Winter Weather 2017-18 where EVERYONE argues.

[joecct]

Just replaced a solenoid on my generator and made sure it starts now. It’s supposed to get windy here on the coast (I’m on Mount Desert Island, just off the coast of Maine). We’re projected to get 12-16” of snow and gusts of 60+ mph

Waves? Tides?

THUNDERSNOW???!!!!

[Twitch Boy]

Re: Winter Weather 2017-18 where EVERYONE argues.

Your Boston forecast, ladies and gentlemen.

http://www.newnownext.com/gay-news-a...ewart/01/2018/

[BassAle]

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The good news about the blizzard is it warmed up today. I wore my light jacket today; it was 12F when I got to work. It felt pretty nice. My face didn’t hurt on my walk in. Eventually it got up to the high 20s. After we get dumped on it’s supposed to drop back down to zero (real, not with wind chill) for the weekend (when I want to be out skiing in the new snow)

[The Rube]

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The good news about the blizzard is it warmed up today. I wore my light jacket today; it was 12F when I got to work. It felt pretty nice. My face didn’t hurt on my walk in. Eventually it got up to the high 20s. After we get dumped on it’s supposed to drop back down to zero (real, not with wind chill) for the weekend (when I want to be out skiing in the new snow)

It is possible to be too cold to snow. Weird, huh?

[dxmnkd316]

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Today was gorgeous out. Did a quick swing outside to check on an installation when I was down at the plant. The sun felt so good. It was totally bearable without a jacket even though there was a breeze and it was single digits.

[The Rube]

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Today was gorgeous out. Did a quick swing outside to check on an installation when I was down at the plant. The sun felt so good. It was totally bearable without a jacket even though there was a breeze and it was single digits.

A bit windy on the west side where I am, but yeah, that sun helped.

[St. Clown]

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This startribune headline confirms what Brent said :

The deep-freeze free-fall that began Christmas Day made the final week of 2017 in the Twin Cities the coldest in 132 years with an average temperature of 3 below zero.

Wow. You don't see that very often. (Brent being right, I mean.)

It is possible to be too cold to snow. Weird, huh?

Case in point...

[Kepler]

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"Cold for Minnesota" is a pretty scary thought.

[dxmnkd316]

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Case in point...

I mean, he's not wrong under the vast majority of conditions. Obviously if you have 100% humidity at -100 degF and it drops to -125 degF, it's going to snow as the moisture in the air falls out. It's not going to be very much snow, but it's going to snow in some form.

"Cold for Minnesota" is a pretty scary thought.

Honestly, it wasn't even that bad in the Twin Cities. Up north in Ely or International Falls, that's a different animal altogether. Or even in the Dakotas.

There was an awesome blog post written by someone living in Alaska when the temperatures got down to -60 degF (maybe even as low as -80 degF). The one thing I still remember is that he said you had to be careful at those temperatures because the tires on your car can shatter unexpectedly.

[St. Clown]

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I mean, he's not wrong under the vast majority of conditions. Obviously if you have 100% humidity at -100 degF and it drops to -125 degF, it's going to snow as the moisture in the air falls out. It's not going to be very much snow, but it's going to snow in some form.

I just remember a few years back when we had an arctic blast of winter that lasted for a week or so. In the middle of that arctic blast we received some snow. The meteorologists were all on the air explaining that the old axiom "too cold to snow" is simply not a real thing. While it's rare to get snow during -20F weather, it's not impossible, and that there is a history of it.

[Kepler]

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Honestly, it wasn't even that bad in the Twin Cities. Up north in Ely or International Falls, that's a different animal altogether. Or even in the Dakotas.

There's a big gap in the "this is too cold for people" spectrum between traditionally warm and cold places because in the latter people are prepared. When they go out in South Carolina when it's 25 in their normal winter clothes they genuinely are too cold, because they've got at most a long sleeve shirt and maybe a crappy raincoat. In Ithaca you've got layers and a good hat and warm gloves, so even at -10 you're not happy but you're doing OK.

Plus, they never learn what I learned my first winter in Ithaca trudging up Libe Slope in a f-cking lateral snow storm: the Paul Atreides Technique. Don't stiffen up but let the cold just pass through you like you're not there. Relaxing into the frigid cold was highly counter-intuitive when I first thought to do it, but it's my secret, anyway: don't fight the cold; join it.*

This has been your Moment of Zen.

* Though this may also be how people die of hypothermia.

[Kepler]

Re: Winter Weather 2017-18 where EVERYONE argues.

I just remember a few years back when we had an arctic blast of winter that lasted for a week or so. In the middle of that arctic blast we received some snow. The meteorologists were all on the air explaining that the old axiom "too cold to snow" is simply not a real thing. While it's rare to get snow during -20F weather, it's not impossible, and that there is a history of it.

I thought "too cold for snow" was really about a lack of humidity. There are temperatures which can't support enough water vapor to form snow. But that could be a complete myth.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I mean, he's not wrong under the vast majority of conditions. Obviously if you have 100% humidity at -100 degF and it drops to -125 degF, it's going to snow as the moisture in the air falls out. It's not going to be very much snow, but it's going to snow in some form.



Honestly, it wasn't even that bad in the Twin Cities. Up north in Ely or International Falls, that's a different animal altogether. Or even in the Dakotas.

There was an awesome blog post written by someone living in Alaska when the temperatures got down to -60 degF (maybe even as low as -80 degF). The one thing I still remember is that he said you had to be careful at those temperatures because the tires on your car can shatter unexpectedly.

Eh, it was bad here. My dog fell over trying to do her business and can’t say I blame her.

[burd]

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There's a big gap in the "this is too cold for people" spectrum between traditionally warm and cold places because in the latter people are prepared. When they go out in South Carolina when it's 25 in their normal winter clothes they genuinely are too cold, because they've got at most a long sleeve shirt and maybe a crappy raincoat. In Ithaca you've got layers and a good hat and warm gloves, so even at -10 you're not happy but you're doing OK.

Plus, they never learn what I learned my first winter in Ithaca trudging up Libe Slope in a f-cking lateral snow storm: the Paul Atreides Technique. Don't stiffen up but let the cold just pass through you like you're not there. Relaxing into the frigid cold was highly counter-intuitive when I first thought to do it, but it's my secret, anyway: don't fight the cold; join it.*

This has been your Moment of Zen.

* Though this may also be how people die of hypothermia.

Didn't Twain say something like "The coldest winter in my life was a summer in San Francisco?"

Having lived three years in a log cabin at the top of the Santa Cruz Mountains not far from the City, I can say that 35 damp and windy degrees often felt like zero.

[JF_Gophers]

Didn't Twain say something like "The coldest winter in my life was a summer in San Francisco?"

Having lived three years in a log cabin at the top of the Santa Cruz Mountains not far from the City, I can say that 35 damp and windy degrees often felt like zero.

were you writing a manifesto?