The [ICE] FOG!

[Commander Malex]

OK, as the Icy Fog of winter finally descends upon us here in central Ohio...
My weather alert indicates it is 9 degrees Fahrenheit (-12.8 C) and going down...brrr! Glad I don't live outside...my grandfather fought in World War Two in this kind of weather for months! ) Makes you think about survival a bit...

Hey, those of you further up north...yeah, I know...sounds kinda warm to you all... Blade, bet your wearing sunglasses basking in the warm sun watching bikini clad girls... d**n! EXPEDIA.COM! Now, where's my credit card... ;D

The National Weather Service just released:
OHIO REGIONAL WEATHER ROUNDUP
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND, OH
100 AM EST SAT FEB 03 2007
CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS
COLUMBUS CLEAR 11 -1 58 W9 29.97F

and

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
959 PM EST FRI FEB 2 2007

.A COLD FRONT PASSED THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON USHERING IN
A COLD WESTERLY FLOW OF AIR ACROSS LAKE ERIE. LAKE EFFECT SNOW
SHOWERS DEVELOP EARLIER THIS EVENING. THEY WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT
THOUGH DECREASE AROUND SUNRISE SATURDAY. MOST OF THE SNOW WILL
FALL ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA WITH
QUICKLY DECREASING AMOUNTS INLAND.

SATURDAY AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THE AREA BRINGING
IN SOME OF THE COLDEST AIR YET THIS SEASON. HEAVY LAKE EFFECT
SNOW SHOWERS AND SQUALLS WILL DEVELOP OFF OF LAKE ERIE. CURRENTLY
THE WINDS DRIVING THE SNOW BANDS ARE EXPECTED TO TURN INLAND
SATURDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE SUNDAY...MAKING HEAVY LAKE EFFECT
SNOW POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA.

[Commander Malex]

Perhaps I'll use a more impressive sounding scale:
9 degree Fahrenheit = 260.3722222 kelvin

[Commander Malex]

OK, now its 8 degrees F ( -13.3 Celsius)
Brrrrrrrrr!

So question to all: What's the coldest temperature you've ever been in? And where?
And the hottest? Where?

ME (Coldest):
I've been in -22 C in 1996 somewhere between Germany and Poland driving through. That was the actual temps comparable to what my grandfather fought in. Painful and saw real Ice Fog for the first time...

ME (Hottest):
Stepped off a C-130 military plane in Tucson, Arizona in 1995 and thought I'd melt into the tarmac. It was 120 F. Feels like being a chicken in the oven...

[Commander Malex]

Oh yeah, I LOVE talking to myself... ;D

-22 C (for us North Americans ) = -7.6 F
+120 F (for those of you in the rest of the world ) = 48.9 C

[Count Blademaster]

The flagship of the Klingon forces flagship sits dead in space, while the whole crew contingent is busy making all kinds of calculations and banging their small Klingon skulls against the bulkhead.

-"...seven minus thirty-four, times eight point sev..."

The Klingon Communications officer, about to commit sepuku after getting the third conversion wrong again turns to Commander Malex:

-"Commander, my panel is all bleepy, I think someone's hailing us."

-"...hundred and forty one, uh?, oh... onscreen"

The flagship's bridge screen suddenly fills with the image of the Anla'Shok Na wearing sunglasses sipping a strange liquid-holder with an umbrella in it. Behind him, an Orion slave girl rubs sun lotion on his back.

-"Have you petty Klingons learned nothing from 21st Century history?? After a century of clinging to the dead Imperial System the United States was thrown into chaos and it's people turned into savage berserkers by the inefficiency of their ways, just to be assimilated into the great Uruguayan Empire. We will show you the might of the Metric System, you have 2 standard hours to surrender your vessel."

Blip. the great space governs the screen once more.

Commander Malex turns to his Communication officer:

-"Signal Quo'noS, request for an additional shipment of toilet paper"

[Commander Malex]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most Excellent!!!!!!!!!!

[Lord Hellus, Council Chairman]

Phoenix, two years ago, 125* f

[Commander Malex]

DAAAMMMN! Now that's HOT!

[jhonsheridan]

hottest 108 fh in kileen texas,coldest - 23 fh germany on the chech border 1984 , and yes i was winter camping with my national guard unit doing field exercices for a "reforger" BRRRRRRRR! dammm sir can i sit behind the jeep and warm up my hands on the exasut pipe!? Please
For those of you too young to remember that was when there was still a east germany and a west germany, the berlin wall was still up. And ronald rayguns. was popular!

[Commander Malex]

Hey,
I did Team Spirit '93 in Republic of Korea, January -?C and guarding HMMWV's when not doing my real job (making maps). Luckily had to run a few and got to get warmed up occasionally. Mud froze by night, turned to liquid glue by day...suck a boot right off.
Ah good Old Ronald Reagan. Those were the days, Cruise Missiles, Star Wars space defense, MX missiles, B1 bombers, and Iran-Contra...the good old days.

[DemonFROG ISC Pacifism]

Luckily for me I am up north and wish my usual days were as warm as your coldest so far posted.
Heat, was to the west coast, Canadian side, back in 1975, and had a heatwave follow us out there. I was playing on top of a mountain in BC, in 115 F in a pile of snow. I met a group of people from Australia up there, and they had NEVER seen snow. They saw us running into it barefooted, and thought it would be ok for them to do it too. Did we ever laugh as they slid, fell, screamed, and continued to scream as they tried their darndest to get out of the snow. They had never ever felt anything so cold, and it was in their clothing from them falling. Talk about a striptease eheheh.

My coldest, well, there have been many days were the actual temperature in our town has been below the -40C, which btw is -40F as well. I do recall one day that hit -45C, and that is most likely my coldest actual temperature. We did however have a day 2 years ago where the wind chill hit a -52C. That was awful.

[Commander Malex]

d**n...you got the coldest...
Well, we're at a new two year record (it really doesn't get that cold in Ohio by comparison)...Tomorrow AM is -1F air temp (-10 to -12F) with the high under 8F.
They're closing the schools 'cause this stupid area doesn't have shelters for school kids nor bus stops...man, dumb ass town doesn't even have sidewalks but that's another story...I'm not from around here, NYC originally.

Know what you mean about snow on mountains though...my army unit and I went hiking around Mt. Rainier, WA for fun and wore shorts and played in the snow bare chested for hours, was mild weather and climbing makes one really hot!

[Lord Hellus, Council Chairman]

I'm in what's called the banana belt, along the Snake river, We never really get cold, maybe 10 days below 32*. But the summers can get hot- about two weeks over one hundred!

[DemonFROG ISC Pacifism]

nitze said:

d**n...you got the coldest...

They're closing the schools 'cause this stupid area doesn't have shelters for school kids nor bus stops...man, dumb ass town doesn't even have sidewalks but that's another story...I'm not from around here, NYC originally.

Closing schools because you have no shelters for the Kids? You got to be kidding. We have NEVER had shelters up here, and never will. They wont freeze, just dress them right. Crap, we dont even close schools unless it is more than a 2 foot drop in snow or we have freezing rain and ice mixed, and even then if you can walk to school, you are expected to be there.

[Commander Malex]

Man! I totally agree with you on that! As I'm not from here it drives me nuts how badly these people drive when snow comes out and I drive a freaking Ford Mustang without problems.

As for shelters and such, look, kids stand at the bus-stop with no coats and sometimes even shorts. What kinda parents let their kids go out like that and what kinda morons dress like that in the first place? Agreed! Also, My family is from Europe and knows all about cold winters...they stood outside too. Weak people here...