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How's the weather?

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ORD_Buckeye;2107753; said:
Wait until you have to roll into Columbus for the first round of the playoffs.:osu:
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according to a few yankees i've spoken with, our winter weather is actually worse.

it's windy, and cold.
but not quite cold enough for snow, or even for the rain to turn to sleet.
so it's just WET and freaking COLD.

I've been told that in snow storms, yes it's cold, but at least you're not also wet.
 
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19 degrees with some wind. Very chilly here in Kentucky. Y'know, I have never posted this, but I lived in Alaska for 14 years and this is a bit of a rant but , you should know that there is another world of cold that exists out there. It never gets truly cold in the lower 48 comparatively. I lived in Alaska in the 90's and early 2000's. In Fairbanks, I saw temperatures as low as 65-70 below zero, regularly. In 1995 I saw 122 degrees below zero in Bettles. That was with wind chill mind you, but it was absolute hell. Your breath would freeze. Your lungs would freeze. It was so cold that you could feel the moisture in your skin freeze. You could spit on the ground and it would roll like a marble. If you have never had your eyes freeze shut, if you have never seen water crystals hanging in the air, if you have never blown soap bubbles then picked them up of the ground and tossed them to a friend or seen a tree split wide open because the sap froze faster than the tree, or have seen a pot of boiling water thrown in to the air and EVAPORATE, then you really dont know what cold is. I used to ride my bike to work in college and was thankful that my beard would freeze and insulate my face on the way to the large animal research station at UAF. Ive lost part of my ears due to frostbite and was told that I would have lost more if I hadnt been in a shack all day with a milkhouse heater where the temperature never rose to barely above freezing so that blood was actually allowed to gradually begin to flow back in to my ears and warm slowly. I lived in a place where transients would commonly die of esophogeal frostbite becasue they would buy a bottle of booze and take a sip when then alcohol was 20 degrees below zero. I hate it, but I am an absolute expert on cold. And this....aint it. So all of you who want to prostheletize on shitty winter weather, you have no idea how bad it can be. 10 Feet of snow, winters that last 8 months, actual city streets that exsisit only due to frozen rivers in the winter(cool for four wheel slides and snow machines) and dont during the thaw may have made me jaded. Now Fairbanks was dry, I think its called a desert tundra, though, so, maybe I don't know, but Im betting that DubCoff can reminisce and tell you about some really shitty winters in Dutch Harbor too where it was wet and cold, Like, for real. Its all a matter of perspective.
 
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WyoBuck;2108447; said:
19 degrees with some wind. Very chilly here in Kentucky. Y'know, I have never posted this, but I lived in Alaska for 14 years and this is a bit of a rant but , you should know that there is another world of cold that exists out there. It never gets truly cold in the lower 48 comparatively. I lived in Alaska in the 90's and early 2000's. In Fairbanks, I saw temperatures as low as 65-70 below zero, regularly. In 1995 I saw 122 degrees below zero in Bettles. That was with wind chill mind you, but it was absolute hell. Your breath would freeze. Your lungs would freeze. It was so cold that you could feel the moisture in your skin freeze. You could spit on the ground and it would roll like a marble. If you have never had your eyes freeze shut, if you have never seen water crystals hanging in the air, if you have never blown soap bubbles then picked them up of the ground and tossed them to a friend or seen a tree split wide open because the sap froze faster than the tree, or have seen a pot of boiling water thrown in to the air and EVAPORATE, then you really dont know what cold is. I used to ride my bike to work in college and was thankful that my beard would freeze and insulate my face on the way to the large animal research station at UAF. Ive lost part of my ears due to frostbite and was told that I would have lost more if I hadnt been in a shack all day with a milkhouse heater where the temperature never rose to barely above freezing so that blood was actually allowed to gradually begin to flow back in to my ears and warm slowly. I lived in a place where transients would commonly die of esophogeal frostbite becasue they would buy a bottle of booze and take a sip when then alcohol was 20 degrees below zero. I hate it, but I am an absolute expert on cold. And this....aint it. So all of you who want to prostheletize on [Mark May]ty winter weather, you have no idea how bad it can be. 10 Feet of snow, winters that last 8 months, actual city streets that exsisit only due to frozen rivers in the winter(cool for four wheel slides and snow machines) and dont during the thaw may have made me jaded. Now Fairbanks was dry, I think its called a desert tundra, though, so, maybe I don't know, but Im betting that DubCoff can reminisce and tell you about some really [Mark May]ty winters in Dutch Harbor too where it was wet and cold, Like, for real. Its all a matter of perspective.
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Sounds intense.

Got some more snow overnight. Was supposed to head to Pittsburgh but since they haven't taken care of the roads I skidded out on the ice and wrecked my car :(
 
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WyoBuck;2108447; said:
19 degrees with some wind. Very chilly here in Kentucky. Y'know, I have never posted this, but I lived in Alaska for 14 years and this is a bit of a rant but , you should know that there is another world of cold that exists out there. It never gets truly cold in the lower 48 comparatively. I lived in Alaska in the 90's and early 2000's. In Fairbanks, I saw temperatures as low as 65-70 below zero, regularly. In 1995 I saw 122 degrees below zero in Bettles. That was with wind chill mind you, but it was absolute hell. Your breath would freeze. Your lungs would freeze. It was so cold that you could feel the moisture in your skin freeze. You could spit on the ground and it would roll like a marble. If you have never had your eyes freeze shut, if you have never seen water crystals hanging in the air, if you have never blown soap bubbles then picked them up of the ground and tossed them to a friend or seen a tree split wide open because the sap froze faster than the tree, or have seen a pot of boiling water thrown in to the air and EVAPORATE, then you really dont know what cold is. I used to ride my bike to work in college and was thankful that my beard would freeze and insulate my face on the way to the large animal research station at UAF. Ive lost part of my ears due to frostbite and was told that I would have lost more if I hadnt been in a shack all day with a milkhouse heater where the temperature never rose to barely above freezing so that blood was actually allowed to gradually begin to flow back in to my ears and warm slowly. I lived in a place where transients would commonly die of esophogeal frostbite becasue they would buy a bottle of booze and take a sip when then alcohol was 20 degrees below zero. I hate it, but I am an absolute expert on cold. And this....aint it. So all of you who want to prostheletize on shitty winter weather, you have no idea how bad it can be. 10 Feet of snow, winters that last 8 months, actual city streets that exsisit only due to frozen rivers in the winter(cool for four wheel slides and snow machines) and dont during the thaw may have made me jaded. Now Fairbanks was dry, I think its called a desert tundra, though, so, maybe I don't know, but Im betting that DubCoff can reminisce and tell you about some really shitty winters in Dutch Harbor too where it was wet and cold, Like, for real. Its all a matter of perspective.
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Jesus! I just got frostbite on my eyes from reading this. Fuck that...
 
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LordJeffBuck;2108415; said:
You've been told?

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yep, I've been told.

only once in my life have I ever seen enough snowfall for it to actually accumulate.
that was back in 1989. and even then, most of it was melted by the next morning.

I live pretty much right on the coast down here, so even when places as far south as Baton Rouge or New Orleans gets snowfall, it rarely makes it this far down.
Every couple of years, even Houma (about an hour or so south of New Orleans) gets at least some snowflakes, but all we get (about 25-30 minutes south of Houma) is maybe some sleet or freezing rain, but usually just really effing cold rain.

a couple times since then, I've seen flurries falling.
they always melt as soon as they hit the ground (if they don't melt before that.

a crew from PA came down here to work on our levee a few years back.
these guy normally work up in the mountains, and have seen their fare share of snow storms.

they couldn't hack our typical winter "storms"
40?, 15-20 mph wind blowing in from off the water/marsh, raining slightly harder than a drizzle, and high humidity.

they told me and my dad they were knocking off, and couldn't work in that.
aid they would much prefer doing what they do during a blizzard than in the conditions we had that day.

being since I've never experienced a true snow storm, all I can do is take their word for it.
 
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Nutriaitch;2108412; said:
according to a few yankees i've spoken with, our winter weather is actually worse.

it's windy, and cold.
but not quite cold enough for snow, or even for the rain to turn to sleet.
so it's just WET and freaking COLD.

I've been told that in snow storms, yes it's cold, but at least you're not also wet.
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You do know that snow is just frozen water right? What happens when you warm up snow? It turns to water. Whoever told you that you don't get wet in snow, hasn't been in snow.
 
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