it's bloody cold as a witches tit outside

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

And I thought I had it cold enough with temperatures in the teens, belo-zero windchils, and sudden snow in New Jersey. Of course, that's colder than most of the "winters" I had in Western PA.

[charben]

Chardok wrote:

I dunno, Ol' Georgie is really starting to sound his age...I think he forgets where he is oocaisionally . the beaches is a nice area, tho. I really like the whole road from pretty much Joe's Crab Shack on down. "Club Row" we call it the goal is to start at joes and have one beer at each place along the street and see how far down you can make it before puking...ahh good times...

Yeah, George has seen many winters, but I like the whole Eyewitness News team. I depend on the early morning news before I go to work. The beaches can be a great place, except when it gets too crowded in the summer. I also like the evening sky here...not too much light pollution.

NP: Return of the King (Minas Tirith)

[Shrykull]

I was driving to work today through the lovely -8 F weather (-40 with the windchill) and i noticed that the saltwater coves in Narragansett bay are freezing over. Not only that but the icy crust is starting to expand into the open bay and the port ..... and the marinas and shipyards are freezing over. I pity the poor bastards that have boats still in the water.

*wanders of mumbling incoherant cliches....Cold enough for ya?.....can't get there from here....mumble....mumble.....

I live in New England too Crackpot, I drove to work late in -2 degree weather, I had to go back out to the card to get a 10 dollar bill, my exposed skin ,my face and hands (I have some gloves but they are bulky and not able to grip things) stung when I came in after being out for just a like 2 min 30 sec.

I heard that it was -127 degrees on top of Mount Washington a few days ago with the wind chill. I was wondering what that kind of cold would do to a person, would your hand immediately freeze solid as soon as it was exposed to it? I know -75 is enough to freeze your spit before it hits the ground. I was thinking -127 would kill you even if you were fully bundled up with no skin exposed. I'm guessing there are some people right now in the observatory up there who would be dead if I window ever broke. I was trying to find the boiling point of air on google, if that could ever happen up there.

[weemadando]

Trivia: -40F and -40C are the same.

[Shrykull]

Trivia: -40F and -40C are the same.

eh? I thought they are 2 different systems, then there's the kelvin scale, where absolute zero I guess is when there is close to no molecular movement, which is almost impossible. BTW which is it? Celsius, or centigrade, or do they both mean the same thing?

[Zaia]

Well, they have to line up at some point, don't they?

[Ghost Rider]

Trivia: -40F and -40C are the same.

eh? I thought they are 2 different systems, then there's the kelvin scale, where absolute zero I guess is when there is close to no molecular movement, which is almost impossible. BTW which is it? Celsius, or centigrade, or do they both mean the same thing?

Fahrenheit and Celsius are different but at -40 the formulas intersect.

And Centigrade and Celsius are the same thing

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

Trivia: -40F and -40C are the same.

eh? I thought they are 2 different systems, then there's the kelvin scale, where absolute zero I guess is when there is close to no molecular movement, which is almost impossible. BTW which is it? Celsius, or centigrade, or do they both mean the same thing?

A said, the two systems intersect at -40 degrees, and the temperature in degrees Kelvin can be determined by taking the temperature in degrees Celsius and adding 273, and there's some complicated formula to change Farenheit into Celsius, like there is for every Metric-Non-Metric conversion. Although you probably knew that.