@Pony
This week the temp is stupid cold here. It’s sunny during the day so you’re sweating in your car but as you step outside you’re fucking freezing. But as soon as that sun goes down it’s in negatives
1000% prefer the snow. Stupid cold hurts. The air should not hurt. Snow also means there’s more humidity in the air so again, less face hurting. Snow also has the benefit of being pretty and providing entertainment.
Depends on if it’s real snow or sleet/freezing rain/ice…and for how long it stays below freezing after the sleet/freezing rain/ice stops.
Snow I can deal with. No one can drive on ice…and the people who think they can are a major part of the problem.
Stupid Texas ice storm(s).
@olperfesser
Please, you Florida people crack me up. I was down there in October at an outside bar with (FL) friends, I’m in shorts and a tank top and they’re wearing coats and gloves, long pant, and scarves, shivering to drink. Come to Michigan for the winter, the humidity alone would eat you alive.
My cousin lives in anchorage, Al and his wife is born and raised from Alaska. She won’t come to MI in the winter bc it’s so much colder than Alaska is. She says it’s the humidity that makes a big difference.
@olperfesser@Star2236 Back in the '70s, there was a Polar Voprtex that dropped the temps in Florida far enough and long enough that a few flakes fell in Miami. I lived there, and I was working onb a customer’s vehicle that night; it was frigging cold. The kicker was that the high in Nome on that day was actually above the high for Miami.
@olperfesser@werehatrack
Florida people were probably frozen. Don’t a lot of you not even have heat in your house? I remember being in Venice staying with my stepdads parents when I was 13 or so and it got down into the 40’s and they didn’t have heat so we had to use the few space heaters they had and lots of blankets. I think it was in the 40’s for the entire week we were there and all I had was shorts bc it was Florida
@olperfesser@Star2236 Back in the '70s, a good many South Florida types were really proud of their reverse cycle A/C systems (that was what the predecessor to the equally ludicrous Heat Pump system was called), right up until the temp dipped below 45F where they really needed some heat. And as anyone who understands the physics of the devices would predict, in the humid SoFla air, that “reverse cycle” invariably resulted in an evaporator coil that was a solid block of ice from which zero heat was going to be extracted. Heat Pumps were supposed to be Ever So Much Better, of course, and loads of folks both there and here bit on them - and got just as burned as the R/C A/C folks had been.
@olperfesser@Star2236@werehatrack OTOH, heat pumps work great here in the PNW. Generally not much humidity, nor extreme high or low temps. My heat pump furnace is ground-sourced (geothermal), rather than air-sourced, so it is quite efficient (and no icing up). My water heater is also a hybrid heat pump/resistance unit.
That, plus cheap hydro-power, makes for pretty low utility bills.
Well from a stupid cold and snowy state, I like not having to deal with snow. A wise man once told me, “If you are cold, it is your own fault for not dressing for the weather.” Worked for me so far. I am the silly old man who puts his mittens and hat on from the parking lot to the store/gas station/bar.
Florida winters.
No snow, but stupid cold, as long as that doesn’t mean we’re getting freezing rain, as might happen here tonight!
Snow can be fun. Stupid cold is, well, stupid.
What kind of sick bastard are you, bot?
You know that old joke about hell freezing as the devil turns down the thermostat to piss the guy off
Well I can relate. Would rather have 110 than snow.
If temps are in the 30’s that snow is going to get icy. I’d rather it be cold.
@katbyter agree
Mid 80s, moderate humidity, and a boat load of sunshine. That’ll do just fine, thank you.
@shahnm Yes please
@Enigma @shahnm Would you settle for high 70s with all else being the same?
@Enigma @yakkoTDI I have carefully considered your offer, and I’m pleased to inform you that I accept.
both please. cold and snow, i get real annoyed with 35 degree rain
Snow in the 30s makes for great skiing
Here we have both snow and stupid cold. I am not amused.
@Pony
This week the temp is stupid cold here. It’s sunny during the day so you’re sweating in your car but as you step outside you’re fucking freezing. But as soon as that sun goes down it’s in negatives
1000% prefer the snow. Stupid cold hurts. The air should not hurt. Snow also means there’s more humidity in the air so again, less face hurting. Snow also has the benefit of being pretty and providing entertainment.
Depends on if it’s real snow or sleet/freezing rain/ice…and for how long it stays below freezing after the sleet/freezing rain/ice stops.
Snow I can deal with. No one can drive on ice…and the people who think they can are a major part of the problem.
Stupid Texas ice storm(s).
No
Snow, if there isn’t a ton of it. But I can deal with stupid cold, too. I’m an autumn/winter person.
If it’s going to be cold, there might as well be some snow and fun. Otherwise, it’s just a big grey drive in freezer with patches of black ice.
KuoH
Florida, where stupid cold is 60°
@olperfesser
Please, you Florida people crack me up. I was down there in October at an outside bar with (FL) friends, I’m in shorts and a tank top and they’re wearing coats and gloves, long pant, and scarves, shivering to drink. Come to Michigan for the winter, the humidity alone would eat you alive.
My cousin lives in anchorage, Al and his wife is born and raised from Alaska. She won’t come to MI in the winter bc it’s so much colder than Alaska is. She says it’s the humidity that makes a big difference.
@olperfesser @Star2236 Back in the '70s, there was a Polar Voprtex that dropped the temps in Florida far enough and long enough that a few flakes fell in Miami. I lived there, and I was working onb a customer’s vehicle that night; it was frigging cold. The kicker was that the high in Nome on that day was actually above the high for Miami.
It was a really good week to be a plumber.
@olperfesser @werehatrack
Florida people were probably frozen. Don’t a lot of you not even have heat in your house? I remember being in Venice staying with my stepdads parents when I was 13 or so and it got down into the 40’s and they didn’t have heat so we had to use the few space heaters they had and lots of blankets. I think it was in the 40’s for the entire week we were there and all I had was shorts bc it was Florida
@olperfesser @Star2236 Back in the '70s, a good many South Florida types were really proud of their reverse cycle A/C systems (that was what the predecessor to the equally ludicrous Heat Pump system was called), right up until the temp dipped below 45F where they really needed some heat. And as anyone who understands the physics of the devices would predict, in the humid SoFla air, that “reverse cycle” invariably resulted in an evaporator coil that was a solid block of ice from which zero heat was going to be extracted. Heat Pumps were supposed to be Ever So Much Better, of course, and loads of folks both there and here bit on them - and got just as burned as the R/C A/C folks had been.
@olperfesser @Star2236 @werehatrack OTOH, heat pumps work great here in the PNW. Generally not much humidity, nor extreme high or low temps. My heat pump furnace is ground-sourced (geothermal), rather than air-sourced, so it is quite efficient (and no icing up). My water heater is also a hybrid heat pump/resistance unit.
That, plus cheap hydro-power, makes for pretty low utility bills.
Well from a stupid cold and snowy state, I like not having to deal with snow. A wise man once told me, “If you are cold, it is your own fault for not dressing for the weather.” Worked for me so far. I am the silly old man who puts his mittens and hat on from the parking lot to the store/gas station/bar.
@rancho You can’t dress for hot. You can dress for cold! Well, except for your face.
@dontwantaname @rancho Your face, you say?
@dontwantaname @rancho You don’t dress for hot, you undress - which is a process that has many practical limitations.