Polar Vortex 2014

I'm finding these cold threads so confusing w Fahrenheit. why when it goes below 0 does it get closer to C?
--the Bronski Review (Trayce)

This is the thing, in positive temperatures I'm fine with either but in negative I find myself asking but yes is that c or f, then one it goes under minus 40 I know what's happened but it still doesn't really go in

As a middle-aged Brit, I'm OK with either but above 10C, I do occasionally mentally convert to F. Negative temperatures in F seem ridiculous. Unless you really want to reference the freezing point of brine.

"It's cold enough to freeze BRINE today!" "Do you see the BRINE icicles on the side of that building?" "Don't slip on that patch of black BRINE." Etc.

http://i.imgur.com/ucOQh.jpg

just started roof shoveling at my folks' place - that is a whole other ballgame, damn.

Fun fact: -40 F and -40 C are the same temperature!

Yes plz

http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2014/01/Poehler-Vortex-320x240.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1e65T8k.jpg

well it should be a little warmer in there shouldn't it

so this thing is coming back for more now?

only one way to combat repeated assaults by polar vortex...

http://www.thepetcollective.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sharknado-vs-polar-vortex.jpg

lol, the Upper East Side got shafted in plowing! The socialists HAVE arrived.

@pareene
in addition to plowing I suggest we bulldoze the UES

It's snowing in Austin! Then raining again, then sleeting, but still. No work tomorrow!

Yeah, tell me about it! My son has the day off from school, but alas, my work is not cancelled.

Lol, my firms Houston office closed because of the weather.

-14 with the wind today in Cleveland. Cleveland Public Schools are closed, along with some of the close 'burbs, but here I sit at work. Wish we had a work-from-home policy.

. . . I guess we do, actually. "No working from home."

Aw, sorry you didn't get a snow day too Moodles. I slept in (way in... 12:30) and now I am going to brave the elements to find some tacos.

I was able to chill out at home in my PJs, but still was very busy work-wise

that whole telecommuting thing is a bitch!

planning to corral the family in a bit to go check out the new Whole Foods at The Domain. Will wear a sweater.

. . . I guess we do, actually. "No working from home."

Ha, my firm's policy as well. Which is mostly fine, being an architect does rely on a great deal of collaboration, but its tough since my wife's job has a very flexible work from home policy.

unless some of you are posting from the dakotas or alberta or something i don't want to hear too much bitching

we're already well over our yearly average for days below zero, and we've had these great 'warm' blasts where it'll get up to 30-some degrees for a day, just to snow.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2014/01/friday-clipper-and-warming-trend-wintery-numbers-piling-up/?from=weather

unless some of you are posting from the dakotas or alberta or something i don't want to hear too much bitching

Um, pretty sure it's been much colder here than much of Canada or Dakotas. Alberta hit 50 today.

i'm sorry josh but that post qualifies as bitching

Can I bitch that I'd rather be in Alberta than here?

Just read that this coming Tuesday's low (excluding wind chill) is on track be lower than anything from the previous wave of this bullshit.

lol goole

Don't live in Canada or Dakotas so didn't come to bitch...but to gloat. It's 65 and sunny for 40th day in a row, bitches.

Please forgive me for that. Chicago guy spending 1st winter in new locale.

hahaha, you're right! looks like snow is in the forecast again next tuesday. awesome!

i am timing my walks to the grocery store based on whether the temperature for the day is positive, i feel like laura ingalls wilder if she had grocery stores

goddamn snow

the weather continues to be schizophrenic down in Austin: freezing rain and sleet on Friday, sunny in the 70s on Sunday and then back to freezing rain today. Annoyingly, my son's school is delayed by 2 hours this morning, so I have to skip out in the middle of work to get him there.

I take that back, school is now cancelled

I don't have gloves so I put a sock on my hand to use the gas pump.

"gas pump"

yeah, UT blew it too. didn't send notification that opening was delayed until noon until 8:15. we decided to compromise by working until noon and then going home.

-11 here, -30 or something windchill, nbd. schools closed but not work, of course.

i work at a school, but haven't heard any news of closing.

so is NYC and New England going to get 12+ inches next Sun/Mon, Y or N?

Cuomo: DIRE NY SALT SHORTAGE

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/stories/Winter-Weather-Snow-Ice-Forecast-Wednesday-New-York--243634611.html

I received a package yesterday, and the usual small-talk with the delivery guy about the weather took a strange turn when he told me that the weather we've been having lately is caused by something called "HAARP". "H. A. A. R. P. Look it up.", he said and gave me a meaningful look. So I did, expecting some kind of meteorological acronym. Not the case.

i work at a school, but haven't heard any news of closing.

― clouds, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:28 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

my school sent out a crabby pass-agg email about how we were never going to close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program

This part is great:

Former Governor of Minnesota and noted conspiracy theorist Jesse Ventura questioned whether the government is using the site to manipulate the weather or to bombard people with mind-controlling radio waves. An Air Force spokeswoman said Ventura made an official request to visit the research station but was rejected-"he and his crew showed up at HAARP anyway and were denied access".[25]

oh shit my macos dashboard thermometer says the temperature for -today only- is

NaNº

what does that even mean what is going to happen am i safe inside

oh sweet the temperature is not a number

now truly a polar vortex

feel like they're just gonna start calling winter polar vortex now, guess im down w/ that

people will stop asking "how's the weather?" and start asking "which vortex is it?"

solar vortex is my least favorite season