complaining about the cold the other night. It was about 40 degrees outside. In my home state of Minnesota, the term "cold" does not apply until they start talking about -10 or -15 windchills.
So congratulations, Embarrass, MN. Your citizens have every right to complain about the cold:
Minnesota Town Hits 54 Below Zero Temperatures Drop in Eastern Half of Nation
(Jan. 17) - Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation Monday, approaching an all-time record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.
Thermometers registered a low of 54 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minn.
"You keep living, but it gets old after a while,'' said Christine Mackai, the town clerk for the community of 691 people in northeast Minnesota.
Minnesota's record is 60 below, set on Feb. 2, 1996, in Tower, about 10 miles north of Embarrass.
The cold at Embarrass didn't stop the regular customers from getting their morning coffee at Four Corners, a cafe and gas station.
"Everybody left their cars running,'' waitress Trish Roggenbuck said. "It was pretty much breathtaking when you walked outside.''
While below-zero readings stayed in the upper Midwest, thermometers dropped below the freezing mark all the way to the Gulf of Mexico coast.
The morning low was 28, with wind chills in the upper teens, at Mobile, Ala., Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss., and Pensacola, Fla. A hard freeze warning was in effect overnight into Tuesday morning for parts of Mississippi, the weather service said.
Mackai said Embarrass had been prepared for bitter cold as early as last Thursday. "It only got down to 28 below, and that's nothing. That's no big deal,'' she said.
Elsewhere in northern Minnesota on Monday, Babbitt chilled to 51 below, and International Falls - which calls itself the Nation's Icebox - dropped to 44 below, the national Weather Service said. Farther south, Minneapolis-St. Paul bottomed out at a mere 11 below.
The arctic blast followed several days of subzero temperatures. Weather service meteorologist Greg Frosig in Duluth said Monday's high would still be below zero in northern Minnesota.
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That is cold for Hawaii. Well, maybe not for the middle of the night. I don't imagine you really need a heater in your house.
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quote:Originally posted by Coriolanus: That is cold for Hawaii. Well, maybe not for the middle of the night. I don't imagine you really need a heater in your house.
No house that I know of comes with a heater. 59 was the middle of the night actually.
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Its a balmy 5 degrees in Dracut massachusetts,with a couple of shirts ,a hoody and a jacket you can walk a few blocks without splitting your head open..if it was windy out it would be 25 below,like last year,and a bottle of Jim Beam and a space heater was all we needed...
Tonight it must be 65 in SoCal. Burrrrr. I am actually about to smoke a cigar outside with no shirt on. He he he. The breeze feels nice. It was so terrible the other day when it dropped below 62. My nips got hard.
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Well cor, at least you had the sense to get out of that hellhole.
Climate wise Hawaii is the best. It's like 80-85 every day of the year. Been a while since I've been there.
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quote:Originally posted by Coriolanus: That is cold for Hawaii. Well, maybe not for the middle of the night. I don't imagine you really need a heater in your house.
Ever been to the top of Mauna Kea. At least there you're ready for it. How about gassing up at Waimea in a February evening when the wind is just right and you are wearing a tshirt, shorts and sandles.
I think Minnesota puts their thermometers in the deep freeze in Jan. Just to attract attention to an otherwise safe, clean and very quiet place.
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MN is great, but like the person in the article said, the cold gets old after a while.
I like snow and ice to a point. But when you have to get up everyday and scrape your windshield at 7:30 AM, you start to wonder what the weather is like in Florida.
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its only going to 80 today in Southern California.
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My sister lives in Bloomington MN, the other day her LOW was -15 and the HIGH was -7. At Easter she calls me every year to BRAG about going outside into the warm 36 degree weather. I have to tell her to hold on while I get the kids out of the pool !!!! hehehehehe
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Yes living in MN in the cold weather is a way of life. I live about 60 miles from Embarrass,and about 70 miles from Duluth and yesterday it was DAMN cold here at -35 and the high was -5. If we r not bitching about the weather in MN, we r not happy, So we smile and say "Just think we only have a few more month of this" .......
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