Cold Cold Weather

[Bluewolf027]

I just wanted to complain for a moment - when I woke up this morning it is -41 degrees Celcius here in Whitecourt, Alberta - add to that a wind of about 18km/h and you get a temperature of around -50 degrees celcius with the wind chill. I dont remember it being this cold before - ever. It actually hurts to go outside any exposed skin feels like its burning as soon as you get outside.


Ok just had to whine for a while - Whats the weather like where you are? Maybe its nice :)

[Tiny]

The weather here in San Francisco it's....hard to say ;) , sometime cloudy(cold even with sunligh), sometime raining, but still cold as usual
Usually 47*F to 55*F (Day time)
And 25*F - 35*F (Night Time)

:lol: Turn the Heat on, if u feel cold :lol:

[Tinaa]

Oh, you are going to hate me! It is a beautiful day here. It is about 65 F and sunny with about 17% humidity. It may rain tomorrow, but we are looking at 70+ temps for the rest of the week. Sorry! :)

[jimmy]

It's supposed to get REALLY cold here in S/E Louisiana tonight, maybe 34 or 35 F. :lol:
Just joking, I really feel for you who are freezing your buns off; I don't like to be cold! :(

[Graceless]

Also living in Alberta, I would like to voice MY complaint (since this thread was so kindly emailed to me....methinks as a way for me to stop griping at HIM about it) about the weather.
I woke up this morning and it was -43 (with windchill, -56). And when the sun rose....it got COLDER. Mother Nature is sick and perverted. I went into work (amid empty streets littered with cars that had given out and lay abandoned where they stop) and asked what has to happen in order for my place of employment to close their doors.

"Well...if the building wasn't here, we wouldn't expect you to be here."
"Oh the humanity."
"We're Red Cross Approved."

I'm thinking of having a benefit concert.

[JimN]

It was really cold here in El Campo, Texas today to. There was ice on the wind shield of my car when I got off work. Infact this is the coldest day and last night I have felt this year. I mean counting December last month to. :blink:

[damienpaul]

Well its a contant 40 C (108 F) here, has been for about 2 weeks now...lol and it is humid.

[JimN]

Right now it's 33 degrees. Thats cold for these parts :blink: . 5:21am....

[Fraser]

It's rough here in Vancouver, too. It's approaching freezing... yikes. ;-)

[Bluewolf027]

I grew up on the lower mainland Fraser - I have fond memorys of MILD winters :P
Then my parents moved me out to the prairies and for some reason Ive been here freezing my but off every winter since B)

[Chook]

Poor guys! I REALLY sympathise (except for Alice).

After living in Vienna for 16 years I NEVER want to see snow again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia is absolutely perfect - mild Winters, mild Summers with a cooling sea breeze.

Bronzed maidens, in bikinis, doing the shopping!!!!!! (When are you coming East Alice?) Sun/surf-blonded lads, carrying their surf-boards, on their way to the beach and waves.

What a life!

[Kootenaistar]

My sympathies, I guess? Here in a little mountain valley, northern U.S., people get worried if it gets below O degrees F. In C. that's already -18. We had almost a week of -20's F earlier this year. Daytime temps like that just don't come too often here, and several in a row HURT!!! :( Dress warm, and keep that homefire BURNIN'!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[JimN]

Originally posted by Chook@Jan 28 2004, 07:35 PM
Poor guys! I REALLY sympathise (except for Alice).

After living in Vienna for 16 years I NEVER want to see snow again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia is absolutely perfect - mild Winters, mild Summers with a cooling sea breeze.

Bronzed maidens, in bikinis, doing the shopping!!!!!! (When are you coming East Alice?) Sun/surf-blonded lads, carrying their surf-boards, on their way to the beach and waves.

What a life!
Now that was funny. But sounds good to me :P .

[Tiny]

Does Australia located in between the North and South Equator, so the weather there is kinda PERFECT?

[Polly V]

The weather here in northern california, well it just doesn't get that cold. Currently overcast and 51 F. But the funny thing living in the San Francisco Bay is that this is the same weather we have in summer :lol:

As Mark Twain once said the coldest winter he ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco.

[JimN]

I bet you guys use some cool weather stations on your PC giving local radar. I use a WeatherBug.

[DippyHippy]

It hasn't been anything like that cold here in lovely Luton, England although I think midweek the high was around 0C.

The coldest I've been in was -14C (LaCrosse, Wisconsin) but it felt different to how you'd expect it, because it was a dry cold... here in England, it's a very damp coldness and - I know this sounds silly - but it feels different. I didn't mind the -14C... but you're right, I was told not to touch metal with my bare skin, to cover up everything but my eyes and when the wind blew across your face, it felt like a knife.

I checked the weather for Milwaukee, Wisconsin around midweek and I think it was predicting a high of about 9F - ie, about -13C. Nice.

[Spacemad]

Here in Cambridgshire we have had all kinds of weather this last week. We began with fairly mild weather & even sunny skies. On Tuesday it began getting much colder but on Wednesday we all woke up to 5cm of snow! It was terribly cold & with the wind chill added it felt as though the mercury had fallen out of the bottom of the thermometer!!! We had been terribly spoilt by one of the warmest Decembers on record & it seemed that January was going the same way. Thursday, although we had no new snow falls was worse because the wind was even stronger & colder & the overnight frost had made the melting snow freeze. All in all a trecherous day! But then the rains came & washed everything away! Saturday was very, very windy with galeforce winds that nearly blew you away!
Today the sun is shining brightly & there is only a thin layer of clouds in the sky.

Noew you people out there who say we English only talk about the weather are right - but then we have many changes & it makes a useful topic for converstion. We have authentic WEATHER! :)

[damienpaul]

Well, as an update for here in desert Alice Springs.... we have had a slight and most likely change in weather, after 16 days of temps between 38C to 43C (100F to 114F) we have had a change in weather - it is 17C (about 70C) now and it is raining...

[Chook]

Quote Tiny:
"Does Australia located in between the North and South Equator, so the weather there is kinda PERFECT?"

The weather IS perfect (at Coffs Harbour) and we are located some place between the Equator and the South Pole.

Come and visit (the boys are friendly!) ;)

[DippyHippy]

Chook, that's what worries me :D

[damienpaul]

Nah, don't go to Coffs harbour, come here to Alice Springs to visit (the flyes are friendly!);)

[Planetwatcher]

Well, here in the upper mid west of the US, we are under a winter storm warning. :blink:
My area is expecting 7 to 10 inches of snow before it's all done on Tuesday. :o
We had a big snow storm last Sunday too. <_< Then most of last week after the storm was below zero. :( I had a water pipe burst on Thursday, :angry: and helped a man jump start his car on Friday.

But otherwise it's been pretty mild around here. :D

[Bluewolf027]

Here my update on the weather here :P

Here in Whitecourt, AB Canada we arent quite as cold anymore only -25 degrees celcius now - but its been snowing off and on for a week straight. On Friday the nice little man who drives the snow plow kindly plowed all of the snow, that I had previously shovelled out of my drive, in front of my driveway. So before I could park in my driveway after coming home from work I had to shovel a huge pile of snow out of my way. The pipes to the washing machine are frozen but the plumbers too busy to come and fix them so eventually I think I might start to smell really bad. But at least its not - 40 anymore :rolleyes:

[Weaselbunny]

I don't know, moan moan moan...

You'd never survive a camping trip to Neptune!

(-56... Humans can live in that! I feel sorry for myself when it gets close to 0 celsius. How long would it take you to get hat, gloves, coat, portable heater and snowshoes on? Do you ever share a coat with a friend or neighbour to pool your body heat? How many pairs of socks do you wear? How do you distinguish between sexes with all that warm clothing on, does it become a case of 'Wow, check out the shoeshoes on that!') :rolleyes:

[DippyHippy]

Planetwatcher, my fiancee is in OK about 90 miles southwest of Oklahoma City and she's on a storm warning too...