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Skruddgemire wrote:Really? I was in Minneapolis for 4 years when I was a teenager (85-89) and I remember prodigious snow storms that would have crippled other cities (Maryland's 2008 "Snowpocalypse" was nothing compared to the three-times a year storms we used to get), and standing on the side of the road waiting for the bus in -70 windchills.
And they're closing for -20?
Man they wussed out on me. Seriously, in 4 winters they closed school for one day when it was falling at a rate of a foot an hour for 8 solid hours and the plows could not keep up.
Same deal up here north of the 49th. In all the years I spent going to school it was only ever cancelled once (for 2 days) due to the blizzard of '97 that shut down the whole city. I'm not aware of school ever having been cancelled, in the city, since then either. Buses get cancelled all the time when the windchill goes below -40 (something about the school divisions not wanting to have kids waiting outside in case a bus breaks down in weather where frostbite occurs in under 10 minutes) but I always had to walk (both ways, up hill, ect) to school so that never affected me.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, many parts of Australia are suffering with record high temperatures.
Last week's extensive heatwave broke many site records.
for those that are wondering, 45C = 113F
The report comes just days after the bureau confirmed that last year was Australia’s hottest in more than a century of records, easily beating 2005.
Temperatures may hit 50 degrees on Thursday in north-west WA. Source: BoM
If Monica would like to set up a Snow *Poit!*ing business, us Aussies would like to be her best customers
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Skywatcher68 wrote:It's so cold in the Twin Cities today that people are scraping ice off both sides of their windshields.
That used to be a nearly daily event when I lived in Utah back in the 1970s. I remember windshield washer fluid freezing to the windshield, too. And the place I used to ice race hasn't held a race this century.
I ride my bike to ride my bike, and sometimes it takes me where I need to go.
Really? I was in Minneapolis for 4 years when I was a teenager (85-89) and I remember prodigious snow storms that would have crippled other cities (Maryland's 2008 "Snowpocalypse" was nothing compared to the three-times a year storms we used to get), and standing on the side of the road waiting for the bus in -70 windchills.
And they're closing for -20?
Man they wussed out on me. Seriously, in 4 winters they closed school for one day when it was falling at a rate of a foot an hour for 8 solid hours and the plows could not keep up.
It's so cold in the Twin Cities today that people are scraping ice off both sides of their windshields.
