Anybody left who still thinks Colorado weather is always "mild?" (Denver: to buy, pros and cons)

[breaksraver13]

Originally Posted by LBear

So far, it looks like you lost your wager. Since the arctic cold has settled in the Denver area on Sunday with double digit below zero temps, it has been in the teens and lower 30's ever since then.

This weekend it is showing that another cold front is moving in and the temps will be:

Saturday: High 18F - Low 12F (with snow)
Sunday: High 12F - Low -2F below zero
Monday: High 23F - Low -2F below zero
...with wind chills dropping to double digit below zero temps

Sounds like pure heaven to me. Only it really could stand to be a little colder to be perfect IMO.

[Pilot1]

Originally Posted by Shuffler

STOP with the 'dry cold' talk....LBear can't stop laughing....

Its true. A damp cold just goes right through me. The "dry cold" in Colorado is much more bearable. Especially when its sunny.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by Pilot1

Its true. A damp cold just goes right through me. The "dry cold" in Colorado is much more bearable. Especially when its sunny.

Last night when I went to the grocery store here in SoCal it was about 44F, no wind, with a cold rain. I felt about as cold last night as I did when I was in Denver last February when it was about 25F at night. There's just something about humidity that really soaks into you.

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by Ticky909

There should be a heat index that takes into account cloud cover, temp, wind chill, and actual humidity, im not sure where though. I stick with people complain more in the East, if everyone is whining about how cold it is than it'll feel colder prolly.

You're right. They do complain a lot and it makes it colder mentally. Plus all that wind from their complaining.

I've been to the east coast in the winter and it's a bit nippy and all, but us Coloradoans can handle it. I wear shorts and a t-shirt during their winter. I say just grow some hair and wish you had a pair.

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

[sterlinggirl]

Originally Posted by bullfish15

The summertime heat index for Denver is usually much lower than the actual temperature because they calculate the lack of humidity. It could be 94 degrees with a 89 degree heat index. Back east the temperature could be 85 with a 95 degree heat index.

Does the heat index take the barometric pressure into account?

I'm thinking that if a pressure cooker increases the rate of heat transfer, lowering air pressure would have the opposite effect.

[Mike from back east]

[McGowdog]

Nice! Where would a guy be without long legs?

[borborygmi]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

I say just grow some hair and wish you had a pair.

LOLOLOL. Excellent advice for living in general. As a society, we've basically just become a bunch of spoiled babies in recent decades(jazzlover and BFDS would argue that that's all about to change, drastically). Used to be, generations ago, that people sucked it up and did what they had to do and lived where they had to live in order to survive. Only recently has it become possible for people to just "decide" to live where they feel like based on such superficial priorities as the weather. Stop effin' whining and deal with it!

[McGowdog]

That's why I love watching the History Channel and the Discovery Channel and there's this program that I got from Blockbuster called Journey Toward Creation that I wish every scientist and every athiest and every agnostic would watch and see just how incredibly lucky we are that we live where we do in the universe, in the galaxy, in the solar system, and when.

In that flick, there's no less than 200 "coincedences that have to go on before even the possibility of life to be possible. For example, I'm watching this program "Deadly Comets and Meteors" ... shouldn't that be Meteorites, if they're proclaimed to be "deadly"? anyway... this program looks at the devastating possibility that we get hit by one of these "rocks"... While Journey Toward Creation sees how Jupiter shields us from the vast majority of those and how the rare occurance of one of those "meteorites" hitting the earth would do so in order to replenish this earth with needed resources...water... almost as if by design! Maybe the Manbearpig Al Gores and AL Bears () should take note as well.

We've got people in this very forum who like to point out the differences in our climates, weather extremes, and even rock content... and why X place is vastly superior to Y place!

You know what I'm talking about? But it's something to talk about, for sure! So thanks Jazz, for bringing us all together here and thanks, borborygmi for your humor.

[Shuffler]

it was chilly in the goose pit this morning, around 7deg.

saw thousands of birds who couldn't care less about working our decoy spread.

if we had a village to feed, we'd be kicked out for coming back empty handed all the time....didn't even raise our guns to shoot

looks like the Donkeys are finding a way to lose this game, too...

Sundays like this suck.