Record Breaking COLD today - Artic Frigid Air - the USA is feeling like Siberia! (homeless, car)
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OK reporting from northeast Texas here. This morning at 8 am it was 13 degrees and the wind chill factor was 6 degrees.
Right now it's 26 and the wind chill factor is 17 - that's the high for today and I think it's already dropped a degree so we're back on the downward spiral here at 4:30 pm. It's been sunny and windy, winds out of the north at 21 mph gusts.
My husband is in PA. It's zero degrees there with a windchill factor of -18. OMG! And he and his crew are out working in this mess!
It hasn't hit the east coast yet. But by morning, we are going to be hurting. It's suppose to get into the single digits by air temps in the Northeast and the wind chill will drop it down to the -10 degrees and lower.
It really isn't. It was -20ºF when I walked out to my car this morning. If there's no wind, it feels the exact same as any other temperature below freezing. My body did not freeze instantly and shatter into a million pieces all over the street. My car started without a problem and I made my routine commute to work just like any other day.
The only real danger in this kind of cold is for homeless people who don't have sufficient clothing for warmth and/or aren't aware of shelters available. Otherwise, everyone else is indoors or has the right gear to stay warm.
OK I don't care what you say. I am from the South. The windchill factor this morning in northeast Texas was 6 degrees. I don't even know if I have ever been outside in weather that cold before!
My dogs wanted out so I thought, "Yeah, OK, go on wid cho bad seffs." I thought they'd come right back to the door, but a few minutes later I looked outside and there they were, laying in the grass in the sun. I called them and they just slowly looked up at me and I thought, "Great, now I've let my dogs get hypothermia in fifteen minutes outside!" Finally they ambled in, and I felt of their ears and paws and they were toasty warm! I even went outside to stand where they were laying to see if it was some magical warm place, but no - I was freezing my little Texas arse off, so I darted back in.
I guess they really aren't people after all! But they both had plopped down in front of the fire so I guess they were fine either way.
It really isn't. It was -20ºF when I walked out to my car this morning. If there's no wind, it feels the exact same as any other temperature below freezing. My body did not freeze instantly and shatter into a million pieces all over the street. My car started without a problem and I made my routine commute to work just like any other day.
The only real danger in this kind of cold is for homeless people who don't have sufficient clothing for warmth and/or aren't aware of shelters available. Otherwise, everyone else is indoors or has the right gear to stay warm.
It really isn't. It was -20ºF when I walked out to my car this morning. If there's no wind, it feels the exact same as any other temperature below freezing. My body did not freeze instantly and shatter into a million pieces all over the street. My car started without a problem and I made my routine commute to work just like any other day.
The only real danger in this kind of cold is for homeless people who don't have sufficient clothing for warmth and/or aren't aware of shelters available. Otherwise, everyone else is indoors or has the right gear to stay warm.
Oh please. It is that cold to many people in the country. -20ºF is cold to some people.
My window thermometer says it got down to 25f this morning at my place. Thank god for global warming or I might have had to light my heater!
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My window thermometer says it got down to 25f this morning at my place. Thank god for global warming or I might have had to light my heater! 