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[Firebird 40]

I walk outside my door, and i literally freeze in my tracks! Its just too darn cold!

Insanely warm compared to you guys.

42 degrees.

[marryescher 0]

Just got our first snow of the season last night, here in Southern Michigan. It melted when it hit the ground though. 

I have already been using the ice scraper for a few weeks though, and I've been wearing my winter coat and gloves since late September in the mornings. Not every morning though. It was kind of embarrassing when I leave work, when most people are coming in to work, and I'm bundled up in my winter gear, when everyone else is not even wearing a jacket, or wearing a light jacket. 

Im always frozen. Especially in my bedroom where it is around 60(F) in winter. The furnace is at the opposite end of the house, on another floor. 60 degrees outside is warm, but not in the house.

[topcliff 1]

Hehe, well my heat is down for a few weks, and now I'm freezing. It's clear as heck here, which means its evenn colder. I think it went down to the 30's last night here. I really want another winter like last year. It went down to about the low 20's, and one night we got a tiny little snow flurry. Last time Sacramento got snow was when I was in 3rd grade. So, 2002?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Aaaaahg!  Below zero and sleet with high winds.  Poor dog was freezing when he came in.

[IDS2 3,345]

Hehe, I'd like to see some of you last 5 minutes here. We get to -14 some days in winter with the record being about -60 I believe.

[scififan68 23]

N_O_Body already? I thought 43F was cold..

[Meg 368]

43F isn't all that cold.   Not even freezing.

I'm still working on getting my mind around the concept of a house without central heating but with an internet connection.   Must be a unusually mild climate.

[hym 358]

I'm of the opinion that it isn't cold until it hits the 20's. It's not even cold if it's in the 30's, stiff wind, and you're wearing shorts.

[Haljackey 17,267]

Oh man. What a "drerry" day! High 5, low -5! Add high winds and heavy rain and snow and you can imagine what I went through today! Add to the fact that it gets darker now due to the time change. UG! I hate days like this.

The weather forecast looks the same as this for the rest of the week!

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: Duke87 Not winter yet. Still several weeks to go, sorry.

Though New York has seen some weird behavior. Basically the weather decided to keep pretending it was still summer through most of October, and then at the very end suddenly drop off into more season-appropriate temperatures. We had trees still covered in mostly green leaves on Halloween.

quote>

Same here.  Which isn't surprising, considering I'm only a few hours south of you.

There are still plenty of green leaves on trees around here, which is unusual for November.  I didn't even turn on the heat until a week ago.   It's been a bit chilly and windy lately.

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: hym I'm of the opinion that it isn't cold until it hits the 20's. It's not even cold if it's in the 30's, stiff wind, and you're wearing shorts.quote>

Want to trade homes?

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: topcliff I just got back from New York Duke. The leaves were pretty green in the city and in the surrounding burbs like New Rochelle and Pelham, but out by Bedford and Katonah it's gorgeous. Not as much color as normal, but still a lot compared to good old Sacramento. quote>

You visited New York and you actually ventured out of Manhattan? I like this. You're an unusual tourist.

Two things worth noting about "Bedford and Katonah", though. They're a bit beyond the continuous semi-urbanism, so they don't get the heat Island effect. Also, a look at the topography will show that they're a bit higher up. Even at only about 400-500 feet, that can still make quite a difference from being at or almost at sea level. The leaves in those areas always turn earlier. And in the winter those 4 or 5 hundred feet quite often mean the difference between getting an inch of snow and getting an inch of rain. I live not too far from there (North Stamford, at about 490 feet), so I've seen a lot of this. In fact, it becomes an issue for the city of Stamford sometimes. A sizeable storm comes by, and leaves mostly slush downtown, but in the northern areas leaves a good amount of snow which makes the roads tricky. When this happens, two things are common:

1) The city keeps the schools open

2) The snowplows aren't sent out for a while, if at all.

After all, the city government is situated downtown, and that's where the weather readings and forecasts are made for, too. So they don't close the schools because they don't see any need to, and they don't send the snowplows out, since as far as they know there's no snow on the roads. These two things combine to make a lot of trouble for North Stamford residents with kids. And for the bus drivers, too, who have to drive through the unplowed snow to take those kids to school. The elementary school bus stopped directly in front of our house for many years. The street there is on a hill, and I know that the bus, once stopped, would tend to have trouble starting back up the hill afterwards when this was the case. Once it was having so much trouble it had to back all the way down the hill to the bottom and try again from there, so as to get a running start on it.

North Stamford has a lot of narrow, windy roads, too. Fortunately, though, no school buses have ever been involved in any significant accidents because of this. Yet, anyway. It seems to me to only be a matter of time before on some snowy winter morning one of those buses slips off the road somewhere and some kids get seriously hurt. And then here will be many lawsuits.

The killer here, though? The city used to have someone in North Stamford who would report on whether the roads there were passable and it would be weighed into their decisions on what to do with the schools. But then a lot of people from the lower parts of town (where the majority of the population is) started complaining about the schools getting delayed or closed when the roads were perfectly clear, so the city stopped paying attention to North Stamford in their decision making on those matters. Grease for squeaky wheels everywhere!

[Micah 16]

Tonight, it's supposed to be 48 F for the low tonight. Can't wait! For a Houstonian, that's natually freezing to us.

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: Micah

Tonight, it's supposed to be 48 F for the low tonight. Can't wait! For a Houstonian, that's natually freezing to us. quote>

I have a friend who lives in Houston.  She whines about "freezing" weather that isn't remotely close to freezing. Just because your toes are cold when you wear sandals, that doesn't mean it's freezing. 

[belfastuniguy 18]

It's about high 40's here at the minute (which is kinda cold with added winds), though has been very sunny past couple of days.

Give it a few weeks and it will start getting a good bit colder.

[Inusion X 1]

Sometimes it gets so cold that my hair freezes if its still wet from the shower

[Insane Child of Bodom 1]

man u guys are insane....

I put on two sweaters when it get to below the 50f...when its 40 I get three or for layers...and anything below that....well I never seen that yet.,...and I know i'm way to bony to survive 25F....

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: SkiGeek

Originally posted by: Micah

Tonight, it's supposed to be 48 F for the low tonight. Can't wait! For a Houstonian, that's natually freezing to us. quote>

I have a friend who lives in Houston.  She whines about "freezing" weather that isn't remotely close to freezing. Just because your toes are cold when you wear sandals, that doesn't mean it's freezing.  quote>

But what if you don't wear sandals?   Actually, people around here seem to be the same way:  when a wind storm blew through and dropped the temperature 10 degrees in 15 minutes, people were saying stuff like "<bleep>, it's cold!"  For some reason, every female I had any connection to, and even some that I didn't, thought I "had issues" because it was 55 with 20mph winds and I wasn't using a jacket.

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: hym

Originally posted by: SkiGeek

Originally posted by: Micah

Tonight, it's supposed to be 48 F for the low tonight. Can't wait! For a Houstonian, that's natually freezing to us. quote>

I have a friend who lives in Houston.  She whines about "freezing" weather that isn't remotely close to freezing. Just because your toes are cold when you wear sandals, that doesn't mean it's freezing.  quote>

But what if you don't wear sandals?   quote>

Now, there's a novel thought:  when the temperature drops, put on shoes instead of sandals 

Actually, people around here seem to be the same way:  when a wind storm blew through and dropped the temperature 10 degrees in 15 minutes, people were saying stuff like "<bleep>, it's cold!"  For some reason, every female I had any connection to, and even some that I didn't, thought I "had issues" because it was 55 with 20mph winds and I wasn't using a jacket. quote>

I know several who wear a hoodie instead of a jacket in such weather but, yeah, walking around in just a T-shirt would make people wonder if you have "issues".

[owenluby 1]

I wish I lived somewhere where it snows...

But I laugh at you all, it's just getting warm for us!

On a negative note, the bushfire season is going to be horrendous this year, and we're still in drought...

Trust me, you'd rather be having a freezing winter than a stinking summer...

[belfastuniguy 18]

At the minute where I live tonight's temperature is -3 or 26F, so kinda cold here at the minute.

[beebs 129]

Originally posted by: hym

Originally posted by: SkiGeek

Originally posted by: Micah

Tonight, it's supposed to be 48 F for the low tonight. Can't wait! For a Houstonian, that's natually freezing to us. quote>

I have a friend who lives in Houston.  She whines about "freezing" weather that isn't remotely close to freezing. Just because your toes are cold when you wear sandals, that doesn't mean it's freezing.  quote>

But what if you don't wear sandals?   Actually, people around here seem to be the same way:  when a wind storm blew through and dropped the temperature 10 degrees in 15 minutes, people were saying stuff like "<bleep>, it's cold!"  For some reason, every female I had any connection to, and even some that I didn't, thought I "had issues" because it was 55 with 20mph winds and I wasn't using a jacket. quote>

I walk to my car in a tshirt in 0C weather. Wimps.

We still haven't had snow that stays yet. I'm so happy about that. It can stay away forever for all I care.

[ilikehotdogsalot 307]

50F or below and i get out my ski jacket.

[simwario 95]

Rainy and 5 degrees right now, not really cold.