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thewayneIt's been pretty cold the last few days, and I don't really trust our thermometers, so I'm not going to say what they're reporting. We went out to the observatory Sunday for Apollo, I dropped off Russet then went shooting (I need to finish up one more roll for class). It was damn cold outside, but no snow. There were some flurries, but it was too warm for anything to accumulate. Apollo didn't happen because the sky was clouded over, still, I got standby pay for it (or will get it when they mail the checks).
This morning, I did my normal breakfast routine, got a shower, got dressed, and I just felt rotten. I couldn't get warm and was almost constantly shaking. I couldn't decide if my shakes were from the cold or something else. I was going to go out shooting and finish my roll, but I just couldn't get enough interest. I took Celeste out for a walk around 1:30 and cut it short because I'd left my heavy coat and my New England Over Shoes at the observatory. I came in and started uploading jpegs to Walgreens to get them printed for my Photoshop class. About 2:30 I drove down to the village to get the mail as I was expecting a couple of things, got back, continued uploading, and around 4pm I noticed that the world had become white!
I didn't leave for work until about 5:30, unfortunately I had planned on leaving earlier so I parked behind Russet's car instead of pulling under the covered parking, so I had a couple of inches of snow on my car.
The drive down wasn't much of a problem, though I have a feeling that we really should have replaced my tires when we were in Phoenix last week. There's a Discount Tire in Las Cruces, so maybe I'll be down there in a couple of days. We'll see how things work out.
The odd thing was that once the snow started falling, I warmed up. The shakes stopped, and I started feeling a lot more comfortable. The temperature in the house hadn't changed, it was still in the low 60's, but I was feeling better. Weird. It felt much less cold once it started snowing than before when it was just cold and windy. I've noticed it before, I still find it kind of weird when I experience it first-hand.
The nice thing is that the fire danger had been notched up to medium -- we hadn't had any real rain or precipitation since the light snow in mid-October.
This morning, I did my normal breakfast routine, got a shower, got dressed, and I just felt rotten. I couldn't get warm and was almost constantly shaking. I couldn't decide if my shakes were from the cold or something else. I was going to go out shooting and finish my roll, but I just couldn't get enough interest. I took Celeste out for a walk around 1:30 and cut it short because I'd left my heavy coat and my New England Over Shoes at the observatory. I came in and started uploading jpegs to Walgreens to get them printed for my Photoshop class. About 2:30 I drove down to the village to get the mail as I was expecting a couple of things, got back, continued uploading, and around 4pm I noticed that the world had become white!
I didn't leave for work until about 5:30, unfortunately I had planned on leaving earlier so I parked behind Russet's car instead of pulling under the covered parking, so I had a couple of inches of snow on my car.
The drive down wasn't much of a problem, though I have a feeling that we really should have replaced my tires when we were in Phoenix last week. There's a Discount Tire in Las Cruces, so maybe I'll be down there in a couple of days. We'll see how things work out.
The odd thing was that once the snow started falling, I warmed up. The shakes stopped, and I started feeling a lot more comfortable. The temperature in the house hadn't changed, it was still in the low 60's, but I was feeling better. Weird. It felt much less cold once it started snowing than before when it was just cold and windy. I've noticed it before, I still find it kind of weird when I experience it first-hand.
The nice thing is that the fire danger had been notched up to medium -- we hadn't had any real rain or precipitation since the light snow in mid-October.
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Date: 2006-11-28 06:46 pm (UTC)I've also noticed that it generally seems to warm up when it's actually snowing, rather than when it's threatening or blowing. I'm not sure why it is, but it's been my experience enough times out here in the Utah winters that I trust it.
Having good tires for driving in snow is an excellent idea, especially given some of the roads where y'all live. You may only need 'em for snow a few times, but you'll be really glad when those few times happen and you're set.
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Date: 2006-11-30 01:25 am (UTC)More to the point, snow in the air has the same effect that ice has in water. Ice water has a constant temperature of 32ยบ as the ice melts; snow in the air keeps the air right around freezing as well. I think. I could well be mixing up my meteorology again.
At any rate, the reason they recommend snow caves if you're lost in the frozen wastes is that a snow cave never gets colder than freezing, while open air gets downright frigid.