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From the AP:
Arctic air extended its grip Wednesday with below-zero temperatures stretching from Montana to northern New England and frost nipping the Gulf Coast.
It was so cold Wednesday in northern Minnesota - 38 below zero at International Falls, with the wind chill during the night estimated at 50 below - that a couple of ski areas closed for the day.
Schools from Iowa to Ohio opened late so kids would not have to be out in the coldest part of the morning. Some schools closed.
The cold wave also bulged into the Northeast, abruptly dropping temperatures in New York state into the single digits and below zero - after Tuesday's readings in the 30s, the National Weather Service said. Thermometers read 8 below at Massena, on the St. Lawrence River, with a wind chill of minus 25 degrees.
Commuters in Albany, N.Y., faced a chill of 6 degrees, with brisk wind making it feel like 15 below zero, but some people claimed they didn't mind.
"I'm a cold weather fan," said Jeff Plant of Colonie, N.Y., as he sat reading a newspaper at an Albany coffee shop. "I like to see some cold weather in the winter." Later, he said, he planned to go for a walk "to get some sun."
I think I'll go for walk today, too. It's supposed to be 81.
2 comments:
Extreme cold, it's hard to describe how one could embrace such a dangerous thing. Maybe embrace is the wrong word, perhaps a great sense of respect and fear mixed in with a feeling of accomplishment.
Tonight in Houlton, ME they are predicting -53 f wind chills. I'm going candlepin bowling at the Elks. This weekend temps are supposed to moderate, only -40's f. I have freinds coming up from Southern Maine to go snowmobiling, as one freind put it, "if the machines will start, we will ride".
Your car windshield frosts from the inside due to the moisture coming off your person. If your car starts, the first 1/4 mile or so is a rough ride as where the tires rested overnight, they maintain a flat spot so it's wump, wump, wump until the friction heats the air within and the tire rights itself.
There are no homeless in Houlton, ME in the winter, either you have a home or you are dead.
I'll give you this, it sure makes a body appreciate that first warm day in spring.
I remember getting frozen IN a bar in Champlain at Xmastime in the early '80s. Helped her close up, we locked the front door, then the weather-stripping froze on both the front & back doors. The bar manager had to come over from Canada to spray ether on the door to let us out.
Once we got outside, the car wouldn't start, anyway.
I love L.A....
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