Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago

[89th]

Ya'll have a heat wave. It feels like -17 out now... should be close to -30 tomorrow and Tuesday. I think the schools might do a delayed start if it's colder than -35. (They do send kids out for recess unless it's colder than -10, though).

I showed my kids what happens if I throw hot water in the air outside. They loved how it burst into a puff of vapor.

[Horace]

We're below freezing here for the next few days. Our yearly freeze. I was told, and I'm not sure of the truth of this, that freezes were uncommon before 3 years ago. Now it's every year.

[89th]

We went to the zoo today. It was a bit weird driving for about a half hour when it was -19 out (felt like -29). The exhaust from cars simply didn't...evaporate much. Each car on the road had a good "trail" of what my kids would call "smoke!" behind each. Almost like the vehicles were emitting their own heat signature the way a warm human body does when it goes out into the cold for the first few minutes.

They canceled school tomorrow, which is an extreme rarity in these parts.

[kluurs]

It was about 8 outside with a -5 wind chill when I ran this evening. It wasn't bad. I've run in worse.

[George K]

Nine below right now (7:15 AM). Might hit 1 above by sunset.

[Jolly]

Not no, but hell no!

[Horace]

Snow in houston

[taiwan_girl]

Brrr!

It is so true that cold is relative. If it gets down to the 60's in Thailand, people get out their winter jackets!

[LuFins Dad]

No snow but plenty cold…

[jon-nyc]

Low of 7F today and tomorrow. 3-4 with wind chill.

It’ll be mid-next week before we see temperatures north of freezing, if even just for an hour or so in the afternoon.

[Doctor Phibes]

Snow yesterday, 7 degrees on the morning drive today. They still drove like Massholes.

[LuFins Dad]

Proud of the little guy, today he had to have walked 2-3 miles in the 10-15 degree temps. Of course, it was broken up every half mile with a stop at the Lego store, then FAO Schwarz, then the M&M’s store, then Hershey’s…

[LuFins Dad]

@LuFins-Dad said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:

Proud of the little guy, today he had to have walked 2-3 miles in the 10-15 degree temps. Of course, it was broken up every half mile with a stop at the Lego store, then FAO Schwarz, then the M&M’s store, then Hershey’s…

With a stop for M&M’s at Saks, then Macy’s, then Anthropologie…

Dad did get to stop at Sean’s Irish Pub for lunch…

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

In NOLA:

[jon-nyc]

Pensacola

[89th]

Trump takes office and all I see is whiteness taking over!

[jon-nyc]

Hell, in fact, freezing over.

[Jolly]

Daughter is currently at O'Hare. Said everytime they deplane a jet into the terminal, it's like somebody left the freezer door open

[George K]

Temperature is -1 F right now. Tuesday being pizza night for us (It's BOGO Tuesday), I went downstairs to place my order. I walked down the stairs and out. 10 feet to the take-out counter of the restaurant. I was wearing a sweater.

Other people waiting for pizza looked at me like I was crazy for being so lightly-dressed, unaware that I live, literally, upstairs. I was outdoors for about 10 seconds.

But yeah, it's colder than a kiss from my first wife (RIP).