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So much for 'Spring has Sprung;' stepped out side for a smoke in my bathrobe .... Geeze! it's chilly.
Looked at one of my electronic thermom's .... 16.2 degrees. 
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Thanks its coming our way, 50 degrees two days ago, it is to be a low of -7 degrees tomorrow night here in Chicago, so much for fishing this weekend.
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-7? If we got anywhere near that here in So. Oregon (save for on top of a mountain) there'd be hell to pay.
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15 degrees outside right now. I can't wait to try and start the diesel in the morning... 
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Fred, on these cold winter mornings, a wee dram of Drambuie along with the morning smoke helps prevent the vapours, and warms the cockles of your heart! Strictly for medicinal purposes, of course!
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-7? If we got anywhere near that here in So. Oregon (save for on top of a mountain) there'd be hell to pay.
fred,
-7 ain't cold, we dodged the bullet all year (chicago land) 1-2 days of sub zero temps makes us appreciate temps in the mid 30's.
plus the -7 temp will put all those nasty flu/cold germs down. might have to wear a winter jacket this morning, for the first time this year.........
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Stu, being born/raised in the Winnipeg, Man. area I know exactly what you mean. Ah..... a balmy -10; well compared to the days of -30 is was "balmy."
God!! The dreaded "vapors!" Once saw a man on his 8th 'wee dram' collapse right from a standing .. or was it sitting ... position. Right to the floor!! mind you.
Pain in the butt to have to step over him for the next few hours.
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sunny and 55 as I drink my cup of coffee.... 70 by noon
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Fred - check your spelling! It's "vapours".
(Oh, these transplanted "Canadians"! They keep forgetting "proper King's English spelling"!) 
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This is nothing compared to winters we used to have in the 80s and 90s and before, some times we would have weeks in the single digits or below zero, and then the wind chills to -30-40 below, worst I think I have seen is a wind chill of -50/60 degrees here, wow now that was cold. In my year in Iceland for the USAF we hardly ever got below 0 as I recall.
Its only going to maybe -7 here in Chicago tonight, heck I may even want to go fishing tomorrow if the wind stays down like it is right now.
Chicago
 
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used to work outside during our super cold winters (late 70's early 80's) pre goretex, thinsulate and polar-tec.
mickey mouse boots and army surplus arctic jackets. only way to stay warm.
i remember working the midnight shift while going to school during the day, got so cold your spit would freeze before it hit the ground. man that was cold, this ain't nothing.
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It ain't cold until you pee, and stay "frozen in place" until the first thaw!
Almost as bad as peeing on an electric fence!
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- 7 degrees now without wind chill, but wind looks low this morning, coldest I may have ever been was right below (see pics) in Iceland winter of 67, working on these birds avionics out on this flight line, remember my skin sticking to their metal surfaces, glad I was a naive gung ho healthy 18 year old that did not no better. Winter clothing was not good back then like it is today. Worked my you know what off there, since we were the outer point of NORAD first air base to scramble and intercept incoming Russian bombers and submarines in the North Atlantic. As I recall from my scrap book we went on DEFCON alerts about 100 times that year due to incoming RUSSKIES planes any one of which could have been carrying Nukes. I am sure I would have been nuclear toast, first base to be wiped out had they decided to do it.
Still haunts me to this day the great salmon and trout fishing I was not able to partake in there in 67, saw the rivers on a couple of weekend bus tours but could not partake in the fishing, not enough time, too expensive, rules were tough then, and the mission was critical, after all it was the Cold War we were in, then I went on to the other war for the rest of my 4 years, you know the NAM thing.
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0620 and a 'toastie' 30.2 degrees. Almost t-shirt weather again. Good news is the Rogue's water flow has really cut back due to the cold weather.
Average 'stream flow' is down by 25% due to less run off from all the feeder streams/creeks. Time to get the rods back into the car and head towards the Grants Pass area.
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The cold war was concocted by politicians thru out the world to keep the populace under blind control.
Good thing we were awakened to that entire line of BS and have eased back on the nuke stuff.
To think that a war where nukes were used was winnable was pure insanity. Would have pushed ourselves back to the dark ages.
Using it in WWII was a great idea, not learning from its power was a bad one.
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Stu, it was called "MAD." "MAD" was the anagrahm for Mutually Assured Distruction.
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To think I stood right next to several nuclear bombs in the USAF makes me shiver even today.
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to think that the south suburbs of chicago was littered with nike bases is frightening.
poke around the back waters of wolf lake, you will find missle silos that are now filled with water and fish. those babies are very deep...
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