Thousands in Peril as Temperatures Plunge Below 40 in Central FL

[awp_101]

It's 8 degrees F right now up here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul. Over the next week, the highest predicted daily high temperature here is 21, and the lowest overnight low (actual temp, *not* windchill) is -16, and that's just business as usual in January.

[mmc45414]

It's 8 degrees F right now up here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul.
that's just business as usual in January.

It is not just business as usual for us, but here in Ohio it is cold today. Only a couple of us went out for our normal Sunday session, and the other guy is Canadian. And I think we mainly just did it to see what it was like. It was 10F when I was driving away. But nice and sunny.


ETA: We decided we would pick up our brass on another day. Another warmer day...

[Stephanie B]

About two hours ago, it was 45 here. Now it's 28 and the wind is howling.

Last night, it snowed and then turned to rain. I scraped the slushy mess from the driveway so it wouldn't freeze. The rain, fortunately, moved out before the temperatures began dropping. I'd rather deal with a foot of snow than a half-inch of ice. Ice brings down powerlines, primarily because the cheap-jack utilities clear the tree limbs and brush away from them about once every other decade.

I've got a ticket to They Shall Not Grow Old for tomorrow. Hopefully, the roads will be well salted and sanded.

[Casual Friday]

Be a man's drink.

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[RJ]

I cannot comprehend temperatures that cold.

Actually I can:

February 1996, on a business trip to Montreal, we were walking back from dinner near the Blvd Renè Levesque. (We ate at Le Maison d’Homard, if I recall correctly.)

Bank thermometer read -27.7°C.

That was cold.

[BN]

Bank thermometer read -27.7°C.

What's that in American?

[RJ]

What's that in American?

Almost 18 below zero.

[Hambo]

I'm always amused when I see locals wearing long pants and jackets when it's 65 or 70 degrees out and I'm wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

That's how we can tell the tourists. Well, that and their pale white skin.

It was 10F when I was driving away. But nice and sunny.

But it's a dry frostbite.

[olstyn]

What's that in American?

Almost 18 below zero.

"Fun" fact: -40 F = -40 C, so it's only at truly awful temperatures that the two scales coincide.

[mmc45414]

But it's a dry frostbite.

Yeah, we had a nice time, but stayed out about a third of the time we usually do, but with about a forth of the usual crowd it didn't take long to get our shooting in.

We decided for the day our starting position was "Strong hand in pocket on handwarmer, shooter ready?..."