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(NPR)   "In many parts of the northern U.S., it's really cold. Here's how to stay safe" - It's called winter and it used to happen once every year   (npr.org) divider line
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hubiestubert [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 3:00:15 PM  
Yeah, those of who live up North just have noooooo idea how to operate in the cold. Well, except for thems from Connecticut. Seriously, I have no idea how those shrinking violets manage.
 
LordOfThePings [OhFark]
2023-02-03 3:30:05 PM  
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Nimbull
2023-02-03 3:30:36 PM  
Hibernation is key, just call up your boss and tell em you'll be sleeping for a few months till it warms up.
 
JessieL [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:32:32 PM  
(Not) Fun Fact: You're more likely to die of hypothermia in Houston than in New York City.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14518
 
bighairyguy [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:32:35 PM  
Not always...

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booztravlr [OhFark]
2023-02-03 3:35:13 PM  

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Wadsworth!
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toraque [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 3:39:11 PM  

JessieL: (Not) Fun Fact: You're more likely to die of hypothermia in Houston than in New York City.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14518


New York City isn't on Texas' electrical grid.
 
The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:42:51 PM  
Thanks for the tip but this is Minnesota...we've done this before. And yeah, it's cold today but it's been much worse than this.
 
Teddy Brosevelt
2023-02-03 3:43:00 PM  
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Red Shirt Blues
2023-02-03 3:43:43 PM  
I didn't have to ride my bike uphill both ways to school but I did ride it to school when it was minus ten. My Dad's advice, " Be sure to wear your gloves....and keep your ears covered." Snowflakes we were not.
 
Floki [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:45:24 PM  
I'm sitting on the sofa with a blanket over my legs and Faye (the Cat) resting atop my knees. It's sunny, windy, cold outside, and I'm just fine.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 3:47:44 PM  
Uh subby.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/02/new-england-polar-vortex-cold-snap

/This isn't just "winter"
 
H31N0US
2023-02-03 3:48:04 PM  
Might have to leave my upstairs tub running a trickle tonight and tomorrow night. Aside from that it's early February and this kind of weather is pretty much expected.
 
fatassbastard [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:51:04 PM  
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#sorrynotsorry
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 3:52:48 PM  
Yeah, it's a wee bit nippy today.
In fact, I cut my finger on my left nip while putting on another hoodie - or bunny-hug - or WTF these are called here.
 
WhiskeySticks
2023-02-03 3:53:24 PM  
Just means it takes less time for a beer to get cold when you put it out in nature's cooler.
 
jake3988 [OhFark]
2023-02-03 3:54:21 PM  

JessieL: (Not) Fun Fact: You're more likely to die of hypothermia in Houston than in New York City.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14518


I doubt many people in Houston have heaters, though I could be wrong.

Same reason people die like crazy in the UK during heat waves, no air conditioning.

Plus, homeless people.  NYC houses homeless people because if they didn't, they'd freeze to death.  So you're forced to.  Warm-weather cities don't have to do that.  So if it ever gets a super rare cold snap... well... a bunch of people die.

/And no, it isn't because houses are 'designed' for heat or cold, which aside from rare exceptions is not a thing.  People load up on insulation regardless of heat or cold... unless they live in a perfect area where you can rely purely on an ocean breeze to cool down (like for example, the LA Rams stadium).  In THAT case, you don't want insulation... but it almost never gets cold in LA.  It gets chilly from time to time, but that's about it.
 
Subtonic
2023-02-03 3:57:24 PM  
Global Warming Hoax finally put to bed.

CASE CLOSED.
 
Megathuma [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:00:07 PM  
I finally had to use my big coat today for the first time this NE winter.
/snow blower still hasn't see any action
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 4:00:40 PM  

fatassbastard: [Fark user image image 425x498]
#sorrynotsorry


Sisco Heights was a friend of mine!
 
Und Becks [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:02:19 PM  

fatassbastard: [Fark user image 425x498]
#sorrynotsorry


Almost warm enough to wear that thong th-thong thong, thong.
 
The Pope of Manwich Village
2023-02-03 4:03:03 PM  
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Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 4:04:19 PM  

Subtonic: Global Warming Hoax finally put to bed.

CASE CLOSED.


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MikeyFuccon
2023-02-03 4:12:21 PM  
I type this in Ottawa where it's -24°C outside (-11°F). This is farking cold even by our standards; typical high for this time of year is "only" -5.7°C (22°F). It's supposed to get to -31°C tonight, not a record but pretty close (actual record was -32.2 in 1971).

How Mrs. F can go outside without gloves only she knows.
 
thornhill
2023-02-03 4:12:42 PM  

jake3988: JessieL: (Not) Fun Fact: You're more likely to die of hypothermia in Houston than in New York City.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14518

I doubt many people in Houston have heaters, though I could be wrong.

Same reason people die like crazy in the UK during heat waves, no air conditioning.

Plus, homeless people.  NYC houses homeless people because if they didn't, they'd freeze to death.  So you're forced to.  Warm-weather cities don't have to do that.  So if it ever gets a super rare cold snap... well... a bunch of people die.

/And no, it isn't because houses are 'designed' for heat or cold, which aside from rare exceptions is not a thing.  People load up on insulation regardless of heat or cold... unless they live in a perfect area where you can rely purely on an ocean breeze to cool down (like for example, the LA Rams stadium).  In THAT case, you don't want insulation... but it almost never gets cold in LA.  It gets chilly from time to time, but that's about it.


LOL. Just how warm do you think Houston is in the winter?

It gets into the 40s at night during the winter months; all of the homes have heaters.

Even in Miami there are enough cool nights in the 60s that most homeowners want to have a heater.

You'd have to be somewhere where it never goes below 70 for most builders to skip installing a heater (and for the local building codes to allow it). I'm not sure there are any major cities in the US with winters that are that warm.
 
drtgb
2023-02-03 4:14:28 PM  
-17 this morning in St.Paul MN.

It is amusing to watch how folk react when cold weather comes in during winter from the Arctic and crosses Minnesota and  then heads east. We shovel, accept and adjust. It's little thing that a we call 'winter.' Winter is a fun time of snow shoeing, skiing and building snowman.

I forgot ice skating!

I was out snow camping a week ago with my -30 sleeping bag. I built an igloo.

It seems to shut down the eastern coast.
 
carkiller
2023-02-03 4:17:31 PM  

hubiestubert: Yeah, those of who live up North just have noooooo idea how to operate in the cold. Well, except for thems from Connecticut. Seriously, I have no idea how those shrinking violets manage.


We burn poor people.
 
WTP 2
2023-02-03 4:22:17 PM  
yes, years ago this would happen once a year and it is normal.
now with extreme climate change heating cooling changing thing..
it now  happens twice in two years. and they estimate it will continue like that until they run out of numbers.
 
Ringshadow [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 4:24:47 PM  
Last weekend I went to a concert in Minneapolis.

It was ZERO when I left the venue. Felt like negative twelve. I speed walked back to my hotel wrapped in a hoodie in a blanket muttering "fark this" the whole way. And I was dressed heavy. I saw at least one person at the show in a thong and pasties and fishnets.

So yeah bundle up because it's cold out there.

/in New Mexico, where it's disturbingly warm at the moment
 
hlehmann
2023-02-03 4:26:31 PM  

jake3988: JessieL: (Not) Fun Fact: You're more likely to die of hypothermia in Houston than in New York City.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14518

I doubt many people in Houston have heaters, though I could be wrong.

Same reason people die like crazy in the UK during heat waves, no air conditioning.

Plus, homeless people.  NYC houses homeless people because if they didn't, they'd freeze to death.  So you're forced to.  Warm-weather cities don't have to do that.  So if it ever gets a super rare cold snap... well... a bunch of people die.

/And no, it isn't because houses are 'designed' for heat or cold, which aside from rare exceptions is not a thing.  People load up on insulation regardless of heat or cold... unless they live in a perfect area where you can rely purely on an ocean breeze to cool down (like for example, the LA Rams stadium).  In THAT case, you don't want insulation... but it almost never gets cold in LA.  It gets chilly from time to time, but that's about it.


I have a nephew that lives in Oceanside, about a mile from the water.  No AC, just a couple of ceiling fans are all that's needed in the summer months, and there a couple of small electric wall heaters in his apartment for the winter months, and even those barely get used.

They don't have weather there, they only have climate.
 
hubiestubert [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 4:28:20 PM  

carkiller: hubiestubert: Yeah, those of who live up North just have noooooo idea how to operate in the cold. Well, except for thems from Connecticut. Seriously, I have no idea how those shrinking violets manage.

We burn poor people.


That tracks.
 
lilplatinum
2023-02-03 4:29:21 PM  

jake3988: I doubt many people in Houston have heaters, though I could be wrong.


lolwut.

We have climate control for both seasons, unlike NYC where people huddle around a farking window unit in their apartment during a miserable summer.
 
Manic Depressive Mouse [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 4:31:32 PM  
I grew up in Canada, but now live in Germany. I don't remember winter gladly from childhood as I never liked the snow or being cold. Here, it rarely gets much below 0 C, and snow is even rarer. I love it! Except for that part of me that realizes no snow in the winter in this part of the world probably isn't a good sign for climate change. I miss the snow....
 
lilplatinum
2023-02-03 4:32:05 PM  

drtgb: Winter is a fun time of snow shoeing, skiing and building snowman.

I forgot ice skating!


All of that is fun for a child, when you are an adult and have to start shoveling snow, or scraping your windows in the morning before driving to work in ice, it becomes a lot less fun.
 
natazha [BareFark]
2023-02-03 4:32:29 PM  
Once a year, subby? We in the Pacific Northwest are just coming out of third Winter going into second false Spring. which is projected to end around 2/21.
 
lilplatinum
2023-02-03 4:33:25 PM  

Manic Depressive Mouse: I grew up in Canada, but now live in Germany. I don't remember winter gladly from childhood as I never liked the snow or being cold. Here, it rarely gets much below 0 C, and snow is even rarer. I love it! Except for that part of me that realizes no snow in the winter in this part of the world probably isn't a good sign for climate change. I miss the snow....


I remember when the Alster froze in Hamburg one winter and they had a big festival there. I kinda wanted to be white trash and drag an ice fishing shanty out there just to see some confused Tschermans.
 
ctighe2353
2023-02-03 4:35:09 PM  

Mrtraveler01: Uh subby.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/02/new-england-polar-vortex-cold-snap

/This isn't just "winter"


But it is just cold and we have houses and heat.  Unless the heat goes your fine.  If it's cold turn up the heat!!
My area has gas heat so if for some crazy reason the power goes out we will have hot water and you can light up the stove and if you have it a gas fireplace.
Most people around here also have generators (from sandy) and running a gas central heat system only takes under 1kw.

Don't forget to open the cabinets to any sinks that are on outer walls.

When it's this cold just say inside
 
DragonIV [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 4:39:13 PM  
Started the day at 9, we're sitting at -2 right now.  Oh, did I mention the 30mph gusts?  That's like -28 wind chill if I did my math right.  I took the dog out for a walk a noon, it was probably only -20 wind chill at that point.

This is not unusual for the Albany metro area in February.  Without fail, my heating bills max out this month every year like clockwork.  We usually don't get this low, but a week in single digits is pretty normal.
 
ChimpMitten
2023-02-03 4:45:34 PM  
My kids' school got canceled for a "cold day."  Most of them walk in so it makes sense with a -15 windchill, but it was surreal when it was over 40 less than a week ago.
 
ctighe2353
2023-02-03 4:47:52 PM  

lilplatinum: jake3988: I doubt many people in Houston have heaters, though I could be wrong.

lolwut.

We have climate control for both seasons, unlike NYC where people huddle around a farking window unit in their apartment during a miserable summer.


It's not the 50s, ac has come a long way in the city
 
The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:48:32 PM  

Mrtraveler01: Uh subby.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/02/new-england-polar-vortex-cold-snap

/This isn't just "winter"


From TFA:
Any power outages could knock out heat during frigid conditions. According to the NWS forecast office in Boston, temperatures there are likely to be comparable to a cold snap in February of 2016, when the city hit -9°F. But areas to the north will be far colder.

It's happened before - probably many times. It's just winter.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-03 4:48:36 PM  

ChimpMitten: My kids' school got canceled for a "cold day."  Most of them walk in so it makes sense with a -15 windchill, but it was surreal when it was over 40 less than a week ago.


Surprised they didn't make it a "virtual learning day". That seems to be the new thing where I am.
 
lilplatinum
2023-02-03 4:49:31 PM  

ctighe2353: lilplatinum: jake3988: I doubt many people in Houston have heaters, though I could be wrong.

lolwut.

We have climate control for both seasons, unlike NYC where people huddle around a farking window unit in their apartment during a miserable summer.

It's not the 50s, ac has come a long way in the city


Yeah I lived in Brooklyn for 6 years within the last decades, it really hasn't.  Or if it has, then it was truly horrifying before. The vast majority of the city does not have central air.

The best is sweating your balls off on a sweltering underground subway platform and then jumping in a freezing train.  Good times.
 
ctighe2353
2023-02-03 4:50:04 PM  

Mrtraveler01: ChimpMitten: My kids' school got canceled for a "cold day."  Most of them walk in so it makes sense with a -15 windchill, but it was surreal when it was over 40 less than a week ago.

Surprised they didn't make it a "virtual learning day". That seems to be the new thing where I am.


We got lucky, our school respects snow days as a time for fun.... now if we could just get some snow.
 
The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:50:53 PM  

drtgb: -17 this morning in St.Paul MN.

It is amusing to watch how folk react when cold weather comes in during winter from the Arctic and crosses Minnesota and  then heads east. We shovel, accept and adjust. It's little thing that a we call 'winter.' Winter is a fun time of snow shoeing, skiing and building snowman.

I forgot ice skating!

I was out snow camping a week ago with my -30 sleeping bag. I built an igloo.

It seems to shut down the eastern coast.


You forgot about ice drinki..I mean ice fishing.
 
ChimpMitten
2023-02-03 4:52:10 PM  

Mrtraveler01: ChimpMitten: My kids' school got canceled for a "cold day."  Most of them walk in so it makes sense with a -15 windchill, but it was surreal when it was over 40 less than a week ago.

Surprised they didn't make it a "virtual learning day". That seems to be the new thing where I am.


They still do that if there is enough of a warning to send chrome books home with the kids, although when we actually got a good amount of snow a week or two ago they just let them enjoy it.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:59:11 PM  
[looks at calendar]

It's STILL winter, dumbassmitter. Where I live, February is winter, and it gets cold even in Los Angeles.
 
little big man [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 5:06:15 PM  
But it's a dry cold.
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ViolentEastCoastCity
2023-02-03 5:09:48 PM  
My mother in law is in Boston where it's like -20.  I don't know if extreme cold can break their systems.  I'm just worried about her sitting there in a dark unheated apartment.

She'll be fine.  I'm just nuts.
 
Raeconteur
2023-02-03 5:34:00 PM  
I mean, I can personally vouch for Southern summers being worse and winters being milder than they were when I was a kiddo. And my hubby's in the Canadian prairie where it's negative fark you for a third of the year.

But I have no point of reference for the northern US. Is this normal? Is it climate change? Is everyone over- or underreacting? The world may never know.
 
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