That's football weather!!
Posted on 12/21/2015 3:46:26 PM PST by dynachrome
“A bit chilly here in Colorado recently.”
What? It’s 28 degrees here in Longmont. I’m toasty!
It’s 37 degrees at the dynachrome mansion at the moment. Glad I am not up in the cold country
I mowed my pawn in Cleveland last week. Best winter ever! It has been unseasonably warm all season. In the fifties and sixties. Lot’s of talk about global warming. Mostly about making it permanent and mandatory!
Yeah, and I’ve had a foot of white global warming in my yard for a couple of weeks now in my neck of Colorado. And it looks like it’s gonna be a global warming Christmas here too because that white global warming stuff isn’t gonna be going anywhere soon.
The climate change models will adjust this to +75 degree weather with a hockey stick
That's football weather!!
- 56 was the coldest i’ve experienced. Fairbanks, Alaska.
+136 was the hottest. Al Kharj AB, Saudi Arabia.
Personally, I’m ready for some cold weather. Here in Northern Alabama there is a threat of an outbreak of tornadoes on Wednesday. Ugh.
It just doesn’t feel like Christmas.
Yep. South Park. It’s a geological formation and what locals call the area. That’s what the cartoon is named after.
The most well known weather reporting companies and offices were forecasting around 50 degrees higher for the same area, as usual, and apparently don’t use data from the reservoir station. Ain’t tourism and real estate grand? The truth is that cold air most often dumps onto the area around the reservoir and far to the north of it from the peaks a little to the northwest and/or north.
That same area also gets winter wind gusts up to about 110 mph at times during each winter. And BTW, most winters, a long stretch of Hwy. 285 near there is closed at times because of high winds and spraying ice from the peaks. Some of the secondary roads are impassable for days at a time, and tertiary roads in some residential developments in the same county for weeks or months. Add to that, regulations and fees (web site) much like those around big cities of the northeastern states and California. Notice the county name.
Experienced -48 in Crested Butte. No wind at all- absolutely still air. When you moved, the cold reached in and grabbed you like ice hoses wrapped around your chest. But if you stood still, a bubble of warmer air formed around you. Breath didn’t condense, but formed a plume of ice crystals.
Lucky your skin didnt stick to the metal. The Army taught us to pee on yourself if your skin stuck to metal. Beats losing skin.
In summer uniforms.
Yikes, I thought I was going to die!
I did BCT at Ft Knox during the winter of 1969/1970,the coldest winter that area had seen in 50 years.But the only peeing we did was in our pants when we were told that if we didn't do 20 more pull ups we'd be on the next plane to Vietnam.
Actually, the -22 degrees I endured was at Ft Knox, the Wednesday morning after MLK day 1994. We had 16 inches of snow overnight between Sunday and Monday, heavy, wet snow with the temp just below freezing. When the severe cold came, the snow turned to concrete. Both the depth of the snow and the temp were records for Ft Knox, coldest temp and deepest snow ever recorded for one day.
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FMCDH(BITS)
I've never experienced -52, but I have experienced -100 deg F windchill factor. Had to change a spare tire on my then sister in-law’s car. Took one of my gloves off for a few seconds and my skin froze to the lug nut. Had to pry my fingers off with the other hand leaving the skin intact on the metal.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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