The South is getting hit as well.
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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Hard to believe...We're supposed to be about 78 tomorrow, sunny and clear...
I don't think our freezer gets down to 20...
LOL
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about.
;^D
Sure it is. I see it on car commercials all the time--60 MPH on a winding, ice-covered mountain road, with steep precipices on all sides. And half the jackasses who watch the damned commercial think they can do it too.
That's 233.15K for all you scientific types. So, we still have a bit of a ways to go before absolute zero.
Beach umbrella. You know, that’s not a bad idea! Thank you. It’ll keep me in my chair, but hey. I have too much muscle tone anyway. :)
That would be really hard for kids. You don’t get established. Just when you get settled and get some new friends, it’s time to move on again.
I don’t know where you claim to be seeing that but I certainly don’t see it where I live.
The South is getting hit as well.
A red with white trim Schwinn Wasp with double rimmed wheels, big basket, balloon tires and very comfy padded seat.
Mine was a Schwinn Typhoon., black with white stripes.
Oh my GOSH! WHERE was that picture taken??
Wow. An earthquake dropped that road 15’ below the surface, a perfect, sinuous fault.
Mine still lives in my basement minus the original handlebars, fenders and tires. Road it around campus as college student and then for exercise back in the 70’s and 80’s when I lived out in the country. It is still very usable if I had anywhere to ride here in the big city. Bought it with money I earned tossing papers on front porches during those early morning hours. My first major purchase. Bought it from the local hardware store at $5 per week which was a lot of money for a 12 year old kid in 1963.
I inherited mine from my two older brothers. That’s how it was for me. I was one in a family of seven kids and things like a bike were ‘’handed down’’. I was tossing the morning papers on peoples porches as a 12 year-old in ‘68. Man, that was a lifetime ago. That America doesn’t exist anymore.
Been there done that. My first bike was a hand me down from older sister. Oh the humanity, being 6 and having to ride a girls bike. Very embarrassing. Got my first new bike when I was 10 as a Christmas gift. It was stolen and stripped the next summer while I was at the local swimming pool. Went without until I bought the aforementioned Schwinn. My old man was only willing to spring for one new bike per child.
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