I was in New Hampshire (the Upper Valley) that year, and as I recall, we had temps below -20 a few times that winter. Brutal indeed. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > I was out and about here in NYC when it was 4 F with 25 mph winds at times. > But I grew up in CHicago and lived in Maine for 3 years where > that was not so uncommon. The absolute coldest I've ever experienced > personally was -40 F in Orono, Maine in.. um I think 1961-1962 season. > > Today I was very carefully dressed in layers, to top layer being a > jacket I bought back in 2004 at a thrift store near GFM - as the weather > was somewhat less hospitable than I had anticipated. > > Intended to stay in today, but I had to collect a friend from a medical > procedure or they wouldn't let her leave. TOtally unnecessary > over-precaution but we had a nice lunch and visit. > > ann > > On 1/7/2014 16:48, Brian Walters wrote: >> >> Quoting Bob W <[email protected]>: >> >>> On 7 Jan 2014, at 18:51, knarf <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I think it went down to around -30c here in Toronto last night. >>>> 60km/hr (around 40mph) winds made it feel colder than -40C. (-40C = >>>> -40F). I have about a 2 km walk home from the bus stop at 1am. >>>> Luckily the wind was at my back. It was cold. ;-) >>> >>> >>> That's quite dangerous. If you're walking back that late because of >>> working then they have a duty of care to pay for a taxi or something. >> >> >> >> I find it hard to even comprehend temperatures like that. The coldest >> it's ever been here was about -6C about 10 years ago. And that was just >> for an hour or two around dawn. >> >> The coldest I've ever been was at Mt Saint Helens last May - about -13C. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Brian >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Brian Walters >> Western Sydney Australia >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ >> >> >>>> >>>> Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> -17F (-27C) here (west side of Milwaukee) when I got up this morning. >>>>> Warming trend starts late today - Mid-30s F by the weekend. >>>>> >>>>> -p >>>>> >>>>>> On 1/7/2014 9:10 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>>>> It was -26 C (-16 F)in Michigan last night, and it’s -24 C (-11 F) >>>>> >>>>> right now. I suspect it was quite a bit colder up Wheatfield’s way. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Paul >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> >>>>>> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> http://themetapicture.com/another-canada-milestone/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Dan Matyola >>>>>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> >>> -- >> >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
