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February 5, 2007

"Feels Like" is the Real Temperature

Dear weather people:
Kindly refrain from telling us non-meteorologists that the temperature for today will be 18 degrees (perception) when the REALITY, aka feels like, is minus 2 degrees or BELOW ZERO. Seriously. What benefit is it to ANYONE to report anything other than FEELS LIKE or WIND CHILL FACTOR? Where, pray tell, will it be 18 degrees? In the doorway of a building? Going from outside to inside? WHERE?

Here's my weather report for this neck o' the woods:
Forget bone chilling. It's bone-crumbling, ice-like conditions the minute you step foot outside your door. Forget your one hour-every day walk. It ain't gonna happen. The wind's a'whippin' and yer ass is gonna freeze. You can count on it. It not only FEELS LIKE that, it IS like that. Take a taxi or hop the subway to work. Stay inside and when you have to be outside, make it quick.

Side note: It's posts like these when I really miss my friend Al, who used to always chime in with weather reports from upstate NY when I'd bitch about the weather. *sigh*

Cindy

Comments

Brain matter deposited by: Greg on February 6, 2007 6:46 AM

Brain matter deposited by: Greg on February 6, 2007 6:47 AM