I'm envying my American friends

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Diggerdog

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I'm in southern Alberta, just north of Montana, and boy is it cold. Yesterday was minus 25 celcius. Today it's minus 27 celcius. It's too cold to work in my garage. It's too cold to do anything. Could you guys in Texas, California, Arizona please send up some northerly winds with some warmer temps. It sure would be appreciated. :o
 
Diggerdog
Can't help with warm winds but if it helps any, I was working outside today in just a T-shirt and jeans. So its not just Americans who get nice weather, just the cool knives and guns.

keep warm
jimi
 
thats kinda funny, we actually hit low 90's last week. i'd trade heat for the cold any day, my favorite winters are the ones I spend in indiana
 
I feel your pain Diggerdog. -28C on the way in from Cochrane this morning:grumpy:

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Perhaps you can find some solace in the fact that you will be "sharing the love" with the US Midwest soon as that front descends. We are expecting a 18C drop in temp high Thursday. It will only drop to about 0C, but following 4 days of rain it should be mildly traumatic. :)

Don't you folks up there usually expect to be neezing your fruts by this time of the year anyway? Unseasonally warm here and wet. Good flu weather.
 
We've had a warm snap (in the high 80s, low 90s) and now it's a bit cold. I woke up to temps in the 50s the last couple mornings, but it is improving a bit.

A machinist friend moved from Camarillo (just down the road from me) to Montrose, PA. It was a rude awakening to come outside one morning and see his CNC milling center frozen solid, coolant and all. Not good for machines--hard to hold high tolerances when everything is moving around that much (being that cold, being defrosted with butane heaters and them going up to operating temp.)
 
Diggerdog said:
I'm in southern Alberta, just north of Montana, and boy is it cold. Yesterday was minus 25 celcius. Today it's minus 27 celcius. It's too cold to work in my garage. It's too cold to do anything. Could you guys in Texas, California, Arizona please send up some northerly winds with some warmer temps. It sure would be appreciated. :o
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I almost feel bad telling you that it was 75 degrees today in Houston. ;)
 
Yep, I understand, lived in Wisconsin for 4 years. The wind chills were horrible up there in winter ... it's even worse considering that I'm originally from Torrance, Ca and enjoyed the sunshine 365 days throughout the year during the 1970's before the place was all smogged up as it is right now. :grumpy:
 
flatgrinder said:
... it's even worse considering that I'm originally from Torrance, Ca and enjoyed the sunshine 365 days throughout the year during the 1970's before the place was all smogged up as it is right now. :grumpy:
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I was in Torrance yesterday. It's more crowded, that's for sure, but I'll never forget going over the hill into the valley or over the pass into LA in the mid-to-late '70s to see nothing but thick brown air--zero visibility past maybe a third of a mile or so ... Third-stage smog alerts practically every day of the summer but Sundays ... It's never that bad now unless there's a wildfire nearby.

(I never could understand guys jogging in that muck ... like that's healthy.)

Now that whole area looks more like it got shook by one too many earthquakes--lots of graffiti and trash on the street--sort of like a third world country in places. (Of course maybe it was always that way and you just couldn't see it behind all that smog!)
 
JCaswell said:
I was in Torrance yesterday. It's more crowded, that's for sure, but I'll never forget going over the hill into the valley or over the pass into LA in the mid-to-late '70s to see nothing but thick brown air--zero visibility past maybe a third of a mile or so ... Third-stage smog alerts practically every day of the summer but Sundays ... It's never that bad now unless there's a wildfire nearby.

(I never could understand guys jogging in that muck ... like that's healthy.)

Now that whole area looks more like it got shook by one too many earthquakes--lots of graffiti and trash on the street--sort of like a third world country in places. (Of course maybe it was always that way and you just couldn't see it behind all that smog!)
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You could say that again! The other side (Van Nuys) doesn't even look like the Van Nuys thirty years ago. There's so much trash everywhere these days. Imagine another thirty years! :eek:
 
This 'fortunate' weather is not quite that for those of us in Buffalo... don't get me wrong, it's really nice, but we'll pay for it when the Great Lakes have too much stored thermal energy to freeze, thereby becoming permanent winter snow generators!
 
What a wuss- like the saying goes "If you don't like the weather in Alberta wait 5 minutes- it'll change. If you still don't like it - Leave":D :D

Besides- cold like this lets you know you are still alive (for a while)
Personally I would rather have -30 than +30- I succumb to heat stroke way faster than cold.
 
CUTS LIKE A KRIS said:
What a wuss- like the saying goes "If you don't like the weather in Alberta wait 5 minutes- it'll change. If you still don't like it - Leave":D :D

Besides- cold like this lets you know you are still alive (for a while)
Personally I would rather have -30 than +30- I succumb to heat stroke way faster than cold.
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Say isn't that quote stolen from the one about New England;)
 
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