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got home from work an hour ago and it's -16C and with the windchill -30C. This cold weather will be with us until Sunday.
And today it's up to a toasty 15F, 11 minutes before sunrise... Which would be -9.4C for most everyone else, who seem to have a fetish for having to think in fractional and negative temperatures on a regular basis.yesterday even a couple of hours after sunrise it was 9F
And today it's up to a toasty 15F, 11 minutes before sunrise... Which would be -9.4C, for most everyone else, who seem to have a fetish for having to think in negative and fractional temperatures on a regular basis.
Meh. Real Persons don't have to be able to multiply or divide everything by 10 to get through a day of dealing with units of measurement...Because evryone else are not snowflakes :awe:
Ten fingers. Evolution has spokenMeh. Real Persons don't have to be able to multiply or divide everything by 10 to get through a day of dealing with units of measurement...
"And for everything else, there's"... the cerebral cortex.Ten fingers.
Indeed it has.Evolution has spoken
"And for everything else, there's"... the cerebral cortex.
Indeed it has.
got home from work an hour ago and it's -16C and with the windchill -30C. This cold weather will be with us until Sunday.
Cold = wear more sh*tThat being said (a) while I sympathize with those who suffer from it for reasons of age, health, or just fundamental physiology, I'll personally take a couple of weeks of even single-digit cold over a couple of weeks of steady humid, 90F or higher weather any time, anywhere.
I hear ya. I am just east of Michigan and we're getting the same weather. Plus we're getting snow today and Thursday.It's 3F here in Michigan but windy with a wind-chill advisory. I just want it to be March soon!
ExactlyCold = wear more sh*t
Hot = I can only get so nekkid
Mostly I've just been yanking yer chain... I'm actually pretty bimetrical, using one and/or the other as I find them convenient. When I was in middle school in the latter 70s, there was some toying with the notion that the US, like the UK, should go all-metric, so they were indoctrinating us young 'uns and like a lot of the fundamental technical/scientific stuff I was exposed to in school, most of it stuck, and then later NAFTA, not to mention the Web, ended up making it more relevant on a day-today basis and it became second nature...You are ones that can't deal with decimals and insist on fractions.
I try not to move - at all - or even think when it goes into the 30s Celsius. That not being an option except on weekends though, most of my thoughts on those days consist of plotting ways to avoid being outside one air-conditioned environment or another for as little time as humanly possible...I don't tend to like going out in -30's if I don't have to
30C is "VPN in, and work from home buck nekkid" weatherI try not to move - at all - or even think when it goes into the 30s Celsius.
I guess I just had to go and open my big mouth, huh? What was originally forecast as a couple of inches became 3-6", then 6-12", and there must've been at least 9" on the ground when I came in from an errand about an hour and a half ago. (NYC's transit PTB have become such wusses of late that even with just the 3"-6" forecast, I stayed home rather than face a possible mad dash for a "last subway" or end up having to undertake some sort of long, bizarrely circuitous trek to get home...)The other plus is that's been too damned cold to snow... And while I like snow in the abstract, more than an inch or two of it on the ground (not to mention the slushy aftermath), does making getting around a PITA...