Weather where you are

[drkhalsa]

Cold enough that I can finally develop at 20°C without having to refrigerate the water to mix with the developer.

 

[Xmas]

Cold enough that I can finally develop at 20°C without having to refrigerate the water to mix with the developer.

Never had to cool faucet water highest this summer was 22C.

Currently faucet is 12.5C need to temper till surfant bath water really hard as well.

We were told it was a jet stream glitch that brought the Canadian weather over the 49th.

We had a late fall this year too. Hottest Halloween in records and we have records back to 1605 or so.

Take care.

 

[Steve Smith]

I first posted in this thread in Dec ember last year when we were having some of the heaviest rain I have seen.

We are now having some of the heaviest rain I have seen... an ideal time for having a new roof put on our factory!

Never had to cool faucet water highest this summer was 22C.

Aren't you English? It's a tap!!


Steve.

 

[Truzi]

32^ F (0^ C) in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, with some snow. It's not bad, but it took 2 hours to drive 23 miles into work (normally a 24 minute drive) because apparently everyone in the region was replaced with people who've never seen snow before.

 

[Xmas]

I first posted in this thread in Dec ember last year when we were having some of the heaviest rain I have seen.

We are now having some of the heaviest rain I have seen... an ideal time for having a new roof put on our factory!



Aren't you English? It's a tap!!


Steve.

HiSteve

My family are from the 32 counties so my dialect is Elizabeth I rather than II and faucet is normal for me and correct usage.

It should not cause you a problem understanding me.

Noel

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

21oF/-6oC this morning.

Crystal clear blue skies. Through the window it looks like a beautiful summer morning.

Until you open the door...

Ken

 

[Sirius Glass]

Still much nicer than east of here.

 

[Rick A]

The next wave of global warming has hit, temps dropped to the upper 20's and snowing.

 

[winger]

As I walked the dogs this morning, I realized that 9F with no wind is really not that bad. It's definitely better than 20F with the wind chill at 9. Something tells me the way they calculate wind chill is not the same as how my body calculates it.

 

[MattKing]

As I walked the dogs this morning, I realized that 9F with no wind is really not that bad. It's definitely better than 20F with the wind chill at 9. Something tells me the way they calculate wind chill is not the same as how my body calculates it.

This may sound strange, but bear with me ...

It may be because you are female.

In my experience, more often than not, women tend to feel and react to cold more than men do.

This of course is a generalization, and there are certainly going to be significant numbers of exceptions, etc., etc.

 

[drkhalsa]

Never had to cool faucet water highest this summer was 22C.

Currently faucet is 12.5C need to temper till surfant bath water really hard as well.

We were told it was a jet stream glitch that brought the Canadian weather over the 49th.

We had a late fall this year too. Hottest Halloween in records and we have records back to 1605 or so.

Take care.

The water this summer was 30C out of the faucet.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

The water this summer was 30C out of the faucet.

I occasionally had that in Los Angeles during long hot stretches. I solved the problem by moving to rural northwestern Washington State. My ambient water now never even reaches 68F/20C year round.

Of course, the price to be paid was 21F/-6C outside this morning. And 24F/-4C as I type this now, headed for the upper teens by tomorrow morning.

And an oversized water heater installed just to get my darkroom water UP to 68F/20C.



Ken

 

[Wayne]

0 F

 

[winger]

This may sound strange, but bear with me ...

It may be because you are female.

In my experience, more often than not, women tend to feel and react to cold more than men do.

This of course is a generalization, and there are certainly going to be significant numbers of exceptions, etc., etc.

I think women are just more likely to complain about it.

My dad feels the cold more than my mom (and she's a champion complainer) - he's the reason they're looking to move from upstate NY to Virginia. I've never liked wind, though. Until recently, I would usually gulp if wind hit my face just the wrong way. Don't have a clue why, but always did it.

 

[Jim Jones]

Bethe, one price a woman pays for a neat trim figure is sensitivity to cold. Those of us who provide for the cold with more thermal mass (aka blubber) do better until we get old. Yesterday evening I photographed the last home town High School football game of the season. The temperature was in the low 20s, but with no wind and extra layers of clothing, it was comfortable enough. We shouldn't complain. At Thule AFB in northern Greenland the current temperature is a little below zero with a modest breeze. Before long it will get cold. They haven't seen the Sun for a few weeks, and won't for another four months.

 

[Truzi]

It's sunny and 30^ F ( -1^ C). The snow has melted off all pavement. It's a nice day.

I normally handle the cold well. About a year ago I lost about 15 pounds, and I really noticed it last winter. I still don't have a "proper" winter coat, and run around in a medium-weight leather jacket since I basically just go between the house and car, and parking lot and my office; I'm not outside long enough to need a "real" coat. I do have an old ski jacket I keep in the trunk just in case (and for when I clear the driveway).

Also, I'm picky about coats, so anything I'd be willing to be seen in regularly is a bit too expensive at this point (read, $150 & up). I do have the ski jacket for when I do need something warm. Even though it is old, it's extremely warm; often I only zip it half way.

 

[cliveh]

It's sunny and 30^ F ( -1^ C). The snow has melted off all pavement. It's a nice day.

I normally handle the cold well. About a year ago I lost about 15 pounds, and I really noticed it last winter. I still don't have a "proper" winter coat, and run around in a medium-weight leather jacket since I basically just go between the house and car, and parking lot and my office; I'm not outside long enough to need a "real" coat. I do have an old ski jacket I keep in the trunk just in case (and for when I clear the driveway).

Also, I'm picky about coats, so anything I'd be willing to be seen in regularly is a bit too expensive at this point (read, $150 & up). I do have the ski jacket for when I do need something warm. Even though it is old, it's extremely warm; often I only zip it half way.

On the subject of coats, can someone suggest the warmest coat for extreme low temperatures?

 

[ME Super]

Get a coat like people who hunt wear. They're designed for somebody who's going to go sit outside all day (like up in a tree, where it's windy, or in a blind) and not move around much. I have one (it's camo) and I love it. I get cold easily, but generally not when I'm wearing that coat. Last winter when we had all that snow, I went outside to shovel the driveway and sidewalks, and left the front open and was still sweating (it may have helped that I had a quilted flannel shirt on under it). This in near 0o F weather, and I was sweating. And I don't sweat easily.

 

[Rick A]

If you look at clothing lined with thinsulate, the higher the gram rating, the warmer the item(higher insulation density).

 

[Truzi]

Every down coat I've had has been very warm. I've never had a coat with thinsulate, but have had it in gloves. It didn't really seem to help in gloves.

 

[winger]

On LLBean's site and probably on Lands End, you can see what they rate coats for, temperature-wise. Their coats, jackets, and parkas are fairly good. Columbia and North Face are also good.

Personally, my favorite winter coat was one made by Columbia around 1994. It's purple, green, and pink, but it's long enough to cover my butt. It has an outer shell that can be worn as a windproof, rainproof jacket and then has the inner jacket that has most of the warmth. Unfortunately, after about 15 years, the zipper wore out. Then the waterproofing died. I haven't found a perfect coat since then. I don't like down because it's usually too fluffy. I don't like feeling like the Michelin man or the Stay-Puf Marshmallow man.

Thinsulate and Goretex are two of the best things ever invented, imo.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

17oF/-8oC this morning.

Headed there or lower again tonight.

Ken

 

[Truzi]

I don't like down because it's usually too fluffy. I don't like feeling like the Michelin man or the Stay-Puf Marshmallow man.

I had one of those - everyone called it my Michelin Man coat, lol. It wasn't down, though; some synthetic stuffing that wasn't overly warm (though was still decent). I retired it to the trunk of my car as an emergency coat, and one day the engine caught fire (leaking fuel line). I used the coat to beat out the fire... and it melted.

 

[Truzi]

It's now 15F (-9.4C). It's supposed to hit the 50s this weekend - typical out here.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Los Angeles 77 degrees F [25 C] today.80 degrees F [26,7 C] tomorrow.

This weekend we took a trip to Yosemite.

Tough life being a pensioner, but someone has to live it.