How cold is it.....

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I'm having dinner on my screened-in porch. It's 6:30 and 71 degrees.
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I'll remind you of this in July when it's 120 and you're hiding inside sitting in front of your air conditioner

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I'll remind you of this in July when it's 120 and you're hiding inside sitting in front of your air conditioner
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I am a lifelong New Englander, so cold and snow mean to me something different than what they mean in the Southwest. For me shoveling snow in shorts and t-shirt has always been normal and probably safer because it may be that the circulatory restriction caused by heavy clothes is what makes men have heart attacks shoveling snow, as much as the exertion. And I would always laugh when I came to Vegas or southern CA and see people walking around in what I would call winter coats when it is 60 degrees.

But after one summer in Vegas (especially this past summer!) that became me. Seriously lost my resistance to cold, and now I wear the heavy jacket in the 50s and 60s. And after a month or so in the 105-110 F it became completely bearable, and with just a hat and occasionally drinking water I can walk the streets all day.

it was very interesting being the experimental subject and seeing how quickly we get acclimated and deacclimated to temperature. There must be a large psychological component. I would always feel bad seeing a young man from the Dominican Republic playing night baseball in April in Chicago or Boston and thinking of how unpleasant that must be for him, but I guess he acclimates to it just as easily as I did.

The wife says it is a brisk -30 currently with a high of -14 today. it is supposed to be 50 degrees on Sunday but she will be going elsewhere before then to get away from the heat.

Was between 25 and 30 degrees of freedom last night.
When I checked the readout a few minutes ago, mid-50's.


I'll be going back towards the cold tomorrow, and likely kvetching about the desolate frozen wasteland.
The navigation system keeps strongly recommending I take the long way around the flooding in Kentucky and northeast Tennessee.

Quote: Dieter

Was between 25 and 30 degrees of freedom last night.
When I checked the readout a few minutes ago, mid-50's.


I'll be going back towards the cold tomorrow, and likely kvetching about the desolate frozen wasteland.
The navigation system keeps strongly recommending I take the long way around the flooding in Kentucky and northeast Tennessee.
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Just get yourself one of these and don't worry about the flooding.

Quote: DRich

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Was between 25 and 30 degrees of freedom last night.
When I checked the readout a few minutes ago, mid-50's.


I'll be going back towards the cold tomorrow, and likely kvetching about the desolate frozen wasteland.
The navigation system keeps strongly recommending I take the long way around the flooding in Kentucky and northeast Tennessee.
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Just get yourself one of these and don't worry about the flooding.


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Given the regularity that my day is reminiscent of The Immigrant Song, an open top seems... "suboptimal".

Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.

Quote: SOOPOO

Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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" 54 on the 9th green"

So score at 18 was 108?

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Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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I always preffered having the first tee time so I could get my four hour round in and still have almost the whole day ahead of me.

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Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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" 54 on the 9th green"

So score at 18 was 108?
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This course was just par 3’s. Didn’t keep a real score but probably around 36. 4 pars. 5 ‘others’. I did have a 28 (which should have been a 29 if I didn’t take a Mulligan). A few days ago. Best 9 ever here. My variance in golf is
H. U. G. E.

A balmy 54 as I eat breakfast, going up to 74. Tucson has the best winters of any place I've lived since Puerto Rico in the late 80s.
It's little wonder it is one of the snowbird capitals of America.
Rodeo week starts on Thursday, with a massive parade through downtown.
In a city desperate for affordable housing, the Rodeo Arena sits on fifty acres of prime real estate and is used about a dozen days a year. Two entire square blocks sit vacant except for the week they provide parking for the arena.

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Teed off at 50 this am. Played lightning fast 9 holes and was only 54 on the 9th green. In the sun it felt great. Needed a jacket when in the shade. Supposed to only hit 72 today. Great dog walking weather.
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" 54 on the 9th green"

So score at 18 was 108?
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This course was just par 3’s. Didn’t keep a real score but probably around 36. 4 pars. 5 ‘others’. I did have a 28 (which should have been a 29 if I didn’t take a Mulligan). A few days ago. Best 9 ever here. My variance in golf is
H. U. G. E.
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That is exactly how I played Par 3 courses. Just keep track of Pars and birdies.

Very cold this period, but it's good

I lived in cold Minnesota for several years. I would wear long underwear for walks when it was below +15 degrees Fahrenheit. I'd wear pack boots, a mask hat, a face mask that covered my nose and had velcro in the back to hold it on, 3M thermal gloves, a sweater underneath my parka, and wear yellow lens ski goggles for sub-zero weather. I didn't want my eyes or nose or toes to freeze. But that would only be good for like an hour walk in 20 below zero temperatures. 30 below zero was even worse! Cars don't start when it hits -20 degrees. Some cars used engine block heaters and they would be plugged in if the outdoor parking lot had electrical outlets. My car just got a recall notice about the engine block heater. I don't know much about them or if my car even has one; they are optional. They can't fix it until next Spring at the earliest and the recall just came out as a fire hazard. It would cost $600+ to install one at the Dealership, so those $35 ones on Amazon don't include installation. I remember coming home from one casino trip by bus and most of the cars the fellow passengers returned to that were parked on the street did not start up when it was 25 below zero by 6 pm.
I just bought Rain-X windshield washer fluid for winter and it's only good down to -25 F. I seem to remember some other fluids that were good to -40 F. Engine coolant is said to expand and contract with temperature and altitude, so some drivers get a low coolant warning on their dash when it's -20 F. I used to have car batteries die at just zero degree temperatures; they wouldn't last much more than a year, or 5 days without being driven. I have a better AGM car battery now that has some protections from being drawn down by various trickle charges.

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I lived in cold Minnesota for several years. I would wear long underwear for walks when it was below +15 degrees Fahrenheit. I'd wear pack boots, a mask hat, a face mask that covered my nose and had velcro in the back to hold it on, 3M thermal gloves, a sweater underneath my parka, and wear yellow lens ski goggles for sub-zero weather. I didn't want my eyes or nose or toes to freeze. But that would only be good for like an hour walk in 20 below zero temperatures. 30 below zero was even worse! Cars don't start when it hits -20 degrees. Some cars used engine block heaters and they would be plugged in if the outdoor parking lot had electrical outlets. My car just got a recall notice about the engine block heater. I don't know much about them or if my car even has one; they are optional. They can't fix it until next Spring at the earliest and the recall just came out as a fire hazard. It would cost $600+ to install one at the Dealership, so those $35 ones on Amazon don't include installation. I remember coming home from one casino trip by bus and most of the cars the fellow passengers returned to that were parked on the street did not start up when it was 25 below zero by 6 pm.
I just bought Rain-X windshield washer fluid for winter and it's only good down to -25 F. I seem to remember some other fluids that were good to -40 F. Engine coolant is said to expand and contract with temperature and altitude, so some drivers get a low coolant warning on their dash when it's -20 F. I used to have car batteries die at just zero degree temperatures; they wouldn't last much more than a year, or 5 days without being driven. I have a better AGM car battery now that has some protections from being drawn down by various trickle charges.
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My old Toyota truck didn’t have a block heater so I used to put a trouble light under the hood and then a big blanket over the hood and in the morning it would start right up.
At -30 though it took 20 minutes to warm up.

It was cold in Tucson this morning, so I interrupted my predawn bike ride to go back for a pair of pants. It's amazing how cold 45 degrees can be when you aren't used to it.

Minor problems getting the work truck started this morning.
Apparently, when I dumped fuel antifreeze treatment in on Thursday, I left one of the fuel caps open, and some snow blew in. It took a noticeable bit of extra cranking time to get the engine fired up.

The 15°F temperature also reminds us that Boyle's law is a thing, and the low tire pressure light was working until I topped up the tires.

It's so cold, the exhibitionists are describing themselves.

It was 52 this morning here in Florida. I was freezing when I let the dogs out.

Quote: DRich

It was 52 this morning here in Florida. I was freezing when I let the dogs out.
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This is what it's doing in my backyard right now

76 and sunny. Gorgeous weather. A few days ago I teed off at FORTY degrees. So we do get a little winter here. But it ain’t Buffalo!

61 and quite overcast. Low-hanging clouds are obscuring much of my mountain views.

TV stations weather posts this.

Quote: rxwine

TV stations weather posts this.


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Oh sure, that makes it look nice. If they just showed the lows people would understand our peril. It was 66 this morning when I woke up and we don't have a fireplace.

Quote: DRich

Oh sure, that makes it look nice. If they just showed the lows people would understand our peril. It was 66 this morning when I woke up and we don't have a fireplace.
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You should be glad you don't live North of Tampa. People here are sometimes forced to wear shirts,

Washington, near the Columbia river. Around 34°F.

Hoarfrost, not snow.

Quote: rxwine

Quote: DRich

Oh sure, that makes it look nice. If they just showed the lows people would understand our peril. It was 66 this morning when I woke up and we don't have a fireplace.
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You should be glad you don't live North of Tampa. People here are sometimes forced to wear shirts,
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I do not want to live any place where the women wear shirts.