You know it's cold when....

[dremd]

My WiFi Gear (WRT54GL's) don't seem to care what the Temperature is. Rain hurts my link a good bit . . . Now overclockers

I know it's cold when the golf has difficulty starting on B-100

I know it's cold and wet when I have a hard time keeping my coolant temperature over 130 F on the interstate while fighting to keep the windshield de frosted and freezing my but off.

I can't imagine what you guys go through up north.

[Peter7307]

This side of the equator it is now 26 C and expected to be a little warmer at32 C tomorrow.

Pete.

[Frank Lee]

That's only about 100 degrees F warmer than here!

[almightybmw]

Um, you know it's cold when the inversion layer is lower than the overpass.
...when I toss a cup of 140* water and it never hits the ground.
....when I have a photo of Fred Myers sign stating it's -55*F.
...when a 2-stroke air cooled motor can't warm up.
...When you welcome -20* with shorts and longsleeves.
...when you understand the pain of the joke
"it gets to -X* here."
"Celcuis or Fahrenheit?"
"First one, then the other"
...when Frank is probably the only one here who understands personally what I've said.
...when you know I'm not lying about any of this.


It just doesn't get very cold in MT, at least compared to AK.
When I find the picture of the -55*, I'll post it up somewhere.

[thatguitarguy]

I know it's cold when the polar bears outside my window dive below the ice to warm up.

Just kidding. Everyone knows polar bears are extinct. (In Colorado they are.)

[gone-ot]

You know it's cold "...when you leave behind yellow ice cycles in the outhouse..."

[Chalupa102]

You know it's cold when u get a cup of water to see if the myth is true about it "freezing before it hits the ground", and before u can pour the water out, right after u step outside it actually freezes inside the cup. *True story from a few years ago.

[bestclimb]

When you get frost bite while taking your glove off to unlock the door

when your dog takes one step outside turns around and goes to hide under the couch

when you scrape your window, get back in start the car only to realize you need to scrape the window again (both inside and out)

when the jet does not come because the fuel will gel.

your tires are out of round and stay that way.

you get a 4 inch layer of ice condensing on the inside of your windows.

[gone-ot]

...when you see the moose meandering down main street in Cicely, Alaska (wink,wink)!

[NiHaoMike]

Originally Posted by dremd

My WiFi Gear (WRT54GL's) don't seem to care what the Temperature is. Rain hurts my link a good bit . . . Now overclockers

Stock network hardware should perform properly throughout their temperature specifications. The WRT54G V3 in question was overclocked. (And it has heatsinks installed on the CPU and RF circuits.) I had it set to 120mW, which is about where it starts becoming a little unstable in Texas weather.

Earlier today, Allie got to Chicago and set up the router in an unheated shed. It is about 10-20F there and the router has ran flawlessly for 4 hours so far, with a streaming IP camera to provide a load. If it is still running the next day, she'll use the debugging console to turn it up in 10mW increments until it becomes unstable or has reached the high limit. (The OpenWRT group does not recommend overclocking due to possibility of hardware damage. I told her to not worry if she breaks it, since it is for research.)