In the lower 48 I believe the coldest place each winter is International Falls Mn.

I do like the lazy days of summer when it get up into the 80's but I don't like the winter when its 40 below.

Did you know that when its 40 below f. its also 40 below c.

River

DeaconBlues (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:46 pm Texas is a B-I-G place, and most people never could believe just how hot it can get, and then they just cannot ever believe how cold it can get. I have read that it is Arizona and Montana that are the states with the furthest extremes in hot and cold weather, that may be, but Texas runs a close third place I think.

Try Minnesota. We can easily get -30 F, sometimes -40, in January. Not unheard of to reach +100 F in mid-summer. I suspect Texas and Arizona don't come close. Can't speak about Montana, but then they get those Chinook winds that melt everything mid-winter. But then, Slammr is probably right - them Alaskans and the Canadians have frost-bite times aplenty.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:11 pm In the lower 48 I believe the coldest place each winter is International Falls Mn.

It used to be Fraser Colorado, until the weather department took away the reporting station there under pressure from the tourist trade who felt the constant mention on national news was scaring away tourists. When I was growing up, on the national news each evening in the winter the nation's coldest point was almost always either Fraser, CO, West Yellowstone, MT or International Falls, MN.

Transward

In west Texas the wind blows and blows and blows and... Wow, it can sure FEEL like it's cold there even if it's technically not all that cold. They are also prone to blinding blizzards (worse for ranchers) and to the even more deadly black ice (worse for travellers) in the winter. I have driven out there before watching snow blowing from one side to the other side and watching out for any indications of the edge of the side of the road. And although there aren't many trees there, the trees (shrubs) that do grow there don't grow up straight as with the way they do in the mountains. In the moutains they generally tend to grow straight up regardless of the slope that they're on however in west Texas they tend to grow up pointing toward the east away from the prevailing winds. The summer heat in Texas is muggier and the worst the further to the east and the closer you get to the coast but the coasts are far superior there than to California. People are friendlier there too. (I find.) Texas is a plains state and as with all of the great plains area the daily temperatures can be completely different from one day to the next depending on weather patterns. One day could be very hot and then the very next day really cold. And yes it does occasionally freeze and snow as far south as San Antonio which is not as windy as Dallas or west Texas or as hot and muggy as Houston. As for the climate weatherwise, I think El Paso would be the nicest city in Texas to live in except for this little thing that's been going on across the border. As far as party life in Texas, I did have a cousin that really didn't do half bad in his first semester of college at Odessa which you'd think was in the middle of nowhere. It's certainly not Austin though. But my aunt did pull the plug on him on his next semester though. Quite the place: Texas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN8acWY7lzU

Oh I do love the Highwaymen!

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devi (imported) wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:47 am In west Texas the wind blows and blows and blows and... Wow, it can sure FEEL like it's cold there even if it's technically not all that cold. They are also prone to blinding blizzards (worse for ranchers) and to the even more deadly black ice (worse for travellers) in the winter. I have driven out there before watching snow blowing from one side to the other side and watching out for any indications of the edge of the side of the road. And although there aren't many trees there, the trees (shrubs) that do grow there don't grow up straight as with the way they do in the mountains. In the moutains they generally tend to grow straight up regardless of the slope that they're on however in west Texas they tend to grow up pointing toward the east away from the prevailing winds.

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LMAO Y'all aint got Jack on a typical NH winter. Winter in NH we have black ice EVERYDAY on our roads,Blizzards cause over 120 million in damage a year herein the northeast. Ice storms we had one last winter 90% of the entire state was without heat and lights for a week. Winds? LOL 90 mph gusts are not unusual fastest sustained wind EVER was recorded in NH. Ever see it snow straight UP? Oh yeah we got another neat mild storm here called a Nor'Easter which is bascily a HURRICANE in the winter. LOL we have trees that grow flat along the ground on many of our Mountians here nuff said.

Y'all know what we call Texas Drivers here in the winter? Tree wrappers.. they think our trees are cold so they wrap thier cars and trucks around them.

We also call y'all pot hole fillers... you drive so damn fast in the winter all thats left is enough to fill a small pothole.

Texans also known as Black fly traps... well its the smell of your bullshit is a great lure for them.

Although I was born in Florida (father was in military service) I left there when a few months old. I live in central Minnesota and my family home is an island in Northwestern Lake Superior. I'm sure Texans think they have difficult winters, but I am not convinced. --FLO--

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:56 am I am a cheese head and you can be too, all you need is a cheese hat.

River

Well, get circumcised. That "cheese head" problem will go away.

Gotcha!:D

Yoli

devi (imported) wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:47 am In west Texas the wind blows and blows and

Old Greebo (imported) wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:00 pm blows and...

We hav

e a name for it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkmvwCpcZlM

The singer, Harve Presnell, passed away within the last few months. If you saw that gory kidnap/murder movie, "Fargo", you may recall that he played the owner of the car dealership whose son-in-law arranged the kidnap and killing of his daughter and that he too was murdered as he tried to secure her release.

RIP, Harve.

Yoli

Freeto,

I actually live in Colorado nowadays. The place where I'm at is actually warmer than Flagstaff, ARIZONA which in turn is warmer than where my mom was born in NEW MEXICO which is actually not too far from where I'm at in Colorado. As far as I'm concerned when it gets to be really cold and hypothermia and frostbite are real possibilities I'd just assume get from point A, INSIDE quickly to point B, INSIDE and then listen to how cold the weather is elsewhere. Minus 39 in Gunnison is just not for me let alone how cold it is anywhere else. Three months of subfreezing temperatures in Alamosa? Nah. And I'm not sure if I'd like to be landlocked during some winters like what happens in Silverton due to snow either. And likewise when it gets really hot too and hyperthermia and metal burns are real possibilities well again it shall be from point A INSIDE quickly to point B INSIDE. As far's I'm concerned all storms out on the open plains are more deadly or at least more trying than where I live at. And when the wind does stop blowing out there, then is the time to head for the cellar. I'm not into watching tornados either. Been there, done that. In Houston (the big city) where it may never snow as far as I know of drivers I think are notoriously the worst but cannot be confused with west Texas or any other part of Texas. In the west and in east Texas they wave at you and you wave back but in the big city you'll probably getting more one finger salutes than anything, really. And then not everyone who is a Texan is not really a "Texan" too. Texas IS a vast state.