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Local weather dropping to =34C (-29F) tomorrow + wind chill for -43C, too damn cold for man or beast!
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Local weather dropping to =34C (-29F) tomorrow + wind chill for -43C, too damn cold for man or beast!
Wholey Schmidt , that'll make your putter shrivel up :shocked:
Dusty
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cold is 26C (78.8F) here, very rare unless it rains at night during certain months of the year and it only last a few hours
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Wholey Schmidt , that'll make your putter shrivel up :shocked:
Dusty
Out with the magnifying glass and tweezers ! :embarrassed:
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I remember doing that...
I remember it most often when it's the middle of summer in Las Vegas, and 115F (46C)! :evil: It helps me reconcile why I'm here and not there!!!
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- 4 F here this morning, piece of cake. Went for a nice ride up to the new Hampshire mountains early this AM . Then I woke up :violent1:
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Well this morning it is -27F, with the wind chill it is -50F. Stay inside and tinker. DonG
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High today in Colorado Springs expected to be 60 degrees! Go figure.
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Out with the magnifying glass and tweezers ! :embarrassed:
... or a poster of Fabio
so I've heard
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Local weather dropping to =34C (-29F) tomorrow + wind chill for -43C, too damn cold for man or beast!
Temperatures like that always remind me of Jack London's To Build a Fire. I remember that the first time I read it, I kept hoping he'd succeed.
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Temperatures like that always remind me of Jack London's To Build a Fire. I remember that the first time I read it, I kept hoping he'd succeed.
He did,---- But then learned that he built it without looking up.
At my place it has been nose hair cold. That is when you stick your head out the door and your nose hair crystalizes.
We're having a heat wave this morning, we are up to 20 degrees but with more snow. I still haven't been out since last Saturday.
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Stay warm this weekend everyone!! :shocked: :wink: :smiley:
In 7-8 months from now, "The Valley of the Sun" will once again return to the dreaded summer heat "Forbidden Planet" status...in the meantime, sorry for this forecast!! :shocked: :rolleyes: :laugh: :grin: :wink:
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He did,---- But then learned that he built it without looking up.
Right, that was the first hill of the roller coaster. By "succeed", I meant succeed at remaining alive.
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Just talked to a buddy who lives in West Point, VA (near Richmond...) and he said it has been 'brutally cold" and only in the teens for days! :shocked: :rolleyes: :shocked: :rolleyes:
Stay WARM everyone...stoke that fire...and Happy New Year!!! :cool:
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New reports say folks are having issues with windows shattering from the arctic cold in parts of Canada. Hasn't been this cold for 20 years!
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This post reminds me of how spoiled we are living in southern Arizona.
It is supposed to be in the mid 60s today, and I was planning on taking a little "coffee ride" to Bisbee. The southwest is a wonderful part of the country to live in! :thumb:
Rick.
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This post reminds me of how spoiled we are living in southern Arizona.
It is supposed to be in the mid 60s today, and I was planning on taking a little "coffee ride" to Bisbee. The southwest is a wonderful part of the country to live in! :thumb:
Rick.
Happy New Year, bigbikerick! I love Bisbee...take some photos if you ride down there! :thumb: :cool: :1: Last time I RODE down there by motorcycle was 2012, with my good friend, Marko. I was on my Triumph Sprint GT at the time, and he was on his Kawasaki...
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jeremiah Johnson,
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Of course, you knew this was coming!! (LOL) Jack Nicholson from The Shining...
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Good time to clean tool cabinets, organize garage and install "stuff" on the Stornello.
definitely not a fun weather to ride.. :evil:
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Let the dog out this morning, & as I stepped out behind him he was back in the house before I could turn & shut the door! And he LOVES it outside, no matter what the weather....
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I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.
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I remember as a kid living in Chicago the bitter cold and my dads HD up on blocks for the winter. Cant imagine not riding for all those months. Here in Murrieta Ca it was 84 yesterday and its going to be 85 today. This is why I stay in such an overpriced, over regulated place. I putting on my ventilated jacket, firing up the Stelvio, and going for a ride today. Happy new year everyone.
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Frozen?!? (...yes...FROZEN!!!) :laugh: :grin: :wink: :shocked: :rolleyes:
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Edmonton is colder than either the North or South Pole....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-extreme-cold-north-pole-temperatures-1.4467337 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-extreme-cold-north-pole-temperatures-1.4467337)
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Edmonton is colder than either the North or South Pole....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-extreme-cold-north-pole-temperatures-1.4467337 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-extreme-cold-north-pole-temperatures-1.4467337)
I can’t wait to get back to Phoenix and hop on a bike
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We are in low single digits but 80 miles as the crow flies, Fort Drum, NY it was -39 air temperature, -35 in Watertown. This is not wind chill. Ft Drum is home to the Army's 10th Mountain Division. Good training weather I guess.
Pete
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Welcome to winter.
A 'hot spell' before this cold snap left a lot of moisture in the snow so now we are getting frost quakes once or twice a day. Some little bangs with some really big bangs. Like a gun from a ship kind of bang that rattles the house. Startles the crap out of ya.
Supposed to warm up to -28c by Monday.
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Global warming. :grin: :grin: :grin: Oh.....wait, I remember. Polar vortex is the result of global warming.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/is-the-polar-vortex-back-be-afraid-frigid-friends/2017/12/28/e60eaaaa-ebfe-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?utm_term=.c63f3d7bc649
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- 4 F here this morning, piece of cake. Went for a nice ride up to the new Hampshire mountains early this AM . Then I woke up :violent1:
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How deep do you folks have to bury water lines to keep them from freezing?
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4 feet on average but if no snow cover some years that's not deep enough. On new installations we always cover them with 2 inch rigid foam insulation for added protection.
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Being from So. Ca., I don't know how anyone can function in the very low temps I'm reading here. -20F, -30F. Crimeny!!!
I thought it was cold when I was in about +20 at night in Oregon for Christmas one year. Durring the day in the sun I could wear a T shirt, at night was a thermal top, flannel and a parka.
Many moons ago in Big Bear Ca. I was ridding at night in about +25-30F, but that put me at about +10F with the wind. Full thermals, T shirt, Flannel, leather insulated jacket, chaps, scarf to seal my neck and a insulated cap with the fold down ear covers and I was still COLD!!!
Stay warm!!!
Tom
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Let the dog out this morning, & as I stepped out behind him he was back in the house before I could turn & shut the door! And he LOVES it outside, no matter what the weather....
We have a Pomeranian like a lot of Alaskan's do. She LOVE's the cold she has so much fur! Suddenly she has a lot more energy. :huh:
Yesterday they said it was going to be -48 in Yellowknife. No way I could find a reason to live there. :shocked:
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Yes, Alaskans don't screw around raising useless "pets", and Pomeranians and other teacup dogs are very popular with them because they're handy defense weapons in the bush, and make fine teams for tiny little dogsleds. Just check out any Alaska reality show -- they herd them like cats and swap them like trading cards.
Muff doggies are like meat twinkies to almost everything in Alaska that's bigger than them, so you need lots of spares. As your first line of defense while hiking, you toss one or two at the bear or lynx or whatever's got you up that tree, and make your escape while it's distracted with the snack. You can see how that would work out to several dozen over the course of a year.
They're also valuable because without foo-foo dogs there are a *lot* of Alaska jokes that just don't work.
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It appears on TV the humans have the Poms for house pets and the Huskies for sled dogs. The Alaskan vets take care of all sizes of dogs just like anywhere else.
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It appears on TV the humans have the Poms for house pets and the Huskies for sled dogs. The Alaskan vets take care of all sizes of dogs just like anywhere else.
I remember you telling me once that I'd learn to appreciate how real Alaskans live if I would just take the time to watch some of the reality TV shows about us. If I'd watched that one, I'd have learned that veterinarians fix dogs. :afro:
. . . . and on topic, it used to get so cold in Alaska that we'd huddle around the open fridge for warmth. When we had conversations it was awkward, on account of you'd have to stop every sentence, collect the words and thaw them on the griddle to hear what was being said. Sometimes the words got jumbled on the griddle and bedlam ensued. And during spring thaw lost segments of conversations would mutter out of the snowbanks like steam. That's how we got "Word Salad Sarah". She'd talk all winter and we'd have to listen as her random words randomly thawed for the rest of the year. You won't learn THAT on reality TV!
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the interesting bit about reading a board such as this is there is always someone up north experiencing -20F or below while someone in OZ or some such is in high summer & bitching about the heat, 'makes you realize just how small (or large, depending on you POV) the world really is.
My POV is that it it is -12F right now with a fair wind bring the wind chill down to about -28F. That's a bummer as the center stand for my V7iii just came in and my garage is unheated. I make a point of not picking up wrenches when they stick to your hand & funny things can happen to metal when it's that cold. I guess it will have to wait until it gets to be a toasty 20F or something....
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I'd like to rename this thread "it's too cold ..."
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Let the dog out this morning, & as I stepped out behind him he was back in the house before I could turn & shut the door! And he LOVES it outside, no matter what the weather....
Good thing you didn’t find his stuff to a fire hydrant or tree 😂
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Sorry to hear about the extreme cold some of you are dealing with. Cooking gumbo to keep warm and nourished here in Houston while waiting for better weather.
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It's so cold that even lawyers are putting their hands down their own pockets.
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It's so cold...
My cup of coffee turned into a hot slushy!!
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Here in Australia I rode my LM3 over to a mates house and parked it in his driveway while I waited for him to get his Ducati Bevel out. (the Ducati was returned to the shed after a few K's after it's ignition went south and he then got his Beemer out. But that is another story)
This was 0830 in the morning.
When I hopped back on my bike the temp gauge on the trailbike speedo I use said 50 deg C.
Luckily it's only 29 deg C in the house now at 730pm.
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31 ish celcius here today, I iz a little disappointed no one has trotted out, It's so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
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- 4 F here this morning, piece of cake. Went for a nice ride up to the new Hampshire mountains early this AM . Then I woke up :violent1:
-4 here in the Poconos this morning. Our little coal stove is struggling to keep up. It'll run you out of the house from the 40's down to the mid-20's. Gonna have to look for supplemental heat. . .
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I was up in Island Pond this weekend snowmobiling. A bunch of the guys wanted to go for a midnight ride to celebrate the New Year. It was -28. I said no thank you and had a drink by the fire instead.
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I woke up to pee last night and it was cold in the house. I turned on the TV in the bedroom and the WX channel.
It said 18 below zero in my town and as I watched it wen to 19 below. I got up to check my thermostat and found it had frozen the balls out of the bearings in it. It took about an hour of screwing around with it but I got it to work again. Today at noon we are experiencing a heat wave and it is up to 8 below zero.
This is the coldest I have been since I was in the antarctic in 1987.
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.... Gonna have to look for supplemental heat. . .
Toyo oil heaters, reasonably efficient, easy to install, extremely reliable, requires electricity, wall vented.
https://toyoheat.com/products/
I have yet to be let down by one. Have the house and the shop and the studio above the shop all on different sizes...
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,,,,the birds are freezing in mid air!
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A cigar customer from New England called me up this morning to say his box of Smithdale Shades arrived with split wrappers. I reckoned they must have loaded them up in the mail truck, then let them set parked outside over the holiday. Those shade wrappers are very thin and delicate. I asked him how cold did it get up his way. He told me he went ice fishing yesterday and he had to light a fire to thaw out his beer enough so he could drink it. I told him that must be an ice fishing joke. He insisted it was no joke.
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Brass Monkey Cold !!!
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Got a text this morning saying it was 20 below at our place in Indiana. (!) We leave SoCal headed that way in the morning. I've gotta say I'm not looking forward to it. :smiley:
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After taunting us all like you've been doing, Chuck, karma is going to dump the cold on you like gateraid on a winning coach. :bike-037:
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After taunting us all like you've been doing, Chuck, karma is going to dump the cold on you like gateraid on a winning coach. :bike-037:
:grin: It was in the 40s at home 3 weeks ago, and Dorcia was giving me a bad time for packing my Winter coat to take to California. Knowing me.. I'll probably let her wear it.
A few years ago, we came home to below zero and blowing snow. A teeny bopper SoCal girl was in the jetway with us complaining that she had never been so cold in her life.. I said, "Honey, you are technically still in the building. Wait until you go outside.."
I *would* have liked to see that.. :smiley:
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It was so cold this morning I saw a chicken walking with a capon!
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Jessie's morning walk, 6:30 AM, Much warmer today , +6 degrees Woo who!
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This morning at the crap of dawn it was up to 15 degrees above zero.
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It's been so cold here that the Honda Civics in my neighborhood have stopped overheating...
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Here are two terms I have personally never heard of....(Where do they come up with these?!?) :laugh: :grin: :wink: :shocked: :rolleyes:
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Here are two terms I have personally never heard of....(Where do they come up with these?!?) :laugh: :grin: :wink: :shocked: :rolleyes:
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The polar vortex has been studied for decades, but the phenomenon called cyclogenesis (or a 'bomb cyclone') is something new and still not officially recognized. The term has to do with an incredibly rapid drop in pressure offshore, which draws near hurricane force winds out from the land towards the center of the low. The pressure drop is 24 millibars in 24 hours or less - if this happened in September it would be a class 4 or 5 storm, but when it happens in winter they don't know what to call it!
Sometimes I get reinforced in my choice of the southwest, even with the summer temps...
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Sometimes I get reinforced in my choice of the southwest, even with the summer temps...
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Phoenix is currently a comfortable 64 F, with an expected high of 74 F. Sadly, a large mound of laundry is demanding attention. However, tomorrow will be ride day!
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Phoenix is currently a comfortable 64 F, with an expected high of 74 F. Sadly, a large mound of laundry is demanding attention. However, tomorrow will be ride day!
Remember...winterti me here in "The Valley of the Sun" is HEAVEN...and the "Forbidden Planet Summers" (HELL) will return in just 5-6 short months...where 74 will turn into 118 and higher!! :rolleyes: :huh: :shocked: :laugh: :grin: :wink:
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Phoenix is currently a comfortable 64 F, with an expected high of 74 F. Sadly, a large mound of laundry is demanding attention. However, tomorrow will be ride day!
I would gladly volunteer to do laundry if it was warm enough to hang it out on the line!
And speaking of laundry - the local Amish generally hang their laundry outside, & some have developed rather clever ways of making the chore more efficient (as the Amish generally do). It is common to see the old "endless clothesline" on pulleys, but this was taken to the extreme by a family out near our old homestead, who had erected what appeared to be a repurposed utility pole, probably 50 - 60 feet tall & at least that distance from the house, with the far pulley secured firmly at the top & the near pulley at the corner of the porch. Enough line there for a whole days warshin'....
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We hang our clothes after I tested the time for jeans to line dry vs the dryer. Comparable. I unhooked the dryer and sold it.
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New reports say folks are having issues with windows shattering from the arctic cold in parts of Canada. Hasn't been this cold for 20 years!
Know what you mean. I had to close the vents on my jacket this morning for the ride to work.
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I wore a long sleeve shirt to work and raised the a/c temp. on the thermostat. :grin:
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I wore a long sleeve shirt to work and raised the a/c temp. on the thermostat. :grin:
:1: A long-sleeved shirt would send my husband's internal thermostat into overdrive, as he's more suited to Arctic living. He enjoys the "air conditioning" on his 5 AM rides into work wearing a 3/4 helmet, mesh jacket (rain liner installed), summer gloves, and jeans. I freeze at 75 if not in direct, zephyrless sunlight.
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NOTE the little yellow diamond in the Southwest... :shocked: :rolleyes: :smiley: :laugh: :grin: :wink: :cool:
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We hang our clothes after I tested the time for jeans to line dry vs the dryer. Comparable. I unhooked the dryer and sold it.
If you hang your clothes out to dry in Las Vegas, you need to wash them again when you bring them in. Dang dust....
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Hang'em up in the garage.
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Hang'em up in the garage.
No room - it's full of Guzzis! :thumb:
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It's colder than a loan officers heart!! Now that's frigid!
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No room - it's full of Guzzis! :thumb:
Me too! I hang the clothes up on the deck.
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Back up to +3 C today, crazy weather from -30 to +3 in a couple days.