Seriously, who ordered *this*?

[hummingwolf]

Today's forecast high: 32°F (0°C). Not a surprising temperature: this is winter in the DC area.

Tonight's expected low: 15°F (about -9 or -10°C). Wintry. Even if we are south of the Mason-Dixon line here, 15 degrees isn't all that below average. I can take it.

What they're telling us to expect for high temperatures by next Monday: 63°F (17°C). ::blink::

How are we supposed to get acclimated if the climate keeps pulling stunts like this?

Comments

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's a vast joke being played on us by the elements. Or perhaps they just want to see if they can shatter glass with temperature differentials on a regional scale...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that it? That could at least be entertaining.

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

I'd laugh.

Sure, it'd be the bitter, cynical laugh of realizing that I'm going to have to replace all the windows on my car, and that it'll be upwards of a month before the windows in my house are fixed, but I'd laugh....

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, going without storm windows on a night like tonight would not be fun. If the elements want to shatter glass, it would be nice if they'd wait till spring at the earliest.

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

Alas, for the conditions to be right it has to be really, incredibly cold.

I've seen it happen once. I was in Kansas City, and we'd had a cold snap: -20 degrees Fahrenheit. I had a tiny little rock chip on my car's front windshield. I was making a deposit at the bank (an unemployment check, as so happens) and so while I had the defroster cranked up to maximum, I had to open the window. Something in that temperature shift was enough, and that tiny rock chip became a huge webwork of cracks across the entire windshield.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

sending theo out into that wind chill the last couple of mornings has hurt me. never mind he's 17, big and tall and hefty. really, i want to move to somewhere where the temps are always in the 70s, maybe 60s in deep winter...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

So this would be about your speed, then? You'd certainly want to avoid this place. Current conditions: snowy, -11°F with a wind chill of -41? Yikes!

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

the hawaiian weather is a touch too warm for my taste (once it's over 80, i'm slightly uncomfortable), but it'd sure beat today's weather here! new hampshire, otoh, we'll just forget about. as for moving to the northwest territories with constable fraser, the less said about it, the better. *g*

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Mount Washington has about the harshest conditions on record. I'm told that the rest of New Hampshire usually isn't quite that bad! You can probably find a more temperate place in Hawaii--highs here are fairly low this week, though it's awfully rainy and I suspect the point is actually on a volcano.

goofy temps here as well

[heatherp8.livejournal.com]

Saturday I was sweating in a black tee shirt and jeans.
Today I've got three layers on and I'm still cold.
Ridiculous!
And our weather forecast too is for much higher temps in a few days.

Re: goofy temps here as well

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Mother Nature's just trying to keep us all on our toes. What's she going to do next?