I Went Outside...

to shovel snow.
 
It was -34F.
 
Before long I couldn't see a thing so I went back in.
 
Here's why:
 

 
Not only that but my eyes started tearing up large amounts of water which froze as it tried to drip off my face.
 
If I had fur on my face I would've looked like this:
 

Linear Phase
COuch!!
 
 

Remedy.

So, has Santa and the reindeer returned home yet?

Man, does that bring back memories. Sub-zero temps are not uncommon in Denver, but one Winter ('89, maybe '90) we got down to -25 and stayed there for two weeks. The weird thing is that it's deceptively not really that uncomfortable. Yes, the air has a decided bite to it, and your breath condenses on your beard, and in your nose.
A scarf is a wonderful thing. And yes, glasses are an experience.
We were dressed for it, and as long as you were working and generating heat, it wasn't too bad.
But we has to be careful, because the last thing you want to do is start to sweat. You can go hypothermic pretty quick. I hate those wave shivers as your body ejects the deep chill.
I gotta stop. I'm getting cold just thinking about it.

Rimshot
Looks like your glass cracked!  I have never experienced that kind of cold.  

Me neither. An' eye dont ever spect to anytyem soon either. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(they're bifocals)

Starise
I was recently reading about Mars where the average temperature is -60 on a good day and people are signing on to be the first colonists in the near future.No trees and carbon dioxide for atmosphere.... no return trip. Oh well, to each his own.

Can we send all the politicians first as a test run?

I looked at the pictures, read the post and had to use my inhaler...
 
I didn't go outside but I did get up!
 
Say what you will... it is too cold where you live. Do you live in like Russia or something? Even most of Europe is north, and northern Europe is like arctic. When we visited Germany a few years ago for the Christmas holidays I was surprised, it doesn't look that far north on the globe but Mainz, and Koln are like being in Canada... then Berlin is WAY on up there. In Mainz it got dark at 4:30 in the afternoon and it was frigid, and snowing. My daughter who lives there (Dusseldorf now) said that in Germany it is overcast and cold ALL winter. Even Rome, Italy is on the same latitude as Chicago... but I digress.
I am not sure where you live but it is certainly cold. The US "Midwest" the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc... have weather extremes. It is absolutely frigid in winter and sometimes in summer it is only hotter in the southwest. Crazy... it is temperate here in north GA, still it is relative. Today it is upper 40s and rainy... miserable weather to me but obviously, it could be worse.
I lived in Colorado in the early 70s when I was a hitchhiker and an itinerant amateur pharmacist... I remember one day up in the mountains, we were playing around out on a frozen lake in shirt sleeves. Then other days the blowing snow would turn one side of you white.
I like the weather here, it is almost always 5 degrees hotter in southwest GA, where I grew up, more humid there and there are GNATS all around your face from about 9:00 AM until the evening when the mosquitos run them off. Florida is a nice place to visit but the wind and sand get old after a couple of weeks at the beach and inland, well... I've lived there too and there really is no reason to live there. One year at the beach I had goggles, back when the girls just started to wear thongs... I nearly drowned. That wasn't so bad.
 
I like snow for a day or two but up near the lakes where it just stays on the ground all winter, I bet that really gets old, especially when it gets dirty. Yes, I think I will stay here. Perhaps I will look at your pictures now and then.
 
Winter.. ehhh.  Maybe I will get up again in a minute.
 
J

Nope...never...ever...ever....ever...not on your tintype...ain't happening...go ahead and shoot me.

That and the rubber walls with locked doors...

 
 
I didn't think Jersey was that bad, but then I didn't live along the shore this past year either. Maybe my outlook would be a lot different. I guess the taxes there can be pretty steep.
 
Coming from southern Georgia years ago, I think I have finally learned to adapt to the cold here in the NE US. It took a really long time to get the hang of it after living somewhere that almost never has snow. People get excited there with what we here would look at as a typical winter day.
 
Some things I like about it cold weather- It winter kills off a lot those pests and viruses. Cleans things up a bit, gives the plants animals and trees time to rest on standby until Spring.
 
If I had been born in Norway I suppose I would have coped somehow. I wouldn't have known any different. When I was in -20 freezers it really wasn't that bad. Granted I wouldn't want to sleep in there but if dressed properly It wasn't terribly bad. I knew I had to do it so I guess I psyched myself.
 
 

As long as we're on the 'the coldest I've ever been' contest, lol, found myself in Great Falls, Montana one year serving in USAF.  Got down to -40 degrees for a couple days.  Base operations were shut down; only went to chow hall & back.  Did have the proper gear for it tho, full arctic gear which included a nice wolf fur-trimmed parka/pants/ inflatable 'bunny boots'/ gloves, etc.
Growing up, we would get the weather report for the northern panhandle of Idaho around Lewiston; minus 60-70 degrees sometimes, yikes!
Personally, one Feb I spent in New Jersey beats them all. Wasn't the air temp, but a combo of wind chill & humidity.  That cold NE wind off the ocean went right thru this tourists' ski parka & I found out what bone-chilling cold felt like.  Must have been the reason our small tourist group was the only living things out on the beach that night.
Oh, the specs are bifocals.
Best,
HeyDan

Moshkiae

soens
...
 Before long I couldn't see a thing so I went back in.
... 
If I had fur on my face I would've looked like this:
 

What are you doing eating that white snow?
 
Haven't felt that since the old days in Madison, Wi!

At least it wasn't the yellow snow.  

Whehn ay waz a keed wee used to make snow slushies. Yellow waz juan off da manny colouers maw wood put on dem. Ya doant a tink mehbee she wood 'ave used..... ? NAAAAAAW!

craigb
'Cause the huskies were smart enough to stay inside Jan.

Good point.