It's so cold!!

[caitlion]

yeah i know! its already getting down to like 65 here at nite!!

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I wish it would cool off here.

We're still in the high 70's, low 80's during the day and high 50's at night.

Yeah, but its already snowing in the mountains. I really want to get to Utah this winter to ski.


32 when I left for work this morning. Now its 46.

 

[ragazzo]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I was SCUBA diving this past weekend at a quarry in eastern PA. At 70' is was about 50 degrees. Let me tell you. 50 degree water is a LOT colder than 50 degree air.


brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............

Drysuit time !

At $600+ for a drysuit, it's going to be a while for me...

tape up your wetsuit and piss in it. the warm urine will keep you warm

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I was SCUBA diving this past weekend at a quarry in eastern PA. At 70' is was about 50 degrees. Let me tell you. 50 degree water is a LOT colder than 50 degree air.


brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............

Actually, they are the same. Duh...

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I was SCUBA diving this past weekend at a quarry in eastern PA. At 70' is was about 50 degrees. Let me tell you. 50 degree water is a LOT colder than 50 degree air.


brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............

Actually, they are the same. Duh...

OK, genius. You got me on a technicality. Crawl back under a rock and read a book about the heat transference of water vs. air...

 

[vi edit]

Actually, they are the same. Duh...

Uhhhh technically....yes. In actual effect, no.

Water cools you down much quicker than air does...it seems like it draws the heat out of you and cools you down much, much faster.

I can easily walk around in 50 degree weather for hours wearing pants and a flannel shirt and be fine. If I was to be thrown in a lake with 50 degree water and stay there for a couple hours I'd be risking hypothermia.

 

[vi edit]

first google link

Even when air and water are at the same temperature, water will "feel" distinctly colder to us. This difference is due to the much higher heat capacity of water than of air. Offered here is an interesting life science application of water's high heat capacity and its serious implications for the maintenance of body temperature and the prevention of hypothermia in warm-blooded animals.

 

[Brutuskend]

It's still in the 80's and 90's here in Oregon.

BTW: I thought you lived in San Fran Red Dawn. Not sure how I got that idea. Maybe you just SEEM like a San Fran kinda guy!

 

[vi edit]

more info

 

[Cougar]

bah, it's not that bad. It's about 50 degrees in pittsburgh and I went out in shorts and a t-shirt. wimp

 

[Cougar]

double post

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
It's still in the 80's and 90's here in Oregon.

BTW: I thought you lived in San Fran Red Dawn. Not sure how I got that idea. Maybe you just SEEM like a San Fran kinda guy!

YEah right. I use to live in San Jose and then Central Ca. (neither are even remotely like Frisco)