Thats nothing, its going to be -37 in the wind for the 49ers vs Packers game this Sunday. Packers always sell out, theres over 100,000 people on the waiting list, even the pre-season and practice games sell out, but so far theres less than 5,000 tickets left and they just got an waiver to keep selling, or they risk actually blacking out the game.
Thats how freaking cold it is, when The Packers cant sell out a playoff game, its cold!
Wow, comparing the temperature to an entire planet (whose average temp is about -70F). That is stupid. Btw, the temperature in Seattle in the summer was just as warm as the temperature on the surface of Africa. Oh, and Death Valley once got as cold as Asia.
@ 12, they're specifically comparing it to the temperature reading the Mars Rover is taking at its location. Not for Mars as a whole, but the crater its exploring, which apparently is in a tropical latitude on that planet. It would be stupid if it were the whole planet, but as it is, it's actually kind of interesting.
@11, the entire plains and midwest are dominated in winter by cold continental air pushing down from Canada, enlivened by injections of moisture and heat energy from the coast. Have a look at the upcoming few days on this forecast maps page (red is areas of low pressure and storm activity):
@ 14, Winnipeg is still appreciably colder than anywhere else, and that's normal - it is the coldest urban center in North America, colder than Anchorage on average. Hell, even today, in this terrible cold snap, they're colder than anywhere else in the Midwest.
Thats how freaking cold it is, when The Packers cant sell out a playoff game, its cold!
That was the last time we visited at Christmas.
That's why I don't live anywhere in the midwest.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/nam.vort.html
(Scroll down. Top is current; successive frames are 12-hour increments in the computer model.)
The nosebleeds from the dry, dry cold like that can kinda suck, but they stop quickly.
It sometimes gets to -80 in Anchorage.
But -20? I *yearn* for the day it gets to -20 in Seattle! That will be an awesome day.
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