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Oh Man It Is Cold!!!!

LOL N2056!
75 F here today, night's low about 45 F
My brother and his family are visiting right now from upstate NY. They don't want to go back!
 
Piglet said:
LOL N2056!
75 F here today, night's low about 45 F
My brother and his family are visiting right now from upstate NY. They don't want to go back!
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I don't blame them, here in NJ I am freezing off my a$$. Lots of snow in upstate NY. The storm is still going full bore.
 
This time of the year I occasionally drive around with the window rolled down just because I can in the "dead of winter" :wiggle:
 
N2056 said:
This time of the year I occasionally drive around with the window rolled down just because I can in the "dead of winter" :wiggle:
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Same here. Its finally 'not' dangerous to be driving around without AC in the car.

It was super chilly the past 2 weeks (or more) at night, but the past 2 days have been warmish. Had to sleep with the window open, fan on high, sheets only. arrgh.. I like the comforter but not cold enough.

8:45 PM; Glendale, 61F. Low 'should' be 40F. Lets hope. :d
 
If people are complaining now... wait till Wed-Fri... calling for lower 20s for a high here in Dallas!

Those people north of us are going to be seeing minus temperatures me thinks.
 
Tsk.
25 degrees this afternoon...celsius. :d

If it weren't cold sometimes, how'd you know how great it was other times?

Actually, we're quite an adaptable lot if you think about it.
It gets to -80C in Siberia, (-90C in Antarctica) and 140C hotter in some of the deserts!
Humidity from zero to 100, too.
 
Warming

We are warming up tonight with a low of only -18F, after a few few nights of -30. You know it's -30 when the house starts cracking like gunshots going off as the wood shrinks. Any colder than that and the trees start splitting and cracking and sound carries for miles as the air is so dense.

Regards, Rob:ernae:
 
I will be pushing back my trip out to Minneapolis as far in the future as possible.

Maybe I can talk them into remoting. :icon_lol:
 
Cazzie said:
Any one care to start a "global cooling" committee?

caz
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It's global warming at it's best! And guess what? It's like this in many areas around the world right now. Record low temps and record snow all over the world. Where's A.G. when you need him to explain this one? Can anyone say "mini-ice age coming"?

OK, venting done. Now back to none thinking things.
 
TomSteber said:
It's global warming at it's best! And guess what? It's like this in many areas around the world right now. Record low temps and record snow all over the world. Where's A.G. when you need him to explain this one? Can anyone say "mini-ice age coming"?

OK, venting done. Now back to none thinking things.
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It was called "The Little Ice Age" for a period of extreme cold during the middle ages.
It had been preceded by a period of warming known as the "Medieval Warm Period".

Gee. Sound kinda familiar? :icon_lol:

(I know, Wikipedia. But it summarizes it pretty well)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

Global warming or not, I find it interesting information to ponder.
 
Just for your information, the Burlington VT area got 31 inches of snow over the weekend. 40 miles away and I only got about 12...

At least the ski areas will be happy.



Brian
 
Hi,

Was a bit worried about all those cold weather in USA-Europe and China .. so I called Al Gore for have some explainations .....
His answer was stunning (as usual):
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How come the squirrels don't freeze? That's what I want to know. It's freezing outside right now. 10 degrees or so (F). I look outside and the squirrels are running around like they always do. And they don't even have gloves.
 
PRB said:
How come the squirrels don't freeze? That's what I want to know. It's freezing outside right now. 10 degrees or so (F). I look outside and the squirrels are running around like they always do. And they don't even have gloves.
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They have 3 layers to their fur coats in the winter. The inner coat traps heat, why they need to shed in the spring. :mixedsmi:
 
Last winter my mare Ruby didn't have hardly any winter coat. It just thickened up a bit. This winter, she grew something like what you'd expect to see on a woolly mammoth. Long and thick. And the cold don't seem to bother her a bit either.

I'm in long underwear, regular outer clothes, heavy coat, gloves, wool hat and freezing my butt off. :isadizzy:
 
Willy said:
Last winter my mare Ruby didn't have hardly any winter coat. It just thickened up a bit. This winter, she grew something like what you'd expect to see on a woolly mammoth. Long and thick. And the cold don't seem to bother her a bit either.

I'm in long underwear, regular outer clothes, heavy coat, gloves, wool hat and freezing my butt off. :isadizzy:
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Growing up, we always knew how bad a winter it was going to be by how much of a winter coat the horses got.
I remember a couple winters where ours looked the same. :kilroy:
 
My chocolate lab is the same, has a layer close that insulates in cold and wet. Can't get wet. But I've felt sorry for the little tree rats and set peanuts and suet seeds out for them. the ground is so frozen now, they cannot dig up their stash.

Caz
 
Hi,

For those who think it will be better to move to the Himalaya for warm .. :)

So you read it .. and were making your pack to migrate :)

IPCC AR4 WG2 Ch10, p. 493

"Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005)".
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But take care .. a surprise is waiting you :)

"The extrapolar glaciation of the Earth will be decaying at rapid, catastrophic rates - its total area will shrink from 500,000 to 100,000 square kilometres by the year 2350."
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Source:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001065/106523e.pdf

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