Here Comes the Cold
- The Chicago area's latest weather challenge is moving in this morning with arctic chill and breezy winds expected to linger through Thursday.
A wind chill advisory is in effect from 9 p.m. today until noon Wednesday, with wind chill values today reaching as low 5 below to 15 below early this morning and 20 below to 25 below tonight. Wind chills at the latter level will cause frostbite to exposed skin within 30 minutes. Today's high temperature will be 10 to 14 above.
Just to show how goofy the media is making all this, next Monday is predicted to break 40 degrees. So do we really have to get everyone into a tizzy over a day or two of cold?
Labels: media, silly people
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
14 Comments:
One of my favorite things is looking at the 7 day forecast. Then checking it a couple of days later to see how wrong they are. But even with a bad average they still beat the Crystal Ball Unit.
Okay, then.
Set the faucet in the basement to a constant trickle. Checked the pressure on the radiator boiler. Made sure every room is open and heat can circulate, so no outer wall pipes freeze. Knocked a couple of icicles off the gutter, to help prevent ice-damming. Put a little graphite into the padlock on the back gate, so I can get the garbage out. Found myself a hat and a pair of gloves.
Ready.
Gotta go search for Bermuda shorts for next week's hot spell.
Info's straightforward and truthful enough. Amazing, the number of people you see walking around without hats, even on a night like this. Seems that the poor know better in this regard than the well-to-do dashing around the Loop in their trenchcoats with two inches of snow atop their expensive haircuts -- like frosting on some kind of loon.
It's too weird.
Stay warm, everyone -- the figures are real. Should head up to 38 for a high by the weekend. We'll make it...
that's supposed to be cold? sounds like perfect weather to go sleep on hollywood beach naked!
Next we'll be hearing the panic from the media about the water build up from the thaw next week. FLOODING!!
Chicago: It's Hell, frozen over.
rb
Info's straightforward and truthful enough. Amazing, the number of people you see walking around without hats, even on a night like this. Seems that the poor know better in this regard than the well-to-do dashing around the Loop in their trenchcoats with two inches of snow atop their expensive haircuts -- like frosting on some kind of loon.
Lighten up Francis.....heat expelled from your head is only 4%. As long as your major body parts are covered, especially if you wear layered clothing you will have no problem. You can not get a cold from not wearing a hat either. A myth.
Warm up to come in a couple of months. Followed by hot temperatures in the months following. Then unbelievably cooling down for some months after. Almost like a predictive cycle. Gee, I wonder how long it'll last.
Ready.
Gotta go search for Bermuda shorts for next week's hot spell.
2/09/2011 12:41:00 AM
trying to make the wife poke her eyes out, again?
Chalkie will be coming out of hybernation this weekend, appearances on the south side, and possibly on the west side. He said February has been too quiet.....need to do some catching up!
Just another example of the wussification of American society.
it's a chicago winter people need to stop crying!
Chalkie will be coming out of hybernation this weekend, appearances on the south side, and possibly on the west side. He said February has been too quiet.....need to do some catching up!
2/09/2011 04:29:00 PM
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Shhhh! Don't give the crystal ball unit the secret intel!
Lighten up Francis.....heat expelled from your head is only 4%. As long as your major body parts are covered, especially if you wear layered clothing you will have no problem. You can not get a cold from not wearing a hat either. A myth.
2/09/2011 09:33:00 AM
I ain't Francis.
There were some people, though, back on another planet, in another world, another century, who got together and decided that I was a "Survival Instructor."
Yeah, right, I lightened up a lot tonight once I got inside from my four hours of reconnoitering and shed the fifty-pound LC-1 pack, GI polypro underwear and "Extreme Cold Weather Clothing System" gear, and the twenty pounds of double boots, the outers with metal traction spikes.
Needed something at the store. Walked over and and got it.
They're theorizing, I'm on foot humping it through the Mount Everests of messes left by the plows. Have done for years and have more than a nodding acquaintance with what works.
If you don't cover exposed skin -- ears, noses, fingers -- on a bad night like this you'll quite possibly get some bad cold injury. I kept a good hat on (very good hood there if I'd needed it)and light gloves, while making sure to have the double layer "trigger finger" mitts along in case the wind picked up more.
Hatless guy downtown dashing for his train might make it. Anything goes wrong, he might not get home in such good shape. Weather is unforgiving, always carry one more layer than you think you'll need.
Those fingers of cold have a way of probing for every crack, every opening...
Nothing wrong with being safe and comfortable. The "tough" and the "stylish" are welcome to suffer in the same icy purgatory...
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