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Max'sKansasCity
Good to hear you are not saying anything other than that,
no disasters of anything, although the people on TV here are
talking about plumbers being busy today with broken water pipes.
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Max'sKansasCity
Good to hear you are not saying anything other than that,
no disasters of anything, although the people on TV here are
talking about plumbers being busy today with broken water pipes.
If the pipes and I survive tonight, I think the worst will be over. One night safely passed, anyway!
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latebloomer
Glad you made it through the night safely Aqua, and Max, you are a (frozen) fountain of good advice!
Frigid cold coming here tonight, projected temps of -15 F, with the wind chill factor. Hasn't been that cold here in over 25 years. They will probably cancel schools here again.
Remember to keep your pets inside everyone and stay safe!
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Max'sKansasCity
The coldest winter in 10 years is happening Sunday/Monday in the mid U.S.
To whom it may apply... batten down the hatches!!
Shut off/Cut-off those water lines to your outside faucets, keep the faucets slightly dripping if the room may get too cold, open the plumbing cabinets if it backs up to an outside wall, etc etc etc. There is not much worse than frozen burst water lines flooding all your cool stuff.
I am currently Filled with Fear, as we don't usually get weather like this.
How do we shut off the water lines to outside faucets, other than just turning off the faucets? (I wasted all afternoon today driving around town trying to get covers for said faucets, only one hardware store had any--I felt like I'd found the Holy Grail.)
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latebloomer
Right Now, It's as Cold in Canada as Where Our Rover Is on Mars
A frigid spell has brought Winnipeg's temperature down to that of a planet millions of miles further from the sun than we are.
Canada is having a cold snap at the moment. This week, in Southern Manitoba, the temperature reached a blisteringly frigid -31 degrees Celsius, or nearly -24 Fahrenheit. (Wind chill values in Winnipeg—in case you were curious and/or in need of some meteorological schadenfreude—dipped to -58 Fahrenheit.) Which is crazy, and which makes for, as Yahoo's Geekquinox blog puts it, "the coldest afternoon temperatures the area has seen in several years."
The cold spell also puts Canada into some rarified company. Because you know what other place has recently registered a temperature of -31 degrees Celsius? Mars. Yep, Mars—a planet located many millions of miles farther from the sun than we are.* Over on the Red Planet, NASA's Curiosity rover regularly sends temperature data to us via its REMS (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) instrument. And over the past month, Yahoo notes, REMS has been reporting daily high temperatures on Mars that range from -25 to -31 degrees Celsius. (Mars seems to be having its own cold spell: The -31 degrees Celsius temperature is the coldest daily high the rover has recorded since it landed on the planet in August 2012.)
It's worth noting that Mars, like Earth, has its own climates—and the area where Curiosity is tooling around, The Smithsonian notes, is roughly equivalent to the latitude of Venezuela. So the temperature comparison is a bit of an apples-to-oranges matchup ... just with really cold apples. And really, really cold oranges.
[www.theatlantic.com]
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Aquamarine
Aaaaand the pipes survive another night! One more to go!
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latebloomer
Right Now, It's as Cold in Canada as Where Our Rover Is on Mars
A frigid spell has brought Winnipeg's temperature down to that of a planet millions of miles further from the sun than we are.
Canada is having a cold snap at the moment. This week, in Southern Manitoba, the temperature reached a blisteringly frigid -31 degrees Celsius, or nearly -24 Fahrenheit. (Wind chill values in Winnipeg—in case you were curious and/or in need of some meteorological schadenfreude—dipped to -58 Fahrenheit.) Which is crazy, and which makes for, as Yahoo's Geekquinox blog puts it, "the coldest afternoon temperatures the area has seen in several years."
The cold spell also puts Canada into some rarified company. Because you know what other place has recently registered a temperature of -31 degrees Celsius? Mars. Yep, Mars—a planet located many millions of miles farther from the sun than we are.* Over on the Red Planet, NASA's Curiosity rover regularly sends temperature data to us via its REMS (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) instrument. And over the past month, Yahoo notes, REMS has been reporting daily high temperatures on Mars that range from -25 to -31 degrees Celsius. (Mars seems to be having its own cold spell: The -31 degrees Celsius temperature is the coldest daily high the rover has recorded since it landed on the planet in August 2012.)
It's worth noting that Mars, like Earth, has its own climates—and the area where Curiosity is tooling around, The Smithsonian notes, is roughly equivalent to the latitude of Venezuela. So the temperature comparison is a bit of an apples-to-oranges matchup ... just with really cold apples. And really, really cold oranges.
[www.theatlantic.com]
Sounds about right. I'm originally from Toronto (where some people have been without power or heat for more than 2 weeks because of the ice storm), but my mother grew up in Timmins, Ontario (near James Bay) and the other day it was - 52 degrees celsius there, without windchill.
All I want right now is to be in California.
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Aquamarine
I am now glued to the Oz Open for the next two weeks-- quote]
Yeah,I always enjoy the tennis as well Aquamarine....until the "grunts/screams"start.Stay cool down there Rockman.Cheers.