While I have only experienced temperatures of this nature once in my life, I do remember being surprised at the time that the cold didn’t feel that cold…Of course, that was Colorado. The only time I’ve seen temperatures in the teens around here it’s felt very, very cold…I guess that’s the difference between a “wet” cold and a “dry” cold…
At first, a day near zero doesn’t feel very different from a day in the teens. The degrees seem to be squeezed together, as if there were less difference between 0 and 15 than between 60 and 75. That’s how it feels until it starts to warm up. The next morning, at 3 degrees, my eyelashes no longer stuck together. And as the day warmed, the sounds that had rung out so clearly in the freeze — the clinking of the gate chain, the stiff squeal of my boots on the snow — grew more and more humid. I won’t need a balaclava to fix the mailbox. Only the sun can fix the satellite dish.VERLYN KLINKENBORG
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Of course this weekend we weren’t feeling anything like these lows. More like springtime here than winter. The temperature yesterday was pushing 80…Go figure!
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It’s looking like another of the gray days of winter…While our temperatures tend to stay mild down here along the Gulf Coast, our clear days of blue skies and crisp temperatures are few and far between.
Yesterday we had intermittent sun as the clouds were racing north away from the coast. Someone should be expecting some pretty good precipitation numbers from the amount of moisture we watched leaving the Gulf of Mexico…
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I just saw a school bus pass by so it looks like the school zones are back on for the first time since before Christmas. That means traffic will be back to normal on the commute in to work this morning…Great! I guess I better get moving…
