I Could use some Global Warming

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:05 pm

MarkB wrote:So when can we skate on the canal eh!

MarkB

PS: Tomorrow is the first day of Summer in Australia

Usually between Christmas and New Years. I think the NCC needs 10 consecutive days of -10 C until they pronounce it safe.

emmline wrote:How is it that humans ever migrated farther north than that?

Excessive drinking?
"Hm... got to Ottawa and hunt beavers or Florida and grow oranges??? I think we know the answer." And 300 years later here we are.

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:06 pm

BTW, when do the two scales cross? -26?

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:35 pm

amar wrote:well, it's actually fairly warm. here. in my home, that is..

Dude, do you EVER go out and do any actual "Doctoring"?

I'm starting to wonder how you're ever gonna pay off those medical school bills

Loren

LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:40 pm

OnTheMoor wrote:BTW, when do the two scales cross? -26?

-40 is the same temperature on both Celsius and Fahrenheit.

norseman · Post by **norseman** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:42 pm

LeeMarsh wrote:
OnTheMoor wrote:BTW, when do the two scales cross? -26?
-40 is the same temperature on both Celsius and Fahrenheit.

I remember that being a trick question on a high school physics test. They're both way too cold!

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:38 pm

Sounds like you need some local warming! Sometimes you have to move to the weather.

Winter has been pleasant here, so far. It's mostly been in the 50's and 60's--yes, E. Washington--but has frosted and even snowed in some higher areas. I was driving up the northern section of the Columbia River this weekend and could see good fruit (unpicked for some reason) still hanging on the trees. Entire orchards still had all their green leaves. Some grape vinyards (unpicked for some reason) still looked okay too. I finally stopped and picked some apples...and they were fine. The grapes were a little soft, but tasted okay. I suppose that all may be due to the influence of the nearby river.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:19 pm

Anyone have any Freon or Aerosol cans to release? It's 16 Deg. F here in the Cincinnati area.

If you want to feel warm, just 459.67 to Fahrenheit to get degrees rankin = 475.67 absolute temperature.

Add 273.15 to Celsius to get Degrees Kelvin.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:37 pm

How about a brief stay at this hotel in Quebec? Hmmmmm?

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:54 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote:How about a brief stay at this hotel in Quebec? Hmmmmm?

Bet it's warmer there than in my house right now.

Luckily it's going up to -5 C tomorrow... I think Mother Nature has been hitting the Eggnog.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:30 am

Loren wrote:
amar wrote:well, it's actually fairly warm. here. in my home, that is..
Dude, do you EVER go out and do any actual "Doctoring"? I'm starting to wonder how you're ever gonna pay off those medical school bills

Loren

hey, c'mon now, i've got this whole week off! yep! and, i have no bills or debts to pay. ha. how dya like that?

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:15 am

amar wrote:i have no bills or debts to pay. ha. how dya like that?

My begging letter is in the post.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:42 am

The grape harvest is on in earnest here in Essex county Ontario and I suspect up in the Niagara pennisula also. Grapes are left on the vine to freeze so that they can be made into Icewine.

MarkB

OnTheMoor · Post by **OnTheMoor** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:57 am

MarkB wrote:The grape harvest is on in earnest here in Essex county Ontario and I suspect up in the Niagara pennisula also. Grapes are left on the vine to freeze so that they can be made into Icewine.

MarkB

How long does that go on Mark? Not after Christmas eh?
I got my parents some tours at Konzelman and Chateau des Charmes for Christmas.... then again it's a bit of a drive so I doubt they would go until the summer.

Danner · Post by **Danner** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:57 am

It's not quite as bad here in northern Illinois. When I got up yesterday (at 8:30 a.m.) the wind chill was 0 F. Yesterday we went to the hardware store and got our outdoor cats an insulated rose cone to sit in. I'm just really glad I don't have to go to school and walk home in this.

Does anyone listen to the Prarie Home Companion on NPR? The last show had a segement on how when the narrator guy was a kid, they turned the heat up instead of putting on a sweater and left the outside doors open. The heating bill was so huge that they had to live in an ice house and eat SPAM on Christmas.

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:09 am

Danner wrote:It's not quite as bad here in northern Illinois. When I got up yesterday (at 8:30 a.m.) the wind chill was 0 F. Yesterday we went to the hardware store and got our outdoor cats an insulated rose cone to sit in. I'm just really glad I don't have to go to school and walk home in this.

Northern Illinois? With a moniker like Danner, shouldn't you be a bit farther North, preparing for Christmas Eve?

No offense meant, just joking.

Here in the Hartford, CT., area, it got to a balmy 14 or so, yesterday.

Tom