When that cold hits the Midwest, I'll on a train to St. Louis. Brrrrrrrr......
Oh, the weather outside is...
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-26C isn't bad if you're dressed properly for it. Of course that's without wind chill. Add wind chill to that and I stay home.
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I remember some winter days with wind chills well below -40....
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I don't think we've ever had cold like that around here. The ocean warms us up just enough, I guess.
The old way it was calculated or the new way? Quite a difference.
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My parents told me about the time they were in Ottawa and the temp was a nice -50 (no idea what the wind chill was)
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-40 is convenient because it's the same temp in F and C.
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I learned that from Stargate SG-1
Yeah, there is definitely wind chill with this one. Wind chills are expected to get down to around -45 F tonight and tomorrow night in central IL, -50 in Chicago, -60 in Minneapolis.
Really not looking forward to leaving before 5 to get to work tomorrow morning. If the car starts, that is. But what I am looking forward to is tossing a pot of boiling water into the air to watch it freeze and fall back as snow. I also want to see how much warmer the high temperature is for the Curiosity rover compared to ours tomorrow. There's no question that it will be warmer on Mars, the only issue is by how much.
(granted, Curiosity's temp will then fall to like -100 F/-73 C at night, so there is that)
edit to add: I wonder how wind chill varies with atmospheric pressure. If you ran outside your Mars habitat during the day when it was 0 F (-18 C), with a wind blowing at 50 mph (~80 km/h), how cold would it feel during your last seconds of consciousness?
...of course you can just Google that, like everything else. There's very little wind chill, as I had expected: 6 mbar is not enough to carry much heat away. So now I wonder if we take this into account on Earth. Do they adjust the wind chill for an Everest explorer near the summit (~340 mbar) compared to someone near sea level at ~1000 mbar? And is the effect linear or some other relation? This is the sort of thing that eats my free time for dinner.
Really not looking forward to leaving before 5 to get to work tomorrow morning. If the car starts, that is. But what I am looking forward to is tossing a pot of boiling water into the air to watch it freeze and fall back as snow. I also want to see how much warmer the high temperature is for the Curiosity rover compared to ours tomorrow. There's no question that it will be warmer on Mars, the only issue is by how much.
(granted, Curiosity's temp will then fall to like -100 F/-73 C at night, so there is that)
edit to add: I wonder how wind chill varies with atmospheric pressure. If you ran outside your Mars habitat during the day when it was 0 F (-18 C), with a wind blowing at 50 mph (~80 km/h), how cold would it feel during your last seconds of consciousness?
...of course you can just Google that, like everything else. There's very little wind chill, as I had expected: 6 mbar is not enough to carry much heat away. So now I wonder if we take this into account on Earth. Do they adjust the wind chill for an Everest explorer near the summit (~340 mbar) compared to someone near sea level at ~1000 mbar? And is the effect linear or some other relation? This is the sort of thing that eats my free time for dinner.
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I learned it from a trick question in a physics II exam. Everyone calculated the answer but it turns out if you had read the assigned text it gave you the answer.
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Huh - southerners!!!
-4C last night and certainly not the first frost of the year! And just as I type, snow warning for Thursday night/Friday morning - a whole 1-3cm forecast! Panic stations!!! 
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snow warning for Thursday night/Friday morning - a whole 1-3cm forecast! Panic stations!!!
I'll see your 1-3cm and raise it by about 55 inches:
And of course that goes with mind-numbingly cold wind chills:
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Central New York, just east of Lake Ontario. The winds are crossing the (relatively) warm lake water, picking up the moisture, then dumping the snow onto a focused area just north of Syracuse.
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-6F here in the St. Louis area, wind chill of -17F. toes went numb taking trash out. I can't believe trash is still running.
But it will be over 60F by the weekend, Estebonrober.
I'm wearing my real winter coat, though I haven't put the hood back on it (purchased for visiting my parents in northern Minnesota), so I'm pretty comfy outside. At least a quarter of the students are running around in hooded sweatshirts and complaining that they are freezing, though. Most of the schools are off today, but my kids' school didn't close, and neither did mine.
My folks (in their 80's) are running around with -70F windchills as if it is just normal weather, though my mom wasn't happy about having to plow out the driveway before they could go into town. They sounded a little amused that places were shutting down.
Edit: On the news this morning, they advised people to keep their windows and doors shut to help keep their houses warm. I find it a little disturbing that someone feels people need this advice.
I'm wearing my real winter coat, though I haven't put the hood back on it (purchased for visiting my parents in northern Minnesota), so I'm pretty comfy outside. At least a quarter of the students are running around in hooded sweatshirts and complaining that they are freezing, though. Most of the schools are off today, but my kids' school didn't close, and neither did mine.
My folks (in their 80's) are running around with -70F windchills as if it is just normal weather, though my mom wasn't happy about having to plow out the driveway before they could go into town. They sounded a little amused that places were shutting down.
Edit: On the news this morning, they advised people to keep their windows and doors shut to help keep their houses warm. I find it a little disturbing that someone feels people need this advice.
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I'm convinced its a CYA lawsuit thing. If the ignorant parents out there sent their kids to a bus stop without proper attire and a kid suffered frostbite they'd try to sue the school or some nonsense.
I was wearing flip flops when taking the trash out, my toes deserve their punishment.
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So I hear that while it's so cold in Chicago the buildings can be heard creaking and groaning, it was recently 116F/46.7C in Adelaide. Snakes are getting into people's homes in search of water and a cool spot to nap. Naturally, several people have found snakes in their toilets. One woman didn't look before she sat down and got bitten on the, um, posterior.
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I ran my car a good 20 minutes before getting in with the defrost on full blast and it was fine when I started driving, but it was so cold with the wind chill on the freeway the windows started to re-frost. I had a frost line that kept creeping from the back of the car to the front, into my line of sight on the windshield. I had to rub it off with my gloved hands so I could see.
