Today it was so cold in Los Angeles that

[j-dogg]

No but I do have fins.

 

[mgb74]

Minus 5 (F) here right now. Can't wait for it to get back up to 32 deg so we can go swimming.

 

[winger]

Sounds like it needs a new zipper!

Gotta be cold to be worth zipping a jacket. Kinda like anything less than 3 inches of snow is just a dusting.
Though I'll admit that my asthmatic lungs are not happy with this single digit temp stuff.

 

[MattKing]

It's unusually cold and windy here right now.

Tonight, with wind-chill, it is scheduled to go down to -14C. That is colder than we have seen it at this time of year in almost two decades.

The skies are, however, bitingly blue and clear.

And a farmer in nearby Surrey is flooding his fields, and accepting donations to the Food Bank in return for letting people skate outdoors!

 

[Truzi]

We like to say you know you're in North East Ohio when (among other things) you use the heater and air conditioner in the same day -truzi

 

[sly]

My daughter had the right idea and left for Central America last week, just before the weather reports began warning of below zero weather. Sent me a message today that it was kinda chilly tonight - she had to put on long sleeves......poor thing. I had to dig out my long johns......poor me.

 

[Curt]

19F here in Everett. Our dog is wearing his turtle neck sweater outside. The only thing that keeps a small dog from freezing up is their metabolism and constant motion.

 

[gone]

I was on a bus many years ago going through (and through, and through) L.A. during the winter, and it snowed! None of us on the bus could believe it, but there it was right outside the windows.... palm trees and snow. I mean a blizzard. Amazing. Now we're in Florida, and the A/C is kicking on this morning at 8AM. One Christmas in Hawaii, we had to come inside to finish our meal because it was so blazing hot outside. Three years ago in New Mexico, just 50 miles from the Mexican border, I rode my bike to get coffee at my hangout in 9 degree weather, w/ snow that had hardened into ice on the roads.

I'd rather be complaining about the heat than the cold, hence the Florida move. I mean, Florida summers can make you feel like you're gonna die, but Up North winters WILL kill you. I have a photo somewhere around here that shows our thermometer on the back porch w/ the needle at 9 degrees. I hope to never see something like that again as long as I live.

 

[Sirius Glass]

When one is in Florida in the Summer [I do not believe that people actually live here in the Summer] one can understand what a lobster feels like as it is being prepared for dinner.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

...but Up North winters WILL kill you. I have a photo somewhere around here that shows our thermometer on the back porch w/ the needle at 9 degrees. I hope to never see something like that again as long as I live.

Hmm. Right at this moment mine says +11.3 F (-11.5 C). I just walked up to get the morning paper in jeans and a tee shirt. It's rather nice outside today. Crystal blue skies. Dry as a bone. And the overnight wind has subsided. And dang. It's NOT raining!

I'm with Bethe...



Ken

 

[bdial]

Meh
70's, lived in Texas then California
80's in the California desert, then Florida
90's til now in New England

There are good and bad aspects of every place.

 

[pbromaghin]

-10 f or so for the last 3 nights here in Castle Rock, CO. Pretty unusual this early in the winter.

 

[lxdude]

Today it was so cold in Los Angeles that ...

I wore underwear under my cut-offs.

 

[semi-ambivalent]

I wore underwear under my cut-offs.

TMI

 

[wiltw]

Why is it that the hotels in cold climates have the thermostats set so uncomfortably high, and the hotels in warm climates have the thermostats set so uncomfortably cold? Does no one understand the concept of setting 70-72F and leaving it there regardless of what is outside?!

 

[David Brown]

There are good and bad aspects of every place.

We have a new standard: "colder than Iceland"

 

[c.d.ewen]

air conditioner?? What is this air conditioner thing you speak of?
:munch:

It's that button in the car that you never push. In 35 Summers in New Hamster, I believe I've used the car AC twice.


A traditional NH Fourth of July in our family involves swimming in the lake all day, then sitting around a roaring fire at night.

Charley

 

[cliveh]

But if you don't have a winter, you don't really appreciate the summer.

 

[Sirius Glass]

It's that button in the car that you never push. In 35 Summers in New Hamster, I believe I've used the car AC twice.


A traditional NH Fourth of July in our family involves swimming in the lake all day, then sitting around a roaring fire at night.

Charley

Yes, and the New Hampshire state motto is

Live, Freeze, and Die!

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

But if you don't have a winter, you don't really appreciate the summer.

Translation for Seattle...

"If you don't suffer through the 48 weeks, you won't really appreciate the 4 weeks."



Ken

 

[Sirius Glass]

Rochester New York has two seasons: Winter and the Fourth of July. Some years Rochester does not get the Fourth of July.

 

[Truzi]

North East Ohio has only two seasons as well... winter and construction season (a.k.a. orange barrel season (freeway repairs)). With the growing overlap, it seems they are trying to get rid of winter.

I'd rather have the cold. You can always layer more clothing. If it's too hot you can only take off so much, and if you're still too warm, you can only suffer.

I love snow. In the Greater Cleveland Area, every winter people act as if they've never seen snow before. I've begun to sarcastically reassure these people that they'll get used to it after they've lived here a couple years. When they tell me they grew up here, I then ask why the hell they are freaking out. (I grew up here too.)

 

[Rick A]

Rochester New York has two seasons: Winter and the Fourth of July. Some years Rochester does not get the Fourth of July.

It was that way when I lived in Park City, Ut. The last winter I was there it hit -66F and when I moved away there was still over 4 feet of snow in my front yard in early July.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

I read somewhere that the US Midwest has some of the largest temperature spans anywhere on the planet. With possible -30*F or even -40*F it it's really freaking cold, and more than +100*F in the summer with sticky humidity, the span can be as wide as 145 degrees F. That's 80 degrees C to all you civilized people.

 

[ambaker]

I read somewhere that the US Midwest has some of the largest temperature spans anywhere on the planet. With possible -30*F or even -40*F it it's really freaking cold, and more than +100*F in the summer with sticky humidity, the span can be as wide as 145 degrees F. That's 80 degrees C to all you civilized people.

True! I'm living the dream in Missouri...

The really fun thing is, that it was 70 F on Wednesday, and Thursday night it was 9F. Friday, the high was 21F.