Anyone else COLD?

[bobthedrummer]

I'm thirtyeight miles south of LaCrosse WI we had a high temp of 1 Fahrenheit and a BITING NW WIND.

I'm COLD...

Who else is freezing?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Me.

It's about 0 and windy here in Minneapolis, and my old house is cold and drafty. I'm wrapped in a blanket with a cat on my lap, but I'm still COLD and I don't like it.

[leftofthedial]

2. 19 below night before last

9 below last night

I'm freezing my McNuggets.

[Night_Nurse]

3. I'm thankful to be

snuggled under a blanket.. it's about 20F here and windy... BRRRR!!!

Passing the hot cocoa! :toast:

[DesertFlower]

4. me. it's 53 and raining in phoenix arizona.

don't flame me. after 19 years living here, my blood has thinned.

[Ichingcarpenter]

20. 45 rainy, with a northern wind coming off of the ocean

My arthritis is killing me today with low pressure and humidity.

[DesertFlower]

34. i know the feeling. nt

[damntexdem]

5. Oh, I am -- last night it got down into the twenties.

And I had hard-frozen ice on my windshield. Supposed to be in the fifties tomorrow, though -- it was near eighty on Sunday.

[Warpy]

6. I realize this is a sauna for folks in Frostbite Falls

but it's barely managed to get into the low 30s here in central NM and more snow is moving in after yesterday's day long snowfall.

It's not the cold, it's the damp cold that crawls into your bones and makes you miserable.

Now I'm off to make more tea.

[derby378]

7. Just a little bit...

It's 30-34 F down here in Dallas, but I'm wearing long underwear and I've got a thick jacket. Could've used a sweater, though.

[Suich]

8. Me! No heat since Sunday!

Repairman coming tomorrow to fix my 4 year old boiler!

:grr:

[Speck Tater]

9. Snow on everything, and an inch of ice on my road. Willammette Valley OR. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Wow! What part of the valley?

Up here in the hills around Battle Ground, the snow's (there wasn't much) gone and little ice. But, it's foretold that we'll be looking at our share of the white stuff pretty soon.

[guardian]

10. An obvious sign of global warming

Rocky Mountain News (Contact), Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published December 15, 2008 at 6:54 a.m.

"Denver International Airport recorded minus 19 early Monday morning, breaking the minus 6 record set in 1951."

Entire article http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/15/weather-17-below-zero-dia-more-snow-way/?partner=RSS

[Uncle Joe]

29. Not so obvious, but this trend would qualify.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3647448

"NASA: 2T(rillion) Tons Of Land Ice Melted Since '03"

[QC]

11. Nah. It's in the 70s here. Muggy, too. n/t

[pipi_k]

42. aughhhh!!!

I live in Massachusetts...my mom lives in Florida

Sometimes she'll call me in the dead of winter, right after we have a huge snowstorm, to tell me that it's "only" 75 where she is....

brat.

:spank:

[nickinSTL]

50. I know the feeling...

my mom lives in FL as well - I'm in the St. Louis area - it was about 13 with a wind chill of -4 yesterday morning, and she's telling me how it's only in the 60's :eyes:

Fortunately, on Saturday, I get to go there for a week :evilgrin:

[NeedleCast]

12. You Can't Say Cold

All the global warming deniers will use it as proof that there is no global warming.

[SpiralHawk]

17. But the Climate Change realists will nod understandingly

from their fact-based platform, high above the Republicon sheep choosing to beeleeve that everything is just Hummery-Dory on planet Earth.

[Shiver]

13. To the east of you in Madison

7 degrees, biting easterly wind, and currently snowing.

Five layers ain't enough out there...

[MissMarple]

We have a balmy 28 degrees in Colorado Springs.

But it feels more like 10.

[Santa Claus]

14. It's certainly cold up here!

But I have lots of good company and lots of hot chocolate.

:hi:

[TahitiNut]

22. Feed the damn reindeer! It's dinner time!

:grr:

[Muttocracy]

67. Santa Clause is dead!!!

:cry:

[TahitiNut]

71. Oh, no! Who'll tell the children?

:rofl:

[hlthe2b]

15. It has been frigid, but my feet and hands are warm...

in my new Merrill winter "mocs" and with my sherling lined leather gloves.... So I can handle just about anything! Even the minus 19 degrees we've had at overnight in Denver.

But, my snow-loving doggy girl has finally reached the limit of "nekid feet" given frigid iced sidewalks and road salt. I had to go buy her a set of these for her precious tootsies



Damn-- $60! I do, so luv my little girl! :loveya:

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

16. It's cold here in Missouri

It got up to 8 degrees yesterday and was a whopping 14 today with snow. They are forecasting freezing rain on Thursday. Oh yippee.

[rurallib]

18. A solid 0 here in Iowa - a veritable heat wave

does take a bit of getting used to, but after a while ........

[nosillies]

19. Cold here in AR, and icy.

My poor 4-year-old just busted it on the steps outside. Bless him, he's only ever lived in the desert and by the beach, so he doesn't know how to handle it! Try teaching a preschooler how to walk sideways and go slowly...

[TahitiNut]

21. 23°F, Wind: E 7mph, and snowing here in Royal Oak (MI) north of Detroit

BRRR... :scared: :scared: ....

[Skidmore]

23. Moi!

Was 6F earlier. Don't know what it is since the sun has gone down. My feet are perpetually freezing. It's still snowing outside and it's windy too.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. 29 and clear in SW Washington State.

[SeattleGirl]

26. Pretty much the same here in SeattleLand.

We're expecting more snow tonight and/or tomorrow.

:scared:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Yup. It's gonna get pretty white here too.

I love snow....as long as it's at safe distance. Alas, we live about 1000ft up in the hills.

Oh, well, it beats watching the hills burn in our abandoned home town of L.A.

[lumberjack_jeff]

58. It dipped to 16° in Montesano last night. n/t

[Gundam Macross]

28. Cold, had to put on an extra t shirt when I went running this morning. 53 F.

Santa Cruz

[Siwsan]

30. 20 degrees in Flint

Wind chill is 11.

At least I have electricity, today.

Yesterday we had a power outage, due to high winds. I had to bail out the sump hole, to keep the basement from flooding. Since I had no idea how long the power would be out, I figured I'd put the water in the bath tub, in case I needed it to flush the toilet. Once the power came back on, I forgot about the water, until one of my cats did one of her nightly inspection rounds and jumped into the tub. She did NOT expect, or appreciate the icy water surprise.

24 hours later, I am finally off of her ignore list.

[gratefultobelib]

56. Now THAT report got a big chuckle out of me!! Thanks. I can just see your cat jumping in horror!

:D

[underseasurveyor]

31. I so don't miss living in Iowa.......

especially this time of year. Right now it's a cloudy, damp 56 degrees here on the beach in So. Cal. and yes I'm cold.

I want summer back:cry:

[Irishonly]

44. Not sure how cold it is in my neck of the woods

I am baking up a storm and dressed like it's the middle of winter in Iowa. My arthritis is screaming bloody murder.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

32. Cold for Arkansas--19 degrees and an ice storm

but I'm not cold, thanks to a geothermal heat pump system--and living in a basement apartment that is 1/2 in the ground.

[soulcore]

33. 27 and sleeting here in Dallas.

It was 78 on Sunday, then 12 hours later it was down to 30.

And looks like all the precipitation will re-freeze again tonight.

[malaise]

35. Not me

78 Fahrenheit - very pleasant.

[TwilightGardener]

36. Effin' cold in Nebraska, snowy, pipes in the bathroom froze yesterday, had to

cut open a wall to thaw one out. Sucks. Animals are glued to the radiators, and the gas bill is going to kick our family's ass.

[New Dawn]

59. Yes, it is terrible here. January weather in December.

[tularetom]

37. 50 and rainy here on California's beautiful central coast

Snow level down to 3000 feet in the SLO county hills.

[EFerrari]

38. 45 and wet out here by the beach. The air is icy and the rain is little better.

After reading this thread, I shouldn't complain, though. This whole building needs to be weatherized because everything comes in under the doors and through the glass. Dumb.

[tularetom]

40. You're right - I feel guilty bitching about a little rain to people who live where it's -20

[Hekate]

55. Don't we love the Central Coast! So glad to live in Goleta, but at 53 and wet it's cold.

I just checked for snow in the Santa Ynez Mts above us, but can't see any from here. We'll be going out tonight for the annual community Messiah Sing-Along, so I'll have a look from the freeway.

:hi:

Hekate

[pipi_k]

39. Here in Massachusetts

it's an almost balmy 27 degrees and we even have heat and electricity after being without both for nearly four days from that nasty ice storm last week.

Not that we didn't have a contingency plan like marine batteries hooked up to the pellet stove, and a generator for other stuff....but the batteries crapped out after 11 hours and the generator blew its carburetor after running for 20 minutes. Uh, oh..... :cry:


I really feel awful for the people who still haven't gotten power back and may have to wait till next week....

[AllieB]

53. Still almost 100K people without electricity.

We got ours back on Sunday morning. My aunt and uncle in Chelmsford still don't have theirs.

[Obamarama]

41. Just slightly "warmer" here in SW Michigan: 16 balmy degrees and snowing like crazy

We have winter storm watches/warnings through the end of the week.

[spoony]

43. I'm typing in fingerless gloves, lol.

And it's not even as cold here as there!

[DonEBrook]

45. a little more global warming and I'll be a goddamn Yeti

:scared:

[KamaAina]

46. Amazingly enough, yes

still only 2 PM out here, and the office AC is cranking up its very own miniature cold front. (This post comes to you from the interior of a converted pineapple ware house).

[KamaAina]

47. Update: It *just this minute* shut off

about a minute after I posted that.

That's what we call a "chicken skin" (goose bumps) moment out here. :-)

[Elwood P Dowd]

48. A cold 64 degrees here in Alabama

Highs for the next few days will be in the 70-72 degree range.

[Hekate]

49. Yes. It's 53 and wet and SoCal houses just don't have a lot of insulation. Instead we have glass....

I've got the gas heater running and I'm bundled up. Trying to count my blessings because we desperately need the rain and it's raining.

Truthfully though I have been thinking a lot about my sis and her husband who just moved to a farm in upstate New York. They're wintering over in a mobile home that was on the property and will start building a house in the spring. She really wants to get off the grid. Meantime.... I wonder if they got caught in that blizzard and if they are as okay as she claims they are.

I'm thinking even more about all those in our DU community who are seeking shelter this winter; that situation makes me cry. As a result, my family (except for my 4 y.o. grandson) is getting a donation to the Food Bank or Homeless Shelter in their names. It's all I can do.

Hekate

[carlyhippy]

51. freezer burnt here.....

NW from you, -9 f with -22 wind chill, and this has warmed up, last night it was -46 windchill and -19...it's supposed to warm up to 4 degrees by xmas, that will be nice!

[AllieB]

52. It was 65 yesterday and 38 today. Welcome to Boston.

We are supposedly in a cold/snowy pattern coming up with highs in the 30s. I don't envy you guys in the Midwest.

[uberllama42]

62. Same story in Philly.

Yesterday it was sunny and mild. Today we had snow and freezing rain all day.

[appleannie1]

54. Our weather has been weird. 60 yesterday, snow today.

That is the way it has been this year. At times we have up to 8 inches of snow on the ground and two days later it is over 50 degrees and raining. Have had the drive plowed twice already inbetween the balmy episodes.

[lumberjack_jeff]

57. It dropped to 16° here last night. That's COLD for western washington. n/t

[likesmountains 52]

60. 26 here, a foot of snow and another couple of storms on the way..SW Colorado

[MiniMe]

61. Yesterday, it was 60. Tonight it is 32 and sleeting. DC Suburbs

[CatholicEdHead]

63. Toasty 6 right now as the snow is coming to an end

This is a normal winter, no more, no less. It should be shorts weather before the next blast (-5 to -10 highs) this weekend so the sweatshirt has to come back on when outside.

[Pastiche423]

64. I am wearing...

One pair of socks
One pair of fleece lined slippers
One pair of leg warmers
One pair of longjohn bottoms
One wife beater undershirt
One longjohn top
One hoodie zipped up tight
One wool scarf.
One fleece blanket is covering my w/c that I am sitting in, while another blanket is across my lap.


That is what I am down to since I came back inside.

[mdmc]

65. We keep our place at a balmy 55 degrees

we have a little heater that we move room to room as we need for increased warmth..

and it is cold in Newburgh... Not WI cold..but cold.

[earth mom]

66. It was 15 degrees here this morning and more snow is expected the next two days...

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

[BlooInBloo]

68. Not that cold, but cold-for-us at 27 degrees in Seattle.

[B Calm]

69. 19 degrees with freezing rain and snow here in Indiana. I have to drive

to Oklahoma in the morning. . .

[Mari333]

70. colder then a well diggers ass here in Michigan n/t

[tkmorris]

72. Not me

I think it's about 74 right now here in Delray Beach Florida. I'm not gloating though, 'cause the place has little else to recommend it besides the weather.