Tuesday Truth 1/29/19: It’s Cold

Here in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, it is cold. That is the truth. It may not be as cold as where you are at. Maybe you are much colder than we are here. This cold snap covers a good bit of the US, so just about everyone is far below average. If the normal high is 60F, then having your afternoon high be 30 is darned cold. Fargo’s normal high is 17 for this date. This afternoon at 4:00 it was -25. The windchill was -55. Now the temp has dropped a degree, but the wind is lighter, so the windchill is only -50.

Tomorrow isn’t looking very good either. The low is expected to be -37. That is not a record, but it’s getting close. This won’t last too long, though. We’ll be up to 24 by the weekend. I bet I see people wearing shorts on Saturday.

Frostbit can occur within ten minutes in these conditions. I had to stop and get gas today, and I had my hat pulled way down and my scarf pulled way up. I had long johns on under my jeans and two pairs of socks on in my honking big snow boots. Like many people up here, I have two winter coats. One is good for cold weather. It is kind of cute, and actually has a shape. I reserve the other one for COLD weather. It makes me look like a cross between the Michelin man and the Abominable Snow woman, but it is warm. Strangely enough, everyone I saw today looked just like me.

What’s the weather like where you are at? Are you cold? How are you dealing with it?