Who else is going to get cold this weekend?

[bb4034]

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[crumbles]

Cold? With Global Warming? Not happening. :rolleyes:

[kopp]

I'm stationed in Bahrain. It's in the forties here, and after it being in the 120's for a good chunk of the year, it sure feels like hell froze over!! Weird, when I was in Seattle, 40's-50's was a normal day. And the last 3 years I was in Jersey, where 40's during winter would be a blessing. I don't miss winter gate duty there! Try standing still out at night for 12 hours while holding a heat sink the size of a shotgun! Didn't matter what boots or gloves I got, I would just get cold and pissed real fast.

[tokenuser]

Its not getting above 40F here for the next couple of days.

I dodged a bullet this week - my boss is in Minneapolis for meetings with clients. I could have been going too, but I am busy doing the background writeup for the project.


Grumbles -

Q. How can global warming and sudden cooling happen at the same time?
A. Confusion arises because a cooling can be a regional event, superimposed on top of continuously warming earth. Global warming is driven by the increased capture of solar energy due to the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and methane) in the atmosphere, caused mainly by human activities. The warming has global consequences. The energy gained from higher greenhouse gas concentrations is distributed around the globe and affects many systems - warming the atmosphere, warming the oceans, increasing evaporation in some regions and precipitation in others, and melting glaciers.

Complications arise when you consider how heat and water are moved around the planet. Warming is causing more water to evaporate from the tropics, more rainfall in subpolar and polar regions, and more ice to melt at high latitudes. As a result, fresh water is being lost from the tropics and added to the ocean at higher latitudes. In the North Atlantic Ocean, the additional fresh water can change ocean circulation patterns, disrupting or redirecting currents that now carry warm water to the north. Redirecting or slowing this "Atlantic heat pump" would mean colder winters in the northeast U.S. and Western Europe. But the heat gained from higher greenhouse gas concentrations is still in the climate system, just elsewhere. The result: a warmer earth, a colder North Atlantic.

Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=10149)

[Balzout]

I am out of school today because of snow so maybe I am getting cold...

[Hawkeye216]

Averaging around 40 or so in Charlotte. Snowed last night but didn't stick around into the morning.

[kowgod]

The temperature is supposed to drop 50 degrees in Chicago over the next 24 hours. Yes. Drop 50 degrees. Highs in the single digits, lows sub-zero, wind chills well below zero.

Yum.

[kevincollateral]

pretty cold here in dallas..considering it was just like 65 the other day. its 29 right now.

[kinkybuu]

its about 30-40 here in St.Louis. plus it just rained, so thats probably gonna freeze over :-(

[esophagus]

I live in Canada and it's January so I guess cold is inevitable. We've had such a warm winter though, so I was really hoping things would stay that way. But, nope. Too much to ask. Snow and a ton of wind. Went from -2 to -20 in two days.

[tokenuser]

I live in Canada and it's January so I guess cold is inevitable.Bah ... I was in Toronto last week and it was a balmy 16C. Snow? Cold? WTF are you talking about??


OK - it dropped to 3C the next day, so I guess it gets cold up there sometimes.

[esophagus]

Bah ... I was in Toronto last week and it was a balmy 16C. Snow? Cold? WTF are you talking about??


OK - it dropped to 3C the next day, so I guess it gets cold up there sometimes.Whether in Toronto seems to change at the drop of a hat. It's scary.

[sail191912]

23 to 31 degC here for the weekend.

[skyz]

72°F
Cloudy
Wind: N at 0 mph
Humidity: 87%Fri

81°F | 70°FSat

82°F | 60°FSun

68°F | 60°FMon

:)

[AlaskaLoneWolf]

Cold? With Global Warming? Not happening. :rolleyes:

I agree... I think this Global Warming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming) fad was kinda' like that whole 'pet rock (http://www.msnbc.com/modules/take3/may/img/rewind/petRock.jpg)' thingie a while back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shoNzlyiq-k

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wcstates.htm

[bigshotprof]

It'll be single digits here this week, but nothing like our buds in Canada and upstate Minnesota.

[dla72]

I know I am

[AlaskaLoneWolf]

So cold that propane comes out as a liquid.

[chefespeff]

Babies. It got to -40°F (w/ windchill) in the Twin Cities. THAT was chilly.

[scoobydiesel]

its been way to warm around my area this year...normally we ahve snow but its been in like the 60s or something or 70s even.

[esophagus]

It has been hovering around 0 for days and I was soooo excited, and today it's back down to -18. Depressing.

[tokenuser]

It has been hovering around 0 for days and I was soooo excited, and today it's back down to -18. Depressing.As a Canadian, is that C or F?

We had the heaviest snowfall in the past 5 years on Tuesday.

Yep a whole 3" (thats what she said). Its almost gone now - still hanging around in the shade, but mostly gone.

The snow was preceeded by a couple of subzero (C) days/nights that caused the hotwater pipes in the house to freeze ... to the point that we booked into a hotel so we could have a shower on Sat (got hotwater through the pipes around 7:00pm Sat night). Frozen pipes ... what fucking builder runs the pipes (insulated) through a garage wall from the water heater, then into the space above the soffit? Sure, the bonus room is insulted, but space behind the walls to the roof isn't. Of course the pipes are going to freaking freeze. Would it have hurt to spend $20 on pipe insulation in that space?

[jimmylanghe]

I feel so out of place posting here, but right now it's about 60 degrees; it's cold for everyone in southern California, I guess, but I love this weather. Is it true that only people who love snow are the ones who have never been in it their whole life?

[tokenuser]

I feel so out of place posting here, but right now it's about 60 degrees; it's cold for everyone in southern California, I guess, but I love this weather. Is it true that only people who love snow are the ones who have never been in it their whole life?Probably. I am moving later this year to a place where it snows a lot over winter. I think my love of snow is going to diminish fast.

[jimmylanghe]

Probably. I am moving later this year to a place where it snows a lot over winter. I think my love of snow is going to diminish fast.
Once I'm actually OLD enough, I think I'd like giving that a try too. Michigan looks like an amazing place to live in throughout the whole year.