Bitter winter

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> How is everyone doing during this unusually cold winter? Even in Tucson, we were down to 17 degrees F. (-8 C.) this morning, but we'll be up to 50 (10 C.) by this afternoon. Hope nobody's car is stuck on Lakeshore Drive in Chicago!
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> Carol, wondering whatever happened to global warming
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Steve:

>From the frozen tundra of sunny southern Minnesota. 

In the month of December, we had 40 inches of snow, setting a new record. We have had several below 0°F day, with the lowest being in the neighborhood of -15°F to -20°F (~25°C). 

And by the way, the coldest place in the continental 48 states is International Falls, Minnesota. Occasionally, in a given year, one place or another might beat it, but it rapidly regains the title. 

Also, as long as we are on the subject of weather horror stories, I remember one particular year in Minnesota when, with the windchill, the temperature was -100°F (~-75°C), and yes most of that 'wind chill' was due to high winds from the north. I drove 100 mile to my parents house at Christmas time, and my car never warmed up. 

When I say 'never warmed up' I don't mean the interior of the car never warmed up, which it didn't, I mean that the temperature gauge needle never moved. I suspect if I had looked in the radiator at the end of the drive, I would have still found ice slush in it. 

Welcome to Minnesota. 

Steve/bboyminn