~Sigh~ It's crazy here in Louisiana today.

[Scarlett O.]

We've had record highs here in Louisiana over the the past six weeks or so. 75 to 82 degrees.

People celebrated Christmas and New Year's day in shorts. Many had the air on yesterday.

This morning when I left for church around 8:00, it was 49 degrees. Leaving church at 11:45, it was 30 degrees and SNOWING!!!

This is one reason why people here catch colds and such and sickness abounds.

Blech!!! My FEET are freezing!!

 

[SavedByGrace]

We've had record highs here in Louisiana over the the past six weeks or so. 75 to 82 degrees.

People celebrated Christmas and New Year's day in shorts. Many had the air on yesterday.

This morning when I left for church around 8:00, it was 49 degrees. Leaving church at 11:45, it was 30 degrees and SNOWING!!!

This is one reason why people here catch colds and such and sickness abounds.

Blech!!! My FEET are freezing!!

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Thank the Lord for His small Mercies! as well as the BIG ones!

Like here in the UK, we can have all four seasons in one day!

I feel your pain...

 

[xlsdraw]

It reached minus 12 crossing Eastern Washington state early yesterday morning.

The air and wind-chill was so cold that my coolant kept shrinking to the point of activating the engine preservation emergency shut off.

I must have had to pull to the shoulder and restart my truck thirty times.

Parked here in the Portland, Oregon area, it's in the 30's and a more bone chilling cold like the Southeast due to the Pacific moisture. What you'd call a wet cold.

Traversing regularly from Florida to the PNW and back, I get a taste of all kinds of weather.

 

[JonC]

We've had record highs here in Louisiana over the the past six weeks or so. 75 to 82 degrees.

People celebrated Christmas and New Year's day in shorts. Many had the air on yesterday.

This morning when I left for church around 8:00, it was 49 degrees. Leaving church at 11:45, it was 30 degrees and SNOWING!!!

This is one reason why people here catch colds and such and sickness abounds.

Blech!!! My FEET are freezing!!

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I thought it was always crazy in Louisiana.

 

[AustinC]

We've had record highs here in Louisiana over the the past six weeks or so. 75 to 82 degrees.

People celebrated Christmas and New Year's day in shorts. Many had the air on yesterday.

This morning when I left for church around 8:00, it was 49 degrees. Leaving church at 11:45, it was 30 degrees and SNOWING!!!

This is one reason why people here catch colds and such and sickness abounds.

Blech!!! My FEET are freezing!!

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Well...I suppose you could live in Minnesota. It was - 7F for last night's outdoor hockey game between the Minnesota Wild and St Louis Blues. The folks watching looked like they were dressed to mimick a snowman.
The Sunday Night football game in Green Bay is supposed to be below zero by the end of the game.

I guess cold is a matter of perspective.

 

[AustinC]

I thought it was always crazy in Louisiana.

Something about the South that brings out the crazy in us all.

 

[Scarlett O.]

Well...I suppose you could live in Minnesota. It was - 7F for last night's outdoor hockey game between the Minnesota Wild and St Louis Blues. The folks watching looked like they were dressed to mimick a snowman.
The Sunday Night football game in Green Bay is supposed to be below zero by the end of the game.

I guess cold is a matter of perspective.

The point was it was air conditioning weather yesterday - 78 degrees and warm and 30 and snowing this morning. Drives me crazy.

 

[Iconoclast]

It reached minus 12 crossing Eastern Washington state early yesterday morning.

The air and wind-chill was so cold that my coolant kept shrinking to the point of activating the engine preservation emergency shut off.

I must have had to pull to the shoulder and restart my truck thirty times.

Parked here in the Portland, Oregon area, it's in the 30's and a more bone chilling cold like the Southeast due to the Pacific moisture. What you'd call a wet cold.

Traversing regularly from Florida to the PNW and back, I get a taste of all kinds of weather.

Are you in Troutdale, or at jubitz?

 

[AustinC]

The point was it was air conditioning weather yesterday - 78 degrees and warm and 30 and snowing this morning. Drives me crazy.

 

[Scarlett O.]

Love it! On of my favorites!

 

[Alcott]

This morning when I left for church around 8:00, it was 49 degrees. Leaving church at 11:45, it was 30 degrees and SNOWING!!!

This is one reason why people here catch colds and such and sickness abounds.
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It can be like that here north of Dallas. I saw the blue norther coming yesterday, then the temperature dropped about 12 degrees in an hour, and down to 19 last night from the mid 60's early yesterday afternoon.

But one question about your disease analysis. By "one reason why people here catch colds..." are you going along with the traditional, but wrong, folk beliefs still held by so many, that cold/wet/windy weather is what gives people colds?-- or by the verified studies showing that because of such conditions outdoors, people stay indoors more often, where they are more vulnerable to contagions spreading?

 

[rockytopva]

Crazy here in Blacksburg Va as well...

Yesterday - In the 60's
Today - Accumulated snowfall
Tomorrow- Forecasted AM low of 15*

 

[AustinC]

Variety...it's the spice of life. Embrace the ride folks! Embrace the ride.

 

[Scarlett O.]

It can be like that here north of Dallas. I saw the blue norther coming yesterday, then the temperature dropped about 12 degrees in an hour, and down to 19 last night from the mid 60's early yesterday afternoon.

But one question about your disease analysis. By "one reason why people here catch colds..." are you going along with the traditional, but wrong, folk beliefs still held by so many, that cold/wet/windy weather is what gives people colds?-- or by the verified studies showing that because of such conditions outdoors, people stay indoors more often, where they are more vulnerable to contagions spreading?

Good gravy! I was just making conversation, not writng an article for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

 

[AustinC]

Good gravy! I was just making conversation, not writng an article for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Speaking of good gravy...I just have a terrible time making it from scratch. Anyone have a surefire method to good gravy making?

 

[Reynolds]

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We've had record highs here in Louisiana over the the past six weeks or so. 75 to 82 degrees.

People celebrated Christmas and New Year's day in shorts. Many had the air on yesterday.

This morning when I left for church around 8:00, it was 49 degrees. Leaving church at 11:45, it was 30 degrees and SNOWING!!!

This is one reason why people here catch colds and such and sickness abounds.

Blech!!! My FEET are freezing!!

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Siunds like N.Ga. weather.

 

[Alcott]

Good gravy! I was just making conversation, not writng an article for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Sorry. I thought a statement brought up in conversation was open to a question.