BUT WITH THE WIND CHILL FACTOR, IT FEELS LIKE MINUS 231 MILLION

We're in Minnesota for a family function. This is what I saw when I started the rental car this morning:

Comments

[FredKey]

We've had that in New York in the past week. I think you missed the worst of it.

[manual tomato]

Stop cursing. If their ears haven't froze and fallen off, people are listening.

[Cheesewiz]

MN in February? Wouldn't the family rather be in FL.? Did anyone invite them?

[Ralph]

But it's an eco -7°.

[Clankie]

Minnesota... Come for the weather. Stay because you've frozen to death.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Hey Dave, now that you've left town Florida has warmed up again.

Thursday - record low, 38 (we're in West Palm Beach)
this morning - low was 68

It's going to be in the low 80s most of the week.

As Jim Dooley used to say (Geezer Alert): "C'mon down."

[AmoebaStampede]

You saw a lightsaber?

[Loudmouth]

Coldest I've ever been was a business trip to Twin Cities. -20 when we went out to dinner. Keep it MN, ain't for me.

I hear the Minneapolis symphony has a superconductor.

[ligirl]

hey jeff nearly reached a balmy 40 out here today, had a Huge slushy meltdown . . . the snow wasn't happy either ;)
- back down to single digit wind chills this coming week

i really outta try'n catch dave in nyc one of these years

[Jeff Meyerson]

ligirl, we'really seriously thinking about extending the trip another week.

[nursecindy]

It's not the temperature Dave, it's the humidity. We finally got above freezing today here in N.C. Yesterday when I was out I turned on my windshield wipers because it was snowing, again. I did not know that windshield wipers could freeze on your windshield. I had to pull over and push the $#&*%@# wipers back down so I could see to drive. The one thing that kept me going was I didn't want my obituary to read that I had died on my way to Walmart to buy a loaf of bread and some Diet Coke.

[ligirl]

here lies cindy
who loved a good joke
headed to walmart
for bread & a coke -
we loved our nursecindy
never a griper
a life washed away
by a $#&*%@#wiper

[Roberto]

Last month I was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and the temperature was minus 20 F. TV news said it was colder in Winnipeg than on the surface of Mars.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Roberto, a friend who lives there calls it "Winterpeg."

[oneblankspace]

Windchill in The Cities and Grand Forks

[AstroBevo]

This reminded me to go re-read the classic Dave Barry account of his visit to Grand Forks, ND for the dedication of the sewage lift station named in his honor. Best line about Grand Forks: "...declaring that they are 'where the earth meets the sky.' This turns out to be slightly inaccurate: Between the earth and the sky, there's a layer of really hard ice."

[Not My Usual Alias]

We have the gear in Chicago.

If you need layers, OmeHay EpotDay and stores like it usually have good deals that you can leave behind for the next folks in the lost and found.

[wiredog]

Say to James Lileks for us!

[nursecindy]

Bravo ligirl!

[Patrick]

I don't get it. Wetter you concerned that you only had 270 miles with of gas?

Oh,it was 7 below? I took a group of Boy Scouts camping over the weekend. It hit 13 below. We stayed in snow huts.

That's how we roll in MN.

[oneblankspace]

I still say you don't have the (what's the word I'm looking for?) to come during mosquito season.