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78 below
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:04 pm
by DeeEss57
Heard this morning that a small town in Alaska had a temp of -78. -78! Can you imagine what that's like?
BTW, the town isn't way up north by the Arctic Circle, either. It's 200 miles southeast of Fairbanks and 320 miles northeast of Anchorage.
And we're complaining about -25 tonight with windchills around -40 or -50.
Dawn
watch my minicity grow
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Re: 78 below
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:52 pm
by PurpleMustReign
DeeEss57 wrote:Heard this morning that a small town in Alaska had a temp of -78. -78! Can you imagine what that's like?
BTW, the town isn't way up north by the Arctic Circle, either. It's 200 miles southeast of Fairbanks and 320 miles northeast of Anchorage.
And we're complaining about -25 tonight with windchills around -40 or -50.
Dawn
watch my minicity grow
http://mn-duluth.myminicity.com/
Wow!. Keep that crap away from here!
Re: 78 below
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:17 pm
by John
Years ago at Lutsen Lodge I got up to -48 (or something close - I think it was near a record) and that was cold. They wouldn't open the lifts right away, but once they did we went skiing. Young and dumb.
-78, I have to bet nothing starts or moves.
Re: 78 below
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:53 am
by Thaumaturgist
Geeze... That's just above absolute zero
OK, not really, but dang, that's cold! I worry if my car will start at -25 to -35. Unless you have a heated garage, I wouldn't think you'd be going anywhere. And then when you get there, you wouldn't want to shut off your car!
Re: 78 below
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:22 pm
by DeeEss57
Thaumaturgist wrote:Geeze... That's just above absolute zero
OK, not really, but dang, that's cold! I worry if my car will start at -25 to -35. Unless you have a heated garage, I wouldn't think you'd be going anywhere. And then when you get there, you wouldn't want to shut off your car!
I don't have a garage, but my car still starts when it's -25!
Dawn
Re: 78 below
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:05 am
by DanAS1
DeeEss57 wrote:Heard this morning that a small town in Alaska had a temp of -78. -78! Can you imagine what that's like? Dawn
You're making me VERY happy that I have to drive north for an hour and a half to get to the Mason Dixon Line.