Minneapolis @ -2F is considered a nice winter day.

Houston 65F is considered 'freezing'. People start lighting trash cans on fire to survive.

Of course 80F is a 'cool' day. Especially if the humidity is under 80%.

LOL

-2 degrees in Minneapolis would be considered a heat wave. I was there one January when the morning temperature was -25 and the weather person on the radio was all excited because it going to "warm up" to -11.

Heck, I consider anything under 90F in the summer in Tallahassee to be nice, even if the RH is high and you start sweating like a hog in under 5 minutes. When we start pushing 100F, it's the "dry" heat. Like an oven.

Having lived in colder climes, I don't consider anything above 20F to be "cold". Only a few times the last couple of years have we gotten down below the upper 20s. But my bananas haven't ripened yet. :-(

I think I was 11 when on a vacation we ended up in International Falls (summer). I was fascinated that the parking meters had electrical outlets. My dad explained that it got so cold that engine oil would turn to sludge and you couldn't start your car without an engine block heater.

Of course, when they hit 90F people are keeling over because they can't take the heat and very few people have an air conditioner.

Ho, ho, ho, you're on the naughty list. You're going to get some lumps, alright. Just not coal.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/16/santas-batter-knife-wielding-attacker-stabbed-man-train-11915992/

Heck, I consider anything under 90F in the summer in Tallahassee to be nice, even if the RH is high and you start sweating like a hog in under 5 minutes. When we start pushing 100F, it's the "dry" heat. Like an oven. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at December 19, 2019 7:15 AM

IDK, Darth, I found Summer in Tallahassee to be pretty brutal. I never found any "dry" heat there - it was always a humid heat. Fall, Spring, and Winter, however, were pleasant.

Conan, I'd prefer to sweat my ass of than to freeze it off. Tallahassee really has only 2 seasons: when you can get away with taking three showers per week, and when you can get away with taking three showers per day.

As the one wit told me, I saw Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner, and they were both walking. I used that one, but updated it to them using e-scooters. And of course, Wile using an Acme scooter accelerator.

The Tolerant Ones strike again!

https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/17/pro-trump-women-verbally-harassed-navy-seal-assaulted-by-unhinged-dems-at-swanky-dc-hotel/

Oh.

Solar Minimum is becoming very deep indeed. Over the weekend, the sun set a Space Age record for spotlessness. So far in 2019, the sun has been without sunspots for more than 270 days, including the last 33 days in a row. Since the Space Age began, no other year has had this many blank suns.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/12/16/its-official-we-are-in-a-deep-solar-minimum/

Update on the lawyer I wouldn't want to represent me in any court.

Yesterday there was a hearing in the case, and U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II of the Central District of California told Hook bluntly, “You just trashed your profession.” He went on to demand Hook resign from the profession

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/12/federal-judge-demands-resignation-of-eat-a-bowl-of-dicks-lawyer/

Defining adequacy down has real consequences. Standards exist for a reason and the professional resists efforts to dilute standards for reasons based simply on convenience to non-effectiveness related variables.

Some day there will be pressure again to take in lower IQ candidates. It was bad enough in the relatively low-tech Vietnam Era military - in our high tech military where each person is even more critical - the push-back needs to be fast, swift, and sure.

https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-smartest-people-in-room-have-thing.html

Why study when your mom can pay someone to take the test for you?

Georgetown

I'd prefer to sweat my ass of than to freeze it off. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at December 19, 2019 7:53 AM

I'd prefer neither. If San Francisco, as it's currently run today, had one redeeming feature, it was the weather - permanently between 80°F and 40°F. Charlotte, on the other hand, has brutal summers, but fairly mild winters. We get one snow a year and it only lasts a few days.

My husband and I spent last Thanksgiving in Okinawa. We were amused to see all the locals walking around in sweaters and knit hats.
It was high fifties at night. High 60’s during the day. Hotel prices were low season, and we are thinking, what a great place to spend the winter.

Everything we like about Japan without the 20 feet of snow where we live.

In my corner of the Caribbean it's 70 right now and I'm freezing. For eleven months the weather oscillates between 95 to 115 degrees.

Now, the cold weather would be much welcome if it weren't for the fact that the sudden dip in temperature triggers a torrential downpour.

Toddler dies; family asks Bethel Church (AND sets up a GoFundMe page!) to resurrect her.

I WISH I were kidding...

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/12/18/these-christian-parents-sadly-think-their-dead-daughter-will-be-resurrected/

With Biden being the front-runner, I'm trying to imagine what a debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will look like - two old farts trying to out-macho each other. Donald will call Joe names and Joe will challenge Donald to a push-up contest.

True dat Conan. But the presidential debates have been a farce for quite a few decades.