Deal on the current cold weather

[Piquechampion]

I keep hearing in the news that England is covered in snow and stuff

So, what's the deal with it???

Is the USA affected by it??? What about other European countries or Asian ones???

Please state where you're form and the current temperature.







PS: Me myself, I love cold weather. We don't have that much of it here in my neck of the woods.

 

[CumAlong]

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.

Here in New York...its really fucking cold, but its always cold here, so eh.

 

[Pushyourluck]

I'm in Greece and it's cloudy outside but it's very mild temperatures for this time of year. Last year was freezing at this time so I don't quite understand why we've not so much had a drop of rain in weeks.

My mum in England says she hasn't turned the heating off in a week as it's been so cold. Sounds like they really have it bad out there.

 

[Piquechampion]

In C° pleaze

 

[cityboy-stl]

Yeah, it's cold alright. It is -3F (-19C) here right now. People are going on like it's so unusual. But heck, we've had a lot colder spells in the winter and for longer periods of time. There have been winters where the temperature was like this for months at a time. It's the milder winters of recent years that are unusual.

 

[BeMused]

Southern/Central USA and Northern Europe are getting slammed by unusual cold. In New England it's cold, but that's hardly abnormal for this time of year.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I know, eh? Time to live with the rest of the world, America...

[°F] = [°C] × 9⁄5 + 32
[°C] = ([°F] − 32) × 5⁄9

Who needs math? http://www.temperatureworld.com/tempcon.htm

The C scale is less accurate than the F scale anyway.

 

[star-warrior]

The UK hasn't had a big freeze like this in 30 years, or so they say, so most youngsters haven't felt this cold before

Since everyone talks about the weather here, it's a big deal.

 

[justndav]

The last couple of winters have seen some pretty cold weather here in the Midwest... but we have had periods before where its been colder for longer. As someone else mentioned though its the overall mild Winters we've been having since the 80s I guess that makes this cold feel a lot worse than it actually is for the Midwest anyways.

This is all related to a persistent upper air ridge centered over Greenland. That ridge is causing deep trofiness in the Central and Eastern US thus the cold. That feature has been very persistent over the last three or so Winters. This ridge will begin breaking down this weekend and much milder weather is on tap for much of the nation begining this coming week.

 

[frankfrank]

I know, eh? Time to live with the rest of the world, America...

[°F] = [°C] × 9⁄5 + 32
[°C] = ([°F] − 32) × 5⁄9

I wish. I really, REALLY wish!

In the early 1970's there was an effort in the U. S. to adopt the metric measurements which are used in nearly every other nation on the face of the Earth and, stupidly and impossible to explain why, the public completely rejected the effort.

I am STILL pissed that "we" didn't adapt/adopt that system for temperatures, distances, etc.

So don't blame ME blacksyringe, LOL LOL

[cityboy-stl] The C scale is less accurate than the F scale anyway.

I think that temperature is the ONLY metric scale which is less accurate (i.e. larger gradients) than the "analog" measurements that we're using in the U.S. And, for that matter, F. degrees are less than twice as accurate as C. degrees, so it's not a big difference. This is especially true in distance and weight units, where INCHES and OUNCES are the very smallest weight divisions in common usage. Millimeters are more than 25 times smaller, and milligrams are more than thirty-five thousand times smaller, and both are used VERY commonly in metricspeak. I guess a MICRON is a metric measurement, too, right? [Yes, granted, non-metric measurements have some values such as drams and grains which are quite small, but they're anything but common and probably 99.9% of people can't even tell you what they represent...]

In many cases LARGE amounts aren't that much different - for example TON is the largest commonly-used weight, and TONNE [a/k/a metric ton] is the largest common metric one. There ARE "megatons" and "kilotons" but those words seem to be used only to describe explosives/WMD's and not actual weights.

I would ACTUALLY prefer that the world had decided to use the Kelvin degrees scale, because it starts counting at Absolute Zero and actually makes the most sense...0 degrees F is a temperature which is really VERY weirdly arbitrary...

 

[Corny]

^ yeah .. that's what bugging me about Fahrenheit .. Kelvin totally makes sense. Celsius makes sense (and also gives humans a natural feeling for the temperature because we can observe the effects of 0° and 100°) .. and Fahrenheit? 0° based on mixing some chemicals. Great ...

 

[star-warrior]

Maybe we should opt for degrees Rankine or degrees Kelvin instead

 

[FlaMan]

Sunday 6:30 AM Winter Haven,Florida (between Tampa and Orlando) we are 27 F or -2.78 C..we had a mixture of sleet and snow yesterday..almost all my plants are dead due to the extended cold..

 

[gsdx]

The C scale is less accurate than the F scale anyway.

Really? Then why is it often displayed in decimals (fractions of a degree)?

Can't get much more accurate than decimals.

 

[tommyj]

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.

 

[sokker]

I just keep thinking The Day After Tomorrow. lol.

But seriously, I think warm places will get warmer and cold places will get colder with this climate change. We've had like -20 degrees C for a whole month now. It hasn't been this cold here in 30 years. So yeah, it's definitely unusual. And I'm getting sick of the cold by now.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Really? Then why is it often displayed in decimals (fractions of a degree)?

Can't get much more accurate than decimals.

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.

 

[metta]

I don't mind it as long as it does not go below 50 degrees at night.

 

[gsdx]

In general use it is always something rounded like 14C instead of 14.44444C (58F).

In general use up here, the temperatures are rounded either up or down, even in forecasts and on the Weather Network, but records are almost always expressed in decimals (usually to 1 decimal place).

 

[LongBeachBill]

I couldn't stand extreme cold again, I grew up in NJ - been living in SoCal for 28 years; if it gets down in the 40's here we shiver. To have it in the 70's in January is very nice, I must admit!