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Your Boston forecast, ladies and gentlemen.
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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)
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Originally posted by BassAle View PostThe 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)Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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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.Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
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Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostToday 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.Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens
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Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View PostThis 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.
Originally posted by Brenthoven View PostIt is possible to be too cold to snow. Weird, huh?
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"Cold for Minnesota" is a pretty scary thought.Cornell University
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Originally posted by St. Clown View PostCase in point...
Originally posted by Kepler View Post"Cold for Minnesota" is a pretty scary thought.
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.Code:As of 9/21/10: As of 9/13/10: College Hockey 6 College Football 0 BTHC 4 WCHA FC: 1
Originally posted by SanTropezMay your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.Originally posted by bigblue_dlI don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..Originally posted by KeplerWhen the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostI 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."The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984
"One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir
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Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostHonestly, 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.
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.*
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* Though this may also be how people die of hypothermia.Last edited by Kepler; 01-04-2018, 09:24 AM.Cornell University
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Originally posted by St. Clown View PostI 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.Cornell University
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Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View PostI 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.
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostThere'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.
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.
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Originally posted by burd View PostDidn'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.PSNetwork / XBOX GamerTag: xJeris
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