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Minnesotans Still Arguing About the Weather...

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Twitch Boy said:
It is 6:30 AM here in Anchorage, Alaska. The sun won't be up until around 10 AM.

Current temperature is 22 with a high of around 32.

u jelly?
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Why would we be? You don't have any sunlight until 10 am :p
 
St. Clown said:
The interchange at 35W and Crosstown was just remade, completely torn down and redesigned. For getting into Minneapolis they added lanes, and it all works much better if not perfect. For leaving Minneapolis, trying to head out towards the airport, they list two lanes as 62 East (Crosstown, for those of you who don't know it) and then all of a sudden one lane drops off to become the Portland Ave exit. Meanwhile, about half of the traffic on 62 eastbound drops off at Hwy 77 South. Why wouldn't they make 62 East three lanes between 35W and 77 and then have that third lane drop off at 77? It would solve so much and allow for population growth, and yet that's not what they did. It's completely infuriating when I'm driving it during rush hour, on those days where I can't make use of the buses instead.
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I go ahead and fly by everyone in the 62 lane and exit for Portland. Then I go straight at the light, which takes you onto 62. Good way to bypass a hundred vehicles or so. ;)
 
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state of hockey said:
I go ahead and fly by everyone in the 62 lane and exit for Portland. Then I go straight at the light, which takes you onto 62. Good way to bypass a hundred vehicles or so. ;)
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Not during rush hour. Trust me, I've tried it, MnDOT has slowed down the pace of the entrance ramp light for just that reason, I believe.
 
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Scott Walker is thinking about closing WI schools on Monday as well.

In college, I walked to class in -80 windchill once (uphill, both ways :p) and they did not cancel class.
 
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In an absolute shocker: St. Cloud State is closed on Monday.

Once news broke about MN schools being closed, everyone at work was scrambling for daycare. The way it sounds, we are going to be on a skeleton crew on Monday. Fun times.
 
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Lady wore Black said:
In an absolute shocker: St. Cloud State is closed on Monday.

Once news broke about MN schools being closed, everyone at work was scrambling for daycare. The way it sounds, we are going to be on a skeleton crew on Monday. Fun times.
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The governor closed the entire state's public schools, this includes the universities and colleges. It happened twice my freshman year, February 1 and 2, 1996. I remember a long walk from Schumacher Hall to Atwood. We drew straws between ten of us to get stuff from Pizza Hut, two losers had to make the run. I lost once. It was not fun. The daily highs for those two days were -17 and -20.
 
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I know someone who is trying to get out of NYC right now. I've been following his Facebook. He has had FIVE different Delta flights cancel on him, including one where he was actually on the plane ready for takeoff but the crew ran out of hours due to all the delays. The most recent one was a flight that was already IN THE AIR out of NYC, then turned around and went BACK because the landing gear was stuck down!

And this is why I hardly fly.
 
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jen said:
Scott Walker is thinking about closing WI schools on Monday as well.

In college, I walked to class in -80 windchill once (uphill, both ways :p) and they did not cancel class.
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Bah - we Canadians call this Spring! :p :D. Seriously, stay warm and safe
 
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Twitch Boy said:
I know someone who is trying to get out of NYC right now. I've been following his Facebook. He has had FIVE different Delta flights cancel on him, including one where he was actually on the plane ready for takeoff but the crew ran out of hours due to all the delays. The most recent one was a flight that was already IN THE AIR out of NYC, then turned around and went BACK because the landing gear was stuck down!

And this is why I hardly fly.
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Yep it's been brutal at work (I work for Delta here in Minneapolis).

I am not going outside on Monday....but I'll be in Lambeau on Sunday. Gonna be fun...but freezing.
 
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Current temperature in Minneapolis: -20.

Current temperature in Barrow, Alaska (far north tip of the state, above the Arctic Circle, the northernmost town in the US:) -1.

Current temperature in Anchorage: 31.

It is FIFTY-ONE degrees warmer in Anchorage than in Minneapolis right now.

Have fun picking the pieces of your brain up off the floor.
 
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It was 45 degrees and raining when I left work at 1 a.m. It's snowing and 33 now and supposed to get colder by the hour. It dropped 10 degrees in the 8 a.m. hour. The Tug Hill could get 6 feet of snow. (I live right in Watertown and I'm probably going to get a foot or two. We call it Tuesday.)
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Current temperature in Minneapolis: -20.

Current temperature in Barrow, Alaska (far north tip of the state, above the Arctic Circle, the northernmost town in the US:) -1.

Current temperature in Anchorage: 31.

It is FIFTY-ONE degrees warmer in Anchorage than in Minneapolis right now.

Have fun picking the pieces of your brain up off the floor.
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Alaska and Minneapolis are always opposites like that because of the jet stream. If the Jet Stream brings Canada down to Minnesota or further then it travels over Alaska drawing warm Pacific air up into Alaska.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Current temperature in Anchorage: 31.

It is FIFTY-ONE degrees warmer in Anchorage than in Minneapolis right now.
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Anchorage is a relatively temperate climate due to it's position on the coast. My guess is that if you compare the average temperatures in Anchorage and Minneapolis there is not a lot of difference, at least in the winter.
 
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SJHovey said:
Anchorage is a relatively temperate climate due to it's position on the coast. My guess is that if you compare the average temperatures in Anchorage and Minneapolis there is not a lot of difference, at least in the winter.
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When you average out all of the high temps in Minneapolis throughout the year, it comes out to 42 degrees, that was as-of 1999, using data through 1998. I've no idea how that's changed over the past 15 years.
 
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SJHovey said:
Anchorage is a relatively temperate climate due to it's position on the coast. My guess is that if you compare the average temperatures in Anchorage and Minneapolis there is not a lot of difference, at least in the winter.
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Hence why I included Barrow. There's no excuse for that one :P

ETA: From noaa.gov:

Current temperature in Anchorage, AK: 33. Current temperature in Atlanta, GA: 24. That should be illegal or something.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Hence why I included Barrow. There's no excuse for that one :P

ETA: From noaa.gov:

Current temperature in Anchorage, AK: 33. Current temperature in Atlanta, GA: 24. That should be illegal or something.
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I think its more of a glitch in the Matrix!
 
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They actually shut down the interstate (81) from Watertown to Brewerton at 8 p.m. until further notice. Snow is coming down at 2-4 inches an hour in some spots in Upstate NY.
 
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Its been a bit brisk, but it hasn't really bothered me. Went out to do some errands after work yesterday and wasn't bugged by the cold. Got the mail in shorts and t-shirt, didn't lose any limbs. Apparently a huge portion of the population of my state are turning into huge vaginas.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Its been a bit brisk, but it hasn't really bothered me. Went out to do some errands after work yesterday and wasn't bugged by the cold. Got the mail in shorts and t-shirt, didn't lose any limbs. Apparently a huge portion of the population of my state are turning into huge vaginas.
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In years past this weather would never have bothered me, and it really doesn't this year as far as my body goes. It's the reliability of my car that's in question.

I've waited for the bus home outside each and every day without issue, and that goes the same for a large number of people working downtown. I think the issue comes done to the people in the newsrooms who want to make the cold into a bigger story than it would be in years prior. We don't have Minnesotans running the news anymore around here.
 
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St. Clown said:
I think the issue comes done to the people in the newsrooms who want to make the cold into a bigger story than it would be in years prior.
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yeah, i've been wondering the same thing for awhile. I grew up in Chicago and lived in Wyoming and the weather was just part of the background most of the time. Then we moved east and people were breathlessly engaged in every minor fluctuation. I couldn't tell if it was a regional thing or whether it was part of a cultural "evolution." Sounds like more of the latter, since the news department depends upon advertising revenue for its budget, everything gets over-hyped.

though the guy who demonstrated how cold it was in chicago the other day by tossing water into the air which froze before it hit the ground had a great visual display that outdid any words.
 
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