that is a cell phone photo of my cars thermometer. at the edmonton international airport which is about 15 kms outside the city it was -40 c. that is with out the wind chill. i woke up and said " bring on the global warming"
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March 10, 2009 5:26 p.m. boofighter HalfDork
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March 10, 2009 5:54 p.m. Toyman01 Reader
Dude, it was 80 today. MOVE SOUTH!!!
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March 10, 2009 5:57 p.m. TR3only New Reader
It was supposed to hit 80 here (Memphis) today, tho don't know if it did. Overnight it will drop to the upper 40s....nice while it lasted.
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March 10, 2009 6:01 p.m. Apexcarver UltraDork
where? im in western MD and it was 38* when i got moving today (at 10:30am)
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March 10, 2009 6:14 p.m. Toyman01 Reader
Charleston SC, I turned the A/C on yesterday because it was 84 in the house when I got home. It's 65 outside now. Unfortunately, it will be HOT as Hell by June.
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March 10, 2009 6:50 p.m. jrw1621 HalfDork
For those not versed in Celcius, the simple math conversion is to double the C and add 30 to get to F
-29c times 2 would be -58
From -58 add 30 to get to about -28F (that is f'ing cold)Another example:
20c doubled would be 40 + 30 is about 70F -
March 10, 2009 7:42 p.m. Jay HalfDork
Haha, ouch. I'm at the same latitude as you are and I was walking around in shirtsleeves this afternoon.
J
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March 10, 2009 8:00 p.m. HiTempguy Reader
Yes, this morning at 6:30am sure was fun in deadmonton. I let the car warm up for 4 minutes and it still sounded like it was going to chuck something!
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March 10, 2009 8:44 p.m. stuart in mn Dork
It was mid 30s in Minneapolis today and raining, but the front has moved in from Canada...the rain has turned to snow and the temperature will drop down close to zero tonight. I imagine my garage door will be frozen shut in the morning.
BTW. -29C = -20F.
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March 10, 2009 9:22 p.m. sector7 New Reader
is the job market down south in the toilet as bad as it is in the new englad area?
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March 10, 2009 9:28 p.m. neon4891 SuperDork
And this is why I want to move to Florida, but I could try to pull a transfer to Virginia with Wegmans exspanding south
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March 10, 2009 9:36 p.m. Toyman01 Reader
Reply to sector7
Probably, though you can't tell it by all the people out and about. The shopping center parking lots have been staying full.
Some of the automotive companies like Bosch have let some people go.
I have noticed some of my customers are more reluctant to spend any more than the bare minimum to get their automatic doors repaired. Thank heavens for the medical industry. They are probably 50% of my business.
Housing construction is dead unless you are in the "custom" home business. The A/C company next door to me is scrambling to keep their guys busy. They don't want to lay anyone off. Commercial construction is still moving, but start ups are down and some have been delayed.
I guess we are holding our breaths like the rest of the country.
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March 10, 2009 10:27 p.m. EastCoastMojo Dork
Dude. If the car started up drive it south. Eventually it will start to feel a lot warmer. It was 80 today and it will be 80 again tomorrow.
Besides, it's a lot nicer to be unemployed and homeless when it's 80* than when its even one degree below. 
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March 10, 2009 10:52 p.m. HiTempguy Reader
EastCoastMojo wrote:
Dude. If the car started up drive it south. Eventually it will start to feel a lot warmer. It was 80 today and it will be 80 again tomorrow.
Besides, it's a lot nicer to be unemployed and homeless when it's 80* than when its even one degree below.
There are no winter rallies where it is 80*F. Or poutine.
I will always have a job, on/off government employee :D
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March 10, 2009 10:56 p.m. EastCoastMojo Dork
When you can't have winter rallies you can have summer rallies
Besides, if you want french fries cheese and gravy we have those down here too. you just have to combine them yourself. 
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March 11, 2009 12:15 a.m. Lesley SuperDork
-12 here today. Big improvement over last week's -29.
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March 11, 2009 1:56 a.m. spdracer315 None
i grew up in new hampshire, so when the air force gave me the chance to select a few bases i wouldnt mind going to i chose all southern bases. ended up at eglin afb in florida. it was snowing back home but i was sweating today! i love it!
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March 11, 2009 6:15 a.m. 914Driver Dork
boofighter wrote:
outside the city it was -40 c.
From breaking Charpy specimens for metallographic analysis, I can tell you that -40'c and -40'f are exactly the same temperature.
It's an industry standard to break them at that temp just for that reason.
...and yeah, move south.
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March 11, 2009 8:21 a.m. 93celicaGT2 HalfDork
Hit 72 in indianapolis yesterday.... got down into the 20s last night. Screwy midwest crap.
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March 11, 2009 8:23 a.m. ignorant PowerDork
I'd nearly put up with that sort of weather to have access to the awesome canadian rally scene.
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March 11, 2009 8:29 a.m. 16vCorey SuperDork
93celicaGT2 wrote:
Hit 72 in indianapolis yesterday.... got down into the 20s last night. Screwy midwest crap.
Yep, pretty much the same scene here in Evansville. Rode the motorcycle to work yesterday and bundled up in the car this morning.
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March 11, 2009 8:46 a.m. Xceler8x HalfDork
berkeley that E36 M3. There is no way I would live somewhere that got that cold.
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March 11, 2009 12:23 p.m. boofighter HalfDork
it is note worthy because it was that cold, it does not get that cold all the time, although in the winter it does always have the potential to get that cold. we were breaking records for cold the last two nights. it was -38 last night. it does seem a bit sadistic to stay in a place that gets this cold, but when you grow up in it, it does not seem that bad and i find that we enjoy the summers quite a bit. i think that it would be strange not to have the cold and snow in the winter months, it has become a part of who i am, but i might be willing to try living with out it some time. Vancouver looks pretty good some days.
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March 11, 2009 4:10 p.m. SupraWes Dork
We went from freezing about 2 weeks ago to 85 and hot today. I would have liked a few weeks of 70 degree days please.
