| ghost |
Hey, this is turning into a real winter! First, Duluth gets 28 inches of snow on Monday, third largest single day snowfall on record (starting to look like Buffalo here). Then an arctic air mass sweeps down, with a pre-wind chill temperature of -34.2 this morning. The kids got a "cold day' off - they don't want them out waiting at the bus stops, and I'm guessing half the busses wouldn't start today anyway.
One of the things we get under these cold clear sky conditions are sun dogs, which are rainbows that form as parentheses on either side of the sun. A pretty neat cold weather phenomenon! (to watch from inside the house!) :cool: |
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| phins2rt |
| Nice ghost!! I noticed we had sun dogs here on Tuesday morning when it was about 5 out. Today is a bit colder (-10 with -30 or so windchill). Aaaah, winter! (-34 is DAMN cold!!!) |
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| ByeByeChrysler |
WOW:eek: we have had -34C (including windchill factor)
but not -34F that is very cold. |
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| ghost |
Yup, I was out just after sunrise to feed the birds - it was literally 'breathtaking'.
I'm amazed that the chickadees and grosbeaks stay active in weather like this, it doesn't seem to phase 'em. Guess they need the calories!
Hey Phins - I've been down through DesMoines, not much to block the wind down there! |
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| zman |
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WOW we have had -34C (including windchill factor) but not -34F that is very cold.
As a simple FYI to anyone/everyone -34C is "only" -29F. So -34C is actually colder. Regardless, both are damn cold. |
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| ByeByeChrysler |
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Originally posted by zman
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As a simple FYI to anyone/everyone -34C is "only" -29F. So -34C is actually colder. Regardless, both are damn cold.
thanks zman, you are correct
it just sounds colder in F |
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| ghost |
Those conversions are tricky - at -40 they're the same! But below -20 on either scale is academic - it's frigging cold!
I don't think we even got into the single negative temps today, my X was pretty reluctant to start but pulled through. I need to do something nice for it...
BTW, I got to visit Celsius's house in Uppsala several years ago. It's kind of parked in the middle of the town shopping district and has a jewelry store on the bottom floor.
It wasn't particularly noteworthy, although I'm not sure what I expected to find there. Maybe a big thermometer or something. |
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