Rant; Winter 2013/14

[lukethedrifter]

Sounds like great weather to work outside.

[jim]

Sounds like great weather to work outside.

Oh is there a football game in St. Louis this weekend? Blues playing outside? Soccer game at B3?

[stlouie_lipp]

Awesome.

More snow.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning effective through 6 p.m. Sunday for DeKalb County. The area could see 5 to 10 inches of additional snow on top of what's already fallen.

Snow will begin Saturday afternoon and continue into Sunday. Periods of heavy snow will occur at times, along with 15 to 30 mph northwest winds.

The area could see record-low temperatures beginning Sunday night, with wind chill readings as low as 40 to 50 below zero starting Monday.

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2014/01/ ... t/ah1lvit/

[jim]

This is actually scary. Tomorrow we are supposed to take Ryan back to school. It's not far - 45 minutes away - but we have to haul his clothes and a TV and misc. stuff back up. Plus driving there etc..

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

What would happwn if u took a leak outside in negative 50 degree weather? Would it freeze on the tip and create an ice pee dam

[stlouie_lipp]

What would happwn if u took a leak outside in negative 50 degree weather? Would it freeze on the tip and create an ice pee dam

Well I figure it comes out at roughly 98.6, so that's a net of 40.

[IMADreamer]

What would happwn if u took a leak outside in negative 50 degree weather? Would it freeze on the tip and create an ice pee dam

No, but I suggest everyone get some water balloons tonight then go out early next week when it's that cold and see what happens when you break them. It's pretty cool.

[Freed Roger]

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[Maclowery]

It's weird being a midwesterner out in NYC. I lived through months of constant hellish hardened snow/ice/glop hellishness in my undergrad years in Iowa, drove through blizzards to get home, lived in Chicago for some truly brutal weather.

Now I have been in NYC for my third winter. The last two were absolute jokes. A few nights ago I hear about this NATIONAL O GOD EMERGENCY WHAT THE HECK BLIZZARD hitting the east coast. We got about 5 inches. Monday, the projected temp for NYC is 46 degrees, and STL is 3. Three.

I know upstate New York gets absurd piles of snow. And I remember 2010 when New Yorkers remember their big blizzard - you guys know, the one that shut down the entire damn city of Chicago.

Rant over. This town is a buncha pansies.

[jim]

I listen to a national news podcast every morning, and it's comical to hear them talk about the storms on the east coast. The program does come out of Washington DC, so maybe that's part of it, but it's supposed to cover the entire nation. There is definitely east coast bias when it comes to weather.

It just looks so awful out right now. I shoveled last night to make today easier, there was probably 3-4" on the ground. I can't tell now because of the blowing. Worst wind chills this afternoon, so I will try to get out this morning and clean it off.

The high temps for tomorrow have fluctuated all over the place, a couple of days ago it was a high of -6 or something and now all of the forecasts are saying a high of - double digits. Right now NOAA is saying a high of -14 to -18.