That's pretty much the subject of conversation. It got to -15 yesterday, or -8, or -23, depending on your source and where the thermometer was. The dog found himself stuck between nature calling and nature ambushing. The water pipes needed attention, but held. Any critters looking to the garage for sanctuary would have been severely disappointed.
But it's a dry cold, of course.
People say they can't remember it being this cold before. Someone here at work from Poland claims she's never been this cold.
Eight years ago, we got a nice snow one night in January or February. The next morning was crystal clear, the sky as blue as I've ever see it. It was so cold that the snow hadn't melted off any of the trees by about 9:00 AM. The pictures are here. That was cold, but I don't think it was as cold as it's been here yesterday and today.
My temperature-preference graph is decidedly non-linear. If "comfortable" is about 70, I'd prefer 60 degrees to 80 degrees all the time. I'd even prefer 50 to 90 most of the time. I'll generally take cold over hot, even wet cold over muggy, swim-to-work hot. But this is ridiculous. It's like a reverse-Phoenix, with people scurrying from heated edifice to heated edifice in their heated cars.
It's cold enough that it wouldn't surprise me if Al Gore had changed planes out at DIA, or flown into Centennial over the weekend.
In the meantime, enjoy this headline from the WSJ, breaking news from 3 billion years ago, as James Taranto would put it:
But it's a dry cold, of course.
People say they can't remember it being this cold before. Someone here at work from Poland claims she's never been this cold.
Eight years ago, we got a nice snow one night in January or February. The next morning was crystal clear, the sky as blue as I've ever see it. It was so cold that the snow hadn't melted off any of the trees by about 9:00 AM. The pictures are here. That was cold, but I don't think it was as cold as it's been here yesterday and today.
My temperature-preference graph is decidedly non-linear. If "comfortable" is about 70, I'd prefer 60 degrees to 80 degrees all the time. I'd even prefer 50 to 90 most of the time. I'll generally take cold over hot, even wet cold over muggy, swim-to-work hot. But this is ridiculous. It's like a reverse-Phoenix, with people scurrying from heated edifice to heated edifice in their heated cars.
It's cold enough that it wouldn't surprise me if Al Gore had changed planes out at DIA, or flown into Centennial over the weekend.
In the meantime, enjoy this headline from the WSJ, breaking news from 3 billion years ago, as James Taranto would put it:
Greek Plant to Use Solar Technology
