yeah, the air gets…crunchy…when you start hitting that level of cold. I’m not sure if a better way to describe it.
Enidigm
5182
My detached garage’s water taps are still running. I think i’m just going to idle my car for a couple hours in there. Probably make it a NOx trap but hey, as long as i open it before getting into it. I gave all my space heaters away to help heat livestock (horses).
Power out since 5:30. Blown transformer or something cuz the planned outages only last 30-60 min. Good times.
Nesrie
5184
Oh my. Stay safe and warm everyone.
RichVR
5185
You step outside and breathe. Your nose hairs instantly freeze.
Sorry that was meant for @BennyProfane.
I’ve been skiing in -25F, though it has been years now. Honestly, it is invigorating. But I would always go inside and have all of the frozen slush on my mustache and beard melt down my jacket.
At about -10 F I switch to the sniffle scale: how many sniffles do you get before nose is welded shut.
At -40 F it’s about .5 sniffles.
I’m shoveling snow while it’s snowing, so the snow is still shovel-able when it stops snowing.
Thank you for doing the research that I will never do.
aka “my youth”.
Also my present. It occurs to me that I might actually enjoy it.
KevinC
5191
The distinctly uncomfortable feeling of the mucus membrane of my nose freezing on first breath when stepping outdoors is something I’ll never forget from my time in northwestern Ontario. Honorable mention to my fingers and toes feeling like I just smashed them in a car door after being outdoors long enough. Which was probably like 30 minutes.
The thing that I don’t get is that was -40. I’d see weather forecasts for Yellowknife with windchill temps significantly worse than that and I seriously do not understand how people can live up there.
I’m biased having grown up in Montana, but I think it’s far easier to deal with cold than heat. More cold? More layers! Once you look like Randy from “A Christmas Story” , fatigue is the bigger problem.
Yeah, cold is easy. Get another layer, or break out a goose down comforter. Heat and humidity? The only thing that can save you is an air conditioner.
Enidigm
5194
There’s no solution for cold fingers that i’ve ever found. I guess just an endless supply of those glove heaters, but those work best with mitten type gloves. Dexterity vs cold resistance is more or less an unsolvable balance.
Did you know there are now actually powered, heated jackets? I don’t think they last more than 4 to 6 hours, but still kind of cool for those that need them.
At a certain point, gloves don’t work, mittens are better, and they sell wool glove liners to wear underneath. There’s always more layers!
We had a forecast of 20-30 cm of snow overnight. It looked to be accurate when I woke up this morning. School was canceled. I shoveled before breakfast. After breakfast, my daughter and I snowshoed to park for some sledding. Yay for snow days.
Well. I was actually looking forward to a ‘snow day’ or two in Houston. Then internet at the house went down early Monday morning. And electricity went down early this morning. I’m at the office right now because it still has both. Bleh.
Temps are supposed to get back up to 70F next week. Looking forward to it.
Makes our broken pipes seem tame!
Broken pipe? More like broken water main.
