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Man it was cold here the other night..

by sloanjim
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Cheshire UK... -10C Saturday night. 1C during the day....-6 all other nights.

I woke up 2:00am Sunday morning feeling cold......When I stepped outside at 8:00 am I felt right away it was extra cold. The air felt "sharp" -10C on the computer. We are getting a lot of snow every-where but here. Of course we can't cope with it. Roads/Railways shut down etc...

Beautiful deep blue skies...but bitterly cold. It's actually quite nice at this time of the year. Great excuse to have a warm Gluewein or two...

I guess North USA/Canda this is pretty mild. But for the UK it's rare to be so cold.
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Depends on what you call mild. I'm in central CA right now. It's getting down to freezing at night and some day temps aren't hitting 50f. I realize that sounds warm to some, but for this area it's COLD.

    I have been watching temps at my home stomping grounds in Idaho and it's freezing during the day. Of course, our cold months are January and February, so we're just leading into the cold. It looks like it's going to be there, too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Park City had 3 feet of snow early last week, followed by another 15 inches this past weekend. Temps last week got down around -9C there.

    Last week in Cincinnati it got down to -3C, but it's about 13C now with rain, expected to go to -4C by the end of the week.

    Park City, UT and Cincinnati, OH are about on the same lattitude, mid country. The difference is elevation... 2150 meters as compared to 182 meters above sea level.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Buddd
    Oh Yeah? Three nights ago it hit -30. In January we quite often get -40 or -45 and sometimes it will stay there for weeks.

    Four years ago, it went down to -55 and stayed there for 5 days, then overnight, it warmed up to -28. Hard to believe but it almost felt like a spring day in comparison.

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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by Buddd View Post

      Oh Yeah? Three nights ago it hit -30. In January we quite often get -40 or -45 and sometimes it will stay there for weeks.

      Four years ago, it went down to -55 and stayed there for 5 days, then overnight, it warmed up to -28. Hard to believe but it almost felt like a spring day in comparison.

      Bud
      That is Fahrenheit isn't it?

      You folks are gonna make me hit google for the conversion tables again. I can't remember them. With the figures you are putting down, though, I'm not real sure I wanna know.
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      • Profile picture of the author Buddd
        Hi Sal,

        No, that's Celsius, however when you get to -40, it's the same as -40 Fahrenheit. All I know for sure is that it's freakin cold! Add windchill and it starts to get a little dicy.

        Frostbite starts right away, your vehicle tires are frozen flat on one side, it takes a few miles for them to loosen up, and even with a wood stove, the furnace rarely shuts off. Lots of fun!

        Bud
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        • Profile picture of the author HeySal
          Originally Posted by Buddd View Post

          Hi Sal,

          No, that's Celsius, however when you get to -40, it's the same as -40 Fahrenheit. All I know for sure is that it's freakin cold! Add windchill and it starts to get a little dicy.

          Frostbite starts right away, your vehicle tires are frozen flat on one side, it takes a few miles for them to loosen up, and even with a wood stove, the furnace rarely shuts off. Lots of fun!

          Bud
          Back in 1987 my fiancee and I drove home for Christmas (Colorado to Michigan). We got onto the plains of Nebraska and the temperature dropped to actual -56 -- yeah that's MINUS. The wind chill brought it down to -102. Anything that even thought about running on diesel was off the road dead. People were cruising slow - for one thing you had to continually wipe your windshield off or it would frost over even with the heater directly on it - cars would stop wherever someone was stranded to take them to the nearest open gas station or restaurant - anywhere indoors with heat.

          We had one of those gas caps that you have to open the lid to with a key but didn't have a spare ignition key with us so we pryed it open with a screwdriver so we didn't have to shut the motor off. People that did shut their cars off at the pump were pushed out of the way because they couldn't start back up. My fiancee actually got in a fist fight over the last can of HEET (dry gas). He had his hand on it and a bigger guy tried to take it out of his hand. My guy was a champion golden glove, LOL - it wasn't pretty.

          We picked up a few couples that were dressed for a school Christmas party - I still wonder if one of the girls was okay. They had no emergency gear and she was wearing almost nothing on her feet. They were down for over 5 minutes when we picked them up.

          Just before dawn we heard slush in the radiator and had to stop - nothing was open and we ended up in the parking lot of a gas station - it was all the further we could safely get. We got there just as you could see a little light in the sky to the east. When I travel in winter I always have emergency supplies so we had a sleeping bag and a few blankets. We got in the back seat and huddled with the dog under the blankets and toughed it out until the guys came to work - about 45 minutes. They pushed the car into the garage and turned on the heat - took the slush out of the radiator and filled it with straight antifreeze then hooked the car up to their battery to start it.

          We had one heck of an adventure to talk about when we got to my Dad's house. He'd heard about the cold snap on the plains and was actually worried badly........that's the guy that just said "okay, have her call me when she gets to a town" when I got stranded in the Mt.s one February for 4 days.

          It took me several days to actually feel warm again. LOL.

          You have major kajonah's living where it's regularly that cold.
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  • Profile picture of the author Martin2010
    It was sooooooooo cold here the other day that my yacht froze over

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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by Martin2010 View Post

      It was sooooooooo cold here the other day that my yacht froze over

      Sayyyyy - that's a mighty ice yacht!
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  • Profile picture of the author Buddd
    Hey Sal,

    Loved your story, got a few of those myself. Damn near froze to death a couple of times out in the bush. Once I went through the ice on a lake at -25, talk about a knife in the lungs. Good thing my buddy was there.

    One good thing about the cold, no insects and no bears. Unfortunately, I still have coyotes, wolves and the odd cougar. Staying "frosty" means two things out here!

    Bud
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    That's one thing I stay away from at all costs during the cold -- water. That's also a reason I stay away from regions like yours during the winter - you can't even tell you are on water until you're under it. Um....no thanks. I might be a tad on the wilder side than most, but I'll never get that wild. Count me gone with the bears!
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  • Profile picture of the author pethanks
    It's nice to be cold sometimes. I loved it especially when I am in a room with my family.
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  • Profile picture of the author sarahberra
    It's been very cold here in Tucson. I guess it hasn't been this cold in 30 years.
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  • Profile picture of the author sloanjim
    Oh Yeah? Three nights ago it hit -30. In January we quite often get -40 or -45 and sometimes it will stay there for weeks.

    Four years ago, it went down to -55 and stayed there for 5 days, then overnight, it warmed up to -28. Hard to believe but it almost felt like a spring day in comparison.

    Bud
    Crumbs that's cold. where's that near Yellowknife?

    Yeah I love proper winter weather as well. It's -1C and snowing right now....-6C at nights. Great. I much prefer this than 10C and rain (normally get) The thing is it won't last here. It's been lke this 10 days now which is already a long time. They say by Monday it's goin to change...milder/wetter. YUK.

    In the meantime we are supposed to see -13C Thursday night.....Only last year i told my wife she would never see lower than -10c in the UK. Then he hit -17C last January and -5C during the day. My gloves froze as i walked my dog.

    I've got the xmas songs palying, muleld wine wil lbe popped open toight and the chestnuts are roasting.....just the way Xmas should be.. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Martin2010
    Yellowknife???????? Whooooooooooooooo ice road truckers baby.

    We only got this over here a year ago and you can't believe 20 tonne trucks can drive on ice. Good going
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  • Profile picture of the author joscarff
    Wow - for a Sydney-sider who's only ever seen snow once, these are hilarious stories!

    Things are supposed to be hotting up for Christmas here - and the guy down the road has his fire going. I had to dig the heater back out of the garage. It's Summer, for heaven's sake and it's cold. 20 degrees celcius! I'm freezing
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    • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
      Originally Posted by joscarff View Post

      Wow - for a Sydney-sider who's only ever seen snow once, these are hilarious stories!

      Things are supposed to be hotting up for Christmas here - and the guy down the road has his fire going. I had to dig the heater back out of the garage. It's Summer, for heaven's sake and it's cold. 20 degrees celcius! I'm freezing
      Back in 1988 I worked on a gold mine (no I didn't get to keep any samples ) in outback Western Australia, and the temperature there one day hit 54C (about 130 in Fahrenheit).

      I tried to have a shower in the middle of the day, and without even touching the hot tap, the water was too hot to stand under. Had to leave it till the sun went down and the temperature was down to a modest 30C.

      This story is a bit of a nice contrast to all the ones from the northern hemisphere - one extreme to the other.
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  • Profile picture of the author Audrey Harvey
    It's stinkin' hot and humid here in Brisbane, joscarff. My family live in Scotland and seeing some of their photos, wow! There's some snow over there! I don't do cold very well at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Petal
    Interesting post Sloanjim.

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