How cold is it?

[Iron Woode]

got home from work an hour ago and it's -16C and with the windchill -30C. This cold weather will be with us until Sunday.

 

[Mike64]

The daily high has been basically ≤ 20F steadily here for a solid week, and yesterday even a couple of hours after sunrise it was 9F. (Those are absolute temps, I only half pay attention to "official" wind-chill numbers...) Which might not sound horrible if you're from the northern Midwest, the Rockies, or most of Canada, but is fucking cold for NYC at the beginning of January! (I have no real idea what the official wind-chill temps have been, but it's been pretty breezy here, so no doubt it's been pretty bad.)

That being said (a) while I sympathize with those who suffer from it for reasons of age, health, or just fundamental physiology, I'll personally take a couple of weeks of even single-digit cold over a couple of weeks of steady humid, 90F or higher weather any time, anywhere. I warm up very quickly when I'm moving around, so I don't even mind being in and out of it, like running errands, for hours on end as long as I don't have to stand still in a windy spot for too long, (b) on the upside, when it went up (briefly) as high as 28F today, it felt almost warm. And when it gets back into the low-mid 30s on/after next weekend, I'll probably be walking around with my jacket open, enjoying the balmy, "Spring-like" weather... The other plus is that's been too damned cold to snow... And while I like snow in the abstract, more than an inch or two of it on the ground (not to mention the slushy aftermath), does making getting around a PITA...

 

[FeuerFrei]

21 F predawn

19 F postdawn update

Now I got flu to go with my freeze

 

[sdifox]

Currently -12C

10.4F for the Liberians and Americans.

 

[Mike64]

yesterday even a couple of hours after sunrise it was 9F

And today it's up to a toasty 15F, 11 minutes before sunrise... Which would be -9.4C for most everyone else, who seem to have a fetish for having to think in fractional and negative temperatures on a regular basis.

 

[sdifox]

And today it's up to a toasty 15F, 11 minutes before sunrise... Which would be -9.4C, for most everyone else, who seem to have a fetish for having to think in negative and fractional temperatures on a regular basis.

Because everyone else are not snowflakes :awe:

 

[Mike64]

Because evryone else are not snowflakes :awe:

Meh. Real Persons don't have to be able to multiply or divide everything by 10 to get through a day of dealing with units of measurement...

 

[sdifox]

Meh. Real Persons don't have to be able to multiply or divide everything by 10 to get through a day of dealing with units of measurement...

Ten fingers. Evolution has spoken

 

[Mike64]

Ten fingers.

"And for everything else, there's"... the cerebral cortex.

Evolution has spoken

Indeed it has.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Great, now my mango tree is probably dead. Fuck this winter junk.

 

[daveybrat]

It's 3F here in Michigan but windy with a wind-chill advisory. I just want it to be March soon!

 

[sdifox]

"And for everything else, there's"... the cerebral cortex.

Indeed it has.

You are ones that can't deal with decimals and insist on fractions.

 

[zinfamous]

In Witch's Titties units, it's currently colder than 3.

 

[zinfamous]

got home from work an hour ago and it's -16C and with the windchill -30C. This cold weather will be with us until Sunday.

Some of you people live in awful, awful places.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

That being said (a) while I sympathize with those who suffer from it for reasons of age, health, or just fundamental physiology, I'll personally take a couple of weeks of even single-digit cold over a couple of weeks of steady humid, 90F or higher weather any time, anywhere.

Cold = wear more sh*t

Hot = I can only get so nekkid

 

[Iron Woode]

It's 3F here in Michigan but windy with a wind-chill advisory. I just want it to be March soon!

I hear ya. I am just east of Michigan and we're getting the same weather. Plus we're getting snow today and Thursday.

 

[FeuerFrei]

43° F
midday


after days in the 30s.
should reach 60s on Sunday.

 

[bruceb]

32° right now in Apex, NC - going to 24° at night .. Thursday 34° then 16° at night -- Friday 30° then 14° at night -- Sat 30° then 11° at night -- could be much worse -- all are in Farenheit

 

[Mike64]

Cold = wear more sh*t

Hot = I can only get so nekkid

Exactly

It went up to brilliantly sunny ±30F today here in scenic Brooklyn (and felt like late Spring) and it's supposed to be equally "warm" tomorrow before backing down to ≤ 20F for a few days before going back to the new-normal, "climate change era" mid-upper 30s...

ETA

You are ones that can't deal with decimals and insist on fractions.

Mostly I've just been yanking yer chain... I'm actually pretty bimetrical, using one and/or the other as I find them convenient. When I was in middle school in the latter 70s, there was some toying with the notion that the US, like the UK, should go all-metric, so they were indoctrinating us young 'uns and like a lot of the fundamental technical/scientific stuff I was exposed to in school, most of it stuck, and then later NAFTA, not to mention the Web, ended up making it more relevant on a day-today basis and it became second nature...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah once it hits 30C+ not much you can do to stay cool if you go outside. But at -30C you can just dress more warm. I don't tend to like going out in -30's if I don't have to, but when I was working on my shed I just dressed for it. Hoodie, neck warmer, ski pants, etc. Oddly enough my hands normally get super cold no matter what but when I was working on my shed it was not so bad, probably because I was moving. Working with gloves is kinda a pain though. That's why I'm done for the year and will resume in spring.

I'm glad I got central A/C now though, so when we do get heat waves in summer I'm ready for it. Too bad I can't take the current cold and store it somehow for summer.

 

[Mike64]

I don't tend to like going out in -30's if I don't have to

I try not to move - at all - or even think when it goes into the 30s Celsius. That not being an option except on weekends though, most of my thoughts on those days consist of plotting ways to avoid being outside one air-conditioned environment or another for as little time as humanly possible...

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I try not to move - at all - or even think when it goes into the 30s Celsius.

30C is "VPN in, and work from home buck nekkid" weather

 

[Ajay]

A balmy 31 F in So. NH today. It's supposed to to be frigid again after the storm, but the long range forecast is for normal January temps.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I tried to use a jackhammer in 30C once. I say tried. I rented it, so kinda HAD to do the job. But it was just so brutal I never got that far and returned it. Eventually hired someone with a backhoe operated jackhammer to do the job lol.

 

[Mike64]

The other plus is that's been too damned cold to snow... And while I like snow in the abstract, more than an inch or two of it on the ground (not to mention the slushy aftermath), does making getting around a PITA...

I guess I just had to go and open my big mouth, huh? What was originally forecast as a couple of inches became 3-6", then 6-12", and there must've been at least 9" on the ground when I came in from an errand about an hour and a half ago. (NYC's transit PTB have become such wusses of late that even with just the 3"-6" forecast, I stayed home rather than face a possible mad dash for a "last subway" or end up having to undertake some sort of long, bizarrely circuitous trek to get home...)

And then it's going to freeze up (down to 13F on Saturday) before it gets just warm enough to slush up for a few more days before it eventually gets warm enough to really melt (away). The past 10 frigid days were somewhat annoying, but this next week is gonna suck...