the brutal weather/coldwave thread

[bob]

who has what

I have -21 not counting the wind chill

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

-40 C (oddly enough also -40 F) without windchill, -47 C (-53 F) with the windchill. Been like this a few days, it’s cold as f*** right now.

EDIT: Honestly haven’t even been leaving my house. Dogs walk out far enough to do their business and hustle back in. It’s brutal out, heat can barely keep up inside. This cold snap is gonna cost me a fortune in electricity.

[Milkman Norm]

I work at a non-profit that closes when the local school district closes which is pretty rare since there are a lot of kids without resources that rely on the district for food and shelter during the day. I have been off work since last week and there is a decent chance we will be closed again tomorrow.

[Lupin the Third]

Last night, at about 8PM, it was -27°F with a wind chill of -57.

Right now, it's -21°F with a wind chill of -24.

[Shai]

-19F and my apartment is old and drafty. So we're actually using the damn fireplace for once.

[Deleted]

-25 with a -45 below wind chill

[The Unconquered Sun]

This morning it was -7 with a wind chill of “GET YER ASS BACK IN THE DAMN HOUSE ALREADY!!! WHAT ARE YOU NUTS???”

Seriously it’s like some kind of science experiment gone horribly wrong out there.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Yeah y’all are getting it but I’m still going to complain in NY. It’s going be 7 degrees tonight.

[Deleted]

-8 with a wind chill of -33.

AKA "You're nuts to be outside."

[Paul]

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

New England during the fall: OMG I love it here!

New England during the winter: Get me the hell out of here.

[GuyOfOwnage]

Jeez, and I thought -34C with windchill here was bad...

[corndog]

-11F, where the heck do you people live where it is -21/-25?

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Jan 30, 2019 13:09:47 GMT -5 corndog said:

-11F, where the heck do you people live where it is -21/-25?

I’m in southwest Manitoba, about 75 miles north of the Can/US border. Sun is shining bright now, so we’ve actually warmed up to -30 C (-22 F) and -35 C (-31 F) with the windchill

[lionheart21]

This cold is even affecting gaming, since the first Kombat Kast for Mortal Kombat 11 had to be rescheduled to next Tuesday due to inclement weather in Chicago, with wind chills expected to go as low as -60F.

My dad was telling me that he was hearing that flights had to be cancelled because the de-icing agent that the airports were using to thaw out the planes was freezing up. That's a pretty good sign that it is cold as f*** outside.

[Spider2024]

Jan 30, 2019 13:58:15 GMT -5 lionheart21 said:

This cold is even affecting gaming, since the first Kombat Kast for Mortal Kombat 11 had to be rescheduled to next Tuesday due to inclement weather in Chicago, with wind chills expected to go as low as -60.

My dad was telling me that he was hearing that flights had to be cancelled because the de-icing agent that the airports were using to thaw out the planes was freezing up. That's a pretty good sign that it is cold as f*** outside.

How does de-icing freeze?

[Toilet Paper Roll]

8-10 degree low for tonight here in Boston. Super colds retreating tonight. It’ll also be 60 early next week

[BlackoutCreature]

These are not the temperatures of places people live in. These are the temperatures of places NASA sends probes to.

[lionheart21]

Jan 30, 2019 14:07:52 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

Jan 30, 2019 13:58:15 GMT -5 lionheart21 said:

This cold is even affecting gaming, since the first Kombat Kast for Mortal Kombat 11 had to be rescheduled to next Tuesday due to inclement weather in Chicago, with wind chills expected to go as low as -60.

My dad was telling me that he was hearing that flights had to be cancelled because the de-icing agent that the airports were using to thaw out the planes was freezing up. That's a pretty good sign that it is cold as f*** outside.

How does de-icing freeze?

This is an area where my biochemistry background can come in effect.

Every liquid has a freezing point. For example, Ethylene glycol is a common component of de-icing agents, including the antifreeze in cars, and it can freeze at -28C (-18.4F). The purpose of a de-icer is not to melt ice on its own, but to lower the freezing point of water so that it will melt even in cold temperatures.

[Deleted]

Jan 30, 2019 11:44:02 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Yeah y’all are getting it but I’m still going to complain in NY. It’s going be 7 degrees tonight.

I am going to complain as well, because I don't have a car at the moment, so I need to take the bus to get to work. Here's the kicker, the closest route that my bus can drop me off is still about a 3/4th of a mile walk to where I need to go, so when I get out around 10PM tonight, yeah it's going to be 12, but it's going to feel like -6 outside. F*** THAT!