It's Freakin Cold Here!!!

[Tonja_Renee]

I hate winter!! :mad: It's -10 celcius which is 14 fahrenheit... Where is everyone from?, and is it warmer than where I am, which is Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.....

I need to dream of palm trees and beaches, and temperatures above freezing... :cool:

[elklandercc]

Here in South Jersey its a chilly 21*F. Windy so it makes it worse. I sit here at my comp. with my feet against the heater nice and comfy. Hee hee, dont need to think about palm tree
s.

[hunter60]

Here in Western PA, it's a balmy 22 degrees - snowing out and has been since around 4:00 or so. They are calling a winter storm advisory for the night into the morning right through the place where I have to drive on my hour and half commute to work!

Oh joy.

If I had listened to my mother, I would be an orthodontist with an office in the same town I live in...but NOOO, I had to be a goof and do things my own way....

[bigbuda]

Here in North Texas it was a blistering 72 today. It does snow here sometimes contrary to popular belief. But not today!!!!!!!!!!!!

[acapella]

It's like....minus 30 celcius here. Maybe colder now that it's night time. Southern Manitoba.

[magicninja]

a sweet 65 here un the foothills of the Sangre de Christo Mts. It does get a bit chilly by morning though.

[Lordathestrings]

We had a brief (one day) Chinook here, and it got up to +9C! Back down to -15 overnight, and then not much warmer than that for the rest of the week.

-30, eh? 'sucks to be you! :)

[acapella]

-30, eh? 'sucks to be you! :)
Yes. Yes it does.

[Jolly McJollyson]

With wind chill it's about 0 Farenheit, which is -15 Celcius.

[jiujitsu_jesus]

It's about +32 C here in Sydney. I could do with a bit of a cold snap right now!

[Tonja_Renee]

It's about +32 C here in Sydney. I could do with a bit of a cold snap right now!

OOOOHH!! What I wouldn't give for +32 C right now.... Oh crap its starting to snow - I really really hate winter......

It's like....minus 30 celcius here. Maybe colder now that it's night time. Southern Manitoba.

Although I have not been to the prairies... They tell me that the cold air is different there - dryer... but still -30 sucks. I feel for ya.

[Dr_simon]

Iowa city, Sat before last, -24oF/-31oC wind chill and there was plenty of wind !

that sucked doubly as I had to go to work !!

[jeffhx]

Melbourne 17 C

[earthman buck]

Although I have not been to the prairies... They tell me that the cold air is different there - dryer... but still -30 sucks. I feel for ya.
Yeah, I've been told that prairie cold is not as bad as coast cold, because it's not so damp and bone-penetrating.

[Polera]

-8 here in the big city T.O.

[ericthecableguy]

We had a brief (one day) Chinook here, and it got up to +9C! Back down to -15 overnight, and then not much warmer than that for the rest of the week.

-30, eh? 'sucks to be you! :)

Remember last year (I think it was) when we had the -30 days for a couple weeks. Than this sommer, we had one of the hottest on record. I live in Ontario.

Ha, it was funny. I was watching an American channel (Rochester maybe?) and the weather guy was freaking out because it was going to be a freezing cold 20 degrees ferenheit.

[Polera]

its been a mild winter this year...damn globel warming and corperate america! lol

[Tonja_Renee]

In our parts we haven't had much snow this year, but lately the coldness is making up for it.....

After the time we got 90+cm (36in) of snow in one storm - anything would seem better than that... I was stuck in my house for three days before the snow plow even made it down my road. We called it White Juan because it was just four months after the Hurricane whipped through here....

I could take the snow - I just hate the bitter cold and that damn wind blowing off of the ocean...

I wish I was somewhere warm....like in my bed :)

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Rain, 50 degrees fahrenheit, feels like 46
UV index: 2 Low
Wind: from SW at 10 mph
Humidity: 86%
Pressure: 30.08 in.
Dew point: 45 degrees
Visibility: 2.0 miles

Today: Showers and thundershowers likely. high 54F. Winds SW at 10 to 15mph. chance of rain 40%.

Tonight: Evening showers, becoming partly cloudy late. low 42F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%

Tomorrow: partly cloudy, slight chance of a rain shower. high 61F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.


yeah, that came straight from the weather channel website of my city in particular. woo hoo! I hate rain.. and we're supposed to have thunderstorms in about an hour or so, though they're not supposed to last for very long. who doesn't love california weather? though seriously, about a week or two ago we had snow at 600 ft. elevation by where I live. that's the first snow I've ever seen anywhere near where I live, and I've live here for 12 years.

[magicninja]

It never rains in southern California....it pours....man....it pours......

[earthman buck]

I wish I was somewhere warm....like in my bed :)
I wish I was in your bed too.
Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Tonja_Renee]

I wish I was in your bed too.
Sorry, couldn't resist.

Your funny....... ;)

[magicninja]

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[Tonja_Renee]

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WTF???? I don't get it :confused:

[magicninja]

Shot down.......

[Tonja_Renee]

............lol.

I don't want to encourage it....but I wouldn't say shot down.... Maybe I'm just playing hard to get... :D

You are making some assumptions there.....

[earthman buck]

Shot down.......
Who shot her down? Not me.

[magicninja]

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[earthman buck]

http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/liebe/love-smiley-075.gif
Have you posted anything other than a smiley today?

[magicninja]

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[Tonja_Renee]

Whatever drugs you are on, or need to be on in order to understand this forum...

I wish I had some. :)

[magicninja]

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[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Whatever drugs you are on, or need to be on in order to understand this forum...

I wish I had some. :)
read the thread on the legalization of marijuana, then you'll see what drugs he's on!

[magicninja]

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[Tonja_Renee]

...........lmao!!!

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

lol, dude, that's totally you!

[Tele Master]

I thought Nova Scotians were tough...It was -26, -35 with the wind today in Ottawa..and I work outside.

[magicninja]

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[Tonja_Renee]

I thought Nova Scotians were tough...It was -26, -35 with the wind today in Ottawa..and I work outside.

I wasn't including the wind chill - it was about the same.... I guess I'm not that tough :(

We've been spoiled this year - normally I get more used to the cold, but because it's been so mild - I guess I whimped out with this cold snap...

There is no freakin way I would be working outside - NO THANKS.... It's bad enough I have to walk to the car.... :)

[earthman buck]

Gettin' mighty sick of the smilies, Ninja......

[magicninja]

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[earthman buck]

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Ooohhhh........alright........

[magicninja]

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[earthman buck]

You're gonna have to say something sooner or later. I think.....

[magicninja]

I was just wondering how long I could keep it up.http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/musik/music-smiley-005.gif

[Rsam16]

I hate winter!! :mad: It's -10 celcius which is 14 fahrenheit... Where is everyone from?, and is it warmer than where I am, which is Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.....

I need to dream of palm trees and beaches, and temperatures above freezing...


Well, I live in Miami. Where winter doesn't exist ;)

Btw, Today it was beautiful 75 degree weather, and I went to the Beach and hung out under a palm tree. :cool: (not making it up)

[Tonja_Renee]

Well, I live in Miami. Where winter doesn't exist ;)

Btw, Today it was beautiful 75 degree weather, and I went to the Beach and hung out under a palm tree. :cool: (not making it up)


ok - I'm extremely jealous - and I hate you.... :o

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Well, I live in Miami. Where winter doesn't exist ;)
nope no winter.. just hurricanes.. we've actually had similar weather here in cali, it just started raining yesterday, before that it was extremely sunny and actually kinda hot.

[Rsam16]

ok - I'm extremely jealous - and I hate you.... :o

HAHA!!! LMFAO :D :D

[Rsam16]

nope no winter.. just hurricanes.. we've actually had similar weather here in cali, it just started raining yesterday, before that it was extremely sunny and actually kinda hot.

yeah man, hurricane Season (June to Dec.) Sucks but the rest of the year is awesome. Hardly ever too hot or too cold. ;)

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

yeah man, hurricane Season (June to Dec.) Sucks but the rest of the year is awesome. Hardly ever too hot or too cold. ;)
just too humid! ugh..

I like our 65-80 degree springs that only have occasional rain. followed by the 80-110 degree summers, though it didn't go over 100 last summer. fall is nice mild weather too.. winter is the only one that sucks, it rains.. in cali, it doesn't rain often, but when it does, it pours.. as magicninja said.

[Rsam16]

just too humid! ugh..

I like our 65-80 degree springs that only have occasional rain. followed by the 80-110 degree summers, though it didn't go over 100 last summer. fall is nice mild weather too.. winter is the only one that sucks, it rains.. in cali, it doesn't rain often, but when it does, it pours.. as magicninja said.

did you know that it has never gone up to 100 in miami :eek:

The highest temperature on record was 98 back in 1956.

[Lordathestrings]

OOOOHH!! What I wouldn't give for +32 C right now.... Oh crap its starting to snow - I really really hate winter...... Although I have not been to the prairies... They tell me that the cold air is different there - dryer... but still -30 sucks. I feel for ya.

Yeah, I've been told that prairie cold is not as bad as coast cold, because it's not so damp and bone-penetrating.

I lived in Ottawa before I moved to Calgary. My father, and more than a few of my friends, are from Down East. Anyone who thinks there's no humidity at temperatures like -30 needs to get out more. :rolleyes:

In Calgary, -30 is cold, but you can do silly things like run out to your car to retrieve something without bothering to put on your coat or gloves. Uncomfortable, but a sweater will get you there and back, even when the wind is howling.

In Ottawa, at -30, the cold seems to take on the characteristics of a hostile life-form. Any weakness in your defences will be pried open, the cold will sink into your bones, and the pain can make grown men weep.

On the coast, the wind off the North Atlantic can cut through a heavy coat like a double-bit axe. And the dampness makes clothes stay cold for a long time after you get inside. -30 in The Maritimes is cause to stay in bed, and pull the covers over your head 'til half-past March! :eek:


It's similar with the summers, too.

In Calgary, I can shave right after I shower because the mirror doesn't fog up. When it hits +30, people born here whine about the heat and humidity, and I laugh at 'em. There's always enough of a breeze to keep you cooled off if you get out of direct sunlight, and when the sun goes down, the temperature drops at least 10 degrees. I brought a 10,000 BTU widow-mount air conditioner with me from Ottawa, because I couldn't comprehend getting through a summer without it. I don't know if it still works, because I haven't plugged it in since I got here. I moved here in May of 2000.

I don't miss Ottawa summers at all. You sweat so much that you feel downright slimy all the time. A shower seems like a great idea for cooling off, until you try it. Unless the water is ice-cold, you will sweat while you're in there, and then the humidity won't allow you to dry off. If do fall for the temptation to shower with cold water, you soon regret it, because the air then feels like a thick, wet blanket. And it doesn't cool off at night. At all.

Maritime summers? Think in terms of chewing the air before you can inhale! Even the rain is warm! And it rains a lot. :p

[PRSplaya]

I don't miss Ottawa summers at all. You sweat so much that you feel downright slimy all the time. A shower seems like a great idea for cooling off, until you try it. Unless the water is ice-cold, you will sweat while you're in there, and then the humidity won't allow you to dry off.
It can get like that down here in the deep South in the middle of January. Down here we refer to that kind of heat and humidity (I don't know what it's like for it not to be humid as hell) as "Swamp Ass". Here's an exampl of swamp ass if full swing:

Defenition of Swamp Ass (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/PRSplaya/Various/IM000159.jpg)

That was taken this past August I believe. The temerature was set to cremate that day. Somewhere around 100*F with around 80% humidity

[jeffhx]

i cant imagine living in an environment with temperatures -10C... im freezing my arse off at 14C...

[Lordathestrings]

i cant imagine living in an environment with temperatures -10C... im freezing my arse off at 14C...
LOL! Years ago, my buddy married a lovely lady from the Phillipines, who arrived in Ottawa with him in mid-February. I remember her saying (among other things) that she thought we all drove electric cars, because we plugged them in every night. She had never even heard of such a thing as a block heater!

[Tonja_Renee]

i cant imagine living in an environment with temperatures -10C... im freezing my arse off at 14C...


Actually things are starting to warm up now - it is -6C outside right now, but if you factor in the wind it feels like -13C... I don't find it nearly as bad as the last couple of days.....

It's actually going to get to +2C by Friday - it will be balmy... :)

[Cryptic Excretions]

Cold weather is gay.

[magicninja]

It can get like that down here in the deep South in the middle of January. Down here we refer to that kind of heat and humidity (I don't know what it's like for it not to be humid as hell) as "Swamp Ass". Here's an exampl of swamp ass if full swing:

Defenition of Swamp Ass (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/PRSplaya/Various/IM000159.jpg)

That was taken this past August I believe. The temerature was set to cremate that day. Somewhere around 100*F with around 80% humidity
In a plywood box with a bunch of electric gear to boot! Too dry out here for swamp ass but it gets quite warm. 106 is the warmest day I can remember.

[R. Shackleferd]

Humid heat...now yer talking stuff I can understand. It has yet to freeze here in my town this winter. Tommorrow's high is 80 with a low of 65. I might have to break out a flannel! :cool:

[jiujitsu_jesus]

I lived in Ottawa before I moved to Calgary. My father, and more than a few of my friends, are from Down East. Anyone who thinks there's no humidity at temperatures like -30 needs to get out more. :rolleyes:

In Calgary, -30 is cold, but you can do silly things like run out to your car to retrieve something without bothering to put on your coat or gloves. Uncomfortable, but a sweater will get you there and back, even when the wind is howling.

In Ottawa, at -30, the cold seems to take on the characteristics of a hostile life-form. Any weakness in your defences will be pried open, the cold will sink into your bones, and the pain can make grown men weep.

On the coast, the wind off the North Atlantic can cut through a heavy coat like a double-bit axe. And the dampness makes clothes stay cold for a long time after you get inside. -30 in The Maritimes is cause to stay in bed, and pull the covers over your head 'til half-past March! :eek:


It's similar with the summers, too.

In Calgary, I can shave right after I shower because the mirror doesn't fog up. When it hits +30, people born here whine about the heat and humidity, and I laugh at 'em. There's always enough of a breeze to keep you cooled off if you get out of direct sunlight, and when the sun goes down, the temperature drops at least 10 degrees. I brought a 10,000 BTU widow-mount air conditioner with me from Ottawa, because I couldn't comprehend getting through a summer without it. I don't know if it still works, because I haven't plugged it in since I got here. I moved here in May of 2000.

I don't miss Ottawa summers at all. You sweat so much that you feel downright slimy all the time. A shower seems like a great idea for cooling off, until you try it. Unless the water is ice-cold, you will sweat while you're in there, and then the humidity won't allow you to dry off. If do fall for the temptation to shower with cold water, you soon regret it, because the air then feels like a thick, wet blanket. And it doesn't cool off at night. At all.

Maritime summers? Think in terms of chewing the air before you can inhale! Even the rain is warm! And it rains a lot. :p

*jaw drops* ......

The coldest outdoor temperature I've ever experienced is about -10 C. And that was in Japan.

How do you SURVIVE up there in Canada, man?!

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

*jaw drops* ......

The coldest outdoor temperature I've ever experienced is about -10 C. And that was in Japan.

How do you SURVIVE up there in Canada, man?!
didn't you know? LATS is an eskimo

[magicninja]

Quinn the Eskimo......that is.

[jeffhx]

the worst ive ever went through was -3C... geez... yea i looked like an eskimo then... not to mention a fat one...

[magicninja]

You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.

[Tonja_Renee]

the worst ive ever went through was -3C... geez... yea i looked like an eskimo then... not to mention a fat one...


I have gone camping in a tent when it was -3C... Woke up and the water was frozen.... and yes this was like in the month of MAY.

Not to miseducate people - but it was an UNUSUAL cold snap to have below zero in MAY.

[rockonn91]

hmmm, well it will be a nice 70 F here tomorro. :D but then the cold front will move in and we'll plummet back down :(

[markc2005]

its ment to be going down to -7C tonight and i have a rugby tournements, its goin to be a cold night out
this england, south yorkshire

[iamthe_eggman]

I thought Nova Scotians were tough...It was -26, -35 with the wind today in Ottawa..and I work outside.

Nova Scotians? Tough? HA!! I've known a lot of Nova Scotians and have yet to meet a single one that is tough when it comes to cold weather. They're always complaining about the cold when it's only -10C! Granted, most are from the Annapolis Valley, where the weather is more temperate. But, come on, you can't be a Canadian and not enjoy -10C weather! That's beach party time! I don't even consider it to be winter until it drops below -20C.

Toronto doesn't get nearly as cold as other places in Canada, but it is one of the few places that gets both -35C and +35C in the same year. Crazy.

[Akira]

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[acapella]

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How desperately I wish I could rep you again.

[jeffhx]

Toronto doesn't get nearly as cold as other places in Canada, but it is one of the few places that gets both -35C and +35C in the same year. Crazy.

geez...can anything live in that condition? -35C.... i can hardly even imagine what's it like...

[earthman buck]

How desperately I wish I could rep you again.
I think you spelled 'rape' wrong.

[Akira]

How desperately I wish I could rep you again.

You owe me. :cool:

[acapella]

geez...can anything live in that condition? -35C.... i can hardly even imagine what's it like...

Try coming to ol' Canada. You'd die before the year was up. If you lived though, you could never be hurt again. Scientific fact.

[acapella]

You owe me. :cool:

Did you make that yourself? If so I will definitely change that spelling...

[Akira]

Did you make that yourself? If so I will definitely change that spelling...

Yes?

[acapella]

Yes?
Alright. Keep an eye open for the guy with the balaclava and best of intentions.

[Akira]

Alright. Keep an eye open for the guy with the balaclava and best of intentions.

Will do. :)

[Tele Master]

I dunno, I like the season changes. I'd be bored without them I think.

[Tonja_Renee]

I love the different seasons as well - my favorite would be Fall.... especially here the leaves just pop with so much color in the fall and the days are still warm but the nights are cooler.... Definately my favorite time of year...

and I like snow just about until Christmas and then I have had my fill.. We used to have a snowmobile and man that was fun - I loved the snow back then, but we don't have it anymore so no more need for the snow....

[PonyOne]

I cannot possibly emphasize how much I miss falls in the Northeast (I spent my teen years in Boston), and rain (born/raised in Seattle).

It's been pretty sunny the last couple days; it poured down hard three days ago but that was a fluke.

[Tonja_Renee]

A couple of years ago I had to go to California on business.... it was in February. My boss knew I had never been so he wanted me to see everything....

We landed in San Fransisco and drove through the mountains to Tulare (where the conference was) and then drove to San Diego and then I came back to LA. I spent the weekend in LA by myself (that was a freakin treat)...

Anyway the weather was beautiful sunny everyday and warm - I loved it... The only thing I didn't like was when we going through the mountains it was like a blizzard and about three feet of snow on the ground...I was pissed.

I was like "I did not come to California to see effing snow!!"

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

A couple of years ago I had to go to California on business.... it was in February. My boss knew I had never been so he wanted me to see everything....

We landed in San Fransisco and drove through the mountains to Tulare (where the conference was) and then drove to San Diego and then I came back to LA. I spent the weekend in LA by myself (that was a freakin treat)...

Anyway the weather was beautiful sunny everyday and warm - I loved it... The only thing I didn't like was when we going through the mountains it was like a blizzard and about three feet of snow on the ground...I was pissed.

I was like "I did not come to California to see effing snow!!"
you landed in san fransisco and drove to san diego? wow.. that's like an 8 or 9 hour drive.. 15 if you hit LA traffic :D

[Tonja_Renee]

you landed in san fransisco and drove to san diego? wow.. that's like an 8 or 9 hour drive.. 15 if you hit LA traffic :D


Well, we didn't do it all in one day... We stayed in San Fransisco one day then drove to Bakersfield and stayed like three day there and then drove to San Diego where we stayed a couple of days and the rest were in LA...

Do its not nearly as bad as it sounds.... Although being from Nova Scotia where there is vertually no traffic to trying to drive in LA - well lets just say it was an experience....

But I couldn't get over the fact that it was sunny and relatively warm...and no bugs either....

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Well, we didn't do it all in one day... We stayed in San Fransisco one day then drove to Bakersfield and stayed like three day there and then drove to San Diego where we stayed a couple of days and the rest were in LA...

Do its not nearly as bad as it sounds.... Although being from Nova Scotia where there is vertually no traffic to trying to drive in LA - well lets just say it was an experience....

But I couldn't get over the fact that it was sunny and relatively warm...and no bugs either....
no bugs in the cities, get out to in an open area and you'll get mesquitos alot, nothing major though.

[Jeff Flowerday]

It's been pretty nice here in Calgary all winter. I'm pleasantly surprised!!!

[Vegas Wierdo]

I am born/raised in Los Angeles, multi-generational.

I currently reside in Las Vegas.

It is about 74 degrees outside.

I am sitting right next to a screen door with a nice breeze coming in, shoeless, sockless, and shirtless.

Birds are chirping happily.

I just felt I should inform you less fortunate ones as to the current climatic state of my environs. :cool: :D

[Tonja_Renee]

I am born/raised in Los Angeles, multi-generational.

I currently reside in Las Vegas.

It is about 74 degrees outside.

I am sitting right next to a screen door with a nice breeze coming in, shoeless, sockless, and shirtless.

Birds are chirping happily.

I just felt I should inform you less fortunate ones as to the current climatic state of my environs. :cool: :D

Thanks for that - it really made my day....

[Vegas Wierdo]

It's 8:44 p.m. The sun's all the way down and the birds are asleep. But I'm sitting in the same spot as last time and - *gasp* oh, look! - there's still nothing between me and all that sublime weather outside but a measly screen door. :D

The only difference now is that it's dropped by maybe three degrees, and the stiff breeze - perfect for model sailboats in the park (Vegas does actually have parks with big ponds) - is all but gone, down to a barely perceptible, gentle lilt.

Hmmmmmm... for some reason I'm hearing Peter Frampton in my head....

"Tropical Islands in the Suuuuuuuun / Wish I could buy one / Out of seeeaaasonnnn...." :cool: :D

[Tonja_Renee]

Ok - its not funny anymore - I am really starting to dislike you. :o

[Rsam16]

Ok - its not funny anymore - I am really starting to dislike you. :o

Oh Tonja... Must you hate everyone ;)

[Tonja_Renee]

Just people who rub it in how warm they are --- I really hate the freakin cold...

and he was really rubbing it in...

It makes me very jealous.... I need some warmth.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

Just people who rub it in how warm they are --- I really hate the freakin cold...

and he was really rubbing it in...

It makes me very jealous.... I need some warmth.
*offers Tonja my blanky*

dude, you're in vegas, of course it's warm, but since it's a desert, as soon as the sun goes down the temperature drops really quickly. perhaps not below 40 or 50 F though. which is about what it is here..

damn this global warming crap, huh? :rolleyes:

[Vegas Wierdo]

Not this time of year! It's just starting to get nice and pleasant. :D

Also, it depends on what kind of desert you're in. Las Vegas is part of the Mojave system... it and the Gibson Desert of Australia are both characterized by even temperatures for 24 hours. It's almost midnight and it's maybe dropped four or five degrees from when I last posted.

It's colder than a welldigger's @$$ (by our standards) between mid-late December and late February. It might get up to 70-something in the day but it can get near freezing at night, sometimes below. It snows once every ten years and you get to see snow on a cactus... but it lasts about half a day.

It's hilarious during the cold part of the year to see people from the Midwest, East Coast, etc. come in thinking it's going to be like Hawaii... all these young-20s tourist girls nearly nude in their 'clubwear' and middle-aged tourists running around in polo shirts and shorts... all shivering, cursing, angry that they were deceived. On New Years Eve I witnessed a girl from New York get hypothermia... her skirt was shorter than the sleeves on my t-shirt, and the five or six guys with her all had to take off their sportcoats and they practically had to truss her up in them and carry her into one of the casinos for medical attention. They must have stepped off the plane not but a few hours before I encountered them. Ironically enough, back in New York it was probably twenty bazillion degrees below zero. Guess they figured it would be a warm, tropical alternative to Times Square.

(Little known secret: I'm told the Strip outdoes Times Square, aside from the national TV coverage and the fact that New Years hits there before it does here.)

And don't worry, ya'll will get to laugh at me all you want once it hits late May. Between then and early-mid September I'll have my choice of barely making rent because of the AC bill or sleeping in the bathtub with ice packs on me and a wet towel around my neck. Right now my power bill is, like, 30 bucks a month because Hoover Dam makes it plentiful and cheap. Average bill, for, say, a couple of old retired farts living in a one bedroom apartment the size of mine can be upwards of... $250 on up. The oldsters require it to survive, unlike a young cat like me... but the bill will still be in the triple digits. So read that as: well under 50 bones when it's cool... into the triple digits when it ain't.

Sometimes the geezers can't pay up and Nevada Power cuts 'em off... and a few days later the neighbors call the city to complain about the stench... and when the Coroner shows up, the new guy pukes.

I moved here August 29th of 2005 and it was over 120 degrees. That's... like... interior-of-North-Africa weather. :eek: And it doesn't cool down at night; the only difference is that the sun isn't there to peel your flesh right off your bones or to worsen your eyesight.

It's a dry heat, sure, but when it's that frickin' hot it doesn't matter... at least according to the EastCoasters/Midwesterners that have relocated here.

People don't jog outside. And this is a place known for fitness addicts, just like L.A. The streets are deserted and the bums will only come out at night. Small children's bed times go from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. during summer break (I am not joking!). You'll see family BBQs in the parks... but they will begin after sundown and go until 1 or 2 a.m. Kids don't go on playground equipment; they play in fountains/waterworks instead, though if the nearest park is too poor to have any of that then they don't go. I'm not exaggerating. That's how bad it gets.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

I've been to nevada in the summer, I belive it was 114 that day.. damn, I stepped out of the car and already couldn't take it.. I live in california, the temperature rarely gets below 40, and only sometimes gets to 110-ish, during the summer, the average day is in mid to upper 90's during the day, like lower to mid 80's during the night. I love the warm summer evenings. occasionally it'll get above 100, on those days I go swimming in my friend's pool! lol. but for the most part, the weather is awesome here. it too is a dry heat like nevada, it's only a state away, lol.

is it wrong that I don't feel the least bit sorry that you and me are comparing how hot our homes get while half the people on this board are freezing right now?

[Vegas Wierdo]

is it wrong that I don't feel the least bit sorry that you and me are comparing how hot our homes get while half the people on this board are freezing right now?

Nawwwwwwwwwwww.... :cool: :D

[Tonja_Renee]

I don't even have the ability to comprehend what you guys are talking about - I have never been anywhere really warm - I went to California once - but that was like February....

It rarely even makes it to 90 here - maybe a few times every summer, but it hasn't been 100 here in say 20 years..... The average Termperature in the summer is 75 - 80 degrees F and that is only like July and August - and then it get really really humid.

You say it is awful - and I'm sure it is... But right now its -7C - and I'm unable to compute... I could literately crawl into my oven :)

[Lordathestrings]

It's been pretty nice here in Calgary all winter. I'm pleasantly surprised!!!

Yeah, it was really mild and spring-like from mid-December until about a week ago. Now, with the cold temperatures and all the snow, I keep thinking I hear Bing Crosby singing "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"! Oh, well, there's a Chinook starting tomorrow. We'll get back above the freezing mark for a couple of days before dropping back into the double-digit cold stuff again.

I'm so looking forward to Stampede!

[R. Shackleferd]

My sister lived in Cologne, Germany for a year, and that summer they had a "heat wave" there. The family she was staying with told her not to go running one particular day cuz of the heat...it was too dangerous. She just laughed, it was probably in the low 90's; just about as pleasant as it gets here in Texas in the summer.