Weather

[Marge]

Having a little bit above normal here, in the 70's. But dropping to the 30's at night out where we are. No complaints. What a lot of you are experiencing is why we don't live North anymore.

I know, I know...you'll talk to me again in July.

[ceramictec]

ditto

[Marge]

[ddmoit]

Originally Posted by Brian

I have noticed I have turned up the heat in my home to 78-79 and I'm still cold and it was only 62 today.

Most of my house is at 67 degrees. The bedrooms are at 65 degrees. That's the way we like it. I crank it up a bit when my folks visit, but it's right back down when they leave.

[CLARKIE]

its about 10 degrees with about 4 inches of snow today gonna be even colder tomorrow

[jgleason]

Zero degrees outside right now. Supposed to hit 11 for a high today. Lows will be -6 or so.

I like it warm but we keep the house at 68 when we are home and awake. Set back to 63 for sleeping.

Every now and then it feels too cold and I'll bump the temp up to 70.

[Tiletim]

You people are all so lucky!!!

Heading out the door right now and it is -24 with a wind chill of -50.

Looking forward to a "high" of -4 today.

[ddmoit]

I quit paying any mind to wind chill a long time ago. I think it's a bogus measurement. At best, it might matter if you were naked.

[bbcamp]

Dan, wind chill is not some Austrian meteorlogical conspiracy theory, but a scale that was developed by exposing soldiers to cold and wind and measuring the effects on their ability to perform their duties, i.e. not a measure of actual weather conditions, but a measure of effects of the weather on the human body. If you go outside, you need to know the wind chill factor. If you park your car outside, it won't care about the wind chill factor (assuming, of course, that your car is capable of caring about anything ).

[ddmoit]

Austrian meteorlogical conspiracy theory

Thanks for that, Bob; I'm glad you've been paying attention!

[Dave Taylor]

I spent many a coooold winter working outside starting cars for service garages in both Minnesota and South Dakota.

Wind chill bogus????

The single best thing folks could do at the time to insure their vehicle would start on a winter morning..... was to put it in a garage overnight..... where the inside and outside temp were the same but...... the vehicle was outta' that wind..... chill.

"Splain that", she said.

EDIT: Being in the garage would also keep all four tires from freezin' solid to the ground.... although they would still feel and sound like square rocks for a half hour after one started driving.

[cx]

Well, I don't know about y'all, but some of us were very much aware of the effects of wind on the cooling and function of the human body long time before it became an official "factor." But I still don't pay any attention to whatever the weatherheads say the "factor" is fixin' to be, I just wanna know what the temperature will be and how much wind. I can do the "math" on the chill my ownself, thank you very much.

The southern New Mexico deserts were seeing high teens for overnight lows last week or so, but a fella doesn't need to go to long pants until that wretched wind starts blowin'.

[muskymike]

I have what Tim said.

[ddmoit]

CX did a better job of explaining my position than I did.

I don't deny that there is a wind chill phenomenon. But, I maintain that the measurement is bogus and can be ignored. For instance - when they say that the wind chill is -50 degrees, that's supposed to mean that the wind is making it feel like it's actually -50 degrees out. Anyone who has ever experienced -50 actual degrees knows better.

What's more, two people standing right next to each other will experience the phenomenon in widely varying degrees depending on how they are dressed. If you have clothing that protects the air next to your skin from being disturbed, you will minimize your perception of wind chill.

Anything that doesn't generate its own heat will not experience wind chill at all.

[Tiletim]

Last day of this crap for a bit.

It's -31 right now.

Dave and Dan: the age old question of windchill, Dave I'm with you about windchill affecting inanimate objects like tires and car door handles.

Dan your also right it just seems relative to each individual and their experiences. And your north of me !!!

I can't ignore it though - If I had to walk a half mile at -30 below with the wind kicking it to -50 below I would rethink what I pack in my truck for a survival kit as these are life threatening temps. I live in a rural area and work in more rural areas sometimes miles in between each house.

All this of course a worse case scenario, ie.. no cell service, truck motor died miles away from anything, no heat source.

My parents made my brothers and sisters go to winter survival camp up in the boundary waters area when we were kids. Learned a lot about basic survival in extreme temps.

Local news just had a story of a man found froze outside because he was sleepwalking on Ambian. He walked the length of 2 football fields in his underwear before he succumbed to the weather, very sad.

anyone else want to ?