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January 24, 2004
Oh, Canada!
I love the song Oh Canada - and have been singing it all day since reading the weather forecast for my area... we're talking all those arctic blasts y'all keep sending down here. Stop it already, will ya?
The forecast for my neck o' the woods includes another shot of frigid air for New York City ...
A reinforcing shot of frigid air will infiltrate [sounds a bit sinister, doesn't it?] the area tonight as arctic high pressure slides down from Canada. [thank you very little.]
Temperatures will drop through the teens to around 10 degrees by daybreak Sunday. This very cold air [really? no shit!] will be accompanied by sustained northwest winds of 15 to 20 mph in the evening... that will subside to 10 to 15 mph after midnight. This
combination of wind and very cold air will produce windchill values [I don't find wind chill a thing of value.] of five to ten degrees below zero tonight. The
unseasonably cold airmass will remain with us through the weekend... With windchill values around zero degrees on Sunday
night as well.
Let me bitch about the low temps because:
So-called friends in the Bahamas telephoned just to tell me it's 72 degrees there (which is cold for them.)
Austin, Texas (Bubba 1) will have rain tomorrow but it'll be 67 degrees.
Nashville, Tennessee (Bubba 2) is getting a chill: 56 degrees. OMG, you might want to wear a lightweight jacket!
And I'm happy to quit my bitchin' now because in upstate New York, it's something like -8 degrees, where the high for tomorrow is 0 degrees and the low will be -18. Brrrrrrrrrrr.....
Cindy
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You too huh? Apparently we're going to have blizzards next week too but I reckon it'll wait till the week after.
Brain matter deposited by: Dragon on January 24, 2004 6:54 PM
Found you through nycbloggers.com in the 1/9 train section. Apparently we both live on the same stree in the same 'hood. I, too, have had it with these temps. I just moved here a few months ago, and I knew it was going to be cold, but this is preposterous. Nobody prepared me for this, and I want my money back.
Before moving here, I lived in a cabin in the Colorado wilderness for five months. However, it took moving here to experience true cabin fever.
Brain matter deposited by: kate on January 24, 2004 11:02 PM
Blah...blah...blabbity... blah.
Minus 29 last night, my truck is frozen to the ground and may not move until June. At minus 30 a glass of water thrown into the air will freeze before it hits the ground -- so at least I have something to look forward to.
You wanna see cold, check out the daytime *highs*: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KSLK.html
Brain matter deposited by: Al on January 25, 2004 12:55 PM
Hey Al, I do indeed know how cold it is up there - which is why I added the temp for Saranac Lake at the end ... besides, each time I visit your blog I check the temperatures that are posted - so there. ;-)
Kate - welcome, neighbor! Too bad you don't have an email address on your site - was going to drop you a line. We've more in common than just the nabe and cabin fever!
Dragon - the UK is scheduled for a blizzard? Geez!
Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on January 25, 2004 1:09 PM
You know it's funny - we always hear our cold air and snow storms are coming form the American mid-west. You you guys hear the bad stuff is coming from us .... but for the good weather - no one cares. I've had it with winter though - we are getting a huge storm right now and th edrifts are blowing up around my windows - the horrible howling noises. When will this end???
Brain matter deposited by: Wendy on January 26, 2004 5:44 PM