Nah, not quite...minus 24 Celsius only.

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Oh, my. Here in Kansas we had unusually warm temp yesterday. About 18 C .

Our usurual Temp might be 4-5 C.

Dave

You're a hardy bunch over there. Cold, but hardy

We moved the rest of our large furniture over the weekend and it was the same temp on Saturday, and a little 'warmer' on Sunday. Didn't have time to freeze with all the carrying and hauling stuff. Yesterday I then took two trips and a trailerload to the recycling center and it was equally cold.

I mentioned that the last few days have been unseasoly warm with highs in mid 60's and lows in high 40's F.

Well this evening after coming home from dinner I slipped into my lounging ants and just barely noticed the brown recluse spider in the wast band. So it's been warm enough to bring out the spiders already.

Dave

Here's how that cold kind of looks like:

Only spiders I'd see around here at this time of the year would be daddy long legs or other indoor kinds, but none so far. The outdoor bugs are hibernating.

They said it was -45F in Fairbanks yesterday.

Perfect golfing weather !

Sheez, I've been in slightly colder temps outside than that, but I wouldn't go skiing or golfing anymore. And we haven't had it that cold for a few winters now. IIRC the winter of 99 was the previous one.

Luckily, the Golf Stream mildens our winters here, but we get some Siberian cold spells, too, though their effect is the strongest along the eastern border. In fact, one is affecting at the moment taking the temps along the border down to -35 °C. Ahh, February.

The sun'll actually start warming a little more in a few weeks time so it can be -8 to -15 during the day and -20 to -35 during night.

brown recluse spider <-- those deadly ? ?

You must be stealing our cold, I'm in short sleeves today. I cannot remember a winter milder than this.

Yeah... we're already up into the mid 80s during the afternoon here. VERY mild winter.

Cold is a relative thing.
65°Arizonans turn on the heat. People in Minnesota plant gardens.60°Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in Minnesota sunbathe. 50°Italian & English cars won't start. People in Minnesota drive with the windows down.. 40°Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in Minnesota throw on a flannel shirt. 35° New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in Minnesota have the last cookout before it gets cold.  20°People in Miami all die.  Minnesotans close their windows. 0°Californians fly away to Mexico.  People in Minnesota get out their winter coats.  10° below zero:  Hollywood disintegrates.  The Girl Scouts in Minnesota are selling cookies door to door  .20° below zero:Washington DC runs out of hot air. (Ya think? Nah.).People in Minnesota let their dogs sleep indoors.  30° below zero:  Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Minnesotans get upset because they can't start the snowmobile.  40° below zero:ALL atomic motion stops.  People in Minnesota start saying..."Cold enough for ya?"  50° below zero: Hell freezes over.  Minnesota public schools will open 2 hours late.

Minnesotans are almost indistinguishable from Wisconsinites. The only way to tell them apart is to ask if they voted for Mondale in '84

Europe's getting the cold at the moment. Even in England it's going down to -12C (10F) which is pretty unusual, but in eastern Europe they're getting temperatures of -30C (-22F), gas pipes are freezing, not good.

Ha! Good one, Doc!

Yeah, like pad said, exceptionally cold throughout Europe, maybe not so much here. I remember plenty of winters like this from my childhood, along with a lot of milder winters, too.

Apparently The whole of Europe is getting a cold air mass from Siberia right now, which is causing snowing in Rome - they even had to close the tourist attractions their due to cold weather, and really severe cold (-30 Celsius) in the Italian Alps.

And the cold spell itself is suggested to be caused by decreased ice cover in the Barents Sea that is causing high pressure.

We have the same joke going around about Finns in Europe and better yet, about us Laplanders compared to rest of Finland and Europe.

I just put our bed linen out on the balcony for a while, wearing a t-shirt and flip-flops in -26 C or so. Cold enough for ya? :P