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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Perhaps I am hallucinating from the cold, but yesterday, it was around 10 above at noon and sunny, with no wind. Just standing on the deck, I could feel the warmth of the sun on my face. This usually doesn’t happen until February.
-15 again tonight, but then it will be seasonal and all the way up to 30 next Friday, or so the forecast says. That is a heat wave!
We are waiting for the real thaw.
Colder means warmer.
Globull Warming. Embrace the insanity.™
Gee, I have this nice photo of the thermometer on Thursday morning at -52 degrees... I’m trying to show it here... but I can’t figure out how to post photos.
I remember - 70 in Wisconsin in early 1961. That was long before the words “wind chill factor’ were strung together.
I am liking the Beach better....wonder what it is in KC and St Louis?
May have to call someone.
I lived in southern Indiana during the 60’s. Had a paper route in 63 and 64 and remember delivery papers when it was -10 to -15 degrees for 3 or 4 days in a role. I had a ski mask, parka, cigarette lighter style hand warmer, wool socks and shearling lined boots, but the paper got delivered every morning.
You live in San Jose? I grew up there! East side, up in the foothills, went to Piedmont Hills High School when it was first built. SJ was an agricultural town of 100,000 when my parents moved there in 1958. The Santa Clara Valley was full of orchards: apricots, almonds, walnuts, and plums. Different world back then. I couldn’t afford to live there now.
And you still moved in anyway? I shall call you Antifreeze Annie .. LOL
Have a warm day!
Good Grief! I was bitching about -6 here in Colorado.
Where’s the satellite dish?
-40F=-40C just to keep things in perspective.
Wireless. :-) Verizon.
Meanwhile, here in North Texas, we topped out at a bone-chilling 54°F today ... brrrrr!
The air makes your lungs crackle and burn when you breathe it in too fast or hard.. icicles hang off your eyelids from your own perspiration after awhile and get frozen in place
That has got to be a life-affirming experience. I mean, we humans were not meant to endure temperatures like that. When we do, it's basically cheating death.
I would think that besting nature at that level must make you appreciate the most basic things about your existence.
I've never experienced cold that deep in all my life, so I have no reality on it at all.
“You Southeners don’t know what cold is.”
Shore we do. It gets a might chilly here in Texas when the temp. drops to 90, but it’s downright cold if it goes below 75. And the lakes here freeze solid if it hits 60.
We prefer a more comfortable range of 110 - just right for backyard BBQs and rodeos.
Here’s a little song for all those liberal leftists up Narth:
Freeze A Yankee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOzOIofXtGc
/humor
I'm not talking about the cold. I was referring to driving on ice. It's not an easy thing yet northerners tend to slam us southerners when they see all the wrecks we have down here during iceovers.
No ... we don't have that kind of cold down here. Thank God!
See my previous post.
“Southerners have a weak constitution regarding cold temperatures. I recall, when I lived in the south, seeing people wearing parkas when the mercury hit 60. I couldn’t help but wonder, why the heck would they even own parkas down there?”
I’m from Nashville and in the 50’s and 60’s it snowed quite a bit in the winter. The year I was born it snowed three feet and my Dad and his crew with the Nashville Electric Service had to sleep in the Nashville jail because they couldn’t get home. I’ve camped in the Smokies when it was -4.
When I moved to Colorado I went down to the local airport for a check ride when it was 95 degrees and the guys were sweltering. I wasn’t even breaking a sweat and was wondering what the deal was.
I guess it’s what you’re used to but people are wonderfully adaptable.
I still freeze my butt off here in the winter.
Oh, Dave. We can drive on snow, no problem. Driving in mud trains us well. :-)
How ya been, man?
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