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Post by david on Jan 27, 2019 20:50:37 GMT -5
So, this week has had some nasty temps in the Upper Midwest, certainly not unheard of, but OMG next week, I see the Twin Cities forecast for Wednesday is a HIGH of minus-15 F. and an overnight low of minus-31! The mind reels as to what things will be like in the far northern reaches of the state. And, of course, Wednesdays just happen to be our busiest workdays on the features desk, so it's not like I could wimp out and stay home. Maybe I could get 24-hour malaria, or something. That sounds like a tough week. I hope all you midwesters make it through without pain or injury and that John gets his work prepped.
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 27, 2019 21:07:10 GMT -5
That's so cold it isn't funny. Wishing you folks the best.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 27, 2019 21:15:54 GMT -5
Yesterday when we were in Des Moines the car said it was 19 degrees. I thought it was July.
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Post by epaul on Jan 27, 2019 21:16:57 GMT -5
Tough for people. Good for sheep.
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Post by dradtke on Jan 27, 2019 22:05:54 GMT -5
I know a guy who used to live way up in northern MN “where the wind hits heavy on the borderline.” He’d be in real trouble if he still lived there. Fortunately for him he moved far away to another state. I think it may have been North Dakota. Stop exaggerating. North Dakota is like Siberia: really cold but nobody actually lives there.
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 27, 2019 22:11:03 GMT -5
Oklahoma is like Mars: lots of red dirt and no intelligent life. (Old Kansas joke.)
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Post by Marshall on Jan 28, 2019 0:05:38 GMT -5
They're saying the projected high temp on Wed will be the lowest high temp recorded in Chicago weather history, . . , for any date.
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Post by lar on Jan 30, 2019 10:24:22 GMT -5
-20 in Milwaukee right now. Up from -24 earlier. Janice bought me a bomber hat for Christmas. I'm wearing it today instead of my Stetson.
I feel naked.
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Post by drlj on Jan 30, 2019 11:36:36 GMT -5
It is a balmy -19 right now. That is yard work weather--almost, anyway.
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Post by millring on Jan 30, 2019 12:39:55 GMT -5
-17 at high noon.
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Post by epaul on Jan 30, 2019 13:42:57 GMT -5
It's -17 here now, as well. Only up here,compared to yesterday's daytime high of -25 with winds gusting to 30 mph, today's sunny, windless, -17 is a balmy respite. I just returned from a half-hour dog walk and it was perfectly pleasant out, if properly bundled, and the pooches were ecstatic (at 105 lbs and 85 lbs respectively, they are very sturdy, near-weatherproof pooches).
Wind tells the tale. No wind, cold is easily managed. But, throw in a 20-30 mph wind out of the north, and man, that is a different deal. I had to go out yesterday, and it was absurdly cold. Cold, Cold, Cold. And the dog walk was only about five minutes in when all agreed to turn around and head back to the warm, toasty house.
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Post by billhammond on Jan 30, 2019 14:38:58 GMT -5
Park Rapids in northwestern Minnesota led the way in the state Wednesday with a temperature of minus-42 and a 64-below windchill. Ely checked in with 31 below, but sustained winds of 30 miles per hour made it feel like minus-68.
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Post by billhammond on Jan 30, 2019 15:14:30 GMT -5
MINNEAPOLIS — Admitting that this week’s extreme wind chills were starting to get to her, Minnesota resident Anne Mauer confirmed Tuesday that she’s seriously thinking of packing it all up and moving somewhere warm like Michigan. “The winters here can be so brutal. Maybe it’s about time I go someplace down south like Detroit or Kalamazoo,” said Mauer, adding that she had even applied to a few jobs in Iowa but worried it’d be too far from her friends and family back home. “I visited my sister in Ohio last Christmas, and the lowest it ever got there was, like, 10 degrees. It was so nice. Supposedly, they only had, like, two and a half feet of snow all winter. That’s what I want.” At press time, Mauer had given up plans to move and settled instead on a week-long vacation in Rochester, Minn.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 30, 2019 15:20:48 GMT -5
It's ridiculously bitter cold here as well, schools called off again. Thanks to modern technology (or no thanks to modern technology) I've been able to meet with people via email and computer meetings, so have kept pretty busy in our warm home today. Work never ends in these modern times. I yearn for earlier times.
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Post by drlj on Jan 30, 2019 15:32:01 GMT -5
It's ridiculously bitter cold here as well, schools called off again. Thanks to modern technology (or no thanks to modern technology) I've been able to meet with people via email and computer meetings, so have kept pretty busy in our warm home today. Work never ends in these modern times. I yearn for earlier times. Earlier times? What? Now, old guys like Hammond can tell you of earlier times. Bill grew up before TVs, before private lines, before electric hand mixers, before ice makers, before liquid shower body wash, before most of us were born. He can talk of earlier times living out there on the prairie, cutting sod for his roof, tanning hides, sending in his edits by telegraph. You, on the other hand, like all the rest of the millennials, think earlier times was last Tuesday. Earlier times, indeed.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 30, 2019 15:32:09 GMT -5
We have a Folk Society concert scheduled for tomorrow night, and I just checked with the St. Paul-based band and they're planning to go ahead--"It will be up to a balmy 5 below or so by then."
Bo Diddley's planned to be open anyway--and the new owner told me that they had a full house for cribbage last night. As the song puts it, we all must be crazy out here.
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Cold wave
Jan 30, 2019 15:33:08 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by RickW on Jan 30, 2019 15:33:08 GMT -5
I almost feel bad telling you that yesterday it was sunny and 40 degrees American here. For some reason when I use my phone to post I can't add an image, or I'd show you the spectacular view from our friend's house, out across the water. And I probably should not talk about our visit to our other friends here, the collector, and say nothing about the Collings parlor, the Taylor 914, the Lowden, and several other quite spectacular guitars I played.
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Post by drlj on Jan 30, 2019 15:43:42 GMT -5
I almost feel bad telling you that yesterday it was sunny and 40 degrees American here. For some reason when I use my phone to post I can't add an image, or I'd show you the spectacular view from our friend's house, out across the water. And I probably should not talk about our visit to our other friends here, the collector, and say nothing about the Collings parlor, the Taylor 914, the Lowden, and several other quite spectacular guitars I played. Thank you for not bringing any of this up but, as soon as I can feel my fingers, I would like to hear about these things.
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Post by billhammond on Jan 30, 2019 17:14:34 GMT -5
As I left downtown for home an hour ago, I happened to get behind a Tesla S at a stoplight, and with the temp at 15-below, I wondered -- how the hell do they heat those things, and could they possibly keep up with extreme cold?
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Post by Marshall on Jan 30, 2019 17:17:42 GMT -5
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