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Originally posted by ridewv:
Vodka, lots of vodka.......

There's not enough vodka in Russia to get me to live there.

That record of -89.2 sounds like it’s cold enough to freeze sunshine.
I noticed that no one has mentioned, but it’s a dry Heat cold.

Ya'll keep talking like you have to go to Alaska to get miserable cold temps. I was stationed in N. Dakota and we routinely had temps below -30F.

As a matter of fact, the flight line closed at -40F. It was ALWAYS -39F.

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Originally posted by Shaql:
Ya'll keep talking like you have to go to Alaska to get miserable cold temps. I was stationed in N. Dakota and we routinely had temps below -30F.

As a matter of fact, the flight line closed at -40F. It was ALWAYS -39F.

Whynot Minot

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
I once had a girlfriend who could not understand negative temperatures.

She wanted to know, "How can the temperature be less than nothing?"

"Nothing " would be -459.67F, and no, it can't get colder than that.

Our record low for January was -31F set in 2010, two years later we set a record high of 63 degree's.

Last week it was -42 on the border in northern Minnesota. Man, the things we undergo to protect Iowa from Canada!

H&K-Guy

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Originally posted by Ripley:
I've experienced a claimed 100F with wind chill, -30F air temp. I cannot imagine there being 88 degrees to lose from zero F.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

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Originally posted by Doc H.:
"Nothing " would be -459.67F, and no, it can't get colder than that.

Hmm.... some say it's possible to be colder than Absolute Zero.

Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Absolute Zero
https://www.livescience.com/25...n-absolute-zero.html

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Originally posted by Doc H.:
"Nothing " would be -459.67F, and no, it can't get colder than that.

Hmm.... some say it's possible to be colder than Absolute Zero.

Atoms Reach Record Temperature, Colder than Absolute Zero
https://www.livescience.com/25...n-absolute-zero.html

Actually they are discussing theoretical states of matter - "cold" is a relative term. And absolute zero has not yet been achieved on this planet, at least empirically. When all atomic resonance stops, that would be absolute zero; they are theorizing there is a state, or states, beyond negative absolute zero where entropy - time's arrow- is absorbed. The hidden implication here is that time would run backwards. All sorts of very interesting possibilities arise from this, some seen in twentieth century movies. All things are possible, and considering quantum entanglement, the Universe is indeed stranger than we can know....

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:
Whynot Minot

Freezin's the reason.

I've always thought that once it gets below around -10, I really can't tell much difference. If it's going to be -10, it might as well be -40.

I do remember my dad telling me about a time when he was working up on the Alaska pipeline that it was so cold, when you spit it would freeze before it hit the ground. I've not been in cold quite that bad as yet.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
I once had a girlfriend who could not understand negative temperatures.

She wanted to know, "How can the temperature be less than nothing?"

I think I've met that girl! Gawd love her.

We had some really cold temps here back in 1977. I think it bottomed at a record -24. I have no idea of wind chill. A buddy owned a boat harbor and needed all the help he could get. It was a common assumption that "workers" got free beer. It was also a fact that no one could work very hard or long at those temps. But contrary to what most think, the labor was cheap because no one could drink very much either.

Then one night it was so cold we couldn't get the temps up in the head boat. So as a tribute to American manufacture, we could make one of the harbor jeeps start and run. Yes, it was one of those old WWII jeeps. It had experience I guess. So we started it up and drove over the Ohio River to the next harbor down, did an excellent spin out up against their dock. Then used the jeeps permanent dock line to "tie it up". That last got us an extra free beer when we got inside. Seems river folk have seen most everything, but that was a new one on them. We didn't stay very long, it was cold inside there, too. The jeep started right up and drove up river. But we couldn't get it to "climb" the ramp. Welded 4 wd spinning them all, but no grip. So it parked itself right where it wanted to spend the night. Got it out with just a little help from the lot up above.

When it warmed up a little the summer boaters came down to inspect their junk. The other thing they couldn't believe was we didn't need any more beer that night. I learned that warming up your vehicle was a waste of time, effort and fuel. If it ran you called it good and drove. Only pussies required a warm car or truck. And its why I bought a new Jeep that fall.

Also from the following winter, I'd left the Jeep in the garage. A neighbor had a chevy, and those guys couldn't believe anything else was OK. He had an El Camino that he couldn't start. I had a warm battery in the house. I went and got it and with copious amounts of ether and the fresh battery (a boat battery of course) we got it turning over and eventually running. Not good but making a continuous sound. On my way back to the house I decided to see if the then nearly new jeep would fire and run. No tracks in the snow from the garage. Stuck the key in it and it fired right up. The chevy guy was crushed. But I knew how to cheat.

I'd decided to use Amsoil that winter. Instead of mineral oil gluing my crank and rods in one position. It was still liquid oil. Yes, I've been wasting my money ever since to give myself a chance at starting my vehicles. Just a tip from an old river man. Yes, I'm old and I'll be 70 on Saturday. I don't drive junk asian cars and I do know how to start American Iron.

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Originally posted by heathtx:
Al Gore is not opening his big trap!

I just read an article that said many scintists are saying that North
America is entering a mini ice age.