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Crossfire

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 03:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heh, right now in Toronto with windchill it is about -20 Celsius. How is it where you are?

That is about -4 in that cute backward American way of measuring for those happen to be peeking.

Lumbele

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 03:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Currently we have -20 (-4F), windchill -28(-18F) and headed for -31(-23F), windchill -42(-43F) tonight.
And yeah, when *are* you Yanks gonna switch to Celsius like the rest of the modern world? My calculator's face is almost rubbed off from all that converting.

Crossfire

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 04:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
*whistle*, that's going to be some cold, I think I am going to turn the heat up just as a show of support.

Dahli

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 04:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep thanks Crossfire, appreciate that cuz we are looking at -29 right now and very similar to Lumbele for overnights.
Tomorrow is supposed to be seriously bad and the wind chill is a big part of it. Saw very sad footage tonight about the number of kids walking to school in this weather with inadequate winter clothing. I'm off to see what's hanging around in my basement and get anything good dropped off at the clothing centre they've set up at a core area school!

Lumbele

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 05:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aaaawwwwww, Cross, you are all heart. Thanks!sweat

Crossfire

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 06:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Heh, I try to show my human side from time to time. :)

Seems like a bundle up night...or as I recently heard...a three dog night. That cracked me up once I figured it out.

Ladytex

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 09:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I know I may get laughed out of here, but I just have to b!tch because it is 20 degrees colder today than it was yesterday!

Tess

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahahahhaahahha!!tess

sorry, Lady, but I couldn't resist. The kids at school are being kept in all week from recess because of the wind chill. The kids are fine but it's only Wednesday and the teachers are near the insanity point. However, we still have only a trace of snow......in MINNESOTA.......in JANUARY!!! This is so wrong.

Dahli

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 10:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
er... Crossfire, what does it mean? I guess I haven't figured it out yet...

Crossfire

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 10:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
A three dog night?

Heh, I don't know if it really is funny, or just cute, or just caught me at the right moment, but what it means, is that it's so darn cold out, that you are going to need three dogs in bed with you to keep warm. :)

As opposed to a one dog night I guess. Hehehe.

Goddessatlaw

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 10:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Or two dog night - it's an Australian descriptive phrase for how cold it is outside - one, two or three dog night (three being something like well-digger's *ss cold, I think)

Conejo

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It was definately a three dog night here last night and will be again tonight! I have four cats, can we have a four cat night? (only thing is they are outside cats)!

Kaili

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 12:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We have a wind chill advisory here (Wisconsin) too right now, although it doesn't see that cold to me. I guess maybe I'm just getting used to it- it usually takes awhile but after a few weeks below freezing... I just checked the weather channel and it's 11 degrees with a -3 windchill- I don't think that's cold enough for an advisory unless they are expecting gusts later.

And yep- only 2 inches of snow this winter. Disappointing- can't even ski or snowshoe. If it has to be winter, I want snow! If this keeps up, I wonder of the Berkie will be cancelled...

Wargod

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 12:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili, what's the Berkie?

Our weather is strange. In the mornings and evenings its getting down to the low 40's. In the afternoon we get 60's and 70's. I enjoy the warm weather, but I hate it when it gets like this cuz everyone starts to get sick.

Dahli

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 12:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah, thanks guys,well I have two dogs already so tonite looks like I'll need to go rustle up a 3rd!!

Conejo

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We just got a wind chill advisory for tonight and tomorrow. Wind chill around -15 below zero with increasing winds tomorrow up to around 25MPH. It's so cold here - I just hate it! and I hate to have my cats outside when it's that cold, but they seem to stay warm.

Kaili

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wargod, the Berkie is a 50k cross country ski marathon- the American Birkebeiner. It's Feb.22 from Cable to Hayward, Wisconsin. It's a part of the Worldloppet- the website explains it simply as follows...

"The Worldloppet organization recognizes no more than one qualifying cross country ski race per country. Currently, there are 14 races on four continents, including Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. The Worldloppet is dedicated to presenting the best cross country ski races in the world, and countries must meet vigorous requirements to earn a Worldloppet sanction. Over 53 thousand skiers participated in the 14 Worldloppet races last year."

Basically people come from all over the world to participate and it'll be really too bad for them if it's cancelled. That's a lot of long travel to not be able to race! 2000 was the only year it was ever cancelled because of warm, no snow weather.

Right now there is very little snow on the trail and with the number of skiiers that participate, we need a lot more for it to be a good race. My mom and stepdad do it every year but my mom wants out this year because they aren't able to train due to the lack of snow. Usually they can train on their fields. Mom likes to do the half length version (called the Kortelopet) but stepdad likes to sign her up for the full length.

Now you know more than you ever wanted to know about it, right? :)

Wargod

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 01:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili, I actually find this stuff interesting, LOL. It's like..we get half an inch of snow every four or five years here, and when we do we stay home! OK, the kids get to play in it, but basically if there's no reason to go out, you don't. So, I find it interesting that people actually go out intentionally, lol. I'd be the one person everyone laughed at if I lived somewhere it snows. It's amazing to me that people go to work or running errands when its snowing.

I do know though, from living fairly (about an hour or so) close to a couple mountain resorts that when they don't get enough snow, it can cause serious problems with the economy, so I can see how this would be a big problem, not to mention how the people who train and work hard for this race must feel when they can't do it.

Kaili

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 01:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The lack of snow is hurting the state a lot- the snowmobile trails, etc. They are asking now that more trails be opened to ATVs so they can be used for something.

Jbean

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
wind chill warnings here: windchills at -10 f (we don't do celcius here either) it is FREAKIN cold! not sure what the real temp is, just damn cold!

Maris

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
you know its cold when your dogs run outside do their business and are back inside in less than a minute. The compulsion to sniff every tree is goooooone.

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 06:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, daymn, we don't have any temperature! HA HA HA! It's 0 here with out the wind chill. There is a wind chill advisory out for tonight. We had snow today, too, even though it was really cold. I think we have had snow nearly every day. This cold spell is supposed to break in a couple of days.

Kaili

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I understand our windchill advisory now. It got COLD! Tomorrow is expected to be -35 windchill. I don't feel well- hope I can make it in to work. Working at UPS, the doors are opening and closing all the time with trucks going in and out and loading into trucks pulled up to the building is the next best...I mean worst...thing to being outside in it!

Cyn

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OMG, there are some crazy Bostonians playing hockey on a very frozen Turtle Pond in Central Park. It's way too dangerous, but it's definitely frozen enough to hold their 200# butts.

Don't worry they have gone inside.

Twinkie

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 08:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cyn, you crack me up! LOL

You know its got to be bitterly cold here cause hubby wanted me take me out to dinner and I said no thanks.....YOU go out and get takeout and bring it back. I'll be waiting right here in my sweats. LOL