To answer the question, when I was 10 or so which was over 25 years ago, southern middle Tennessee went about 10 days in a row where the temperature didn't get above 15 degrees and with the wind chill, it would be like 5 or 10 below. The news people and weathermen would always say for people to stay home and not go outside as it was "dangerously cold".
This. Swoly is the only poster I have ever put on ignore. And that says a lot for a BBS with the likes of basso and bigtexxx running around. On topic, I lived in Montana for a couple of years and saw some subzero days, but the coldest I've ever felt was in Galveston. It was right after Christmas and I had just gotten a new surfboard. Unfortunately, it didn't come with a wetsuit. The air temperature was probably in the 40s or 50s. I couldn't wait to try out the board and paddled out. I lasted about 45 minutes until I lost muscular control. I got back in the car with the heat turned up full and literally shook uncontrollably for over an hour. The whole car was rocking.
Calgary/Edmonton in the middle of winter a few times Don't remember how cold it was, but it was f'n cold
Steamboat, early '70s, air temp was -40 at night, got up to -20 during the day t the bottom of the hill... Oh the snow fell without a break Buffalo died in the frozen fields you know Through the coldest winter in almost fourteen years I couldn't believe you kept a smile
I need to revise my original post. The coldest I have EVER been was 5am formation in February when I was in the Army at Ft. Sill in SW Oklahoma (EDIT - this was in 2002). I have no idea what the temperature actually was, but the wind made me want to die. It was meaner than all the drill sergeants put together. I've traveled quite a bit, and I've witnessed some fairly extreme weather, but to this day I've never been as cold as I was then. I was completely miserable. All the chain link fences looked like this: The only thing I can say about weather like that is God Bless SE Texas.
I concur. He is the only person I have on ignore as well. I lived in Chicago and the weekend I graduated from boot camp it was -20 to -30 with wind chills around -60 to -65. When they don't make you do anything in boot camp because it is so cold, then you know it is ****ing cold. We would literally march to eat and that was about it.
Is Swoly a troll?? The most cold I have ever felt is whatever the lows have been in Austin since 06. I really need to get out more.
dude, I used to have accurate records of the real feel/wind speed temps etc . But then I went to Mexico and they got all screwed up and converted to the Actual Temperature which isn't the same . Then I was off to Europe and those numbers got converted to Celsius so now everything is
I lived in Chicago before moving to Houston and it would snow every winter. I remember having to walk 3 blocks to school every morning in the dark, wind blowing in my face.
