14 Degrees, -12 wind chill

[Chas C Henderson]

Roads where clear and dry. I took my white and blue 71 coupe out to the drug store, subway, and then about 20 miles through the country side of north east Indianapolis. Only time I worried was when i saw the four deer cross the road about 70 yards in front of me. A very enjoyable ride.

What is the caulking material everyone is using to seal the windshield trimgap to the t-top trim piece? I think I used grey silicone caulk last time, but that was ten years ago.

Oh, there was a game yesterday and the men in white and blue won!

GO COLTS!

Chasman

[Terry M.]

Re: 14 Degrees, -12 wind chill

Congratulations Chas. Your team played well.
-7.2 °F / -21.8 °C
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 50%
Dew Point: -21 °F / -29 °C
Wind: 3.0 mph / 4.8 km/h / 3.1 m/s from the WNW

[Eric J.]

Gonna be 78 here in Scottsdale today....

http://www.azcentral.com/weather

[Mark S.]

Re: Gonna be 78 here in Scottsdale today....

-17F with a -29 wind chill in Mpls/St. Paul MN this morning.

[Loren L.]

It should be noted that North Dakotans do not

use "wind chill" charts if the temperature is above O. This may explain in part why I have been in Arizona for the last 38 years.

[Jack H.]

They're smart...

Weathercast people love to 'sensationalize' the news by quoting low temp conditions in terms of the equivalent wind chill factor. Since very few people I know walk around stark raving naked under low temperature conditions, the wind chill factor doesn't mean very much!

Heck, I had one ski instructor tell me he was out skiing one day when it was 45 below zero! I had to call him on this because he wasn't BLIND... Eyeballs can/do flash freeze at those temps and those who work outside have to wear full body 'armor' of face drastic consequences.

When 'called' he stuttered/stammered and then confessed it was the wind chill factor he was quoting. It was only -12F that day.

OK, that's cold enough but it's NOT the same as bona fide -45F ambient conditions. All kinds of squirrely and DANGEROUS things happen when the temperature drops that low...

[Terry M.]

Re: They're smart...

You bet it does at -45*F. I have been there (well almost it was -42*) -- forty years ago, and I still vividly remember it. In the UP in the winter of ‘64-65. The WARMEST it was all week was -30.

Sound changes at that temperature. When you walk in the snow, it crunches in a very different way -- even different than the crunch at zero. The sound of an engine has more of a ring to it. Throw a glass of water in the air, and it will freeze before it hits the ground. Beer freezes solid, except for a core of alcohol that stays liquid -- and it tastes real bad after it thaws. LP gas is not a gas at those temperatures. If that is your home heating fuel it has to be heated to turn it to a gas in order to operate the furnace. And Jack is right -- those temperatures are downright dangerous -- one misstep and your life is gone.

Ironically at -40 both Fahrenheit and Centigrade are the same.

[Donald M.]

It's F-F-Freezing here.....

..59 degrees this AM! Well, it's cold for south Florida.

[Robert Willis]

Re: It's F-F-Freezing here..... *NM*

[Paul L.]

Re: It's F-F-Freezing here.....

It was -35 windchill this morning. Inside the house, who cares?