Cold Weather
Postmaster
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From: Colorado Springs
From the Weather Channel:
(Wind chills -50 to -60 have been recorded in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota Saturday-Monday. The coldest wind chill observed was 58 below zero in Hettinger, ND on Sunday morning.
The coldest temperature in this Arctic outbreak so far is a reading of 45 degrees below zero in Embarrass, Minnesota, on Sunday morning.)
-45 as the actual air temp...that's brutal cold!! To live in an area that has that kind of potential for cold, the redundancies you'd have to have in place for heat and power would be ridiculou
(Wind chills -50 to -60 have been recorded in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota Saturday-Monday. The coldest wind chill observed was 58 below zero in Hettinger, ND on Sunday morning.
The coldest temperature in this Arctic outbreak so far is a reading of 45 degrees below zero in Embarrass, Minnesota, on Sunday morning.)
-45 as the actual air temp...that's brutal cold!! To live in an area that has that kind of potential for cold, the redundancies you'd have to have in place for heat and power would be ridiculou
Hotshot
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From: Douglassville, PA
From the Weather Channel:
(Wind chills -50 to -60 have been recorded in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota Saturday-Monday. The coldest wind chill observed was 58 below zero in Hettinger, ND on Sunday morning.
The coldest temperature in this Arctic outbreak so far is a reading of 45 degrees below zero in Embarrass, Minnesota, on Sunday morning.)
-45 as the actual air temp...that's brutal cold!! To live in an area that has that kind of potential for cold, the redundancies you'd have to have in place for heat and power would be ridiculou
(Wind chills -50 to -60 have been recorded in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota Saturday-Monday. The coldest wind chill observed was 58 below zero in Hettinger, ND on Sunday morning.
The coldest temperature in this Arctic outbreak so far is a reading of 45 degrees below zero in Embarrass, Minnesota, on Sunday morning.)
-45 as the actual air temp...that's brutal cold!! To live in an area that has that kind of potential for cold, the redundancies you'd have to have in place for heat and power would be ridiculou
Laughing Gas
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From: Central OK
Big difference is it'll never get hot enough to kill you provided you aren't out there trying to dig a ditch with a parka on. Just stay in the shade and wait it out, especially if you're older.
It'll get cold enough to kill you every winter. Cold don't play around, you gotta attack it with large sticks and rapid chemical combustion and drive that rat-turd back out of your house as quickly as possible.
It'll get cold enough to kill you every winter. Cold don't play around, you gotta attack it with large sticks and rapid chemical combustion and drive that rat-turd back out of your house as quickly as possible.
Laughing Gas
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From: SW ON, Canada
Yup ... duplicates of many things ... stuff like tires, clothes, yard tools, sporting equipment, gas home furnaces and big A/C units ... one for the winter season and one for the summer season. Motorcycles for the riding season (about 7+ months for us) and AWD or 4x4 for the winter season. At least the 6" of house wall insulation and 15" of blown insulation in the attic does double duty. So do my flashlights ...
. Still love all four seasons and wouldn't have it any other way here in the True North strong and free!
Hotshot
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From: Douglassville, PA
40 sounds warm for Anchorage but aren't your temps moderated by the temps in Cook's Inlet and The Gulf of Alaska? I seem to recall daily average temps for that southern coast being somewhere around 32 or so.
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From: Lake Hartwell, GA
To think that my wife and I were thinking of camping around this time... No thanks, I'll stay in the house with a fire on each end of the house and a cold beer watching Netflix or playing the PlayStation.
Hotshot
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From: Texas
And this is how you do it! Or go outside and get that grille guard put on...either way. LOL
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From: Lake Hartwell, GA
The garage is too cold for me to be in right now, so I stay in the house until it warms up and then the truck will have some work done on it. Sure was cold this morning in GA, had a light surface of ice on the pond.
Fleet Mechanic
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From: Phenix City, AL
Bob sure didn’t like the 25F out there this morning. Even after being plugged in last night it took about 20 minutes until things were running smoothly. Normally I’d drive the Honda to work but these next two weeks DW has her reserve duty and has the car. It’s not supposed to be like this down at Ft. Benning.
Fleet Mechanic
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From: Anchorage, AK
This is pretty accurate. Living in Anchorage means we do see frequent breaks in the colder weather because of our surroundings.
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