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Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:56 pm to foshizzle
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Chicago winter is punishment for glorious Chicago summer.
Earlier in the thread Mr Perfect informed us all that Chicago summers are as hot and humid as New Orleans.
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The average highs in new Orleans Summers are very similar to the highs in Chicago Summers
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Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:59 pm to Mr Perfect
A wise man once said....you can put on enough clothes to stay warm, but you can’t take off enough clothes to stay cool.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:12 pm to 7thWardTo314
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you can put on enough clothes to stay warm
That's a lie. Once you are chilled to the bone, there is no coming back. Also, frick weeks of no sunshine. I will take the heat and a dip in a pool or the Gulf any day. frick the cold.
When I moved here in November of 2014, it was in the low 70's. I had left behind a chilly Baton Rouge and was wearing sundresses down here. People were all bundled up and I laughed. Today it was in the upper 60's and I was cold.
It's all about acclimating. Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:14 pm to liz18lsu
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That's a lie. Once you are chilled to the bone, there is no coming back
Key is to keep it out. I'll sweat on a snowshoe hike at 20?degrees. With the proper clothing you don't feel the cold.
That's impossible in heat
Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:15 pm to putt23
Wait until next Tuesday creeps up on us :-). I hope my car starts that day. I have a very important meeting that afternoon and can't afford to miss it.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:16 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Key is to keep it out. I'll sweat on a snowshoe hike at 20?degrees. With the proper clothing you don't feel the cold. That's impossible in heat
I have never been bundled up enough to keep the cold out. It simply makes me uncomfortable, shivering, teeth chattering. I absolutely hate it. The heat feels so good on the skin.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:30 pm to Slippy
Posted on 1/25/19 at 10:02 pm to strings
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Wait until next Tuesday creeps up on us :-). I hope my car starts that day. I have a very important meeting that afternoon and can't afford to miss it.
Read the NWS Chicago discussion, mostly talking about how they think the current forecast temperatures are too conservative and plan to adjust colder gradually as the modeling holds.
Subzero highs in Chicago are rare. Potentially 40 hours under zero is pretty exceptional.
Have fun.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 10:12 pm to strings
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I hope my car starts that day.
When I was in high school, out in Oswego, we had a day in 93 or 94 which I left for school when it was like -26 with a windchill near -60. Assholes didn't call school off that day. My car started, somehow, but I don't think it ever really warmed up during my 10 minute ride to school.
We took a trip up to see my fam a few years ago when the polar vortex hit. The day I left to drive back down here, my vehicle read -18. It was making weird noises while driving, to the point that I pulled into a shop in Northern Kentucky to have them at least take a peek at it. After leaving it to sit in their garage for an hour, it thawed out and was noise-free after leaving the shop. It literally had to defrost.
Good luck this week. That shite is no joke.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 10:48 pm to mmmmmbeeer
GFS model forecast is still predicting brutal cold Tue/Wed/Thu
Posted on 1/25/19 at 11:01 pm to Slippy
We lived in McHenry (worked in Round Lake) the winter of 79. That was "the winter of the blizzard" Chicago had around 100 inches of snow and we had maybe 120 inches in McHenry.
One day in January of that winter, the high for the day was not above zero. For 28 days, the high for each day was not above zero. It would get to 20-25 below zero some nights and then next day would have a high of 5-10 below zero. It was miserable.
I feel your pain - always a shock to go out and feel the hairs in your nose freeze. The kids were 5 and 3. We would go to Hawthorne Mall at night and let them run up and down the center of the mall.
One day in January of that winter, the high for the day was not above zero. For 28 days, the high for each day was not above zero. It would get to 20-25 below zero some nights and then next day would have a high of 5-10 below zero. It was miserable.
I feel your pain - always a shock to go out and feel the hairs in your nose freeze. The kids were 5 and 3. We would go to Hawthorne Mall at night and let them run up and down the center of the mall.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 11:16 pm to Mizz-SEC
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It becomes a mindset.
If you can embrace outdoor activities like ice fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, ice skating / hockey it can be a lot of fun. You dress for it and get with it.
The only downside is when winter drags into March and you're antsy for spring. Otherwise it's great.
You can’t embrace or dress for this shite, man.
Wind chill of -20 below when I was waiting on the El this morning...which was twenty minutes delayed.
Wind chill of -60 on Wednesday. That is in humane. I am not going to the office that day.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 11:18 pm to liz18lsu
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I have never been bundled up enough to keep the cold out. It simply makes me uncomfortable, shivering, teeth chattering. I absolutely hate it. The heat feels so good on the skin.
Probably wrong gear?
Now if it's windy, not much will help
Posted on 1/25/19 at 11:21 pm to RogerTheShrubber
It’s also mental. I just hate the cold.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 11:22 pm to liz18lsu
Gotcha. That's how I feel about heat.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 11:51 pm to strings
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Wait until next Tuesday creeps up on us :-). I hope my car starts that day. I have a very important meeting that afternoon and can't afford to miss it.
Yeah dude the high on Wednesday is -13. I'm scared I'll get to work and after 10 hours my car won't start
Monday the high is 23 and that will feel like fricking 50 compared to everything else
Posted on 1/26/19 at 1:16 am to putt23
Maybe there will be no murders now tomorrow in Chicago
Posted on 1/26/19 at 1:19 am to putt23
Brutal winters sound awesome compared to brutal Louisiana summers.
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Posted on 1/26/19 at 2:24 am to Slippy
It was -1 when we were in Ottawa over christmas. With thermals it wasn't that bad imo.
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