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Cold!

bigbog

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...no thermometer....BUT

It did warm up considerably during the afternoon today! Was a beautiful afternoon... No paddling BobR! :lol: Sadly, no skiing today either.. Tomorrow!
 

billski

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a balmy minus 6 at the house in stowe this AM. minus 15 at Morrisville. Heading over to Jay. As long as those winds stay calm, we're all set.
I hear there is a general 2" throughout New England tonght.
Our cars have been making some very odd noises (power steering pump) in this chill.
Oddly, left some cans of soda on the porch by accident, and they didn't explode like the usually do. I think Coke is cheaping out on me and not filling them!
OK time to shower and get that extra layer on.
 
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I'm heading out to the PAskiandride day at Jack Frost in a few..1 degree here in the Lehigh Valley..8 below at mount Poe-cono..
 

bigbob

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Yesterday I was at -18.5, a friend at the bottom of the hill was at -24, same as Concord. today i am at -8.
Skied loon on Thurs, pretty empty, bluebird with no wind, -7 at the base in the AM, warmed to 3 above when I left.
 
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My car hit -13 on the drive to Jack Frost..but it was a mild -8 when I was booting up at my car..it was the first time my car ever saw negative numbers in the 3+ years I've owned it..
 

thinnmann

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In this part of the Catskills when I started the car it was -20 degrees. Strange noises and autotrans didn't want to shift into gear, even after about a 10 min idle warm-up. That scared me. Driving to the mountain, the engine worked really hard for a few min. Trans fluid must have been like vaseline....

It was -16 at Belleayre when the day started, but I think it went up to a balmy 3 in the afternoon. I had two pairs of longjohns on, a thinsulate liner jacket under my regular insulated ski jacket, glove liners, no exposed skin. Luckly there was no wind and the sun was out, plus it was dry - so the skiing was actually great and it didn't feel so cold. Not a lift line to be seen. Overall great day. It is warmer now - like about 7.

To make a long story longer, when we got up here at 9:30 last night, the furnace wouldn't turn on. Had to call the owner and have a technician dispatched. It was 46 inside. Tech came at midnight and took 1.5 hours to diagnose, then clean the oil filters. Only got the house up to 60 by wake-up time. Luckily there was propane heat upstairs in a bedroom and a woodstove. waah waah - kinda like winter camping, I told the kids - and we survived to ski another day :)
 

skiing is life

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at 32 degrees above zero water freezes

at 20 degrees above zero most old french cars dont start

at 0 degrees frostbite will occur on exposed skin in 20 minutes or less

at -10 it is possible to blow a bubble, have it freeze in mid air and shatter like glass when it hits the ground.

at -30 either your spit and/or peewill freeze when it hits the ground.

at -20 airless snowmaking with fanguns becomes possible.

at -40 you can toss a pan of boiling water and it will evaporate faster than it can freeze.

at -50 your spit/pee freezes before it hits the ground <--------------------

at -70 survival without clothes/fire/shelter is possible for only ten minutes
 
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