16F (-9C) outside and still no heating required at Chez Sharke

Yep.  I'm in a house, but with two heating systems (one downstairs and one up).  The roommates like it warmer down there so I leave the upstairs one pretty low - I've even had to open up the window occasionally to let some of that nice 20F coolness in.

Well until this year I haven't been able to turn off the heat in my place. It's one of those godawful old style NYC tenement radiators, and it's been missing a valve cap. Because of some issues they actually had to get right in there and replace a section of pipe before they replaced the cap. 

In the winters before this, the heat here was ridiculous. It was over 90 degrees. At the end of last winter I lost it and ran my AC all winter to combat the heat (even with all the windows open on a freezing night I was still sweating constantly). It came to a head when a girl I was with at the time got up and left in a taxi at 3am because she couldn't stand it (the heat, not my prowess ). I vowed this year was going to be different. 

I estimate that approximately $3,697,230,119 worth of heat is wasted in New York every year because people can't adjust those old radiators and they open their windows in desperation. On second thoughts triple that. 

craigb


Maybe you're just doing your part to keep New York warm?

You're not wrong. Back when the heating was on and I'd have my windows open, I'd have a line of 7 or 8 pigeons sat huddled on my sill 24/7. I actually feel bad about them this year. 

Old55

I hope the heat situation doesn't backfire for you in July and August.

I was thinking the same thing ... but since this is Bub 2.0, a nicer, friendlier, warmer, more positive Bub, I refrained. Didn't want to bring him down.

According to friends from Quebec, back home today, it was - 9 F, feeling like -21 F. (Yes, that's F, not celcius).

It was sort of strange to read their Facebook status and see the pics while sitting outside w/ the sun hitting so hard that I had to walk back in because my laptop was over-heating. 
 
I've actually seen worst, like below -40. 


If I were a geek, I'd say it's like I've moved from Hoth to Tatooine. Except I never had a Tauntaun. :(

Penguins scoff at -40. 

Rain


That year when we went below - 40, we had had one of the hottest summer in the history of the city. 

There was like a +80 C degrees difference between the hottest and the coldest day. People just weren't engineered to live through such opposite extremes. lol

True, but the amazing thing is that we engineered ourselves to do it. 

craigb


You sure those are penguins and not midget nuns?

Careful, or you'll have my mother on here telling the story of when my 3 year old self announced to an entire doctor's waiting room that the nun sat opposite me looked just like a penguin. True dat. God I was adorable...until I burned the house down a few weeks later through playing with matches. The adorability officially came to a crashing halt on that day and never came back. 

Fascinating how these things work isn't it. We had to live in a tent in the back garden for a few days until alternative accommodation was procured. It was not long after that I got expelled from nursery school for launching a tirade of 4 letter words (probably learned from my brother) at the headmistress after she suggested I come down from the climbing frame to listen to some story I had no intention of hearing. 

At that point it doesn't matter. I just call it 40 degrees below reasonable.

5 degrees here (-15C) and a white out

2 weeks ago we had 70 degrees on one day that melted the 2 feet of snow that we had previously had and flooded my basement..... If only I hadn't used quite so much hairspray in the 80's

UbiquitousBubba


It's snowing here now and it's Cold (see scale above).

Clearly, some of us didn't have a justifiable reason to use hairspray in the 80's.

gotta keep them bananas in place

Bristol_Jonesey

Bristol_Jonesey

I've actually seen worst, like below -40. 

Degrees C or degrees F?

[trick question]

The trick is that -40 degrees C  = -40 degrees F - that's the crossover point

But it's 233.15 in Kelvin!

If everyone in the world ran their car air conditioning with the windows open, well, that would solve the global warming problem in one fell swoop.


Wouldn't it?

I thought the real cause of global warming had something to do with bad vindaloo, no?