I swear, it's cold enouugh in MPLS right now to freeze a Tauntaun!






Seriously...it's -21 F this morning with a windchill of -43 F! The radio just said our 'high' today would be between -8 F and -4 F!!!


Can someone warm us MPLS kitties up? We are dying!


I'm scurrred to even go and TRY to start my car...yuckers

I'd hate to think what would happen here in those temps, we just had -5 with snow and the whole of London came to a stand still. I can't actually imagine what -43 feels like.

Incidently, how cold does it have to be to freeze a tauntaun?

oh, endorphin74, bundle up! we don't want to lose you

PREDOMINANT said:

pretty damn cold, but I'm not sure zactly what temp can freeze a tauntaun




yeah, this is the kinda cold that skin literally freezes within seconds of air contact...according to the radio, there are stalled cars EVERYWHERE, cos even if you get your car to start, it's no guarantee that it'll stay running...I have to sit in my cold ass car for 10 minutes before it's warmed-up enough to be ready to drive...


BLECCCH...well, it's been years since we've had temps THIS cold for consecutive days, so I'm tryina remember that this won't happen again for a while...


...frozen brain edit....
[This message was edited Fri Jan 30 5:02:36 PST 2004 by endorphin74]

Xorn said:

one plus about these temps, fashion goes out the window...

I'm wearing 2 pairs of socks, boxers, long underwear, jeans, a tshirt, long underwear shirt on top of that and a sweater on top of that...

before going outside, I'll throw on boots, "smoking gloves" with bigger gloves over them and my huge-ass army-issue parka

loverly...


where are the rest of my local kitties to commiserate with? frozen in a snowbank???

I know what you mean...here in southern California, it dropped all the way down to something like 55 degrees last night... :O

Byron said:

SHUT UP!!

Byron said:

wait, I just thought about that... you are 70 fucking degrees warmer than us! If you factor in windchills, make it 90 degrees warmer!

that's insane!

alright, I'm off to the outer world now...here's to hoping my car starts!

Current conditions: Toronto, Canada

Temperature: -11 C
Current Weather: CLOUDY
Barometer: 100.58Kpa
Wind Direction: WSW
Wind Speed: 29KM/H
Wind Gust: 38KM/H
Wind Chill: -21 C
Relative Humidity: 78%

endorphin74 said:

I may have deserved that...




....too cold in Cali edit.
[This message was edited Fri Jan 30 5:30:29 PST 2004 by Byron]

Moxy said:

maybe that'll keep us all warm!

ps- it wasn't happy, but my car started and got me to work, hooray!

Now why did I think that this was gonna be a Madonna thread?

DavidEye said:

I named it this, just to trick you!


ps- MPLS temp is goin the wrong way, it's now -22 F

brrr

It's so cold out my hair actually froze just walking to my car this morning.

CarrieMpls said:

BAD KITTY!

your hair must be TOTALLY dry before you leave the house!


I laughed cos I inhaled once outside and my nostrils immediately froze shut

Ya know something, I heard this from KingSausage yesterday and I don't wanna hear it again! It's been so cold in New England this whole month. We actually had schools cancelled because the wind chill was -45 degrees and it was too cold for kids to wait for the bus. New England isn't supposed to be colder than MPLS...so shut it!

CarrieLee said:

yikes, it's been a bad winter everywhere

I can take a day of this weather, but when we get into multiple day stretches deep below zero I start freaking out...

One bad thing about MN, is it's "supposed" to be like this, so things rarely get canceled due to the cold. I can remember 1 day in the last 10 years when things shut down due to the cold...

endorphin74 said:

I thought it was!! It must have been the product.

endorphin74 said:

Even if the entire state closed because of the cold I'd still have to come to work. We don't ever close ever ever ever.

CarrieMpls said:

Neither do we. The time we got 2 feet of snow we were still open. And what sucks is that because I work at a private school the city doesn't plow our area because we don't pay taxes. They'll do a quick sweep but that's it. And there are so many hills around here, I have to park my car 6 blocks away just so I don't get stuck!

Oh man, this is why I have no intention of ever moving up north again! I like Texas winters, where a "cold front" gets you down into the fifties!!

I had enough of that snow crap when I lived in the circle of Hell known as Omaha! NEVER AGAIN!!!

What lovely pictures. And from my all-time favorite movie, too.

scififilmnerd said:

me too!!!

Byron said:

No you didn't. You deserved this and this and this !!

LittlePill said:

Definitely deserved that...

it's warming up!

it's a balmy -18 F right now! The wind chill is only -38!!!


:frozensnot:

oh m'gawd...it's so cold today that i called in to work today and told 'em that i wouldn't be comin in. i have to walk to/from work each day, and it was just too friggin arctic this morning to even think about settin foot outdoors. when i woke up it was about -20 somethin degrees, with a -40 windchill! it was so funny, i was watchin the news on fox 9 earlier and they were doin all this shit to demonstrate how cold it was. you can freeze an egg on the sidewalk! it's that cold up here.

and i just checked my mailbox--i got my state income tax refund check in the mail! i am so wantin to go and spend a little money...but it's too cold to go anywhere today!

ah well, at least there's tomorrow--it'll be a whole 13 degrees above zero!

Moxy said:

Now that's cold!! But, us canucks are tough, unlike the folks from Cali who think anything under 60 is cold

kisscamille said:

55 degrees...cold...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

That's shorts and halter top weather!