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Jesse this one? http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ilm/archive/Superstorm93/

Yep, that's the one. I was going to say it was in March but then thought surely that wasn't right, but it was. March 13.

By early afternoon on March 13th the central pressure of the low was lower than had been observed with any historic winter storm or hurricane across the interior Southeastern United States. All-time low pressure records were established in Columbia, Charlotte and Greensboro, even beating out the pressures observed just a few years earlier during Hurricane Hugo's visit in September 1989.

I know it's winter, but i was reacting to "gtfo if you can't take it"
i'm not hostile, just pissy bc i think it's dangerously cold out there and my nose/toes froze when i last went outside :(

also bc my workplace's reaction to this is ridic

I was being serious above btw. We did winter camping and downhill skied in awful weather and generally a bunch of the other stupid kinds of things kids do.

I remember playing hockey in a natural ice arena and not being able to feel my fingers and toes to the point where I couldn't hold my stick right and couldn't skate normally.

JiC you're not making sense.

School should be open "Because it's always cold in the winter! That's why it's called winter!" But it's not always as cold as it was today -- so cold that school officials are concerned b/c "schools do not want to be liable for idiot kids...who lose their hats and gloves on the way to school or even take them off on purpose and then lose an ear. Suggesting that a 30º variance doesn't make a major difference is crazy. -2º is plainly, on it's frostbitten face, more uncomfortable and risky than 28º.

xp to Dan - I can't believe the cold I intentionally endured as a kid in MN. I remember my brother teaching me that I should run cold tap water over my hands to warm them so they didn't itch and burn from getting to room temp too fast.

Things got a lot better once my dad let me have shelter in the winter.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/55/124940034_077732cb94.jpg

omg that is adorable
i have never seen baby je55e!!

That's adorable.

Ahahaha xp

Thanks. Once more. Putting snow on Sally, my first dog.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/39/124940043_c0eeaf7ca5.jpg

oh! you look exactly the same! i can't take it.

Exactly the same as now??

Or is that a joke? (exactly the same as the dog?)

xpost I admit I'm not being totally fair. Yes, it really is cold. So they should concede to concerned parents and allow them to keep their kids home if they're worried.

Anyway, they're called Snow Days and not Cold Days for a reason. Huge storms physically impede people from getting to school, on bus, by car or on foot. Things grind to halt. But cold? The danger-difference of zero degrees (no cancellations) and -10 (preemptive cancellation) is for all practical purpose indistinguishable, so clearly the school districts have some sort of semi-arbitrary magic number they hit before they call things off.

your face looks the same as your face now, that's what i mean! the dog is fine but looks nothing like you.

i also could argue that extreme cold impedes people from getting to work/school just like snow does but i don't feel like arguing
let's just agree that -15/-45 is total bullshit.

Yeah, fuck these temperatures.

Agreed. I'm just so, so tired of the same old thing. I was talking to (some of) our friend T0m@s who said for him that first big sub-zero snap was kind of awesome b/c it was novel and everybody was buzzing about it, which I think is OTM. I'm just so tired of the same annoying crap forever.

Also, sub-zero and persistent snow suck worse in the city. Just like summer is grosser in the city. B/c you have to walk more, increasing your exposure to it every day, plus it stops being pretty almost right away and turns to invasive slop and salt crust.

With that, Resolution Fuck This Bullshit is passed.

i like it.

At least in the city you don't have to drive in the icy snowy terribleness.

i mean i'll admit i'm doing a jedi mind trick on myself as a coping mechanism, and that i do maybe enjoy being a contrarian fuck, but i'll take sub-zero and sunny over grey and slushy any day

i honestly did yearn for cold weather for a lot of the last seven years and so i really am enjoying this

being cold indoors however is a way different story and that's when i fall apart

also i am house/dog-sitting in the suburbs this week and i just drove in to the city and back to see a show and the roads were in pretty great shape the whole way

It's mostly only going to warm up today. I take solace in that we could have a unseasonably warm february or march. It's possible. I choose to believe.

Plus I read that before the last 37 years of nonstop record high annual temps, it wasn't that weird for it to be this cold. We're just not used to it.

― carl agatha, Monday, January 27, 2014 4:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's definitely been a below average winter, by at least snow and cold metrics. From the WGN Weather blog:

The 19.8-degree average temp since Dec. 1 ranks 12th coldest of the past 143. Thirty eight of the past 58 days—66% of them— have been colder than normal. The last time a winter was this cold at this stage of the season was 5 years years ago.

The season’s snow story is even more impressive. With 48.2” on the books thus far, snowfall is accumulating at a rate 2.5 times faster than “normal”. This is now the 5th snowiest season on record since 1884-85.

Only three other Chicago snow seasons have logged more than the 29 days of “measurable” snowfall recorded to date—-31 days of measurable snow (the record) in 1976-77 and 1978-79—and 30 days of at least 0.1″ of snow in 2008-09.

I do remember the winter of 2009, because it got down to my previously lowest temperature ever felt, -17. I remember specifically walking in Daley Plaza thinking I needed a thicker coat.

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMDW/2009/1/16/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

It's definitely been a below average winter

I admit I misread this and was about to get all WTF.

predictions on the % of students who show up for the first day of class today?

i'm hoping for 60%

I also remember 5 years ago because my parents were here and freaked out by the weather.

Wow Je55e was a cute kid...

...

...what happened?

Just a bit of fun, be cool ;)

Je55e y u put snow on that dog

We watched a really good documentary last night on Netflix: "Beauty is Embarrassing" which is about Wayne White, an artist from Alabama who designed all the puppets for Pee Wee's Playhouse and did a bunch of album cover for Lambchop (including this one: http://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/nixon_lambchop.jpg) and is just a cool/interesting guy in general. Good if you want to feel artistically inspired.

I also remember 5 years ago because my parents were here and freaked out by the weather.

Oh man yeah. That was kind of fun to witness.

My stepdad just emailed and said he'd never felt cold like they are reporting here.

Our heater basically never stops running even though I have the thermostat set to about 60!

I saw that doc, it was pretty good!
100% btw!

So how many students showed up?

All of them, plus 2 extra!
Also, for the record, one of them was wearing a hoodie + sweater (no coat), one young lady was wearing a light polyester jacket, and the classroom was so hot that we had to crack a window.

did you use the extra kids for warmth

I was out and about with the kids today, and each stop of the way we became less and less diligent about totally bundling up. It's cold, sure, but out here we somehow evaded all the wind and wind chill as forecast.

This morning, after getting the OK to work from home for a second day and spending some time outside shoveling, in that order, my wife said screw it, and took the train to work.

xp - We didn't need to -- the heat was cranked to face-melting levels in that room.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140128/rogers-park/activists-call-police-spying-at-heartland-cafe-laughable-disturbing

Bad biscuits and police spying. That place doesn't have mug going for it.

i think the old hippie vibe is charming and reminds me of people flipping out about the school of the americas back in the day
the food is not great but it was also within walking distance of my home for a decade

lol @ spying though, wtf

Hey if anyone knows anyone who's interested in working in publishing, we're gonna have an opening, maybe two, at my work fairly soon.

i'd like to work in publishing

I'll post a link when things start happening, I just learned of this today.

I'm at the Logan for the first time since the remodeling, pretty swanky! Plus they have alcohol!

So sick of winter. It's warmer, but the wind out there is terrible. I'd almost rather have the cold without the wind. Almost. Also, apparently like 16-20 more inches of snow coming in the next week.

would def take sub-zero and sunny over 25 and windy

yeah. doesn't help that wabash by my office is basically a giant wind tunnel.

I was an early adopter of being sick of winter. Really started around November for me.