How cold is it where you are?

It was 3deg this morning when I woke up.
I actually was inducted into a local Methadone maintenance center last week, so this is my second week of being legally maintained on Methadone (I've been illegally maintaining myself on it for some time; those of you who know me well know that I've been on Suboxone by doctor prescription for over 2 1/2 years, and that has finally gotten to an utterly broken point) so now I am waking up much earlier, normally at either 05:30 or 06:00 in the morning in order to get to the doctor appointment or to receive my daily dose before heading into work, and my car windshield is a solid sheet of ice every day. The heat does not work in the dash nor on defrost and because I get up well before the sun rises now, I have to scrape it all off by hand and it is such a bother. I am positively euphoric on mornings when I don't have to worry about scraping ice and can head out directly after warming my car up.

 

14f degrees.

 

20c

 

Looks like spring here too! Sunny but chilly wind.

 

Today, my phone tells me it is 16 degrees outside, in grand rapids michigan. I moved here from chicago, which is basically the other side of lake michigan, but I'm a bit more inland over here, resulting in less lake effect wind chill.... I am experiencing more snow, but I guess that there will just be, more snow, because ice caps melted, more water in the water cycle, more snow in the winter. I wonder how hot will be this summer, the seasons are going to be more drastic, if you think about it logically.

I grew up ice skating, so I think I'm used to the cold aspect in some ways. Or Atleast I'm able to distract myself from it.

I once read a book called 'walkabout' which had characters in the Australian outback. One was an aboriginal boy, who, according to the book, did not acknowledge cold, and there fore, his body temperature did not vary as drastically in freezing temperatures. It really is a state of mind, if you ask me. When there's a sunny day at the end of winter even if its like 40 degrees, people are so excited to see the sun, they dont mind the chill like they would at the end of summer. Same concept, applied differently. Pay attention to something else, instead of how cold you are, and maybe you won't be so cold.

 

Or rather, you won't perceive yourself as so cold.

 

I'm always cold...

 

Allow me to make a joke at your expense.... You're old. That's why you're cold.

 

This one's for Tyron! (Guitar really gets going after the first minute):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXygVlgPkn0"]The Atomic Bitchwax: Gettin' Old - YouTube

 

Cloudy 15° F RealFeel® 6° F
Expected Low of 2° F


Hotwater

 

17f degrees. They are predicting 40-50 for the next few days. Yeah, I will take that.

 

Mostly Clear 12° F RealFeel® 15° F


I still don't understand how it's possible to feel warmer than the actual temerature


hotwater

 

It's like reverse wind-chill :mickey:

 

OK


Hotwater

 

Warm here with light rain. Went out with BF to his van when he went home, in my tShirt.

 

So, you're saying it sucks...

 

39f and rainy but after today the forecast for the next few days is late 60s, early 70s..yay

 

Warm In the sun already, gonna get warmer so no jacket today while I go do some errands. just my hoodie and gym pants and my slide on sneakers.

 

Freezing rain and sleet, adding to my small leftover snowdrift from two storms ago.