But by Thursday it is supposed to be 61F
Welcome to the roller coaster that much of middle America rides yearround.
My years living next to Lake Michigan were a very difficult adjustment. The massive lake effect moderated temperatures tremendously. One time I thought the thermometers had all broken. The temp was 2F for two solid weeks, twenty-hours per day. It didn't matter if it was the middle of the night or noonday bright. It was still 2F.
I can remember the winter of 82. I was 5. My dad killed two deer and left them hanging for two weeks as it never got above 10°. He had to wait until they thawed to process them! 🙂
The Pacific Ocean moderates the temps around here, but it is always, mostly, around 40 to 60f. Sometimes it will get a little hotter and sometimes a little colder, but not to often.
When I first moved here, I'd look in the paper to see what the temps were like back in Omaha. Sometimes, in the spring and fall, the high and low for Omaha was more, each direction, than the record high and low in Seattle. LOL
Doug
Good times. I remember one week where the temp had been stubbornly hovering around 0F all week, having to do a Sat. job. It involved running x,y,z on PKs the environmental guys had put in on a couple mile stretch of road - this was a preliminary marketing run for an exploration company, where the enviro guys would run a gravity meter at each location to determine viability for nat gas exploration in this general area. It was -10F that morning. I called in before leaving house and asked exactly how far below zero it needed to get for them to call it off. they wouldn't back down. When we finally get to job location to start work, head enviro muckity-muck discovers its too f'n cold for his gravity meter to work! Fortunately, with that douchebag running my backsight, and another enviro guy running my foresights, I was able to get done the traverse run on all his points. Think it creeped up to 5 F, and the traverse took all day anyways. No one should have to work more than 5 days in that kind of cold! good thing I was hourly back then...
I'm just grateful we've had relatively warmer weather this time of year. Made it much easier to move!! We have one or two truckloads more to go then...let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!! 😛
It would thrill Wendell and my daughter. I'll just stay right here and watch it from my 3rd floor window. 😉
Kris
That was Dec. 1983
Angel
Are you that crazy aunt that everyone claims to have living in their attic? Why on Earth are you stuck so high above terra firma? You know the air is thinner at such elevations which leads to bodily disfunctions like infertility and hysteria.
Kris
I was young. Cut me some slack. 🙂
Kris
That was when Hwy 59 closed all the way south to Lufkin for a month and the local market's shelves emptied their stock before the deliveries were back on schedule.
Kris
I don't remember it being that cold that winter. Just a wee bit chilly. Of course I was a few hundred miles south.
Angel
> Are you that crazy aunt that everyone claims to have living in their attic? Why on Earth are you stuck so high above terra firma? You know the air is thinner at such elevations which leads to bodily disfunctions like infertility and hysteria.
Because we got a hell of a deal and there was no 1st floor apartments left either. I kinda like it up here. I got an awesome view, I never have to turn on the heat, and my downstairs neighbors are night owls like me so I can stay up late doing stuff. Besides I'm already infertile; I got spayed in 2003. LOL!! As far as the hysteria, well, I haven't yet figured out how to get rid of it. 😉
