You know it's cold when....

[MadisonMPG]

Originally Posted by 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.

Really?

[alohaspirit]

You know it's cold when....



we start wearing jackets and making hot cocoa

at 60(ish) degrees or so

[busypaws]

Allright --- I spent 3 years in Minneapolis and now 13 years in Tucson AZ so I can jump in on both sides. I'll wait till Aug and start a "YKIHW". Never give up a chance to create an Acronym.
YKICW: You fill the tank when it gets to 3/4 because you want enough gas to last all night if you get stuck somewhere.

[random_variable]

You put a water bottle in your cup holder and it is frozen when you try to drink from it.

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by busypaws

Allright --- I spent 3 years in Minneapolis and now 13 years in Tucson AZ so I can jump in on both sides. I'll wait till Aug and start a "YKIHW".

...yes, but right about now is the time for our Aussie and Kiwi friends to start putting your new acronym, You Know It's Hot When (YKIHW), to good use!

..."take it away, down under!"

[Frank Lee]

Ha Ha! Last year I wintered in Cali; everyone was scurrying around with these huge winter jackets and hats while I had a great time bicycling all over in my shorts!

[Chalupa102]

Originally Posted by MadisonMPG

Really?

Yes sir...it was a wicked cold day that day. I can't remember the actual ambient temp but i know it was below 0° F with the wind chill at -50 to -60° F. If i'm not mistaken the state declared a state of emergency that day.

[bestclimb]

Originally Posted by Chalupa102

Yes sir...it was a wicked cold day that day. I can't remember the actual ambient temp but i know it was below 0° F with the wind chill at -50 to -60° F. If i'm not mistaken the state declared a state of emergency that day.

lol they don't even cancel recess here till 25 below. I think they made school optional last year when it hit 60 below

[wagonman76]

Originally Posted by NiHaoMike

You know it's cold when your (community) wireless Internet service becomes really fast... On the first day it got "cold" in College Station, which is about 55F, I was surprised that my Linux torrents were going at 500KB/s! It usually runs at 100KB/s on a good summer day and performance is really variable (from ~150KB/s to nothing!) on rainy days regardless of the temperature...

Really, it's sad that much of Texas has practically no real winter... So to test the theory about Broadcom routers performing better in cold weather, I'm having my best friend Allie Moore take a Linksys WRT54G V3 running OpenWRT to Chicago over the break for some real cold weather testing. (Maybe the BCM4712 platform performs better below freezing just like the Pentium 3 I refrigerated for my Science Fair project...)

Here in Texas, I have to use technology to get a temperature much below freezing, even during the winter. Up north, going well below freezing is free - just take it outside! (There's an old saying: "The best overclockers are from Russia.")

Yeah, but then you know its REALLY cold when the net is slower because it's too cold for the die hard outdoors folks and everybody is on.

[NiHaoMike]

I remember reading that back when 802.11b was just coming out, a certain AP chipset (Serena?) would not operate properly outdoors in cold weather as the PLL is unable to adjust far enough. (The engineers never thought the AP would be used outdoors!) If you're unlucky, it would operate at the frequency of another network and end up doing an unintended DoS attack on it. The fix was a thin film heater affixed to the wireless module, which was not very efficient but it resolved the issue.