Post #245,242
2/17/06 10:00:24 PM
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an appeal for pity that will almost certainly
...elicit grim chuckles from non-Californians.
After several days of sunny clement shirtsleeve weather we are afflicted here in the San Francisco Bay Area with a vicious cold front: cloudy skies and (according to one site just checked) 43° (feels like 40° says the same site). Hell, I don't recall feeling this cold on a visit to Cedar City UT at the end of 1978 when I ventured outdoors near midnight with the outside thermometer reading 5°—but I'm older as well as colder now.
But, shit!!—I just took the recycling out, a roundtrip of not more than half a minute, and three minutes later my fingers still hurt!
aggrievedly,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #245,243
2/17/06 10:06:02 PM
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*snicker* The temperature was 54F here yesterday.
Of course, it's 23F right now... easy come, easy go. I might actually consider throwing a coat on over my t-shirt and pajama pants to take out the garbage when it gets this cold.
Pansy. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #245,244
2/17/06 10:12:51 PM
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I sympathize.
About the coldest I've ever felt was waiting for a bus in Georgia when it was about 33 degrees.
Brr!
My wife's in Monterey this weekend. It's only about 6 degrees warmer there than it is here in Virginia at the moment. She was out in about 1/2" of pea-size hail this afternoon, along with sunshine, rain and heavy clouds in various combinations during the day.
Keep warm!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #245,248
2/17/06 10:35:36 PM
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Waaaaaaaaaaah!
Current conditions in Aurora, IL, as of 20:53 US CST, 2006-Feb-17:
Temperature: 6.8F
Feels like: -11.3F
Dew Point: -5.8F
Wind: West-Northwest / 16.1 mph
..WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM
CST SATURDAY
TONIGHT
PARTLY CLOUDY. COLDER. LOWS FROM AROUND 5 DEGREES BELOW
ZERO OUTLYING AREAS TO AROUND ZERO IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO. LOWEST WIND
CHILL READINGS 20 BELOW TO 25 BELOW ZERO AFTE MIDNIGHT. NORTHWEST
WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH THIS EVENING DIMINISHING TO 10 TO 15 MPH OVERNIGHT.
SATURDAY
MOSTLY SUNNY. COLDER. HIGHS 9 TO 13 ABOVE. LOWEST
WIND CHILL READINGS 15 BELOW TO 20 BELOW ZERO IN THE MORNING.
WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
SATURDAY NIGHT
MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS FROM NEAR ZERO OUTLYING TO
AROUND 5 ABOVE IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO. WIND CHILLS AS COLD AS 10
BELOW TO 15 BELOW ZERO. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
SUNDAY
MOSTLY SUNNY. NOT AS COLD. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S. LOWEST
WIND CHILL READINGS 5 BELOW TO 10 BELOW ZERO IN THE MORNING. WEST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
Hey guys! Get that! "Not as cold" it says! Highs in the mid 20s! Woohoo!
-YendorMike
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #245,299
2/18/06 8:35:46 AM
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That's warm
We're a lot colder here.
-10F air temp
-40f windchill
temp will turn + on Monday.
Winter is FINALLY here.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #245,338
2/18/06 5:09:51 PM
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So how's the weather in Naperville?
You know, over in DuPage County, where you actually live?
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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Post #245,255
2/17/06 11:19:35 PM
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Umm___yesss
Except that my clementless exposure was via that of -- the sprint enroute to basement, then off to shed for a pipe {even quicker, brrr...} - for leverage for the wrench, for the kitchen sink cleanout -- unmolested, probably since the '50s.
(Natch it wasn't the first cleanout. The second one did it today, though.)
Ahh then...
the warmth on return to Hobbitlike coziness; all those BTUs from dead dinosaurs, which we so take for granted.
Now, as to one February in Quebec City -- what's the coefficient of friction of glare ice?
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Post #245,277
2/18/06 2:46:06 AM
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28\ufffd F here right now. Cry me a river.
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Post #245,288
2/18/06 4:00:49 AM
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Um, it's ONE here right now, might make 20 tomorrow.
--
Steve
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Post #245,319
2/18/06 12:06:48 PM
2/18/06 12:20:06 PM
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It's 7 degrees here in St. Louis today
Supposed to get down to 2 degrees above 0 tonight.
Brrrrr!
Brenda
Edit:
P.S. And John ran outside in his sandals (with no socks)to get the newspaper!
"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."
By Geoffrey F. Abert
Edited by Nightowl
Feb. 18, 2006, 12:20:06 PM EST
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Post #245,320
2/18/06 12:08:01 PM
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State of Confusion
North Texas can't make up its mind. On Thursday, we had a high of 85 degrees. Then the winds changed direction, bringing colder temperatures and smoke from wildfires in Oklahoma. The overnight low was 21. And I thought I had extreme swings!
Freezing rain is forecast for the next couple of days.
Lovely.
Amy
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
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Post #245,348
2/18/06 6:22:49 PM
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"And I thought I had extreme swings!" Menopause already? ;-)
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Post #245,352
2/18/06 7:35:42 PM
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That's what you get for having no protection from Canada! :)
When the air dam up there collapses, the dense Arctic air just cascades on down the plains to the Gulf of Mexico.
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #245,399
2/19/06 11:17:42 AM
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"Texas can't make up its mind"
And that surprises you how?
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
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Post #245,351
2/18/06 6:58:53 PM
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It'll be 31 C here today. You all have my pity :)
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #245,371
2/19/06 12:08:43 AM
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I hear you
I had to cut short my son's visit to the park because I didn't have a jacket on. When clouds obscured the Sun, I got too cold to stay. :-(
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #245,398
2/19/06 11:15:15 AM
2/19/06 11:15:54 AM
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Ob*chuckle*
Rand, you really are getting soft in the sunny Californication climes, aren't you?
High yesterday in Waukegan was 4degF. And that's positiely balmy compared to some places (like Milwaukee or Madison Wisc.
I don't feel your pain . . . ;-)
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
Edited by jb4
Feb. 19, 2006, 11:15:54 AM EST
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