It’s god damn freezing!
8Is anyone else freezing their asses off? It’s 30 degrees here and I’m so cold! I have 5 layers on and I’m still cold cold cold! I can’t wait for spring! Yes, I know 30 isn’t very cold for some of you but I was in -1 degrees this morning and I nearly died. I’m a southerner if you couldn’t tell.
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A little.
/giphy twenty five degrees
@eonfifty Also 25 and the high for the day. We are supposed to soar to 28 tomorrow.
Normally I
cold. That said, it is 21 degrees here and I think I am gonna die!!!
/giphy so cold
@tinamarie1974 I normally like a little cold too, if it snows. But this cold and dry shit is making me miserable
@willdavi we got a pinch of dry snow. Looks like a thin layer of powdered sugar on the road. NOT. WORTH. IT. Lol
I just got back from a weekend at the beach
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Ignorant no need to brag. I’m already upset it’s cold here, and I live at the beach
@Ignorant @willdavi Ditto that. I live at the beach and there’s a wind chill of -8° at the moment.
@Ignorant @OOB @willdavi
cali beaches don’t get that cold
@Cerridwyn @Ignorant @willdavi I moved from Cali to Maine. I’ve never lived more than a few miles from an ocean, but at varying latitudes. This one blows.
@Ignorant @OOB @willdavi
Oh yeah
that would be fucking cold
Low of 28 here about 2 hours from the Gulf of Mexico. Saturday it was something like 72.
Saturday was 70 degrees and I had to mow the lawn. Today it dropped to 54. It was so cold I had to find my jacket and put it on this morning. Tomorrow doesn’t look any warmer.
@braveit1 I’ll trade ya, it is currently 19 degrees outside and super windy.
I am super envious of your weather situation
@tinamarie1974 I don’t like having to wear a jacket. It feels so restricting. I grew up in Philly so I understand cold weather. That is why i moved south once I graduated. As a bonus, people are nicer when they aren’t so cold and the beach isn’t a bad place to be.
It’s 8° F right now. But that’s up from -2 or something last night so I’m happy (-ish). It’s actually going to warm up here for a few days to around freezing! That’s t-shirt weather!!
it’s 5° F here.
with a wind chill of -freeze your nuts off
For when it’s not quite freezing:
@mike808 As a resident of North Dakota, I can see both the truth & the humor of that video. See screenshot below all you Southerners & tell me again how cold you are…
@mike808 @tohar1 O M G!!!
@mike808 @tinamarie1974 This is not only freezing, but 53 degrees below freezing!!
@tohar1 if it gets much colder you won’t be able to tell how cold it is outside by how far up your nose hairs freeze when you inhale.
It’s really cold even for Florida!
It’s gone up a few degrees since I left for work.
@cinoclav My copy of the app said “Really, Mother Nature?!! Screw You!”
It is 9 outside right now.
Hey, cheer up! you’re not suffering alone.
Misery has got lots of company today.
@f00l W00f, be careful out there everyone.
@f00l I appreciate you lake Michigan for keeping me in double digits.
@f00l @MrMark I think all the Great Lakes are working on this today, tho Ontario is kinda weak
Brrr. It’s 51°.
@RiotDemon ಠ_ಠ
@carl669 @RiotDemon
Damned Florida ice storm there.
@carl669 @f00l high of 64° degrees. It’s so beautiful that I’m eating lunch in my car.
@RiotDemon
Very chilly here also. brr
Currently 24°F with a forecasted high of -4°C, but it’s a warm 24.
Some years ago when I worked in outdoor adventure I was working in NW Ontario. So cold there that 5 degrees seemed positively tropical. We were using outhouses at -20 to -60 degrees (typical winter temps there) and sleeping out in that.
Doing laundry was a trip. Fire up the sauna. Carry water (no running water - had to come from the lake which was a 4 or 5 hour ordeal each time we filled up all the 45 gallon drums and then you’d be skating on all the frozen spilled water), wash clothes. Hang to dry. If you didn’t keep the fire going in the sauna it would eventually go back to ambient temperature. Clothes froze and water would sublimate off of them.
You had to be very careful how you handled frozen clothes in those temps though. I once accidentally hit the leg of some jeans on a tree and the jean leg broke off (same way you can snap hair that froze in icicles - as a kid walking 3/4 of a mile home from swimming lessons I had fun breaking off my hair that way. My mother was not amused).
While I was glad to have had that experience (travel on cross country skis with dog sleds) I also realized how much I like running water, heating with something other than frozen wood (you’d have to bring it inside to thaw before you threw it in the wood burning stove or it would put out the fire), electricity, bright lights (most kerosene lamps are about 20 watts, Aladen had one about 100 watts), indoor plumbing and indoor toilets, not having to wear so many socks in boots 3 sizes bigger than I usually wore just so my feet wouldn’t freeze due to cold coming up from the ground (actually mucklucks worked better as long as you didn’t take them indoors where they’d thaw and then be wet and useless).
On the other hand there was some amazing things being outside in that weather. It was so quiet you could hear your heart beat. Watching ice form on the lake the day the wind stopped - jack frost forming in the ice and eventually it becoming opaque in just a few hours (also about 3" thick in those same few hours - eventually getting to, if our water hole was any guide, around 8ish feet thick). Listening to the sound of ice shifting in the lakes (sounds like blowing across a pop bottle as the sound zips along the cracks).The sky full of so many stars. The northern lights. The trees and landscape blanketed in so much snow like a thick blanket.
This was something I was glad I experienced once - but perhaps not twice.
@Kidsandliz
And yet people whine here about the savagery of 50° (ground temp) tap temperature non-heated bidets. /s
@mike808 Well we did do things like keep the toilet seat (wood not plastic as that loses heat slower) inside and take that with us. That helped. What was not fun was drawing straws for who would have to knock over the pyramid that forms in there at those temperatures.
And you do get acclimated to the temperatures. I was home visiting (snow belt) it was -5 or +5 or something in that range and that felt positively tropical compared to what I had been in. Was outside shoveling snow, jacket unzipped, no hat just ear coverings to prevent frostbite. The rest of the family was inside sitting on the radiator complaining about how arctic the temps were.
Wish everyone posting how cold it is where they live would post the town or state they are in.
@AZnatural1 East coast of Florida, currently 59° and rainy.
@AZnatural1 @RiotDemon How awful for you RD!
@AZnatural1 @RiotDemon @therealjrn
Floridians do suffer so very badly, in January.
Sometimes they even have to wear a jacket with their usual outfits of t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops.
It’s tough out there.
/giphy winter flipflops
@AZnatural1 On the rise here in NW PA, 31 degrees. Clear and crisp for now. I am hoping the 40ish highs the next couple days clear the ice patches.
@AZnatural1 36° F with rain, 36.1540° N, 95.9928° W.
@AZnatural1 @therealjrn
This translates to “Okie”.
/giphy okie
@AZnatural1 I don’t understand why you are always doxxing me, @f00l.
@therealjrn I have no idea what super cold weather is like. I was born in Missouri but bundled up I’m sure never to feel the cold. I’ve been in AZ now for 50 years, so… The coldest temperatures I’ve ever lived through was a summer in Montana in the Helena Natl Forest as a Backcountry ranger.
@AZnatural1 A ranger! That sounds so cool! I like watching those History Channel ranger shows. : ) Did you ever get a chance to meet Smokey Bear?
Shit, I’m sorry, you’ve probably heard that “joke” way too much. But I think a ranger job would be pretty spiffy.
@AZnatural1 @therealjrn
Your giving out map coordinates doxxed you. I only translated, to save others the googling.
I’m just a peon. A horrid peon, yes. But just a peon, nonetheless.
I only know about OK and environs because you made it public info.
Besides, living in or being from states like OK and TX is inherently equivalent to inviting jokes at one’s own expense, no?
/giphy okey dokey
@therealjrn it was really cool ( neat) but a lot of physically hard work. I saw red foxes, brown bears, wolves, and lost /injured hikers. People who strayed off trails were really in bad shape when we found them… it could be really difficult because it’s not like an ambulance where you transport them out a few miles to a hospital. You would have to address their issues, then load them on a big wheel to go down a trail or get a chopper in to fly them out. And sometimes they were the sweetest folks just under extreme distress so you saw a side to their personality that brought out the frustrations with pain and the terrain.
A few weird things happened too. Once… There were all these guys maybe 26…of them…in green army fatigues…guys up in trees getting their chutes out of the limbs. I have no idea what they jumped out of, but they all landed in the forest, and yet… They were silent and didn’t speak to me. I’m there on my horse with my saddle and gear and I’m watching all this going on and they have to pass by me with their bundles of parachutes and gear… Walking down a road. 45 miles from town, 15 miles from closest ranching outfit.
Another time, someone painted Bigfoot feet…crossing signs on the highway to Lolo, MT and a highway marker sign that said Bigfoot crossing. Well this is way up in Northern Montana, so it didn’t get dark until like 10 pm, so I was fine working up there that whole summer, until a fellow coworker showed me that sign on the highway and how those painted feet led up into the mountains we were living in. ( 5th wheel trailers, some were horsetrailers too) … After I saw those footprints and the highway sign, I basically had the sh*t scared out of me. Like if the highway Dept put up a sign it must be real. I had a hard time for a while there, staying up past 10 pm, I was sure that Bigfoot was looking in my trailer while I was getting ready to sleep.
Lastly, some folks an older man …Haggard looking and a mean looking lady…came out to picnic up there …far…far from the highway in a beaten up green station wagon. They gave me the creeps. I kept my eye on them…something wasn’t right…you know? No idea to this day who they were or what their story was, but I can still see their images in my nightmares and it still freaks me out.
@AZnatural1 @f00l @therealjrn today’s winter outfit was t-shirt, shorts, and sneakers since I was going roller skating. I put on a pair of gloves while I was driving.
Perfect.
@AZnatural1 @therealjrn
That does sound v cool. How many hours a day on horseback?
I presume you saw some northern lights?
I’m in SoCal and am feeling the same way. Last week it got into the 30s overnight and on a few days the temp never got over 60.
Not loving it. At all.
I hope the avocados survive. We have two trees loaded with fruit almost ready to start harvesting.
Fun fact: avocados don’t start to ripen until you pick them (or they ripen really slowly on the tree, but the article I read didn’t address that, but else why would they fall off?) so we’ll have avocados almost until the fall, at which point we’ll have eaten/given away most of them.
I just hope the worst of the cold weather is about done. I can handle the rain, not the cold.