Are we ready for the cold and heat? Don't know.

[1srelluc]

As soon as I saw Blair, I thought the storm was off to invade Iraq.

As the article points out -

we expect commuters to face wintry travel conditions

It's winter, so if ANYONE needed that advice, mankind is doomed.

What colour is Blair? Yellow, Amber, Red?

Linda Blair....Puke green?

 

[Cellblock2429]

Linda Blair....Puke green?

/—-/ I could only watch it once.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I guess it's all relative. When I lived in Texas, it only took 20 degree weather and a light dusting of snow on the pavement before everyone started sliding off the roads and everything shut down. The stores don't even sell warm clothes and all-weather tires like they do up north. The first thing I did when I moved to Wisconsin was discovering the joy of nice, thick, pure wool socks and those ice cleats you strap onto your boots.

Our driveway is long and steep and when the ground freezes, it only takes a light rain before the driveway turns into an icy luge run. But the feed store up the road sells 50 pound bags of barn lime for $4, and light dusting of that on the ice, and you can walk or drive right up it with no problem.

My kids grew up in the south. In 1991, we moved from Florida to Rhode Island for half a year in March. A few days after arriving, we had 9 inches of snow. My kids had no heavy coats, no boots, or even gloves. You could not buy them in any stores either. We put socks on their hands with bread wrappers over them, and bread wrappers over their shoes and as many shirts as they could stand under their jackets. They got to play in the snow for one of the few times in their lives.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

My parents used Fahrenheit, old fashioned. Celsius is like inch, feet, yard, it relates to something. An inch was part of the thumb, 12 of those was a foot etc.. When water freezes, that's 0c, when it boils, that's 100c. With Fahrenheit, what in our surroundings relates to 32f. Just like inches, celsius makes more sense.

"There's ice today"

"Yeah, that's freezing, 32".

Fahrenheit is more accurate as it is 1.8 degrees Celsius for every degree Fahrenheit. Everyone knows that 32 is cold, 0 is really cold. 70 is nice and 90 is very hot. Celsius is more confusing and less accurate.

 

[westwall]

The UK has a Green, Yellow, Amber, and Red warning system. Apparently it applies to temperature, snow, rain, flooding, and winds.

Cold-Health Alerts

Cold-Health Alerts will help planning and preparedness this winter by keeping you informed

www.metoffice.gov.uk

I see them light up over the motorway, "Heavy rain - Amber warning".

So with the recent panic of it getting cold (in winter, who would have thought ), I thought, "That's it, I'm going to find out what constitutes Green, Yellow, Amber, and Red for temperature ". But I've no idea. Is Amber -5c to -8c for temperature? What's Red rain? 1" rainfall, 3" rainfall? How do I equate a colour to normal life?

Useless system.

Does the US have a similar useless system?

And heavy rain? Water must have different weight, lol

Nope. No system. We experience up to 80 degree shifts in temperature over the period of a month or so, and we seem to be coping ok.

 

[westwall]

23 degrees F is t-shirt weather up here. It doesn't even make my man nipples perk up.

That's a lie! Your nips are always hard! Aaronleland ratted you out!

 

[1srelluc]

Nope. No system. We experience up to 80 degree shifts in temperature over the period of a month or so, and we seem to be coping ok.

Hell, during deer season (rifle) it's nothing for it to be below freezing at day light with a heavy frost and then be in the low 70s when you go out on the afternoon hunt around 2:30pm......Then in the 40s when you head back to hunt camp at dark.

 

[westwall]

Hell, during deer season (rifle) it's nothing for it to be below freezing at day light with a heavy frost and then be in the low 70s when you go out on the afternoon hunt around 2:30pm......Then in the 40s when you head back to hunt camp at dark.

Pretty much the same here. I'm at 7000 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains, so an 80 degree shift is nothing.

We had one year where in the morning it was around 75, then a storm came in and dumped 3 feet of snow and then the temp dropped to -8.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Bit more knowledge, Amber alert because of the cold spell coming, we have to "Brace" ourselves for "Plunging" temperatures. Are you braced? Could get down to............. -4c (24.8f)

It's ok though -

The agency said that low temperatures were likely to result in increased use of health care services by vulnerable people and an increase in risk to health for individuals aged 65 and above, as well as those with pre-existing health conditions.

MSN

So Amber cold is -4c, goes after those that are 65+, and the sick. Scary stuff

 

[Winco]

unless it's under ZERO degrees F in either air temp or wind chill.

where I live (Michigan):

I went to the UP from WI and over the Mackinaw Bridge and through Traverse City for Breakfast, then through Central MI and to UM, and finally in Detroit.

I LOVED it, what a great SUMMER trip.
Winter, no thanks.

 

[Winco]

Pretty much the same here. I'm at 7000 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains, so an 80 degree shift is nothing.

We had one year where in the morning it was around 75, then a storm came in and dumped 3 feet of snow and then the temp dropped to -8.

Sweet, my experience was in San Antonio.
80 degrees, driving around with windows down, and the radio said there was a storm coming in.

And Holy Shit, within 4 hours the temp dropped 50 degrees.
We were in the parking lot of Texas Roadhouse, LOVE that place, and walking to the door was freezing. It was only 30°F, but felt like 10°F with the wind.

Next day, back to 70+

 

[westwall]

Sweet, my experience was in San Antonio.
80 degrees, driving around with windows down, and the radio said there was a storm coming in.

And Holy Shit, within 4 hours the temp dropped 50 degrees.
We were in the parking lot of Texas Roadhouse, LOVE that place, and walking to the door was freezing. It was only 30°F, but felt like 10°F with the wind.

Next day, back to 70+

Yup, ain't the weather grand!

 

[Winco]

Yup, ain't the weather grand!

In Western Washington, we get too much 38-45 and drizzle for 5 months.

 

[westwall]

In Western Washington, we get too much 38-45 and drizzle for 5 months.

Well c'mon, that's kinda the whole point of the Olympic peninsula.

 

[Winco]

Well c'mon, that's kinda the whole point of the Olympic peninsula.

I live on the I-5 Corridor , between the Olympic and the Cascades.
The Olympics are 100 Miles away.