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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on January 24, 2003, 10:15:00 AM
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NO WIND CHILL FACTOR! Straight up temperature, whats the coldest?
I remember the last year I lived in Minnesota in 1978 winter.. -60 F below one evening in January. I was stupid enough to see how cold -60 F was by licking my finger and sticking it out my car window while traveling down the freeway. Instant frostbite(mild case). :/
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60 below was the temp? What was the wind chill?
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-65. 36 inches of snow in 36 hours. Spent 4 days on post in Central Security Control without relief.
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Can you tanslate -60F in °C??
Mine mesaured lower was -24°C up north in Alpes.
Was a dry, and sunny day, luckly :)
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0F in an unheated locker room after an Ice hockey game.
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Blizzard of '78 | STORM OF THE CENTURY
Published Feb. 6, 1998
"I'll never forget it. I was sitting in my living room when the waves and the wind were rocking the house. Then, this one wave hit. It was a sound like no other. It roared and whined like a siren. The house groaned and I knew it was time to get out."
- Ginny Deveau, whose home in the Beachmont section of Revere was destroyed by the storm. Homes in Scituate (above) took a similar beating.
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(By Doreen Iudica Vigue, Globe Staff)
wenty years ago today, the most vicious northeaster in New England's history began to blow.
It was the kind of history-altering event that, even now, transports people to where they were the moment it hit. And the memories of those who lived through the Blizzard of '78 are still detailed and emotional two decades after the last mammoth snowbank melted.
In two days of furious weather, the ''storm of the century'' ravaged the coastline, smothered the region in over two feet of snow, claimed 54 lives, dismantled 2,000 homes, drove 10,000 people into shelters, and caused $1 billion in damage.
More than 3,500 cars, trucks, and their cold and frightened drivers were stranded along Route 128 after the blinding snow piled higher than wheel wells, doors, hoods, and roofs.
Scituate and Revere were the hardest hit communities, where a swollen, wind-whipped ocean caused devastation and death.
When it was over, there were reported snow depths ranging from 27 to more than 50 inches across New England, plus drifts of up to 15 feet. Compounding the disaster were the 20 inches of snow still on the ground in some areas from a storm three weeks earlier.
"It was one in the morning by the time help arrived. We had been sitting in our car since 8 o'clock. The snow was so high around the car, I could only see the trooper's boots outside my window. We were so grateful to be alive, to be saved..."
-Jack Fargo of Brockton, who was among the 3,000 motorists stranded on Route 128 (left).
Massachusetts took on the look of a war zone. Army and National Guard troops arrived to haul away the walls of white.
The blizzard shook people to the core, forever taking some of the romance and innocence out of a silent snowfall or the plaintive wail of the sea.
But New Englanders are hardy souls.
No driving was allowed for six days, so people skied, snowshoed, tugged kids in sleds, and hitched rides on plows to get where they needed to go. Low on provisions, some feasted on lobsters flung to shore by the surf while others painstakingly rationed dwindling amounts of milk and bread.
To a person, the recollections of destruction are tempered by inspiring tales of neighbors digging each other out, storeowners giving away their wares, and stranded travelers harbored in the homes of caring strangers. There was a life-affirming, faith-restoring sense that ''we're all in this together.''
Through it all, friendships were forged, babies were born, lessons were learned, from weather forecasting to storm cleanup to what cooks best over a bottle of propane. Even politics was impacted: Ordinarily staid Governor Michael S. Dukakis realized, with the help of a turtleneck sweater, that he could be a dress-down, take-charge kind of guy.
So much pride was taken in riding out the storm that souvenirs were sold to commemorate it. Bumper stickers and T-shirts proclaiming ''I survived the Blizzard of '78'' were displayed like battle stripes. Some still hang, yellowed and tattered, in seaside homes, as a memorial to the force of nature and as a testament to the human spirit.
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rutabagas.. -167F
Antartica and I had to dive in it (fix the prop)
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Originally posted by Naso
Can you tanslate -60F in °C??
Mine mesaured lower was -24°C up north in Alpes.
Was a dry, and sunny day, luckly :)
-51.1 C (-60 F)
Here's a calculator:
http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc/wtmeas.html
Sixpence, not sure what the windchill factor was..there was a 10 mph wind blowing though...and traveling at 60 MPH on the freeway and sticking a wet finger out the window is something only an 18 yr. old would do :)
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
rutabagas.. -167F
Antartica and I had to dive in it (fix the prop)
Not sure how thats possible..The coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica was -89.6°C at Vostok station in 1983.
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I have the doc here somewhere...
ah..you're right. it was wind chill
farenheit too
(water was hi 20's)
as for coldest long-term, I worked in Alaska (fairbanks) at -64F (no wind chill) for 12 hour shifts on the flight line (outside)
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76 degrees....I think. I don't think it gets any colder than that in San Diego. Actually, I've been to Montana in the Winter and I know it was below freezing. But it's a dry-cold (so they say) and it wasn't too bad until it got to about zero degrees and below.
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the coldest I knew of (non wind chill rip) is -80 in Alaska.
I didn't know about the one Rip mentioned
doesn't really matter after -30f though.. it feels about the same... too frickin cold
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Originally posted by Puke
76 degrees....I think. I don't think it gets any colder than that in San Diego. Actually, I've been to Montana in the Winter and I know it was below freezing. But it's a dry-cold (so they say) and it wasn't too bad until it got to about zero degrees and below.
Everything below 25 deg. F is "dry cold"...and Wlfgang is right, once below 0 the temp does not really matter. Covering extremities DOES matter.
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any exposed skin.. I remember peering out of our hoods like looking out of a long tunnel.
glad it's warm where I live :) 5f this morning
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Near 0. In Chicago, plenty cold for me.
Coldest its ever been here in Southern California (not counting the mountains) that I can recall was 18 f.
It was a night in December 1989 I think. Killed a whole grip of oranges. We got 1.5 inches of snow once too. That was in 1964.
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Bozeman, MT -60° F
walk outside and your pants freeze. lotta fun with bubble blowers though.
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Originally posted by Furious
Bozeman, MT -60° F
walk outside and your pants freeze. lotta fun with bubble blowers though.
I'll be retiring south of Bozeman (Ennis) in 12 .5 years. :) Naturally I'll have a travel trailer or motor home for my migration south in the winters though(after hunting season) :)
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-62 Fairbanks Alaska '61, '62 or therebouts.
-30ish early 70s up around Kalispell Montana.
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-32 F
W/C -70's
first time ever really exposed to cold weather. had on my portland cold weather gear (denim jacket & flanle shirt). painful cold. by the time the school bus got there(45 minutes later) we had a camp fire.
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Bozeman, Ennis...I've been there. But my ex had family in West Yellowstone, MT. That's the spot to be!
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Originally posted by Puke
But my ex had family in West Yellowstone, MT. That's the spot to be!
One hour drive from our ranch. (Well, not a ranch yet, nothing built on our land yet :p )
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-53C in northern Sweden.
Not that I was out much. Except to throw boiling water into the air and watch it freeze.
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-43 C on Moday of this week. That is as cold as I can remember. I went oustide to start the car with wet hair ............... came in with a hair helmet:)
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More good reasons to live where its warm. Fug the cold.
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-60º F
Loring AFB, northern Maine 96-98.
Don't know what it was with windchill, but it was damn cold, and there weren't very many trees around to block the wind, because it's all potato fields up there. We used to walk to Canada when we were bored, that's how close it was. I think they told us once that we had about 15 seconds before exposed skin would freeze and we'd get frostbite.
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Originally posted by skernsk
-43 C on Moday of this week. That is as cold as I can remember. I went oustide to start the car with wet hair ............... came in with a hair helmet:)
Glad I would never have that problem! :D
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-30
Windchill was -70 FWIW
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Originally posted by Naso
Can you tanslate -60F in °C??
-51 degrees C
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Not really sure. I died before I could find a thermometer. :p
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-40F in Chamberlain S.D. we didnt know from windchill then :)
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Two years of my childhood was spent in Kodiak, Alaska. I loved it!
Don't remember the temps but I do remember that some days it hurt to breathe.
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I'm a lightweight when it comes to cold weather, living in the heart of Dixie. The coldest temps I ever "endured" was while deer hunting in a "brisk" 18 degrees F. while perched 40 feet up in a pine tree for about three hours. Saw a very nice buck too, but he didn't give me a good shot, (front half hidden behind a pine tree.)
Rubber boots in contact with a metal stand, soon turned my thoughts to the wood burning stove in our hunting shack about 300 yards away.:D
Les
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-52.6 F using rip's link to convert.
Was working outside for most of that too (about 6 hours of an 8 hour shift.) But there was no wind. It actually wasnt that uncomfortable.
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-55 C at 25000 ft in a 747
It was damn cold outside.
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-40 C or F (they are the same) in Beulah, ND December 1983 and my bedroom when the wife is in one of her moods. :)
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maybe -20F only been lliveing in VT for 8 months or so......
heard top of the montain yesterday was -100
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I lived the first 29 years of my life in Alaska.
The coldest temp I have ever experienced, probably in the -50 to -60 range as a student at UAF Fairbanks.
I've worked outdoors for extended periods in the -20s.
I've also cross country skied in the -20 to -30 range a few times.
I think I fought one fire (was a volunteer fire fighter) that was well below zero...
However, for the last 5 years that I lived in Alaska, I only drove two... roadsters, if you will. Both were cars that I had chopped the roofs off of, so they only had front windshield glass. Basically they were convertables without the roof-up option. One was a Karman Ghia, the other was a Dodge Dart that I turned into a Batmobile. I drove those two cars in rain, snow, sleet, hail, sun, whatever mother nature handed me.
I had a set of WWII sheepskin bomber gear (B-3 coat, pants and replica hat) and a set of turn-outs (Firefighting pants and coat). Also had a few pair of aviator style VB (bunny) boots. With this gear (and layers underneath) I could handle an hours drive to my parents house in the Mat. Valley in the -20s without getting cold.
eskimo
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Im form texas so the coldest would have to be 15F. I was three I still have the report. It was funny. At Commerce, texas:D
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63-68 F? in 1989 outside of Fairbanks Alaska. Who knows... we couldn't really tell. It think it was -58 in Fairbanks, and we were in the flats on a military exercise where it was usually 5-10 degrees colder (sleeping in tents). Many injuries... Canadian C-130 crashed on the airstrip in the icefog. Bad memories. I was in hospital with a injured knee about a month later and saw all the frost bite victims. Crazy bad stuff that cold can do.
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The fuggin cold sux!!!
Anyone in southern US looking for networking engineering types? I graduate in a few months and I don't wanna ever see snow again, unless I am 'just visiting'
SKurj
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Pretty cold over here...:D
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I think it was after my ex-wife's first visit with her attorney. :eek:
Thorns
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sounds like a couple of Eilson (sp) AFB refuges to me...
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Don't know what the actual temperature was, but boot camp in Great Mistakes IL hit -80 to -100F for close to two weeks. I grew up in Alaska, walked to school and all that and have NEVER seen anything like that. When it finally warmed up to freezing and the sun came out we shucked everything but our shirts. Funny how you adjust to things like that.
Anyway, actuall temperature doesn't matter near as much as wind chill does. Thats the temp that it really feels and acts like.
The wet winters in the south are harder for me to take than the dry ones in Alaska. Humidity makes a huge difference.
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I agree.
In fairbanks, when 'spring' arrived, we were out playing frisbee in our t-shirts.. didn't realize how cold it was until the frisbee hit the ground and shattered...
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I was thinking about this thread Saturday....
While I mowed my lawn wearing shorts (85 here) MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...
sry.
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is that where that white glow on the horizon came from???
:eek:
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
is that where that white glow on the horizon came from???
:eek:
Maybe.
:p
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lol
(I don't have room to talk.. being ski-season and all)
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Originally posted by Wlfgng
lol
(I don't have room to talk.. being ski-season and all)
Leaving Saturday for Tremblant... -29C, -22F today with a 10mph wind.
Gonna be chilly, but that's okay. I'm prepared for it now..:D
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have fun man. Let me know how the conditions are.
it's been very warm here lately and we need some new snow.