Who else is snowed in? Or you out jogging in your shorts?

[Armstead]

Gack. Claustrophobia of the Northeast winter strikes. And it's just the start of January. and cabin fever isn't supposed to strike until later this month or February.

Woke up this morning to a car buried under, the winds whipping and frigid cold (still). I'll get the car dug out, thesnowplow guy will clear the driveway, and eventually they'll clear the roads. But even still.....yesterday, I did go out (after sweeping off the care) but same crap -- and it's still claustrophobic when you have to rush from the car to the door of your destination, and vice versa.

During the summer, no place better to live than here. But in winter.... :mad:

[marmar]

1. Not much snow.....but really freakin' cold in southeast Michigan.

:scared:

[ellie]

7. Yes, I am in Toledo

and it is freezing, but not a lot of snow. I hate winter.

[Greybnk48]

2. 11 here, feels like -4. About a foot of snow still on the ground from

a couple of weeks ago. The usual for the Green Bay, WI area this time of year.

[TwilightGardener]

3. It snowed AGAIN last night in Nebraska--I've noticed that neighbors

aren't so eager to shovel the sidewalks anymore (and add to the three-and-four-foot piles on either side--ack). We're usually the last family on the street to get around to shoveling (I always have a fantasy that it will suddenly melt), but now everyone else is tired of it too.

[Armstead]

6. Lucki;y my street doesn't have sidewalks

But it's enuf of a headache with just driveways

[TwilightGardener]

16. Yup--right after Christmas we got our truck hopelessly wedged in the plowed-up pile

on the edge of our driveway. I have TWO teenage sons who frankly did a piss-poor job on clearing the driveway--but then my husband, instead of shoveling some more, tried to simply throw it into 4WD, jump on the pedal and "baja" over the snow and it didn't quite work out. Neighbor showed up with his truck and tow-rope and pulled us out onto the street.

[glowing]

4. I'm in FL and its 45 degrees today.. so no shorts on anybody today.

[Armstead]

8. Subtract about 40 degrees and that's what it feels like here

[ensho]

12. yes! Key West is cold! cold- knees- in- shorts weather

golf socks with sandals.

[peacefreak]

5. Just dug my car out

from 17" of snow. Happy, happy. Joy, joy.

[Armstead]

9. 17 inches? Yikes!

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. It's horrible here

More snow last night. Way too cold.

[liberal N proud]

11. 19 and snow flurries here on the west side of Cleveland

East of downtown is getting hammered, we are supposed to get 3 inches.

[Armstead]

14. I sometimes wonder which is worse trhis time of year...

Living in Arizona and risking sunburn or this...

But I guess in the Sunbelt, one also has to deal with more wingnuts. Frigid cold and snow or wingnuts? What a choice.

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. Here in Ala, we have wingnuts and a week of night time freezes.

As anyone on the east side of the Miss. can tell you, it IS the humidity. 20 degrees in Ala. is bone chilling, compared to 20 degrees on the West Coast.
I live 90 miles north of Mobile, supposedly in the "semi-tropical" zone. We get very chilly winter spells every once in a while, this year is one of them.
The wingnuts tend to stay in doors along with us saner people.
Cabin fever is easy compared to bone chill of outside.
thank god for computers and that stack of movies we saved just for such a week as this.

Snow? Do not miss it, but once in awhile when 2 inches does hit, it is fun to watch people try to drive in it.

Btw...we do get about 300 days of sunshine.

[Armstead]

48. Chilly spells I wouldn't mind -- Frigid months is the problem here in NE

[Berry Cool]

56. I am east of downtown and right now it's actually not that bad.

A few floaty flakes is all, although it's cold as hell. But when they say "Snow Belt" we always prick up our ears.

[msongs]

13. sunny n 80 in so cal - darn parade nt

[Armstead]

17. I hate you

Not really....Call it envy

:)

[msongs]

25. could use some rain tho.... nt

[Xipe Totec]

15. 'Cause I got the Blue Ball Blues...

I woke up this mornin', my vehicle was gone;
I woke up this mornin' Lord, my vehicle was gone.
I thought it was stolen;
But it was just buried in snow.
Yes, I was wrong,

I plow every night, darlin', for the car to come home;
I plow every night, darlin', for the car to come home.
I'm feelin' so frozen, darlin', I can't drive around,
Yes, and my blue balls are numb.

I woke up this mornin', Lord, the snow fallin' down;
I woke up this mornin', Lord, the snow fallin' down;
I'm gettin' so buried, darlin', babe I wish I could cry.
Yes, the snow is fallin' on the ground.

[HipChick]

18. tank top and daisy dukes..its 90F here..

[Armstead]

20. Undershirt, shirt, sweater, overcoat here -- And that's INdoors

[robdogbucky]

43. Hipchick

Where are you that it is 90?

[hedgehog]

19. Up here in Fulton we got at least 18" of snow over the last two days,

maybe more because the snow was over my knees when I went out to feed the chickens. It was really coming down and the roads were bad when we set out for church 14 miles south (away from Lake Ontario). We were commenting on how clear the roads were and how little snow they had in Baldwinsville, but the people who actually live there came in commensurating with each other over all the snow. I'd say 3/4 of the people stayed home today.

I guess it's all a matter of context.

[Berry Cool]

57. "Commiserating with each other," you mean.

Sorry, but I just have to smile, because not long ago I read a job ad that said "Compensation is commiserate with experience." I just bet it is.

[hedgehog]

66. Thanks! You saved me from my error!

:hi:

[LWolf]

21. It's balmy out there;

20s at night, 40s during the day. Gray and threatening rain.

We had snow early last week, then a warm front moved in and cleaned it all out.

[Armstead]

28. 40 degress sounds positively Tropical where I am at the moment

[LWolf]

40. My job today

is to crawl under the house and add more insulation to the new pipe which replaced the pipe broken in the week of sub-zero temps last month. I waited for the snow to melt and the slush to drain off. The ground is still wet, but not so soggy. I need to get it done before the rain that's threatening shows up!

It FEELS positively tropical for this time of year. I can only be grateful; the electric bill will be less, helping me to scrape up the $$$ to pay for that pipe and for the electrical work to replace bad wiring I also had to have done in December.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

22. I haven't been able to exercise outside for 5 days because of this crap.......

Its 10°F outside, with a wind-chill of -1°F and I'm feeling sluggish and cranky. LOOK OUT!

[robdogbucky]

23. out jogging

later today, as we will have high of 63, low of 40 tonight, with patchy morning fog.

Ah, Bay Area weather.

I wasn't born here but I got here as fast as I could.

Can't decide whether to go to the beach after the fog burns off or just do winter work on my veggie garden.

I grew up in Wisconsin, so I know what I am missing. I really used to go nuts at this time of year and my life's migration reflects that. I am sure I would be dead now had I not relocated permanently, due to alcoholism and/or depression, neither of which can touch me now.

I am not gloating or rubbing it in. It is just the way it is. I had to save my life/sanity and could not justify staying in a climate that was life-threatening when outdoors for about 4 months every year.


Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

[Armstead]

27. I used to live in Seattle -- Actually missed the "seasons" but....

if only this season were a few weeks long instead of a few months

[quiller4]

33. I live just south of Seattle and I'm jealous of your seasons. I really

love cold and snow and I get so tired of rain. It is grey today and in the mid 40s. It rained some over night but nothing is falling now.

[Jackpine Radical]

24. A warm and balmy -9°F here, up from -20° overnight.

With a light snow falling on the foot or so that fell before Xmas. A person would probably want at least a long-sleeved shirt if they're planning to stay out for any length of time.

[Armstead]

26. I'm wearing a jacket just to stay inside

(Live in an old farmhouse the size of an aircraft carrier.)

[robdogbucky]

41. Hey Jackpine...

that was pretty funny to watch the Badgers' bowl game v Miami.

It was 49 degrees and the Hericanes were freezing on the sidelines, huddling around space heaters and jumping up and down with thermal wear over their heads and hands in warmers. Meanwhile, the Badgers were sweating and had no long sleeves, etc. So much for vaunted Southern football. If it isn't 85 and humid they can't run. I thought it was funny the day before the game at the pep rally Coach Bielema looked around at the chilly Miami fans and said he hoped it would snow. That was priceless, especially with the way it turned out with the Canes looking like they wanted to go home after the 1st quarter.

Honestly though, I don't recall a bowl season when there were so many bad and cold weather games. I don't think folks realize that global warming actually causes oscillations in the climate trend and as the pendulum swings further and further, the norms get dislocated with ever more violent storm seasons and drastic deviations like severe floods, hurricane seasons, blizzards, and drought.

Almost all the Texas bowl games were frigid. The Air Force Academy really had an adavantage against the Houston squad in the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth and from what I could see the cadets handily beat them as they have cold weather come October in Co. Springs in the mountains and the Cougars were in the same boat as Miami was. Houston looked like they wanted to get off the field pronto.

Likewise for the bowl game played in DC with UCLA sucking it up and playing out of their element vs Temple to prevail. I really admired them for doing that. Almost none of those kids from LA had ever seen snow before. Then the Outback Bowl with the swamp and foggy conditions for Penn St. and LSU. Earlier than that there was that dog awful bowl game played on the smurf turf in Idaho. That was a very very cold game as well. All of the Florida bowls seemed affected by the weather this year, likewise Texas, Memphis, and the other locations. The only bowls that seemed tolerable were the Holiday and Rose and Emerald in California.

Congratulations, Bucky!



Just my dos centavos

robdogbucky

[Jackpine Radical]

65. Yo, RDB! Here's a little thing I wrote after getting one of those "disproofs

of global warming:" It's from my blog.


It happened again.
Someplace attained a record, unseasonable cold temperature, so my favorite wingnut sent me a link to the story with a snide comment about “Global warming, huh?” This happens every time there is an unusual snowfall or late frost or whatever.

Now, the fact of the matter is, every one of these incidents can be seen as further evidence for the global-warming model. As the earth absorbs heat, it does so very unevenly. There are certain hotspots that warm up more quickly, and other cold spots that take on heat more slowly. The result is that there is more total heat energy in the system, and the atmosphere of the earth functions like one large and very complex heat engine that becomes wilder and more unpredictable in its actions as more energy pours into the system.

Yes, overall, the temperature is going up (very rapidly on a geological scale, but apparently much more slowly on a human scale). But what is increasing much more rapidly than the mean temperature is the total craziness in the weather machinery. More energy, absorbed very unevenly at various points on the globe, means greater turbulent variation in high and low-pressure systems, dramatic and unpredictable shifts in ocean currents, and a general increase in events that are outside the norm.

Put in statistical terms, the variance is increasing much more rapidly than the mean. The net result is that the wild swings in the weather are much more dramatic than are the comparatively small, but cumulatively disastrous, upward trends in temperature. We observe a set of record low temperatures in some locations that seem to cancel out the string of record high temperatures that are occurring elsewhere. But when we attend merely to the individual temperatures, we are missing the main point, which is that we are seeing unprecedented extremes in the weather, and it is these extremes--both high and low--that are the signature of global warming.

[Kookaburra]

29. It's noon and 30 degrees in NC

No snow, but it's cold out there. We dropped to 17 last night. I put a heating pad in the doghouse to keep Badir warm (he won't come in the house or garage -- we've tried, but he's semi-feral, and terrified of the weirdest things), and he has curled himself into his blankets against the cold.

We're not used to this kind of weather down here.

[Armstead]

35. I wish we'd get up to 17

[Kansas Wyatt]

52. My GF is in Winston-Salem, where she says it never gets cold like Kansas.

She was forced to ask for pointers last night on how to deal with cold weather.

[StarfarerBill]

30. 19 degrees but no snow in Knoxville, TN.

[Individualist]

31. Confined to the house because of the cold

I have heart disease and stay indoors when it's very cold and windy like it is now. Temperature in my town in northeast TN is 16 and wind chill is 4.

[kestrel91316]

32. It's chilly this AM but supposed to reach 70F. I'm going for a bike ride if

I'm not coughing my lungs out midday (bad cold, laryngitis, ick).

[PSzymeczek]

71. That's about what we're at

in the high desert of SE AZ

[wellstone dem]

36. It has warmed up to -5 from -15

but the days are getting longer!

[debbierlus]

37. I went out last night in the middle of the storm and took photos

If I didn't have photography, I probably wouldn't leave the house all winter for anything but necessities.

Man, was it cold!

I have a super deluxe down jacket that I bought at a estate sale that I never get cold in, but my legs were numb for half hour when I got back.

[Armstead]

39. It does make it visuallty interesting

[Blue_In_AK]

45. Debbierlus, I made a resolution

that I would take at least one photo a day in 2010 and post it in a photo diary at my website. It's a challenge when the weather is gray and the windchill is chillin'.

Might I suggest longjohns for your excursions into the elements? They really seem to help. Or better yet, snowpants.

[robdogbucky]

49. Nothing like a frigid January day

for clarity and crispness.

Ah, the crunching of the snow with every step....the frostbitten ear tips....the frozen spit that didn't make it past my chin....the brittle snot inside my nostrils...the tongue stuck to the metal rail...the drunk passed out in the snowdrift maybe living til morning, maybe not....watching exhaust slowly drift skyward from tailpipes as folks turn their cars on and leave them running in driveways....seeing a deer or a dog actually shiver...blankets on engine blocks....ether into gas tanks....icicles that are life-threatening at the first thaw....digging the firewood out of the drifts....trudging a half mile in snow shoes to get the mail...seeing the tree branches and power lines snap in an ice storm....stuck inside for days on end....nothing to do but snowmobile to the nearest bar.....


Ah, the joys of winter.



I don't miss them one bit.




More centavos

rdb

[ElsewheresDaughter]

38. -11 with 7 inches down and 6 more expected before it passes

[Armstead]

60. brrrrr...suddenlty it seems warm here

A balmy 7 degrees

[Blue_In_AK]

42. We're not snowed in

but it's pretty cold and the clouds have come back today. Snow is forecast.

[Strelnikov_]

44. 2 degrees, snowpacked, will be riding my bike to the library later

Just that time of year. Operational radius somewhat contracts.

Big problem right now is the excessive use of salt that prevents the snow from packing even in this cold weather, making intermittent areas of a loose sand like material dispersed along the travel way that makes for, well, interesting bicycling. If they would drop the salt, we would have a 'snow floor' as they call it in Idaho or 'compact' as it is called outside of Fargo, and things would be OK.

17 below tonight and tomorrow night, so I think I'll be bringing in the brass monkey. I will arrive at work on my bike at 6:30 AM fully awake, and completely thrilled to be arriving at work.

[Armstead]

46. Wish I had your moxie -- Even a car drive seems like an endurancde test in this stuff

[GoCubsGo]

47. Neither.

No snow, but at 32F, it's too cold for shorts. Oh, to be in Hawai'i...

[Bonhomme Richard]

50. In CT snow day after day after day...........At least it's the wekend. n/t

[grahamhgreen]

51. 27 in Atlanta - FREEZING!

[fizzgig]

53. kinda inbetween, i guess

no snow, but it's a damp 34 degrees outside. i'm sure some people are out in shorts, but not this girl

[jgraz]

54. I almost thought about putting on a hoodie before I went out this morning

Does that count?

[Armstead]

58. Depends on how thick the jacket is

I went out a few minutes ago and could feel my blood turning into ice crystals

[jgraz]

63. It's just a standard zip-up sweatshirt.

I decided to not be a wuss and just went out in my t-shirt. Good call -- once the sun came out it was just a touch warmer than I usually like it.

(Do you hate me yet? :P)

[Armstead]

67. yep

[jgraz]

68. You're given leave to gloat when an 8.5 destroys my home and kills me.

I'm pretty sure I won't mind. ;)

[Armstead]

73. Well I live in a state that was rated as The Safest States in the US

We get a lot of miserable shit here -- but I guess we';re less prone to natural or manmade disasters.

I try to remember that as I huddle around the space-heater.

[Cleita]

55. It is warmer today than it has been. I don't have to wear a jacket, but

I do live in California, so it's not fair, I know. The worst day in winter we have here in my county is probably a really nice day for you.

[Armstead]

59. Not far at all

Only justice is that you have to put up with Arnold as your governor

[Cleita]

61. OMG! Did you have to remind me?

There goes my lovely day. :rofl:

[Mari333]

62. 3 feet snow here in MI. lake effect.

I am just walking to the store. F driving.

[neverforget]

64. jogging shorts and 80 degrees in Honolulu

I'm enjoying the weather while I still can before I head back to Oregon next month.

[That Is Quite Enough]

69. Not snowed in, but it's still snowy from the earlier midwestern blizzard

[tnlefty]

70. Okay, it may not sound too bad to most here, but it hurts in

the south...the wind is blowing and it is cold. It will be 16 degrees overnight and it has been cold for us for a few days. It's supposed to be cold, again to us, next week...lows 16 -19 and highs in the low 30's.

Give me the humidity and heat of the summer any day.

[bigwillq]

72. It snowed here in CT

It's cold and nasty and windy. But not snowed in. Drove around all day for work. Heading home soon. Can't wait for spring.

[seabeyond]

74. my son out joggin in shorts. i did make him put on a LONG sleeve shirt, lol. nt