Maetryx
Diamond Member
Maetryx here, 😎
We all like to *say* it's -50°F around these parts, but we typically say it when it really is only -37°F and we heard someone else say that it was *supposed* to be -50°F out in Moose Creek. That's all it takes. Suddenly everyone is all, "Oh yeah, it was -50°F last night." But it wasn't.
Tonight it is actually -50°F. No exaggeration. No, "it is supposed to be". It is just plain old -50°F.
It takes your breath away, the first inhalation you breathe outside. When you sit in the seat of your car, the foam does not give. It feels like you sat on a frozen bolder. Your car runs like you're driving through molasses as it tries to overcome all the frozen grease in the wheel bearings and transmission. The ice fog reduces visibility to about 50 feet in the stretches of the highway that doesn't have street lights. The exhaust from the car in front of you makes their tail lights vanish into the all daylong night that we have in the winter.
The extension cord that I use to plug in the electric block heater in my truck may as well be a long, stiff tree branch. The dog tries to lift all four paws off the ground at once when I let her out to do her business. My outdoor mercury vapor light that usually brightens my front yard is too cold to illuminate, exaggerating the dark cold perma-night.
It's supposed to warm up to -25°F in a day or two. Honest to God, that will seem warm after this.
We all like to *say* it's -50°F around these parts, but we typically say it when it really is only -37°F and we heard someone else say that it was *supposed* to be -50°F out in Moose Creek. That's all it takes. Suddenly everyone is all, "Oh yeah, it was -50°F last night." But it wasn't.
Tonight it is actually -50°F. No exaggeration. No, "it is supposed to be". It is just plain old -50°F.
It takes your breath away, the first inhalation you breathe outside. When you sit in the seat of your car, the foam does not give. It feels like you sat on a frozen bolder. Your car runs like you're driving through molasses as it tries to overcome all the frozen grease in the wheel bearings and transmission. The ice fog reduces visibility to about 50 feet in the stretches of the highway that doesn't have street lights. The exhaust from the car in front of you makes their tail lights vanish into the all daylong night that we have in the winter.
The extension cord that I use to plug in the electric block heater in my truck may as well be a long, stiff tree branch. The dog tries to lift all four paws off the ground at once when I let her out to do her business. My outdoor mercury vapor light that usually brightens my front yard is too cold to illuminate, exaggerating the dark cold perma-night.
It's supposed to warm up to -25°F in a day or two. Honest to God, that will seem warm after this.
