Deal on the current cold weather

[frankfrank]

Cold here in Philadelphia area this morning! 15 degrees which is -10 C...And I see on TWC where Miami is at a frigid 36 degrees this morning and yesterday they had flurries in suburban Dade City (near Miami)! The only recorded instance of actual snow in the city of Miami Florida was in Jan. 1977 where one could write on the snow on the windshield. There was an iconic picture of the time of some woman writing "Miami ?" in the snow on her VW Beetle with a palm tree dusted in snow in the background. AP picked that up and it went across the world.

Didn't the cold poke so far south that they even saw snow flurries in Nassau? I think I remember that.

I LOVE this weather stuff (and, unlike some people's P.O.V., when a conversation turns into weather it's still all good, not a signal that it's going nowhere). Anomalies interest me the most, and "snow where it doesn't belong" probably interests me most of all.

I still remember a few years ago when Guadalajara, Mexico (which is well into the tropics, and NOT at a high altitude) got 4 or 5 cm of snow, and it seems like it was early - like mid-December or something.

 

[frankfrank]

Well maybe it's just here then. I have never heard C temperature expressed with decimals outside of a scientific presentation. In general use it is always something rounded like 14C instead of 14.44444C (58F). Maybe they do elsewhere though. I say the F scale is more accurate because the gradients are smaller. But in general terms it is probably minimal. I'm too pedantic sometimes.

True, and I don't hear fractional Celsius values being used by Canadians either. (Where are you looking, gsdx?) I don't think I've ever seen fractionals used on The Weather Network either. Maybe the fractionals are sometimes mentioned when somebody is talking about extremes or anomalies?

[EDIT: never mind, you already explained it...]

 

[NedNickerson]

Yea, the US is getting fucked by it lol. Florida, as far down as the keys reached temperatures of 40F....thats insane for florida. Iguana were literally falling out of trees because it was so cold they went into stasis or whatever.

Authorities are asking people NOT to rescue the green iguanas by bringing them inside to warm up, since they are a non-native species. They're asking people to leave them where they fall in order for nature to take its course. The cold weather is helping Florida get rid of the green iguana and Burmese pythons which are not native species to Florida.

On the other hand, native species such as manatees, tropical fish, and sea turtles are having a hard time, too...

More:
Snow in Florida: Big chill culling unwanted iguanas and pythons
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100109/ts_csm/272892

 

[bike10]

Been freezing ass cold here in Mid-Missouri. Keep warm with sweats and jockstrap. Put fire in fireplace turn on some gay dvd's to enjoy and jack off to keep warm.