I like the cold. I just don't like the wind AND the cold.

It really wasn't that cold today in Northern New England - it's just that we have enjoyed relatively mild temps and weather this winter so single digits came as a bit of a system shock.

Today temp showed 48*F / wind chill felt like 42*F / humidity at 83% / with north wind @ 14mph. Felt very chilly even as far south central Louisiana........................ But with Uncle Sam as the travel agent have slept outside on the ground in down filled sleeping bags inside each other at temps around -45*F and acutually saw -82*F(pure temp) w/chill factor of -127*F. NOW that was a cold night. Ft. Greely/Delta Junction, Alaska. But one summer did see +80*F for 2 days running and some people went swimming but I was not able to get past knee deep water before heading back to dry land. ......................... drill sgt.

The difference is y'all Yankees have enough scar tissue from last year's frostbite that it doesn't hurt as much. If we liked snow I'd live in Maine!

Us poor Southerners were subjected to some of your temps a couple weeks back. Got down to 1 degree one night with 10-15mph winds, and I was pretty sure it was the end of the world. May happen to y'all all the time, but in Memphis it ain't welcome.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by SigLaw:
Its nice we have, at least in some cases, options of where we live.

In all cases we have options about where we can live unless we're incarcerated or in the military.

A lot of people like to pretend they're stuck and can't move, but the reality is that they don't want to move but they can.

I've lived in 9 States, some of them 4 different times, some 3 different times, some 2 and some 1.

I live where I want to and so can anybody else who's honest with themselves.

This here^^^ I have lived in the heat & humidity all of my 75 years but now I'm moving west: We leave this week. I can't stand sweat running down my eyeballs anymore! At least in the Sierra, you expect it to be cold all winter. And the dry heat of the desert really is a thing: Kinda like a pizza oven. In the Florida panhandle, we were not ready for 28 degrees 3 days running. Found out my heat pump doesn't work no more. And hurricanes. Damn hurricanes!

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
I also have 2 brothers in Arizona and my parents retired to the Phoenix area. Never visited in the height of Summer (and don't intend to!) but reports from them have convinced me that "it's a dry heat" makes no difference. It's still freakin' HOT.

I'll dispute that. After 16 years in the Greater Phoenix area I find I don't even start sweating until it's over around 110 degrees and cold bothers me much more than heat in spite of the fact I was born and raised in some of the colder parts of the U.S.

Humidity over around 10% absolutely kills me, so dry heat is a thing.

You are sweating, it's just evaporating the moment the moisture hits atmo. I was stationed in ABQ, NM for a few years and they actually had a negative heat index where the air was so dry, it felt less hot than it actually was because the environment was evaporatively cooling your body by sucking the water right out of your flesh.

Know what else is a dry heat? A convection oven. But I don't want to live in one.

It was so cold the politicians had their hands in their own pockets.

It was so cold the young punks had their pants pulled up to their waist.

It was so cold the cows gave ice cream instead of milk.

Any of y'all care to add a few?
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Originally posted by asonie:
Know what else is a dry heat? A convection oven. But I don't want to live in one.

Exactly.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
I've seen around -60 Fahrenheit in Fairbanks Alaska.

Now that's cold.

When I was 55, I visited Alaska, I had always dreamed of going there. Had this crazy notion years afterwards of wanting to move to Alaska.

Now at age 69, I hate the cold, forget any foolish notions about cold places.

What a difference a few days make. A couple of weeks ago it was -27 without the windchill and now the sun's shining and it's in the high 40's. I like this weather!

Same here...Mid-30's today but there's still that damned wind, so not real comfortable.

But then...March...

 
I took my IDPA SO class at Phoenix Rod & Gun Club, in August. Typical 115 heat for that time of year. I'll tell you, in that weather, sitting down on a black porta potty seat is a new experience. I don't think I've ever jumped up so fast.

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But then...March...

Yup. Waiting for the other shoe to drop..

Last week it was -17 here here Grayling MI. Next week to will be in the 50's. I really can't complain. We generally get two or three weeks where it will not get much above zero. This year we had about four days.

Jim

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Originally posted by OKCGene:
It was so cold the politicians had their hands in their own pockets.

It was so cold the young punks had their pants pulled up to their waist.

It was so cold the cows gave ice cream instead of milk.

Any of y'all care to add a few?
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It was so cold the flashers were showing pictures.