It was so cold that….

 

Early this week I got on the plane from Pensacola Florida to go to Columbus Ohio.  Weather was 'interesting' in both places.

 

In Pensacola, ice shut down school for 3 days.  There was ice everywhere.  The temperature got down to 22.  That is, positive 22 Fahrenheit.   

In Ohio, the temperature went down to -22 F.  This was the view flying into Columbus.  My seat mate had just spent 9 days in Palm Beach.  He was unhappy/whining/disgusted about returning home to this scene and took this picture.

 

It was so cold that…

-       Kids were throwing boiling water into the air to watch it change to snow.

-       After 10 minutes with the rear window heater on, nothing was thawed or even mushy.  There wasn’t enough heat in the window heaters to overcome that cold for even a small melted line until 20 minutes or so.  Same thing for the front window.  Car heat never melted the front window, it had to be scraped.

-       The car REALLY struggled to start.

-       I like to put a wet towel across the window heater in my hotel room to get moisture in the air when it’s so cold and dry.  This time the towel froze!

-       When the temperature reached +10 F a couple days later, we all celebrated seeing double digit positive numbers.