@Blitzenexx Ya'll are havin' it rough. Our low for today and tomorrow is 26F, but that's only between the 4-8am hours. rest of the day gets up to 45-50F. And Sunday it will be 78F...and humid. It's always humid. @ThanosReXXX@NEStalgia
I couldn't resist.
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@JackEatsSparrows: I'm pretty sure these are the coldest temps we've had in my area since the winter of early 2014. This round didn't come with a foot of snow at least. We had two major snowstorms (~12" from each) that year: one in early January, and the other in early February. The weather was such that only about half of the snow from the first round had melted before round two hit.
The good news is that I bought my current house later that year; the old heating system crapped out in that February snowstorm, so the previous owners installed a new one. It's been keeping up pretty well for the most part.
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@Blitzenexx See, the very thought of that kind of temperature here is terrifying. We'll be around 0. we've not hit below -1 in a good 25 or 30 years. But even at 0 most houses end up with frozen/burst plumbing, and water mains start blowing up all over the streets. We didn't get temps down that low for decades, and now they're an annual thing. And it wreaks havoc. you never know if the plumbing will survive the cold snap or if you'll be using your garden as an outhouse for the next 3 months. The thought of going BELOW that....I'm not sure how it's even remotely possible to function. No idea how you guys do that. Or why any sane person would live there. (Not sure why any sane person would live here either, but that's for other reasons.... )
@Blitzenexx That's the year we got like 2". It was wonderful. I've seen snow about 3 times in the past 12 years, haha. Just pee in your wetsuit if you get too cold, everyone. I've heard that helps.
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@CurryPowderKeg79: We're pretty close to setting an overall record low high today from what I've heard. I'll have to remember to check for certain when I get a chance.
Also, Louisville eh? I keep meaning to head that way to try out Kentucky Kingdom sometime.
@NEStalgia: From what I understand, winters here used to have more snow but less weird temps. It's not unheard of for our temps to get below zero here in the coldest parts of winter, but that plus the high wind chill is very uncommon.
An online friend keeps teasing me to move to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. While the area ticks a lot of boxes for me, their winters ensure that I'll never move there lol. I'm definitely never heading north from where I live if I can help it; warm conditions with low humidity, like the American Southwest, are more my speed.
@JackEatsSparrows 3 times in 12 years is far too much. It's the most awful thing. fEven simple things like a walking path to get from one location to another becomes an impassable blockade.
@Blitzenexx Not sure if more snow or more cold is better or worse......but yeah, the weather never really shifted to such extremes. The 1920s and 1970s, were pretty cold though...and the 80's were a close second. But the 1800's were the end of the Little Ice Age, so it makes sense it was especially cold in that century and it's not a fair comparison to "normal" weather. Here, we now have what used to be normal weather for the midwest, and then the entire summer just rains non-stop, so that the whole year is unusable. Though I guess that's "better" than negative-freaking-thirty.
Screw Canada. Freaking penguins.
Also, have you tried licking a lamppost yet?
@CurryPowderKeg79 Keep in mind that while some will scream "climate change" and "global warming" it carefully omits the fact that China/Russia have jointly all but directly stated they're working on weaponized weather manipulation and ionospheric manipulation. And we know we had apparatus in the US designed to manipulate the ionosphere with supercharged energy projections, ostensibly for "military communications" (Because superheating the ionosphere to displace it is the first thing I think of doing when I want to make a call to a battlefield) back in the 90s, which they abandoned because they "have something better now." You can actually tour the array now in AK. So if RU/CN is openly discussing it now, that means they've been doing it for some time, and if they have, that means we've known about it and/or have had counter-operations for some time. Meaning the "weird" weather may in fact be warfare using the planet itself as mass weapons. If so, this gets a lot worse from here. In a weather-based world war, the populations are the targets.
@CurryPowderKeg79: I'd personally take heat over cold as long as there's a body of water where I could cool off if needed...and if the humidity isn't too nasty. That said, long-term heat waves aren't fun either. I find it mildly ironic that North America and Australia are experiencing the polar opposite of temp extremes right now. Maybe some of that heat of ours migrated across the Pacific?
@NEStalgia: I actually don't mind snow of there's only 3-4 inches of it; just enough to cover everything, but not to the point where getting around is difficult to unmanageable. Ice is a different story, but I'll take some snow with a little ice over freezing rain and sleet any day.
Our summer lasted a heck of a lot longer than spring last year; temp-wise, we had maybe five days of spring? XD
Common sense dictates that I don't lick lampposts. I've seen A Christmas Story a couple of times lol.
@NEStalgia Penguins? That better not be veiled racism...
As for your weaponized weather-changing conspiracy theory: how about just simply blaming it on several larger countries around the world still (too) heavily investing in the wrong industries and fossil fuels, including the US, albeit as one of the lesser offenders, compared to the real culprits, mainly found in the Asian region, easily recognized by the yearly smog cycles...
@Blitzenexx Well, you may have seen that movie, but apparently, a whole host of crazy social media video posters haven't, seeing as licking the lamp post still seems to be a thing, in some areas...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ThanosReXXX: Some of the...erm... shenanigans on social media that I've either seen personally or read about make me wonder where the human race is heading sometimes.... If the Tide Pod challenges a few years ago were any indication....
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@Blitzenexx Tide pod challenges? Oh, wait, are those detergent pods? We don't have Tide over here.
Yeah, I've seen them. Currently, I'm trying to wrap my head around the Kiki and the Bird Box challenge.
@ThanosReXXX: Yep, Tide is a brand of detergent. More of those challengers should have grown up on a farm; you learn pretty early not to eat anything that doesn't come out of the fridge or from certain cabinets.
I had to look up what the Bird Box Challenge was when I first heard of it. That's a movie that I apparently missed.
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Some of the...erm... shenanigans on social media that I've either seen personally or read about make me wonder where the human race is heading sometimes.... If the Tide Pod challenges a few years ago were any indication....
The Tide Pod challenge was viral from late 2017 to mid 2018…
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I do have some idea about what goes on in Bird Box, but I don't know if it would be my kind of movie. I'll likely end up watching it at some point though.
Some of the...erm... shenanigans on social media that I've either seen personally or read about make me wonder where the human race is heading sometimes.... If the Tide Pod challenges a few years ago were any indication....
The Tide Pod challenge was viral from late 2017 to mid 2018…
Months then. I wasn't really aware of it past 2017, so years seemed a bit more of a reasonable word at the time.
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@Blitzenexx I would have hoped that it stopped in 2017. Unfortunately, when you are in gen z, you know these kinds of things. It’s mostly negatives, such as having to suffer through “chungus” and being urged to make your own memes.
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