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Guess what guys!

It's as cold tonight in Huntsville Al. as it is in Ontario.
Now this I can't figure out!

Dave :savewave:
 
14dna said:
Guess what guys!

It's as cold tonight in Huntsville Al. as it is in Ontario.
Now this I can't figure out!

Dave :savewave:
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Thats where it is coming from.
 
Basil said:
Iowa Temperatures a solid 30 degrees below normal!
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I did 3 years in Ames, Iowa in graduate school. In 1981 it didn't break zero for a high temperature in Ames for <span style="text-decoration: underline">8 days!</span> That's about 10 degrees colder than they were at the worst of this cold snap.

I had to park my 1960 Ford Falcon facing the setting sun so it would start in the afternoon, and that took ether to accomplish. The doughnut heater on the lower radiator hose was the only reason I got to school in the morning.

I think almost everyone else there kind of liked it. :crazyeyes:
 
DaveatMoon said:
In 1981 it didn't break zero for a high temperature in Ames for <span style="text-decoration: underline">8 days!</span> That's about 10 degrees colder than they were at the worst of this cold snap.
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"Des Moines bottomed out at <span style="font-weight: bold">17 below zero</span>, two degrees above the record low on Jan. 2 in the capital. The National Weather Service station in <span style="font-weight: bold">Johnston recorded 22 degrees below</span> zero."

When I was in Great Falls Montana, a week or more of sub-zero temps wasn't uncommon. We had to keep our cars plugged in our no way it would start the next day.
 
Nunyas said:
What's up with the temps down here in Tampa Doc?!?! I thought was gonna get to warm up a bit by coming down off my secrit mountain base in L. . and visirin' family in Tampa. Instead, I'm greated with more of the same... actually worse cause it's more humid so anything resembling a breeze has me recallin' Mt Fuji w/ snow on the ground in early spring...

brrrrr... me shorts are a freezin'!

Freezin' I tells ya!
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Weren't ~MY~ idea! This is at least ten degrees below the averge for this time o' year.

...but th' coffee's hot, Rob. C'mon by!
 
Saves on air conditioning! :jester:
 
That somehow rings hollow here, Paul.
 
And to think, a mere weeks or so ago we broke a record high for the day since 1948! The old record was 86* and the new one is 90*. We have been AVERAGING 48* for the past three days now! THAT is CHILLY for south Florida!! This is one heck of a polar express!!
 
That's why one of God's advisers created jackets. Been perfect albeit cool here in the afternoon. Low 50s yesterday, short sleeves in the sun, light jacket in the shade. Went to Sams Club yesterday morning (saw a sign that said 45 on it) and was surprised at the number of people with shorts on.
 
I was out in shorts yesterday at around 37f.I may have to pull on track pants tomorrow.Of course,I may just stay indoors instead. :devilgrin: :jester: Or perhaps the kilt might do the trick. :jester:

Stuart. :cheers:
 
Basil said:
"Des Moines bottomed out at <span style="font-weight: bold">17 below zero</span>, two degrees above the record low on Jan. 2 in the capital. The National Weather Service station in <span style="font-weight: bold">Johnston recorded 22 degrees below</span> zero."

When I was in Great Falls Montana, a week or more of sub-zero temps wasn't uncommon. We had to keep our cars plugged in our no way it would start the next day.
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The coldest temperature I was ever in was during that week in 1981. It got down to -23 in Des Moines, one degree above their all-time record low, and it was likely about a degree or 2 colder in Ames where I was. Worse, it was windy, with wind chills of -60+. I remember a wind chill of -77, but I can't remember if that was where I was or not.

I was living in a 1940s motel room that had been converted into apartments. My furnace's fan literally never shut off for the week, it just cycled between running the heat (gas) off and on.

I came to the conclusion then that anything below -10 is not detectable by my body's system, and was simply a measure of how long you have to live if you're nuts enough to go outside. Also I became very good at scraping frost of the inside of the windshield, as even new cars had trouble keeping windows clear and I was using a 21 year old heater/defroster. :eeek:
 
Just saw a post on Facebook: "Some monkey is missing its brass balls..." :thumbsup:
 
bugimike said:
And to think, a mere weeks or so ago we broke a record high for the day since 1948! The old record was 86* and the new one is 90*. We have been AVERAGING 48* for the past three days now! THAT is CHILLY for south Florida!! This is one heck of a polar express!!
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Get used to extreme variability like that. It'll be the norm from now on. :frown:
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Just saw a post on Facebook: "Some monkey is missing its brass balls..." :thumbsup:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
DaveatMoon said:
bugimike said:
And to think, a mere weeks or so ago we broke a record high for the day since 1948! The old record was 86* and the new one is 90*. We have been AVERAGING 48* for the past three days now! THAT is CHILLY for south Florida!! This is one heck of a polar express!!
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Get used to extreme variability like that. It'll be the norm from now on. :frown:
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No comment !
 
13 here this am.
 
Balmy 43 here. Seems we'll miss all the pleasantries. :laugh:
 
Now gone to the old Air Force winter flight jacket... moth eaten cuffs an' all.

What're we callin' Military Airlift Command these days? :wink:
 
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