It's Cold Outside!

[eggplant]

-30 F with windchill up here in beautiful Limestone Maine!

 

[jflis]

Yep, the whole north east is locked in a freeze... Heck, i wish it WOULD. Warm up to freezing. Man, that would feel great.

In southern nh we have highs in the teens and lows below zero. The north has highs below zero and lows that are just stupid cold.. -35 withOUT the wind chill for the past couple of days.

Heck, it hit -85, without wiNd chill, atop mt Washington, nh...

 

[closet astronaut]

It's getting DANG cold here in Fl. too, we hit a low of 43 this morning! I know, I know...t-shirt and shorts weather for you guy's

 

[SwingWing]

If you have to quote it with the windchill, you're cheatin.
Embarrass MN had a low for the nation this morning at -42. We are sending all that cold air east, and will make it above zero today!
I am going mountain biking tonight!

 

[Green Jello]

 

[ClusterNut]

Good time to do some painting? Not!

 

[Sully]

Hey, they have it bad out west too, don't be so dramatic:

[video=youtube_share;_6t-EjrtD3U]https://youtu.be/_6t-EjrtD3U[/video]

 

[blackbrandt]

Wow, you think that is cold, I just spent 4 days in Northern Minnesota on a Boy Scout camping trip. -31 without windchill, -48 with windchill.

That was not cold, and it was not really cold. It was so d@mn blatantly freezing that it took 45 minutes to boil a few cups of water, and oatmeal would freeze solid in under a minute. My ears still hurt from the cold (and I left Minnesota Tuesday morning).

 

[MarsFire]

To all the people I have met up here in New England that whine and complane when it's nice and warm in the (very short) summertime, you got your wish!! Now go out and enjoy it.

To all the sane people out there, I agree with you. It's WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too cold outside.


Andrew

 

[Mushtang]

I've always wondered why people that have the ability to move out of the northern climates don't eventually move down South. Why anyone would voluntarily live where it gets that cold, for that long, is beyond me.

And I've known people that lived down here and moved UP there. I don't understand the lure.

 

[AHansom]

Hey, they have it bad out west too, don't be so dramatic:
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Its not all that cold out West but try watching a game Candelstick park. Winter is nothing compaired to a cold foggy Summer day!

 

[Sully]

I was in college in Western Mass and two people in our dorm who were from Florida and Hawaii were having a hard time with New England winter, very depressed and regretting all the choices they had made that had resulted in them being there. January was particularly gray and the whole campus was ice and frozen mud.

Then one day the sun was out, the sky was clear and bright blue, and the sunlight reflecting off the fresh snow made the whole world light up as if it was animated by beauty itself. It was also about -30 F wind chill. We tried to explain the concept of wind chill to our fair-weather friends, but temperature that cold is too abstract a concept to be comprehended by the thin-blooded. They were so happy to see the sun back that, arm in arm, they ran out into the sunshine to greet their long-lost friend. They stood there for maybe 5 seconds, then sprinted back in, clearly in a state of shock and/or panic. My Hawaiian friend said: "It's not that it feels cold, it just....HURTS!"

I think he wore a parka, indoors and out, until March.

 

[dlazarus6660]

Yep, it's cold and I'm going back to "the rocket to the moon" thread. bye!
I haven't laugh that hard since Greg Gleason posted his Chile thread,

 

[SwingWing]

I've always wondered why people that have the ability to move out of the northern climates don't eventually move down South. Why anyone would voluntarily live where it gets that cold, for that long, is beyond me.

And I've known people that lived down here and moved UP there. I don't understand the lure.

Because there are no bugs this time of year!

 

[aditat2]

eggplant - I was stationed up there at Loring many,many years ago. I seem to remember a day out on the flightline when the temp was -70 with the wind chill. I can feel the frostbite starting to form already. Not a good time to do anything up in the great white north except hide inside with a good raging fire.

 

[gdiscenza]

I've always wondered why people that have the ability to move out of the northern climates don't eventually move down South. Why anyone would voluntarily live where it gets that cold, for that long, is beyond me.

And I've known people that lived down here and moved UP there. I don't understand the lure.

My reasoning is that it is far simpler in terms of technology to produce heat than cold. It is easier to put on layers of clothing and insulation if you are chilly, but there is a finite number of layers you can remove if you are too warm (fewer still if there are "moralists" about)....

I find it more satisfying to sleep in a bed with 4 or 5 blankets piled up against the chill than to toss and turn in midsummer with temps in the high 90's and humidity nearing 100%....

G.D.

 

[dlazarus6660]

eggplant - I was stationed up there at Loring many,many years ago. I seem to remember a day out on the flightline when the temp was -70 with the wind chill. I can feel the frostbite starting to form already. Not a good time to do anything up in the great white north except hide inside with a good raging fire.

My dad was stationed at Caswell AFB, right next to Loring. I got frostbite on my hands and mom took me to the base hospital at Loring. We lived in Limestone.

 

[Initiator001]

You're right about it being cold.

Monday here in San Diego the temperature was in the low 80s F. Today we had some rain and the temp dropped to the high 60s.

I had to break out a long-sleeve shirt. :wink:

 

[mkadams001]

I was wearing a coat at the beach the other day. Temp was in the low 70's.

 

[Tarasdad]

Wasn't all that cold here today, just wet and rainy. First time in days that we used the fireplace. Worst kind of weather for me - cold I can tolerate, but wet and cold kicks my posterior region.

 

[Dork_Vader]

It's a nice 52 Degrees right now here.. And it's 12:00AM..

High tomorrow is 63... Gotta love California!

 

[bobby_hamill]

why we are on the subject of cold .

I was wondering what is the coldest documented temperature a model rocket has been launched in ?

Bobby

 

[jsargevt]

I've always wondered why people that have the ability to move out of the northern climates don't eventually move down South. Why anyone would voluntarily live where it gets that cold, for that long, is beyond me.

And I've known people that lived down here and moved UP there. I don't understand the lure.

Easy - it gets REALLY hot in the south in the Summer. When it was 95/95 when I lived in Raleigh, you are basically doing the same thing we do here in the winter - you go from your AC house to your AC car to your AC job and some people are crazy enough to go outside and do stuff. It is no different than staying warm.

Granted I do miss making the call up here to the north when it was 60 degrees and I was out on a bike ride bragging about the nice weather in February.....a small price to pay.

 

[jflis]

Hey, even those of us up north here (NH in this case), who love the colder weather, have bitchin' rights when it gets cold enough to destroy the local banks thermometer.....

Can't wait till Tuesday gonna hit freezing! Now THAT'S T-shirt weather!

 

[H_Rocket]

I just realized this morning I could warm up by crawling into the fridge...

 

[awseiger]

Looking at the weather in NH, BOY am I glad to be in Budapest right now! A wonderful 0 degrees (Celsius) with no wind. but MAN does the fog from the Danube freeze your nose!

I send warmth back to NH! (woooooooooooooshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

 

[blackbrandt]

So, on my Minnesota boy scout trip I mentioned earlier, just to give you an idea of how cold it was, here were some things we learned:
Layers are critical. Five pairs of pants is not unusual in winter weather
Spit can freeze before it hits the ground
Don't get wet when it is cold
The best way to stay warm is to keep moving.
-20 degrees sleeping bags rock
Condensing water from a boiling pot of water can freeze the lid in place. That's cold.
Water in water bottles can freeze while you are drinking from it.
One can make a gatorade slushie by simply pouring a pack of gatorade into a bottle of water, placing the bottle in your pocket, and then playing full contact broomball
Cheese sticks have a solid state. You can crunch it when it is cold enough. Same with nougat.
Not to mention hitting them against a table can shatter the cheese sticks.
You will eat frozen cheese sticks and nougat if that is all you have
Everything we prepared to eat in MN was in one of 3 states: Dry, boiled, or frozen solid
Boiling oatmeal can freeze in under a minute
Trimming nose hair before being out in that kind of cold is helpful to not have your snot freeze
When your nose hairs freeze together, it is really uncomfortable
"Heated" is a relative term. (Our cabin was a "heated" cabin. We accidentally tracked some snow in at night, and the next morning, it had not yet melted. Temperature? About 10-15F. But hey, it was still 40 degrees warmer inside the cabin than outside!)


Our guide (who lived in Minnesota) said this:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104536...hkey=Gv1sRgCO3Sh9nY_vONQw#5837213296066582274
(This video was taken by our scoutmaster. The guide was talking to him, and mentioned this. Our scoutmaster took out his video camera, and said "Can you say that again? Nobody is ever going to believe me.")
Hence the video.

 

[rocketgeek101]

So, on my Minnesota boy scout trip I mentioned earlier, just to give you an idea of how cold it was, here were some things we learned:
Layers are critical. Five pairs of pants is not unusual in winter weather
Spit can freeze before it hits the ground
Don't get wet when it is cold
The best way to stay warm is to keep moving.
-20 degrees sleeping bags rock
Condensing water from a boiling pot of water can freeze the lid in place. That's cold.
Water in water bottles can freeze while you are drinking from it.
One can make a gatorade slushie by simply pouring a pack of gatorade into a bottle of water, placing the bottle in your pocket, and then playing full contact broomball
Cheese sticks have a solid state. You can crunch it when it is cold enough. Same with nougat.
Not to mention hitting them against a table can shatter the cheese sticks.
You will eat frozen cheese sticks and nougat if that is all you have
Everything we prepared to eat in MN was in one of 3 states: Dry, boiled, or frozen solid
Boiling oatmeal can freeze in under a minute
Trimming nose hair before being out in that kind of cold is helpful to not have your snot freeze
When your nose hairs freeze together, it is really uncomfortable
"Heated" is a relative term. (Our cabin was a "heated" cabin. We accidentally tracked some snow in at night, and the next morning, it had not yet melted. Temperature? About 10-15F. But hey, it was still 40 degrees warmer inside the cabin than outside!)

Our guide (who lived in Minnesota) said this:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104536910980406368448/NorthernTier2013?authkey=Gv1sRgCO3Sh9nY_vONQw#5837213296066582274
(This video was taken by our scoutmaster. The guide was talking to him, and mentioned this. Our scoutmaster took out his video camera, and said "Can you say that again? Nobody is ever going to believe me.")
Hence the video.

Assuming the temps your talking about are in Fahrenheit, you have no idea how cold it can get where I am!!

Just sayin...

 

[blackbrandt]

OK, yes. They are in Fahrenheit.

How cold does does it get for you, Mista' RocketGeek101? -50? -60? -459?

(JK on that last one :rofl: )

 

[Rex R]

I generally draw the line at 20F for launching low and mid power, high power is higher 35-40F.
rex