User: joncwriter Date: 2008-01-30 03:21 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Naruto shocked

Damn, that's cold!

Come to San Francisco--it was cold, rainy and foggy at work...only to be warmer and clearing up at my apartment--three miles away. :p

User: icedrake Date: 2008-01-30 03:57 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

In the interests of sharing a "we should both be astonishingly glad we're not there" moment: A friend working at the Diavik diamond mine (Northwest Territories) posted her weather recently. Official reading at nearest weather station (which is slightly north of the mine) is -39C/-38.2F, -53C/-63.4F with windchill. But the thermometer at the mine airport (the mine being on an unprotected island in the middle of the lake) was showing -71C. That's... -95.8F.

I'm very, *very* glad I'm not there.

User: garyomaha Date: 2008-01-30 04:19 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

SEE?? This disproves all that "global warming" nonsense once and for all!!

User: dinogrl Date: 2008-01-30 06:11 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: SNOOPY!

*wimp*

User: gvdub Date: 2008-01-30 16:55 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

The winter of '77, I was on the road with a band all around the upper Midwest. I remember playing the week between Christmas and New Year's in Minot, North Dakota, where the high temperature for the week was -30F. Snow that got into the band van at the beginning of the week was still there at the end of the week. The ten minute drive from the motel to the club was nowhere near enough time for the heater in the van to have any effect, and just enough time for the finish on my guitar to get cold enough that it would crack if I took the guitar out of the case without some warm up time. The bassist and I spent a few minutes experimenting to see just how far above the sidewalk you could spit without having it freeze before hitting the ground. If I recall, the answer was about 18 inches.