It stuck to the side and froze solid almost immediately. I would never try a trip like that nowadays, and was very lucky that I didn’t break down in the sled in the middle of the bush ( no cell phones back then either to call for help). 

[DitchPanda]

You southern guys are killing me..oh god its gonna be 20! Cracks me up. Our low Sunday is gonna be -28...now that's cold.

[MN Fisher]

1 hour ago, DitchPanda said:

You southern guys are killing me..oh god its gonna be 20! Cracks me up. Our low Sunday is gonna be -28...now that's cold.

Ya - they're looking at -26 for us...with a -36 wind-chill. +20 would be a heat-wave.

[DitchPanda]

1 minute ago, MN Fisher said:

Ya - they're looking at -26 for us...with a -36 wind-chill. +20 would be a heat-wave.

Hasn't been 20 here in a week

[Sam]

While in Louisiana....

 

[DitchPanda]

11 minutes ago, Sam said:

While in Louisiana....

 

True that! Ha...man I tell you what I woke up late this morning and looked outside...nice and sunny with a light breeze. Ok that don't look to bad. Opened the door just to get a feel for it..good gravy Marie! Look up to current feels Like temp...-34. Wowwie zowwie!

[jimmyjoe]

[bulldog1935]

yeah, but the only time our vehicles are salted is when we drive them down the beach.  

 

And I'll be here next weekend.  

 

[jimmyjoe]

8 minutes ago, bulldog1935 said:

And I'll be here next weekend. 

 

   Ouch! That hurts!   ???         jj

[Glenn]

Just saw the national news said Seattle had 9" in 24 hours "the most ever recorded in 50 years".

 

Uh...classic example of somebody not doing their homework.  Seattle had 11" fall in 24hrs in 1996.  I'm not very good at math, but I think that's less than 50 years.  LOL!

 

[TnRiver46]

29 minutes ago, Glenn said:

Just saw the national news said Seattle had 9" in 24 hours "the most ever recorded in 50 years".

 

Uh...classic example of somebody not doing their homework.  Seattle had 11" fall in 24hrs in 1996.  I'm not very good at math, but I think that's less than 50 years.  LOL!

 

Meteorology is a myth. I think there is a secret pipeline from high school drop outs to news channel weather rooms 

[Catt]

@A-Jay