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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago

I just got this beauty of an alert.

That's -34.44 Celsius for those not in the USA.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sounds like a perfect time to have a minimum-wage worker bring you food!

(jokes aside I hope you're ok)

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, they're not paid minimum wage. They're contractors so there's no such thing. 😊

[-] Galapagon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

But because they're contractors, they're not required to drive in that weather either.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

Nobody is required to work. You can also starve.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Homes in this area are built for it. The big risk is a power outage, and even then the basement should stay above freezing for at least a day.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

30 below expected? What was expected?

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

"30 below [zero]" expected

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

30 below is expected.

[-] _____@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Funnily enough meteorologists have all sorts of short phrases like that that I find equally confusing, it's like half broken English but it works

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

0 degrees, clearly.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

IT'S GOING TO BE COLD OUTSIDE, BROTHER. MAKE SURE YOU DRESS APPROPRIATELY, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, JUST BAD CLOTHING.

[-] reddfugee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Dress: Appropriate

Generator: Fueled

Hog: Cranked

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

IF IT GETS TOO COLD YOU MIGHT CRACK YOUR HOG WHEN YOU GO TO CRANK IT. NOBODY WANTS THAT!

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

This guy knows.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, JUST BAD CLOTHING.

Except for high wet bulb temperatures. That shit will kill you even if you're naked.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Your father was a naked high wet bulb!

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That’s what my mom liked about him

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Waitaminute. That's what my mom liked about him

[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Fr... from another mother?

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago
[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

New Englanders say that too! We also respond to others concerned about our wellbeing in the rain: “I’m not made of sugar,” though we have an answer that Germans don’t say: “but you are pretty sweet.”

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

TIL.

I guess Germans don't have that answer because for a German "No scolding is praise enough."

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I’d be curious if I could find enough clothes to be able to withstand these temperatures for half an hour. The coldest I’ve ever experienced was −20°C some 15 years ago.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Easily. They cost a small fortune unfortunately. Look up Canada Goose parkas. Or Outdoor Survival Canada.

[-] hinterlufer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There are research stations in Antarctica where it has like -60°C or lower on a typical day. There's an interesting post on stackexchange referencing the US Antarctica programme on about what clothing for these conditions should look like.

[-] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It is wind chill not actual temperature. Still cold cold cold but not as bad as it sounds in terms of your internal organs freezing or whatever.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t see the point, since I would give up based on the perceived temperature way before any damage from the real temperature would occur.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Long sleeves and long underwear/leggings, two pairs of socks, flannel-lined jeans if you have them, sweatpants and jeans on top if not, flannel or similar overshirt, scarf(!), sweater/sweatshirt, winter coat (or 2 additional sweaters/sweatshirts and a raincoat or other large windbreaker), boots, gloves, mittens, and hat.

You won’t die, especially if you move around. I’ve had to take the coat off while shoveling in those temperatures, though my feet and hands were unhappy after a while. Definitely have a cup of hot liquid when you get back inside though.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

You get used to it. Humans have an amazing ability to adapt.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That’s not that cold? Almost any winter gear you buy in Canada will be rated for atleast -30c. It gets that temperature normally without windchill regularly.

In fact, it was just -20c without windchill the last 2 days here.

[-] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

You might be used to it and prepared for it, but it’s still bloody cold!

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

In 20 years, it’ll be a temperate climate.

[-] StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 0 points 1 week ago

The Celsius temps should not be the addition at the bottom, considering the US is the only place in the world using the archaic and useless Fahrenheit. Celsius should be the norm with an addendum of Fahrenheit.

Yay for American exceptionalism once again. Dumbfucks.

[-] Anders429@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

This comment is completely irrational. The fahrenheit temperature is in a screenshot of a text message that was sent in the US. The only temperature in the message you replied to that isn't in the screenshot is in Celsius. How is that "American exceptionalism"?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It really boggles the mind as to what they expected the poster to present. Did they want him to edit the screenshot to say Celsius and then clarify what he edited out?

[-] StopJoiningWars@discuss.online -3 points 1 week ago

Yes. And if your country actually used a sensical measurement you wouldn't need to do that.

It is about American exceptionalism.

[-] cazssiew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I can't tell if this is satire. So arrogant and superior, and so, so stupid at the same time.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

That’s…. Not that cold? It gets normally down to -32c/f here, and that’s without windchill.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 1 week ago

Bud that’s frostbite in 30 minutes territory, that’s cold.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When you experience it for 6 months every year, you actually get used it and it’s not that cold. It’s entirely livable. People from fair weather states are funny.

Of course when you live in +30c for 12 months even -10c will feel unbearable. Where that’s t-shirt weather for other people.

You also won’t get frostbite when your skin covered, wear a mask, jacket, pants, I used to work in it for 8 hours a day. You make it seem like it’ll kill you lmfao.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I mean it’s bearable weather with the right gear, of course. But saying 30 below is “not that cold” is just you being that guy.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You just described any weather, even +20c! Wear a jacket or the wrong clothes and it’s unbearable as well.

30 below is beautiful weather to head to the mountains and go boarding.

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