Because of the air through the tube.
Also muggy here. We've had about three days of anything approaching winter, even by local standards.
Definitely. It is 40 degrees F and raining here. Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shit, niggas is damn near barbecuing on that motherfucker. Go down to 20, niggas get their bitch on. Get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a fuck about 40.
What do you, have the script of the Wire memorized or something? Weirdo.
What do you, have the script of the Wire memorized or something? Weirdo.
Speaking of crime, am I missing something here or did the reporter just not know what kind of hats the local baseball team wears?
Maybe the fellow wasn't endorsing piracy, but is a fan of golden showers.
6: well, obviously.
This is about my least favourite sort of weather (admittedly I've never been in a tornado or a minus-40 blizzard). The Scots word is "dreich" (we have 40 different words for "grey, damp and depressing").
Hey I know a place where it's neither warm nor muggy this morning.
9: maybe the reporter assumed that not all his readers would know.
Forty degrees with fog or drizzle is my favorite weather.
9F if the Internet is to be believed.
13: There really aren't many people around who pay less attention to the local sportsball team than I do.
Probably they just copied from the police report. The other localish paper has the same language.
Thus ends the local news portion of the program.
15. If you can't believe the internet what can you believe?
Astrology seems worth another look.
Or that thing with the sheep livers.
Sometimes it almost seems that you aren't trying to communicate in good faith.
22: How dare you doubt Moby's sincerity? Moby is a true innocent from the Heartland.
It's really not unpleasant here today. It just feels wrong to have so little winter, and I have low standards already.
There's a blizzard in Southern Italy, if you want to avoid mugginess. Northern Italy is coldish and sunny or overcast. Prague was cold and damp.
21. That would be "extispicy." (The funniest of the various words for it.)
If the weather isn't actually unpleasant, you could find a hateful person to make the day unpleasant for you.
25: Just a random question out of nowhere that you should feel completely free to ignore: Do the initials "B.I." mean anything to you?
AIMHMHB, one of my armchair theories for the American obesity epidemic is climate control. Body temperature regulation requires decent caloric expenditure. In the winter, we heat our houses and buildings too much, so our bodies don't have to burn extra calories to stay warm, but we still eat fat and carbs like we're living on a farm in the Old World. In the summer, intense heat makes your appetite shut down, but Americans spend all day in air conditioned environments and still eat lots.
In topless enlightened Europe, people have worse climate control, so in the winter it's cold inside and in the summer it's hot inside. The trade off of being slightly miserable for 6 months out of the year is you get to eat large quantities of pasta, cheese, and wine and never get fat.
If anyone has a half million dollar NSF grant to hand out, pls. let me know.
Just in case it isn't obvious, I feel you should know that "MH" is maybe me if we're talking about the same place.
30: I think you're underestimating the American can-do spirit. I'll bet we could figure out a way to be miserably hot/cold for much of the year and have high rates of obesity.
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I thought as much. It was actually through there and CT that I came to unfogged, IIRC.
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That sounds like a project for the forthcoming Peter Thiel American Ingenuity Grant (TM) contest.
I worked out this morning that it is a bad idea to cuddle large people in this kind of weather (about 2 degrees in real money). Feeling my legs after a bike ride, I discovered that fat is a really good insulator, so that the thighs and arse were chilly on the outside, while the shins were not. The feet, of course, were totally numb and chill but the explanation for that is that I have sensible blood which is not going down there in this weather. Fat, however, is an insulator, so the outside skin is cool while the inside is toasty.
Moral: ignore all his blandishments, and never sleep with Howling Wolf in wintertime.
I guess that explains why my forehead hurts worse than my cheeks when it gets below zero degrees regular.
9/39: Ctrl+F for "black" brought back eight results. Huh.
Pirates hats are sold in a variety of color combinations; I've seen them in colors identical to the Phillies', which is awfully confusing. The Pirates' "P" is more hardcore, tho'.
Here in central NC, we had a low of 2 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday. The high tomorrow is 70.
probably the least bad consequence of global warming, but still.
No, unseasonably hot weather annoying Republican climate-change denialists is definitely the least bad consequence of global warming. Unseasonably hot weather annoying progressive climate realists like yourself is like maybe fourth or fifth least bad.
This week here it's a cold-rainy combo I don't recall for quite some time.
The feet, of course, were totally numb and chill but the explanation for that is that I have sensible blood which is not going down there in this weather.
You're black where it counts.
(Seriously: Inuit, east Asian and European descended people tend to have a response to cold called the "Lewis hunting response" where the body initially reduces peripheral circulation to conserve heat, but periodically opens it up again to keep the tissues perfused and prevent necrosis, i.e. frostbite. Lewis hunting is much rarer in people of African descent - they get the initial vasoconstrictive response as peripheral circulation gets redirected through the arteriovenous shunts, but then it stays like that till they get somewhere warm.)
Seriously: Inuit, east Asian and European descended people people who carry Neanderthal genes tend to have a response to cold called the "Lewis hunting response"
Has anybody found the genes responsible for this response?
Texas doesn't have winter, Heebie.
47: Well, FINE, but I miss my five month fall.
freezing fog.
What does this even mean?
It's like freezing rain, but smaller drops.
Unless it means something different in Alaska? A type of bear or something.
I miss warm muggy days in winter so I am last minute jaunting to LA this weekend with the kid, if anyone is there or knows what you do with kids in LA. Or has a good babysitter. Staying in Mar Vista.
I rented a convertible because I'm lot like the other moms, I'm a COOL mom.
Those convertible strollers are nice.
I spent a long time this morning trying to decide whether I needed a trip to LA or whether I needed to start going to church but I didn't like any of the church websites so here we are.
I call them "Southers" up here in Dallas to contrast them with "Northers." I absolutely loathe them, not quite hot temperatures (currently 77), high humidity without rain, dreary overcast, strong but not relieving south to southwest winds carrying pollen, very high baro pressure (30.07 rising). Just fucking miserable.
They directly precede "Northers" one comes in this evening. The weather channel online is getting very good at the micro-predicting stuff and tells me that at 3 the wind is from the SSW at 8mph, at 4 WNW 9mph, at 5 N at 7mph. Temperature drops 13 degrees in ~2 hours, and 18 degrees in 4 hours. Humidity doesn't change much, but the baro from high to low switch is such a relief. And the air feels so fucking clean.
I have a North window in my main room. I think Northers are glorious. But not enough to compensate for Southers.
The collision edge of Northers and Southers are where tornadoes happen when conditions are ripe.
I had hopes for warm and muggy in LA a couple of days ago but it was just rainy. I'm sure it's lovely now I've left.
It's not that warm but it's not raining. The convertible is a flourish I will probably regret nevertheless.
My last rental was a convertible. It was fun. Enjoy yourself. You certainly deserve it.
We had freezing fog here earlier this week. Made for some good hoarfrost, I got some good pictures. Will post one.
51: It's like regular fog, but colder. Leads to a lot of frost buildup.
I am probably in over my head trying to drive in LA at all--city highways are no fun but assuming we survive the drive to our place from Burbank, it'll be worth it to have the chance to go whipping through the canyons with an indifferent second grader.
Late to the thread but for a little while it was fun imagining the connection between Moby, Buttercup, and Jay-Z's kid.
Front came through. Funny, sitting inside, completely enclosed I can feel a huge difference, maybe because of the pressure drop.
From 77 to 66 in however long it has been since comment 58 above
I hope it reached heebieville but usually doesn't work that way, which is one small reason I live in Dallas instead of sweltering parts South.
-14F here now, headed to -26F overnight. I'm in Fargo, though, so I guess that's why.
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You could visit my in-laws? Haha.
More seriously, not too far away is the museum of jurassic technology. It might be a little too stuffily eccentric for a second grader, but it's worth visiting.
if anyone is there or knows what you do with kids in LA
Griffith Park Observatory! Especially after dark because they let you look through the big telescope. But also great during the day.
Just keep an eye on your tyres.
I love the museum of Jurassic Technology I get all my best bat-shaped paperweights there. Also they have the columbarium on the top floor, after the space dogs.