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Title: Winter
Post by: Hunter on January 06, 2014, 08:05:49 pm
I'm still enjoying my weather here, around mid 80s day time and mid 70s night time.

How's the weather for you people back home?


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Takishi on January 06, 2014, 08:10:18 pm
Negative 3, wind chill is neg 25. Walked a block to work this evening and thought my face was on fire and boogers were frozen...


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: huffdady on January 06, 2014, 08:11:37 pm
Dallas is 30's during the day and 20's during the night.  For us, it cold as a mofo.  We are used to 80+'s.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Dinadas on January 06, 2014, 08:13:39 pm
It was 54 today and a projected low over night of 8 or -8 something crazy like that.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Clegane on January 06, 2014, 08:13:48 pm
Also in Dallas, can confirm. Where's our heat, man?


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Hunter on January 06, 2014, 08:21:31 pm
The following are 10 of Al Gore’s stupidest global warming quotes…


  • In 2008, Al Gore boldly declared to a German audience that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.” (Needless to say, that did not happen.  In fact, the ice cap in the Arctic actually got larger this year.)

  • “CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. … Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.” (Actually, without carbon dioxide life on earth would not exist.)

  • “The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.” (It sounds like what Al Gore really needs is more cowbell.)

  • During a speech at NYU Law School in 2006, Al Gore made the following statement: “Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several “tipping points” that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization.”

  • “Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.”

  • “The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.” (It actually peaks out at about 11,000 degrees.)

  • “There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.”

  • “It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.”

  • “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.”

  • “We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.”


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Hunter on January 06, 2014, 08:25:14 pm
Stupid question, but do people in the south even have winter supplies? Hat? Gloves? Coat?


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Gannicus on January 06, 2014, 08:28:47 pm
Stupid question, but do people in the south even have winter supplies? Hat? Gloves? Coat?

If they don't, I bet they are kicking themselves in the arse right about now.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Hunter on January 06, 2014, 08:30:50 pm
I didn't say pants though, cause I've seen plenty of people in the south wear blue jeans even on 90 degree days /ponder.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: lillyg on January 06, 2014, 08:36:36 pm
In Northwest Iowa it was -25 with wind chills of -40 to -60 here the last 24 hours, currently -7 windchill of -30....... we forgot what heat was... wish i was in Dallas!!


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Nexxel on January 06, 2014, 08:39:34 pm
-9 right now, with wind chill down to -37.  :o

Took me three and half hours to clear my driveway and 2 other neighbors with my tractor and snow thrower. Official snow fall was 17" with drifts as high as 48' (taller then my dog) and cold ass all hell in Flint Michigan.

(http://www.funnysigns.net/files/hell-froze-over-400x221.jpg)


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: ZerarWarrior on January 06, 2014, 08:49:57 pm
Well my happy ass is in basically Houston, and I work outdoors (looking back maybe not such a good idea) and it was a high of 36 today... high of 27 tomorrow.

To give perspective, giant winter coats get broken out here when it gets to a balmy 55.... so 27 is basically shutting everything down. People here literally have no idea what to do in this "cold" Of course we are used to 95 with 210% humidity 8 months out of the year.

 :o


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Fjord on January 06, 2014, 09:09:54 pm
It's 5 degrees here in Buffalo, which isn't that bad to be honest. Apparently we could get up to 3ft by tomorrow night though with lake effect snow.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Yaedien on January 06, 2014, 09:24:59 pm
I'm from the south and basically my winter clothes consist of a fleece jacket, but have a heavier one if it gets down to around 0, normally it doesn't. Every few years it does manage to get down that cold though :P

But being in Vietnam right now its around 80, so i am not missing the winter in the USA right now lol


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Hunter on January 06, 2014, 09:26:24 pm
But being in Vietnam right now its around 80, so i am not missing the winter in the USA right now lol

+1

I got mid 80's day time here myself, then sun goes down at 6pm and gets into mid 70s.

I hope it warms up by time I get back.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Brokyn on January 06, 2014, 09:32:49 pm
-9 right now, with wind chill down to -37.  :o

Took me three and half hours to clear my driveway and 2 other neighbors with my tractor and snow thrower. Official snow fall was 17" with drifts as high as 48' (taller then my dog) and cold ass all hell in Flint Michigan.

I hope that's a typo...  drifts as high as 48 feet?


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Fjord on January 06, 2014, 09:35:16 pm
I'm from the south and basically my winter clothes consist of a fleece jacket, but have a heavier one if it gets down to around 0, normally it doesn't.

That's my strategy. I typically don't do more than a fleece or running gloves unless I'm skiing or tailgating at a football game. 


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Nexxel on January 06, 2014, 09:40:48 pm
-9 right now, with wind chill down to -37.  :o

Took me three and half hours to clear my driveway and 2 other neighbors with my tractor and snow thrower. Official snow fall was 17" with drifts as high as 48' (taller then my dog) and cold ass all hell in Flint Michigan.

I hope that's a typo...  drifts as high as 48 feet?

Oops  :o hehe yea 48" though...the end of my neighbors house is drifted over from house to fence line (15-20 ft away) to the peak of his house. Got a pic should upload it somwhere.. peak im guessing is 16ft from ground to top of roof as he has a 10ft ceiling in his garage.

I have no idea what hes goin to do, theres 2 windows on that side of the house and you cant see them, .. luckyly its the opisate end that has the gardage..


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Hunter on January 06, 2014, 09:46:41 pm
You all should start posting more pictures of this winter storm!


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Chunka on January 06, 2014, 09:56:30 pm
Record lows all around the world. I guess it has to do with the polar vortex (kind of a slow moving artic cyclone several hundred miles wide) drawing air and strong winds south. And, of course, the Warmist fanatics are quick to blame global war.....errrr, climate cha.....ummm, damn, sorry....ManbearPig.

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111108210753/southpark/images/7/74/Manbearpig.jpg)

He's out there, and he hates you.

So wear a sweater.



Title: Re: Winter
Post by: huffdady on January 06, 2014, 10:31:28 pm
Stupid question, but do people in the south even have winter supplies? Hat? Gloves? Coat?

That is a negative good sir,


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: hateborne on January 06, 2014, 10:43:05 pm
Stupid question, but do people in the south even have winter supplies? Hat? Gloves? Coat?

That is a negative good sir,

In Knoxville (previously Chattanooga) TN, no I do not. We've had such weak and mild winters for the past several years, that almost none of my family (at least siblings) have decent ultra cold weather coats.


-Hate


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Denzig on January 07, 2014, 04:37:11 am
In Carolina they've delayed school opening for 3 hours this morning...because it's 17 degrees. No ice, no snow, just cold. Funny to me (a transplanted NYer).


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Adidis on January 07, 2014, 05:17:00 am
In Carolina they've delayed school opening for 3 hours this morning...because it's 17 degrees. No ice, no snow, just cold. Funny to me (a transplanted NYer).

This sounds like insanity to me. I'm fairly certain I went to school when it was -20 out as a kid (Not that I'm that old). I guess different states are just different and in Alaska we are the craziest.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Tankdan on January 07, 2014, 06:49:04 am
67-62-63-68-66 degrees this week according to Weather Channel

Such is life in California.  One of the ONLY good things about this state.
 




Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Dinadas on January 07, 2014, 06:54:23 am
We had a 2 hour delay but the "feels like temp is -10 to -20 with the wind chill" Don't want kids waiting for buses in that i suppose, and lots of black ice.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Eruditeone on January 07, 2014, 08:31:24 am
Its 9:30am on the central east coast of Florida, and it is 33*, 25* with the wind chill. Working outside in the afternoon/night suuuucccckkkkksssss. Was in the 20s over night, the high today; 45*, then back to below freezing tonight.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: balidet on January 07, 2014, 12:38:33 pm
they close schools bases on what people are prepared for... if you live in Alaska (I have) you are generally ready for winter (have winter clothes)....ifyou live in Georgia your winter cloths probably consist of jeans and a sweatshirt...possibly a hoddie....you are not ready to be out in the 20 degree weather...that is why...


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Goth on January 07, 2014, 01:05:47 pm
I live the GTA ... (Greater Toronto Area) Canada, it was -27 with the windchill of -40 this morning when i got up.

I'm not sure how to post pics ... I emailed Hunter a picture of the walk way beside my house about 2 weeks ago of the ice storm we had then. Our power was out for 5 days from that ... thankfully it was restored Christmas Eve

maybe Hunter can post the pic for me


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: Solbash on January 12, 2014, 05:03:05 pm
South central Mississippi stayed under freezing for 72 hours, being i work outside doing plumbing, it definitely was colder than most people anticipated. We are still backed up with work almost a half a week after things started thawing out.


Title: Re: Winter
Post by: hateborne on January 17, 2014, 03:37:16 pm
(http://hugelolcdn.com/i/231894.gif)


Best way to check your blind spots.


-Hate