sharke
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Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
I even have my window open a crack and am sitting here in shorts and t-shirt. I don't know what kind of unholy magic keeps my apartment warm but I haven't had the heating on since I shut the radiators off 2 years ago and I've never once felt cold. But boy when I lean out of the window, it's COLD out there.
I love this weather. Once it gets into negative digits Fahrenheit it feels so good to be outside all wrapped up warm in thermals, down jacket, hat and scarf. So crispy cold and refreshing. If I had a choice between a constant freeze and a constant humid summer, there would be no competition. There's something about this cold which makes me feel alive; something about the humid summer which makes me feel dead.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/15 23:09:18
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That's mighty cold sharke! You must be sitting on top of someone else's heater! Sounds like you are comfortable though. 
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/15 23:16:35
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Yeah I think the fact that I'm on the top floor has something to do with it. I must be getting other people's heat. I'm so glad I don't have to turn the heating on - we have old radiators in this building that are either fully on or off, nothing in between. And on is so oppressively hot and dry that it makes me sick. I end up having to open all the windows, which I don't want to do because I run an air cleaner in here.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/15 23:16:59
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I never really minded the cold either Sharke, but can't stand the extreme heat.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/15 23:17:50
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I never really minded the cold either Sharke, but can't stand the extreme heat.
It's awful. Dry heat is bearable but there's nothing nice at all about humidity and high temps.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 03:19:25
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Indeed, I made this mistake of taking my honeymoon in July, to Jamaica, without AC. It was like some old Pacific war movie. Never been able to take the sun since.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 08:36:28
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Wimp! Just wait till Monday....
btw, we're finally out of the minus temps here. Currently +24 @4AM and highs for Monday in the +30s.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 10:24:19
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I'll let you have the cold. Try starting an IV when your own hands are frozen, or extricate someone from a car in a snowbank where the road is a sheet of ice. Or rolling up hose that is froze solid from a hydrant that looks like an ice sculpture. Not to mention your own body feeling like an ice statute with the icicles hanging down from your helmet.
Nope, let the global warming begin
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 10:35:30
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I see friends back in Quebec complaining about the cold daily. With reason.
Windchill of -33C this morning.
Those winters seem so surrealistically long seen from here.
Around here, I can't even put a jacket on.
"Winter" seems to have lasted a few days - last week of December to be precise.
I couldn't go back.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 10:51:38
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I hear ya Rain.
My favorite temperatures range from 30-60 degree's. Northern MN had those extreme Canadian-like temperatures as well. I don't particularily like those extreme cold snaps, anything below zero is going into my discomfort zone. However, anything over 95 degrees is worse to me. Summers here in TX are brutal for me, with most days cooling down to 95 degrees at about 9pm in the evening. I am 6'-4, 225lbs, and sweat easily. I spend half my summer soaked. It's that Scandinavian blood, I guess.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 10:57:26
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Well of course Winston Churchill requires no heating. I mean, DUH!
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bapu
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 10:58:44
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I have a very broad temp comfort zone.
71.9F to 72.1F.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 11:33:58
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Come on Bapu, man up.  I can at least tolerate 67F to 75F. Stopped chipping ice off the car 40 years ago, can't even imagine going back. When I "need" a good chill, I just turn the AC down.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 11:38:37
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Southern California residents are all weather wimps. That's why they live there.
I have an electric furnace for a large-ish (3,600 sq. ft.) house. The house was built in 1965, when hydroelectric power was ridiculously cheap (before we started selling it to California). Today, it would cost me dearly to keep the place warm, so I don't. Sweaters and electric blankets are far cheaper.
This is made possible by the Pacific Ocean. Looking at a map, one might logically assume that Seattle is a very cold place. Seattle is further north than 72% of Canada's population. Nearly all of Canada's major cities are further south than Washington State's northern border, including the nearest big city, Vancouver. Even frigid Montreal is south of us. So is Minneapolis and Moscow.
But the forecast for today is close to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Thanks to the Pacific Ocean. And probably a little help from global warming.
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bapu
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 11:41:50
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With global warming kicking in I expect my headache frequency to increase when the average daily temp in So. Cal. is above 80F. That should be in about 200 years.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 12:24:08
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Going to -25 here today. Totally screwing me up despite havign the heat cranked. Yesterday it was colder... and I actually had go out in it. When the wind hit me it was like being attacked with tiny razor blades. I could deal with it when I was a kid... nowadays not so much.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 12:34:33
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heat wave.
Salt Lake City ... has had the third-lowest snowfall on record from Dec. 1 through Feb. 3, with only 6 inches to show for the winter thus far, according to the weather service.
High pressure in the middle levels of the atmosphere is keeping storms far north of Utah, and temperatures well above normal.
In fact, Saturday's high broke the record for Salt Lake City's warmest day in February since 1886.
its getting grim here, i imagine mandatory water restrictions this summer.
our ONLY drinking water, comes from snow melt.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 14:26:17
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Ugh... winter. Gimme global warming please. Oh wait... that ain't happening either. Can't wait till Summer!
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 15:35:12
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like i said,
record heat here.
and drought.
global warming, yes obviously.
the weather patterns, swinging as wildly as they are, is a partial indication.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 16:15:13
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Humans can give off enormous amount of heated gas, and like a roaring furnace occasionally.... {skip that) ahhh what a relief it is, especially after a bowl of chili  Seriously, here in Wis I keep the heat down to a steady low of 67 (my wife and I hate the heat) and wear warm winter clothing.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 16:53:50
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Seattle is further north than 72% of Canada's population. Nearly all of Canada's major cities are further south than Washington State's northern border, including the nearest big city, Vancouver. Even frigid Montreal is south of us. So is Minneapolis and Moscow.
Normally I'd agree with you bit, but this time I think maybe yer holdin' the map upside down?! Canada from Ontario East is South of you. But Vancouver?! No think so! Hint: Vancouver WA isn't Vancouver BC. ref: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.4338109,-94.5326222,4z?hl=en Location isn't the only factor for cold temps. The jet stream, which quite often goes above Seattle and dips into the Lakes and below, as the East Coast, and even the deep South is experiencing this winter, plays a bigger role. 
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 17:07:08
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☄ Helpfulby Rain 2015/02/16 17:18:21
Rain:
I see friends back in Quebec complaining about the cold daily. With reason.
Windchill of -33C this morning.
It doesn't make much sense for the majority of the world to use the Celsius scale and only the United States and it's territories to use the Fahrenheit scale.
I don't think it's asking too much for the rest of the world to change. :)
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 17:31:54
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It doesn't make much sense for the majority of the world to use the Celsius scale and only the United States and it's territories to use the Fahrenheit scale.
I don't think it's asking too much for the rest of the world to change. :)
I am still adapting to the Fahrenheit scale. It takes time. But I know my "too hot" zone. :P The metric system was not entirely in place when I grew up, so there are things which I'm actually more comfortable with the old way. My generation still uses the imperial system for height and weight. Mostly. Liquids like fuel, we're used to metric. For distance, I'm still better with metric. I guess it's a case of how it affects your every day life - when all the cars and road signs and gas station display metric, you integrate it.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 17:44:26
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US tried in the 1980s to go metric but it was going to be too costly and difficult to rewrite every book, change every road sign, replace every thermometer, and recondition every brain for millions of set-in-their-ways die-hard americans to make the switch. Then again, it makes no sense for most of the world to drive on the right side of the road and Britain on the wrong left.
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sharke
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 18:27:21
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I'm perfectly happy with both C and F these days.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 20:06:36
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I'm a 100% Florida boy. Hot weather is uncomfortable but cold weather is painful. You can have the cold. If it's below 70 degrees my heater's coming on.
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sharke
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 21:24:24
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Dave Modisette
I'm a 100% Florida boy. Hot weather is uncomfortable but cold weather is painful. You can have the cold. If it's below 70 degrees my heater's coming on.
Well the way I look at it is, I can always wrap up warm enough to be comfortable outside in the cold. I cannot always dress down enough to be comfortable outside in the heat.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 21:35:57
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I'm a complete weather wuss. I should live in Hawaii. I hate both extreme heat AND cold. And we get a bit of both here in Dixie...mostly heat in the summer. But the last few years we're getting some really cold weather (for us). For instance today we were all trapped inside by last nights ice storm...luckily we still have power but it's about 12 degrees now. And that's waaaaay below my wussie threshold!
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/16 22:02:02
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I'm a complete weather wuss. I should live in Hawaii. I hate both extreme heat AND cold. And we get a bit of both here in Dixie...mostly heat in the summer. But the last few years we're getting some really cold weather (for us). For instance today we were all trapped inside by last nights ice storm...luckily we still have power but it's about 12 degrees now. And that's waaaaay below my wussie threshold!
The Canary Islands are very nice if you're a weather wuss. It seems to stay moderately warm all year round without going too much either way. I lived in Tenerife for a while and apart from the hoards of drunken Brits it was quite lovely.
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Re: Windchill of -16F outside and still no heating required
2015/02/17 10:20:50
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bitflipper
Seattle is further north than 72% of Canada's population. Nearly all of Canada's major cities are further south than Washington State's northern border, including the nearest big city, Vancouver. Even frigid Montreal is south of us. So is Minneapolis and Moscow.
Normally I'd agree with you bit, but this time I think maybe yer holdin' the map upside down?! Canada from Ontario East is South of you. But Vancouver?! No think so! Hint: Vancouver WA isn't Vancouver BC.
My mistake. I was thinking of Victoria (Vancouver Island) when I typed "Vancouver." British Columbia does indeed extend south of Washington State's northern border. But you're right: Vancouver is definitely north of the line. Trivia: if the originally-proposed boundary had been adopted back in the day, both Vancouvers would have been in Washington State. If the British counter-proposal had been accepted, Seattle would today be part of British Columbia. The compromise gave Canada all of Vancouver Island even though its southern end is below the 49th parallel. Oddly, Canada did not get one little peninsula that crosses the border, resulting in a U.S. town that you cannot drive to without first going into Canada. Pot is legal in this town, but there is no way to legally transport it there (the water route is forbidden by the feds).
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