Oh noess..I'm freezin!!! It's only 58 degrees today here in Orlando!!

[ddeclue]

BRRR!!

I guess I'm gonna have to build a fire in the fireplace and put on a sweater...

:scared:

[WI_DEM]

1. ha-ha of course you wimps down in Orlando would think that is cold. Yes, put on that sweater and

build that fire.

[Shiver]

11. Such pansies...

Here, we don't even break out the light jackets until the temperature is in single digits...

[AllentownJake]

2. I HATE YOU

[Kittycat]

3. Rub it in. -12/wc of -32 right now (chicago burbs)

This morning, after 9AM, it was -20/wc-42

[AlCzervik]

5. are you all having an unusually cold winter there?

i know it's cold but is that normal for your area?

[Yes We Did]

10. Yes... technically...

But not really. You never know what you are going to get. Sometimes I wonder where the hell they get their averages from.

[Kittycat]

13. Yes. It's a mini-record of sorts.

It's been colder, but this is one of our longest severe cold weather streaks in some time.

[Jennicut]

9. Barack and Michelle and the kids will think 20 degrees in DC is balmy

if that is what Chicago is like in the winter! Its about 10 here in CT, will be -2 tonight. We don't usually get extreme cold but we do get a lot of snow.

[nickinSTL]

72. anytime I think of complaining of how cold it is here...

I just think how much worse it is a few hours north...

Here it was a comparatively balmy 1 degree this morning with a wind chill around -15. Right now it's up to 8 with a wind chill of -7.

[Kittycat]

77. -15/-32 at the moment, and I have to leave in 30min.

I wouldn't dare go out, except that my county dems are hosting an inaugural ball Saturday - and I have to finish finding stuff for my outfit.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. Only 42 here in Alabama and going down to 15 or lower tonight.

It's been in the 60s and 70s so long I'm spoiled.

[Kittycat]

15. That's sweater weather. Forget the coats.

[H2O Man]

6. It's 6 degrees here.

I feel a separation.

[ddeclue]

7. Let me guess - your next door neighbor is Kevin Bacon?

:rofl:

[H2O Man]

81. I'm not sure .....

I don't see many neighbors around here. Everyone with any sense has moved to a warmer climate!

[n2doc]

8. Come on up to balmy Savannah- it's 59 as I type n/t

[Pirate Smile]

12. School is closed here (Iowa) because it is so damn cold - this morning - more then -50 windchill/-23

degrees straight up. I'm not sure if that was the low or not, probably not, because I slept late since we found out school was going to be closed AGAIN last night around 8:30 pm.

They don't want any kids at bus stops in this type of weather.

We are tough up here so nhah.

I'm actually always surprised that we don't have any or more deaths during these types of horrendous cold snaps.

We were down to the ugly brown grass showing a week or so ago and got dumped on by snow a couple of times so at least it looks pretty and like it should be cold. The bad part from the pretty snow - we now have enough to make those big snow mountains at corners that make it so hard to tell when it is safe to pull into traffic.

We have seasons. Such is life. :)


edit to add: it is currently -17 with a windchill of -41. We are supposed to warm up to a balmy -9 today.

[Jennicut]

16. Wow, that is way too cold for kids. Just 10 degrees here and my kids were complaining

[Pirate Smile]

30. Well, it is 4:00 pm CT Thursday and they just canceled school for Friday. Wow.

Three days cancelled.

[Critters2]

45. We hit a high of -8 today, and it's heading back down now. No school

for the last two days, and I doubt there'll be school tomorrow. Predicted high for tomorrow is 8 above, but that's not expected until evening. When the kids would be leaving for school, they're expecting -18 to -20 air temps.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. Global warming???

[Bobbieo]

23. I live in the desert SW and begin to shiver when the temps gets below 85 degrees F -

BUT before you start casting stones - We live in a climate that averages 100 degrees PLUS for almost six months of our year. In mid-summer the temps seldom go down below 90 degrees and YES our blood does thin out so we freeze up at the slightest drop in the temps. How would you fare at 118 degrees F?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. we get 105s in the summer sometimes

don't think it's been 118F yet

[ddeclue]

27. Yes Phoenix' motto is: Phoenix conveniently located 6 inches from the Sun.

:rofl:

I lived out there for the summer of 2002.

I lived in Detroit for the winter of 1999-2000.

Talk about a contrast!

:)

[louis-t]

17. Unusually cold. Today and tomorrow the worst.

Then back to a little colder than normal. Lots of snow, not so bad. Plow guys making money, ski places doing well for a change.

[Lautremont]

18. Where I live, yesterday morning, it started out at -50.

The weather report assured us, however, that it would warm up to -40 by the afternoon, and it did!

[ewagner]

19. Central Wisconsin @ 12:50 PM

-12 F
Wind Chill -37F

I was raised north of Orlando and I can imagine that my siblings who still live there are wearing fur coats (they're Repubs) and ear muffs....

Me?

I think I'll enjoy the sunshine and go split some wood for the fire place.... :evilgrin:

[Poiuyt]

26. It's -3 here in Appleton

Positively balmy

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

20. Dick.

:evilgrin:










.

[Wickerman]

21. Biting my tongue

while I freeze my ass off here in Minnesota. I hope things work out for you.

[calico1]

22. 58 degrees is shorts and t-shirt weather. n/t

[DevonRex]

24. Toughen up wuss.

[tigereye]

28. ah hem

it's 9 here.


:spank: ;)

[hedgehog]

29. Hah! It's 58 here INSIDE!

My home office is in a room added onto an old house and it tends to ibe chillier than the rest of the house!

[Beacool]

31. What are you complaining about?

It's 20 degrees in NY and dropping to 5 overnight.

:eyes:

[HughMoran]

32. Jerk-face

What a wise guy!

:P

[ddeclue]

33. actually we're supposed to be under a freeze warning tonight...

pretty rare down here.

I have lived in bitter cold before (Detroit 1999-2000 winter) so I feel for ya but I can't resist having a little fun.

Be happy I'm no longer living in Fort Lauderdale...

:)

[ChiciB1]

35. Really??? Our Low Is Supposed To Be 45 Degrees... East Coast/West Coast

difference? It really hasn't been very cold this year. November WAS unusually cold here, 2nd coldest November on record! December was mostly above average here.

Personally, I really like having some cold weather to re-invigorate me! Great for taking walks or jogs, or playing tennis... without dripping sweat all the time!

[ddeclue]

40. Inland is going to get colder than on the coasts

water holds heat better.

[ChiciB1]

43. Ya Know... I KNEW That... But It Slipped My Gray Matter! All I Have To Do

is watch the weather... they say it ALL THE TIME!! While I don't live ON the Gulf, I live very, very close down the street from it.

Thanks for the reminder, and I'm not being sarcastic, just forgot!

[ddeclue]

41. Gets colder inland because water holds heat better.

Same reason it gets colder in North Dakota than in NYC.

[HughMoran]

74. Freezing there, -1F here

It's gonna be a cold night for a lot of the country tonight!

:scared:

[ChiciB1]

34. HA! HA! Got Ya Beat.... 57 Degrees In Sarasota!! But December Was VERY

WARM this year!! Set my thermostat on 73 and am REALLY enjoying the COOL weather! Still have my shorts on though!

We may get some more cool weather next week! I LOVE IT!!!

[debbierlus]

36. My sense of humor for such posts froze last night in the 11 below zero weather

January -

A slow kind of hell.

[ChiciB1]

39. I'm Not Trying To Rub It In... Florida Ain't Always THAT GREAT Ya Know?

We have some REAL Political Problems in my neck of the woods! Summer can also be rather uncomfortable too!

While I want to go NORTH for the winter sometime, I know the visit will be a VERY SHORT ONE!

[Katha]

37. It's in the mid 70s in San Diego.

I'm in a t-shirt and jeans. :)

[Beacool]

38. I HATE YOU!!!!

:mad:


:hi:

[ddeclue]

42. Probably also in Miami and Key West as well...

:)

[Milspec]

58. This is my 3rd winter in Tulsa OK

after leaving Los Angeles. First 2 winters really sucked esp last year when the power was out for 9 days after an ice storm. Today has been the only REAL cold day all winter so far 11 deg this morning, but looking at mid 50's for Saturday. I bought my nephew a sled for xmas and no snow at all this year (yet)

[AtomicKitten]

44. It's 72-degrees in SF today. Just sayin'

[ddeclue]

48. Yeah but it's hard to sound like a whiner complaining about it when it's THAT nice...

The whole point of this post is to complain about slightly cold weather that 90% of the country would kill to be in..

:rofl:

[AtomicKitten]

well, it does go down to a brisk 33 degrees at night here ;)

[ddeclue]

61. That's wierd for a city on the ocean...

I guess the Pacific is pretty cold though.

[MoonRiver]

46. Uhhh,

:nopity: Here I sit at 16 degrees outside. But, you enjoy! :hi:

[ChiciB1]

50. THAT Is Definitely WAAAAAAY Too Cold! If It's 50 Outside Here....

we DON'T go out! That's Too Cold!! Overnight lows in the 40's will keep most of us wrapped up snuggly INSIDE!

We really "wimp" out!

[MoonRiver]

52. Yeah, I know. I was raised in the south.

Got transplanted here years ago. If you bundle up enough these temps are tolerable, unless there is the dreaded ICE. Another hassle is just getting bundled up. Ugh. Takes so much time.

[ChiciB1]

55. I Was An Army Brat & Lived In Germany When I Was Young... I Remember Getting

bundled up, AND THEN I WAS TOLD... "Don't come back in unless you want to stay!"

The PITS!

[ddeclue]

57. I was too and as a Boy Scout we camped in 10 inches of snow for a camporee in the winter.

THAT was miserable.

[ChiciB1]

60. I Remember Jumping From Our Porch & The Snow Was Over My

head!!! It really snowed a lot over there. Somehow, as a kid it didn't seem as cold! But it WAS REALLY cold!

[MoonRiver]

59. Lol!

I can relate. My kids were raised in the Midwest, and I did not want to clean up after them as they ran to and from the backyard snowman and refrigerator. :)

[ChiciB1]

65. I Wonder Which Was Worse... My Icicle Nose Or My Mother's Wrath!

Memories fade with time!
:shrug:

[MoonRiver]

66. I'll ask my kids!

But I do know we moms have to protect those carpets! :D

[ChiciB1]

67. Carpets? Living Down Here I Have NO Carpets! Rugs... But Not Carpets!

It's cooler that way! Funny though, I think my mother WANTED me outside, so she could have some piece an quiet! Family of SIX girls HAD to be rough!

Maybe I was an abused child after all! We are abusing this thread too!

[MoonRiver]

69. All right, you stumped me, : ).

But I stick up for moms nontheless! We have a tough job! GOMAMA!

[azmouse]

47. 73 here. I may have to put socks on.

:hi:

[ddeclue]

49. Phoenix or Tucson???

I'm assuming not Flagstaff since they are at 7500 feet above sea level and that is their summer temperature.

[azmouse]

53. Phoenix area.

Unbelievable weather here for the next week yet... mid to upper 70s and sunshine.
Doesn't seem fair that we have so much nice weather right now when most of the country is in the deep freeze.

[ddeclue]

54. Yeah but you get to pay for it next July - 115 in the shade..

I worked out there the summer of 2002.

[azmouse]

56. Believe it or not we don't get above 110 more than a few days each summer.

Not so bad. :)

[ddeclue]

63. It was hot as hell when I was out there and I'm used to the heat living in the South.

Georgia and Florida have nothing on Phoenix in the summertime.

My cars rear view mirror cracked it got so hot and THAT was WITH a sun shield, a car cover and leaving a crack in the window to let air in.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

51. Wimp.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8397063#8397548

[rox63]

62. High temp here was 15 - Low of 0 expected tonight n/t

[nemo137]

64. That's swimming weather!

It was -14 in Illinois today. They cancelled classes at all the elementary schools.

[busymom]

68. -51 sigh

[ddeclue]

70. Sarah? Sarah Palin is that you?

:rofl:

[ecstatic]

75. Please tell me you're kidding! I couldn't survive that

I don't think I'm built to handle anything below 0.

[Arugula Latte]

71. Ah, shaddap.

:P

[NYC Liberal]

73. 10*F with wind chill here.

And I do have a sweater on! :)

[emmadoggy]

76. Sorry, no sympathy from me. It hit -25 last night and the wind chill was -40 to -50.

Right now, it is -13 and dropping to around -25 again tonight. Our HIGH temperature today was -9. No school.

58 degrees?? Seriously? That is LOVELY weather!

Quitcherbitchin!!!:P

[senseandsensibility]

78. That IS cold

It's 74 degrees here in California.

[ShadowLiberal]

79. I got a good laugh this morning when I heard Florida declared a state of emergency over the cold

:rofl:

I'm not kidding, I heard it on the radio when driving to work this morning. I checked Florida's weather on google just now, which makes it even more hilarious.

Current Florida weather.
53°F
Current: Clear
Wind: NE at 0 mph
Humidity: 51%

Today's Florida weather was
Mostly Sunny
61°F | 38°F

:rofl:

[ddeclue]

80. Yeah we're breaking out the parkas and snow chains down here...

:rofl: