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Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:55 am
by Munken
I was afraid of that, I take a hammer with me :)

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:56 pm
by tbhager94
well my van wouldnt start today and it was plugged in , it turns out the wires going in to the plug on the van were broken so i got to fix it in -35 weather, 5 min job but damn cold .

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:35 pm
by SoCalli V8
It`s been pissing down here in LA, for this past weekend..... People can`t handle it, and are crashing all over the place.

Rush hour traffic tomorrow is gonna be a total panic Zoo !

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:33 am
by CaptSquid
Fie on your warm weather, you wanker!

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:53 am
by Munken
The largest temperature difference I have experienced in one day is 69ºc. Started at Bangkok airport with +37ºc, and landed 8 hours later in Moscow with -32ºc. :yikes:

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:05 am
by Rebel
The largest temperature difference I have experienced in one day is 69ºc. Started at Bangkok airport with +37ºc, and landed 8 hours later in Moscow with -32ºc.
Biggest change I ever experienced was flying out of Rhode Island at 6* and landing at Rosie Rhodes, Puerto Rico where it was 90*F. Stepped off that cargo plane and it took my breath away but didn't take long for this ol southern boy to get back in the groove. Hottest I've ever been was while working on a Merchant ship with no AC one summer shuttling jet fuel between Bahrain in the Persion Gulf to Vietnam. 122 *F in the Gulf. Now that's HOT.

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:44 am
by Munken
Rebel wrote: Biggest change I ever experienced was flying out of Rhode Island at 6* and landing at Rosie Rhodes, Puerto Rico where it was 90*F. Stepped off that cargo plane and it took my breath away but didn't take long for this ol southern boy to get back in the groove. Hottest I've ever been was while working on a Merchant ship with no AC one summer shuttling jet fuel between Bahrain in the Persion Gulf to Vietnam. 122 *F in the Gulf. Now that's HOT.
I know the feeling, first time I was in Miami and the doors at the airport open and I went out. I could feel my shirt sticking to my body. But now I'm more familiar with it, it´s the same every time I come to Bangkok, but then I know in advance what to expect. The hottest I experienced was at Patong beach Thailand it was +43ºc or 108ºf. And I can say I didn´t walk fast, everything went in slow motion. :)

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:57 am
by Munken
Munken wrote:The largest temperature difference I have experienced in one day is 69ºc. Started at Bangkok airport with +37ºc, and landed 8 hours later in Moscow with -32ºc. :yikes:
I must add:
When I got on the plane in Bangkok, I was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and Bermuda shorts and a lot of Gin to that. :partyman:

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:09 pm
by CaptSquid
Gotcha beat, Larry. When I was in the PG in 87, it was 135º daytime with 95% humidity. Doing the Ditch wasn't much better, except it wasn't nearly as humid -- just plain HOT!

Right now, it's -8º with a wind chill of -21º and snow all over the ground.

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:05 pm
by Rebel
Right now, it's -8º with a wind chill of -21º and snow all over the ground.
Man,,get out of there Mike,,that's making me cold down here at the 96 just thinking about it. Get out NOW. :yikes:

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:34 am
by SoCalli V8
CaptSquid wrote:Fie on your warm weather, you wanker!
You can always move to warmer climes, Grumpy....

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:50 am
by CaptSquid
It gets warmer here than in LA when summer rolls around. One advantage to living up here -- THE GROUND STAYS STILL!

I've already been on that ride. I ain't gonna ride it no more!

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:52 am
by Kabey's Van
Edmonton on Sunday hit a new low for that day, -46c, -58c with the wind chill. That's -51 fahrenheit with a wind chill of -72 fahrenheit. =D>
It was the coldest place in North America, the only other place that recorded colder temperatures was Siberia. Now that's cold.
I have worked in Alberta's oil patch in these temperatures and it is something you can't explain you just have to experience it.

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:39 am
by mdmead
Temps here in Central WA are in the upper 20s this morning. But the 4" of snow we received last night sure is pretty! (Our first sticking snow of the season.)

Re: How COLD is it?

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:03 am
by CaptSquid
The beauty of the snow-covering is worth the cold.