50 degrees below zero?! How do you live with that? (Minnetonka: transplants, activity)

[ozzie679]

When I retire, I WILL be wintering in the South. I will always love Minnesota, but I won't miss the freezing cold.

[slamont61]

Oh this morning I awoke to -24 degrees and was out in it many times in the night. My dog had to go several times and sometimes just wanted to go out and relax in the extreem cold. Thier winter coat is designed to be ready for it.

Today's high will be zero. What's the big deal anyways? Like it's been said, once it hits about 10, the rest is not really any big deal. When it drops, you just deal with it.

You have to love this area. It keeps those who just can't deal with it out leaving those of us that simply don't mind it to enjoy it all year long.

[Blazer]

I look at it as a challenge

[slamont61]

Oh lookie, we all have the day off. The thermometer is reading 27 here and at home it's nearly 30. I'm ready to head to the beach!!!

[moving123456]

It is currently 36 in the western Twin Cities suburbs. I am going snowboarding.

[asitshouldbe]

Originally Posted by ozzie679

When I retire, I WILL be wintering in the South. I will always love Minnesota, but I won't miss the freezing cold.

That goes for us as well. We deal with it for now, but in 20 years we will be living part-time in the south.
I wish I was 60 now. Maybe not.

[Sarimn00]

Originally Posted by marmac

reeneeisexena----------check out Flagstaff Arizona. I have daily monitored the summer temps there and day after day after day--the highs are 80-82 and the lows 48-52.

The winters are much milder than Minnesota's, but I scratched it from my retirement list cuz it gets too much snow.

(probably the same reason you wouldn't consider it)

If the snowfall wasn't so much, I would be considering it.

You should look at Prescott, Prescott Valley, and Chino Valley. They are south of Flagstaff. They get snow once in a great while, but it melts pretty fast. At least that's what my relatives say. I've been there a few times and it's pretty nice.

[TravisW]

It was -18 as I was walking the last bit of the way to work this morning. That was pretty brisk, to be sure. There's an old saying "There no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes" that kind of holds true. Realistically, everybody winds up reacclimating every year to some degree, but some handle the cold better than others. I do pretty well through the winter, but I also tend to be hot all the time, and summers basically make me want to melt.

Doing things that keep your metabolism up, as well as keeping your stomach stocked with decent food makes more of a difference than most people think.

[3-Oaks]

LOL! isn't that the truth! We'd had over a week of nothing above 0* and nasty wind. Then around the 18th or so it got up to 10 or 12* avove 0. Nice & sunny, no wind, not a cloud in the sky. I grabed a pair of gloves I shoveled the sidewalks & part of the driveway in my jeans, sweater & the slippers that I'd been wearing inside. All I added were gloves so my hands wouldn't freeze to the metal handle of the shovel. Then a couple neighbors & I stood out there & visited for a while.

Oh, I'm in North Dakota, but the weather's pretty much the same except we grnerally get more wind than MN.

Originally Posted by What!

Written Dec 15th
--less than 20 degrees is considered truly cold; 30 and above you'll see people in shorts and t-shirts, thus, what is considered cold to others in say california is considered child's play to people in mn.

[GraniteStater]

The Siberian express has come according to the observations this morning in northern MN. Low temps were between -35F and -40F.