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Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:17 pm
by cheetaking243 (imported)
My temperature scale is pretty much the opposite of yours, Paolo:
110F - Creamated
100F - Dead
90F - Melted into pool of sweat, doesn't go outside unless I'm at a nudist camp
80F - Shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops, still sweating though.
70F - PERFECT!!!
60F - Either shorts and a t-shirt with normal shoes, or jeans and a t-shirt with flip-flops.
50F - Long pants
40F - Jacket
30F - Coat
20F - Heavy coat
10F - Heavy coat with hat & mittens
0F - Pretty cold... time to stay inside and enjoy some nice warm snuggling under a down comforter.
<0F - Just about the only time that I really, genuinely, feel freezing cold and try to avoid going outside.
How the hell did I survive while I lived in Florida during high school?
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:15 pm
by moi621 (imported)
The sky is crystal clear with 60F.
Feels like near freezing with the dry, dry wind event.
Sucks the heat right out of you.
Moi
Where is my windbreaker? :-\
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:47 pm
by Riverwind (imported)
Moi, you don't need a wind breaker when its 60deg, you need one when its 20deg. At 60deg you stoke up the BBQ and eat out side in the yard.
River
what a wuss
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:57 pm
by Slammr (imported)
My winters outside of Fairbanks where I lived in a log cabin, no running water, no electricity, and an oil stove for heat.
0° Shirtsleeve weather.
-30° good day to go cross country skiing. Wore layered clothing and a windbreaker.
-65° Parka with fur trimmed hood, the hood opened to a slit so small I could only look out with one eye. Mickey Mouse surplus rubber insulated army boots, mittens - gloves were inadequate - insulated overalls.
No electricity to circulate air, so dog's water on the floor of the cabin froze, and the temperature up as far as I could hold a thermometer was 90°. Temperature where my bed was, about waist high, read about 70°.
I used a propane weed burner to heat up my car in the morning, so I could start it. I had to bring the battery in at night to keep it from freezing.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:48 pm
by Dave (imported)
I can send y'all "crying towels" if that would help...
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:34 pm
by moi621 (imported)
Slammr (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:57 pm
My winters outside of Fairbanks where I lived in a log cabin, no running water, no electricity, and an oil stove for heat.
0° Shirtsleeve weather.
-30° good day to go cross country skiing. Wore layered clothing and a windbreaker.
-65° Parka with fur trimmed hood, the hood opened to a slit so small I could only look out with one eye. Mickey Mouse surplus rubber insulated army boots, mittens - gloves were inadequate - insulated overalls.
No electricity to circulate air, so dog's water on the floor of the cabin froze, and the temperature up as far as I could hold a thermometer was 90°. Temperature where my bed was, about waist high, read about 70°.
I used a propane weed burner to heat up my car in the morning, so I could start it. I had to bring the battery in at night to keep it from freezing.
WHY don't people stay in Alaska?
I've known others to give up the wonderful life of fresh whale blubber from an animal just hauled up on the ice. Yum! So she says.
Could it be, oh I don't know, maybe "the weather"?
I do BBQ more in Winter. Seems like meat tastes better in the Winter. Less desire for a meat fix in hot weather.
Oh how I want to make a "jump suit" joke but it would be
political.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 9:51 pm
by Slammr (imported)
moi621 (imported) wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:34 pm
WHY don't people stay in Alaska?
I've known others to give up the wonderful life of fresh whale blubber from an animal just hauled up on the ice. Yum! So she says.
Could it be, oh I don't know, maybe "the weather"?
I do BBQ more in Winter. Seems like meat tastes better in the Winter. Less desire for a meat fix in hot weather.
Oh how I want to make a "jump suit" joke but it would be
political.
I was working on the Alaska pipeline at the time. Came back to the Lower 48 for the winter, intending to go back to Alaska come summer, but I took a job as a Juvenile Probation officer in Nevada in the town where my kids lived, and I never made it back to Alaska.
I liked Alaska, as long as I could get away during the winter and come south for a month or so.
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 10:55 pm
by moi621 (imported)
It is Sleepy Weather.
Just Yawny, and Sleepy all day.
No reason except
There Is Always The Weather.
Anyone know what I mean by
Sleepy Weather?
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:51 am
by Riverwind (imported)
moi621 (imported) wrote: Mon Dec 31, 2012 10:55 pm
It is Sleepy Weather.
Just Yawny, and Sleepy all day.
No reason except
There Is Always The Weather.
Anyone know what I mean by
Sleepy Weather?
Is it 8 deg outside?
River
Re: There's Always The Weather
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:41 am
by considering (imported)
I like Winter. At one point my goal was to have a home in Bariloche and another in Fargo. No Summer. Ever. The altitude in Bariloche took that one out and, when I thought it up, I hadn't seen Fargo, lovely place that I'm sure it is, in the light but only from the sleeper going to Seattle. Traded in Fargo for Edmonton. The only draw back to being nutless in Winter is that takes out a place to stick your hands to warm them. I was always taught that in an emergency to stick your hands in your groin to prevent frostbite. I suppose I still could but....all I'd end up with would be a popsicle.
political.