Brass Monkey Alert

blacbird · Jan 8, 2007

It's 4:30 PM at my house, and the temperature outside is -18 F. It has dropped 7 degrees in the past two hours. Normally, the low temp is reached around 5-6 AM, so we've got roughly 10 hours to go in this direction. If the trend stays linear, that works out to 3.5 degrees per hour, or 35 degrees lower by morning. Actually, that won't happen, but -30 F is possible. We're getting down into that territory where it doesn't matter which major temperature scale you use. There is no wind, so that's not wind-chill. We have around 3 feet of snow on the ground, fell in two dumps last week.

Just thought I'd share, for those of you experiencing record warmth along the east coast.

caw

SpookyWriter · Jan 8, 2007

Yeah, well it was fricken hot in Arizona today. A record 75 or so, and I wore a sweater to work. Errrr...

C.bronco · Jan 8, 2007

Saturday was so warm my son and I were barefoot in a sandbox. But that's over, the wind is whipping up and it's dropping to 20 tonight. Possible snow showers tomorrow afternoon.

Rolling Thunder · Jan 8, 2007

Thank you. It's raining here in PA and 43 degrees. Almost summer like compared to your location.

A. Hamilton · Jan 8, 2007

Put two, no four, big logs on the fire and call us in the morning.
brrrr

TrainofThought · Jan 8, 2007

We were in the 50s last week but going down to the 30s and 40s this week. The wind is hell here with snow showers coming. I can't complain, we haven't hit zero or below so far this winter. Normally, our weather moves to the east coast, so enjoy.

JDCrayne · Jan 8, 2007

We're 150 miles north of San Francisco, with a weather warning for a twenty degree drop on Thursday. The temp did get up to forty today, but if it dips below twenty we'll have to leave a tap dripping so the pipes don't freeze.

blacbird · Jan 8, 2007

JDCrayne said:
We're 150 miles north of San Francisco, with a weather warning for a twenty degree drop on Thursday. The temp did get up to forty today, but if it dips below twenty we'll have to leave a tap dripping so the pipes don't freeze.

Pipes? Pipes? Are those, like, the cylindrical things that carry molten ice?

Oh, by the way, I just checked. It's now -20 F.

And for you Canades, I said "molten ice", not "Molsen Ice". The latter might be the worst beer in the world.

caw

JDCrayne · Jan 8, 2007

blacbird said:
Oh, by the way, I just checked. It's now -20 F.

caw

It must be a great place to write -- you sure can't do anything else in weather like that!

Del · Jan 8, 2007

JDCrayne said:
It must be a great place to write -- you sure can't do anything else in weather like that!

That's not true. You can freeze to death.

You know, if you're bored.

blacbird · Jan 8, 2007

6:45 PM: -24 F.

caw

BardSkye · Jan 8, 2007

We had our minus 40 weather the second week of November.

blacbird · Jan 8, 2007

BardSkye said:
We had our minus 40 weather the second week of November.

That was then. This is now. Besides, in Calgary, for God's sake, it's supposed to be 40 below. It's, like, in Canada.

caw

William Haskins · Jan 8, 2007

take care of yourself up there, blacbird.

blacbird · Jan 8, 2007

8:30 PM: -26.

We up here are to be thanked for global warming. We're giving all our heat to you.

caw

blacbird · Jan 8, 2007

Cheney hunts

Dick Cheney began his annual hunting trip today.

Just keeping you informed.

caw

billythrilly7th · Jan 8, 2007

Your cold air will be my cold air in three days or so.

It's a nightmare.

blacbird · Jan 8, 2007

The Cheney thing was supposed to have been a new thread. I don't know what went wrong. It's still -26.

caw

Maryn · Jan 9, 2007

Having lived in a real cold place and a real hot place, I've got a definite preference for real cold. Neither extreme is much fun, but you can get a lot of reading, writing, and drinking done when it's cold. When it's hot, lethargy renders me unable to do anything but sweat, and even that wears me out.

Maryn, bringing you additional firewood

Del · Jan 9, 2007

So? Are you still thawed?

Nights like that can raise the population significantly.

Give us just one little CAW to tell us you aren't a birdsicle.

Shadow_Ferret · Jan 9, 2007

Darn. I thought this was an announcement that "Tales of the Brass Monkey" was finally coming out on DVD.

Or was that "Tales of the Gold Monkey?"

AceTachyon · Jan 9, 2007

Gold Monkey, Ferret. Tales of the Gold Monkey.

"Brass Monkey" is a Beastie Boys song.

BardSkye · Jan 9, 2007

blacbird said:
That was then. This is now. Besides, in Calgary, for God's sake, it's supposed to be 40 below. It's, like, in Canada.

caw

Yep. We're a hardy breed.

Actually Calgarians are spoiled, for Canadians. We usually only get a week or so of really cold weather, then a chinook blows in and raises the temperature to summer again. If we get more than a week of cold we start whining about what a long winter we're having.

Today: -12C now. +4 expected by mid-afternoon. -19 this evening. Blizzard warnings for tomorrow.

Chumplet · Jan 9, 2007

blacbird said:
Pipes? Pipes? Are those, like, the cylindrical things that carry molten ice?

Oh, by the way, I just checked. It's now -20 F.

And for you Canades, I said "molten ice", not "Molsen Ice". The latter might be the worst beer in the world.

caw

Molson Ice is pisswater. I'll take a nice mug of Creemore Ale any day. The microbreweries are the only places that make decent beer in Canada. Molson and Labatts are swallowing up all the independent breweries and making what used to be great brew into more pisswater.

You don't have actual central heating? Then the pipes wouldn't freeze, unless it's one of those places that doesn't have a basement and the pipes are all exposed under the house.

We're usually around -20 but not this year. Not yet.

Ken Schneider · Jan 9, 2007

Guess it's safe to say the gold nugget hunting is out of the question for a few more weeks?

Getting colder here in the Ohio valley, 30+ today. 'Spose to be 65 on Fri., though.

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