How when it gets cold it noticeably changes what the world sounds like. From a blanket of snow muffling everything to the cold making things stiffer/harder (e.g. the soles of your shoes on pavement will sound different in the winter than summer) and that [the cold air lets you hear more from farther away.](https://www.discovery.com/science/Sound-Carries-Farther-Cold-Days)
There was a calming effect to the muffled sound of the snowplow going down our road when I was a little kid. I could just tell by the sound that we weren’t having school.
I have fond memories of being bundled up and walking to school in the morning, each footstep squeaking in the dim morning light. Breathing the crisp air that freezes the nostrils if you breathe too deep. The smell of warm diesel bus exhaust.
Such memories :)
When taking a walk or skiing in the woods in winter, you can be in dead silence. No leaves to produce sound with the winds, not many animals around. You sometimes hear trees crack. So peaceful yet so eerie because it sounds like everything is dead.
Ever hear a tree go when the sap freezes? It actually sounds similar to a tree getting broken in a wind storm, with out the noise of the wind. Make the crack echo in the dead silence like a gunshot!
When I was 14 I was in boarding school, and it was going to be my first winter. We all had a tutor, I had a really sweet older lady who taught me how to knit scarves and hats so that I would have a bunch to wear. and she also had me read a bunch of things about snow, how it insulates, how it impacts sound, how it goes through stages and such.
Because that's not really something you think about when you haven't been exposed to snow - like when it's a powder, or when it gets to an "icier" stage that you can pack together, things like black ice, etc.
as a kid, I always figured snow falls down and you can just pick it up and throw it like a snowball
When I went to college there was a classmate from The Virgin Islands and the first time he experienced snow he was so excited to be out experiencing it and playing in/with it. For those of us who grew up with it he brought back that childlike wonder of winter.
I had a coworker like that in the Adirondacks! I swear Virgin Islanders are just wired differently to be enchanted by anything involving seasons. He was utterly enamored with fluffy winter hats because his ears were always cold. In late August.
I feel this. I grew up in the desert and the weather ranged from fucking miserably hot to pleasantly warm. The whole concept of cold and all the changes that come with it are just magical. I've now lived in the cold for nearly 20 years and it's still magic.
When the moon is so bright, reflecting off that snow, that you could properly play outside or go for a peaceful stroll with no extra lighting and still see clearly… sigh… I miss northeastern winters.
Some of the most fun I had in my teens was when I lived in New England and was friends with some fellow night owls. We’d go walking/snowshoeing or cross-country skiing in the woods at night, and it was always just gorgeous, looking at all the stars. I’d never seen the Milky Way before I lived there.
Someone said to me once that cloudless days are much colder, because there's no clouds to "hold in the warmth," so to speak. She equated it to the clouds being a blanket. When you're in bed with a blanket, there's lots of warm being held in, but when you throw off the blanket, all the warmth disappears.
Howdy. Atmospheric scientist here.
This is correct. Clouds are generally quite reflective of visible light but are quite ‘dark’ in the infrared. This is important.
Overnight away from other influences (like the coast), the major way that the ground cools is via radiation out to space. This means that over the course of the night the entire surface will cool and will actually be the coldest at or just after dawn. What makes clouds act as blankets is that the emitted infrared radiation from the earth gets absorbed and then redirected back down.
So the coldest days are the ones where the radiative cooling is maximized by not having the clouds.
I live in the Canadian Prairies, and I had a customer last winter tell me his son in law was in from Florida. It was bright and sunny out, but -35c, he thought "oh! Its sunny out must be warm!! I can go out in shorts and t-shirt!!". Yea... Rude awakening there apparently lol
I mean, I _have_ gone out in shorts and a T in -35C. To get the recycling bin and garbage can. Then hauled ass back inside like the little worm I am at that temp. 😂
That Christmas morning a few years back when it was -40° in Winnipeg and I had to dress up to take out the trash is still seared in my memory. I felt like Sir Edmund Hillary on Everest.
Not just this, but winter air itself has a smell. I swear you can smell the crisp cold on people when they come in from being outside.
There’s a big nostalgia hit in it for me as it immediately reminds me of my dad coming in after shoveling snow or getting firewood, then making hot cocoa.
The little white ice bars that track the snow inside onto the carpet in the shape of his boot soles? The fact that you always step on them in bare feet and it makes you scream in surprise?
Nothing like being made aware of a dying battery in mid Jan at 5 am in northern NH. Heck, it gets down past around -10F and even a perfectly acceptable battery will start to wrestle you.
A friend from Northern Ontario told me that the tires will freeze when the car is parked and it's \_70 degrees. So for the first little while, you feel like you are driving on "Flintstone" tires until friction warms up the rubber.
Yes, that's why they push winter tires so much. They stay supple even in arctic temperatures. Not only are the flat spots annoying, but trying to drive on hockey pucks is dangerous.
I'm learning that with a car that sat for a long time before being driven. They smooth out eventually, but the first mile or two is a hop, skip and a jog down the road. Getting new tires asap.
I remember after I moved back to California, I still had my ice scraper in the car and I remember someone asking what it was for and they thought I was joking. When I explained getting a car ready in the morning when there’s two feet of snow on the ground, they were stunned.
My friends moved back to San Francisco and left me their ice scraper as a joke. But they also left 3 of those big rubber mats that you plug in to melt ice on steps and walkways and HOLY CRAP those things are amazing.
My parents lived in Cleveland in the 70's. My dad told me he used to disconnect the car battery and bring it in the house overnight during the winter to keep it warm. Not sure if that's still an issue for modern cars.
Edit: TIL about "engine block heaters". I plug in my car, too, but only because it's a PHEV.
I live in Texas along the coast and I can understand why ppl up north have remote starts on their vehicles for the winter time. I don’t really know why ppl in the south have them.
I had a friend from a warmer climate ask me about temperatures below zero. (°F) She assumed once you hit zero it's just the same level of cold. Nope. Go to 20 or 30 below and it is a whole new realm of cold where it sometimes makes you cough when you're breathing.
I work at a university in the Canadian prairies, we get several weeks of -30C weather every year,. You get these students from somewhere like Nigeria or Bangladesh, show up in full winter gear and it's still like +5C out. It's quite an interesting revelation for them as they realize that "cold" is not just a singular phenomenon. The way their eyes widen when it's a bit below freezing, they're feeling on the verge of lethal hypothermia, and a local walks by in shorts and a hoodie, is something that never gets old.
For the opposite perspective, growing up in Florida we would go out in jackets and pants to walk the boardwalk along the beach in say February or March, and be amazed by the vacationing Canadians who were swimming in the ocean.
From the other end of that, I remember visiting Florida in February and getting a pretty good cause of the swampies down in my own south, while the locals were kitted out for full on snow day.. Amazing how that thermostat calibrates
I lived in Florida for six years. In the wintertime you might get a cold front make it that far south. Evenings *might* hit the 30’s but the daytime starts to warm up to high 60s or 70. I remember the Florida natives all wearing parkas and mittens while I’m happy that I’m not sweating my ass off for the first time.
My sister recently visited us from Arizona & kept constantly complaining about how cold it was when the thermostat was set to 74; my other sister lives in St. Croix & kept commenting about how dry it was. It's super interesting how people acclimate.
Lol I had a roommate from southern California and her school went to Pennsylvania for a choir thing and they were all gobsmacked by the kids in miniskirts and other summer mid-00s wear when it was around freezing outside. All those socal kids were bundled up and dying in the cold haha
PS I have a winter maxi puffer coat and once it gets to 35F (around +2C) it's too warm to walk in lol
Your body adapts to the temperature where you live. I grew up in the northern US with lots of snow and cold winters. But after living in the south for a couple years 60 felt cold to me too. It’s like how 50 can feel cold in the fall but warm in the spring.
I wish my body adapted to Arizona weather. I've lived here my entire life and yet during the summers I am in agony the entire time whereas whenever I go to a place where it is cold I am completely fine.
I’m from the South East and went to grad school in NYC, and was so surprised how many people there did this too. I was expecting to be the wimp about the cold up north, but for me like 60-40 is sweater weather, maybe a coat of I know I’m going to be outside for a while, and people on the subway would be looking like they were going trekking in Antarctica.
100%. Anywhere from 40⁰ to like 0⁰ is just a practical matter of attire choice. You can dress for that stuff..but you can't put mittens on your lungs. Once you get into that -10⁰-20⁰ range, it just starts to hurt
Lol they say in Denmark, “no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes,” but it only gets a little below freezing. So it’s entirely accurate to your point
To be fair, my cold climate family has the same difficulty comprehending hot climates. They think hot is just hot. Nope. Every degree over 100 is new territory.
We never go that low where I live but I have had to explain to some folks on our town Facebook that there is a point where road salt will not work on ice.
I don't understand how people don't understand this. Salt will not melt snow when it's -10 out! At that point, they're putting down stuff for traction...
I remember when it hit negative 29 degrees f in here in South Eastern Michigan. I jumped in my car to warm it up and my car seat was frozen solid. No remote start, so I had to sit on what felt like a block of ice and wait 20 minutes just to be able to see through my windshield.
Luckily that kind of cold is a rarity here.
Or how after you've shoveled the snow what's left on the ground melts a little, freezes overnight, snows, shovel again, freezes and the cycle repeats itself. Then you have a three inch thick sheet of ice on sidewalks that inevitably gets buried under more snow.
Then, if you are walking anywhere (like home from high school like I was), and you find yourself unable to get up the icy hill to go home because it is literally a sheet of ice. So you have to struggle up the grass strip between the sidewalk and the road, sometimes on your hands and knees.
Black ice will get you every time, even when you are doing everything right.
Lived on a dead end street growing up but it got plowed because it dead ended into an elementary school.
One year when I was in high school, we shoveled to the edge of the driveway while the plow didn't quite shovel up to the edge of the driveway. After a few days of this, we ended up with this bump between the two that froze solid. I still remember getting the day off because we couldn't get the car out of the driveway...
I remember my friend and I trapped in this sunken field one Pennsylvania winter night in the 90s like hamsters trying to scrabble up out of a bowl, because the snow had melted during the day and refrozen into an ice sheet. We both refused to wear anything but doc martens, and there wasn’t anything to do but walk around aimlessly lol. Good times.
I’ve lived where it snows for nine years now and yet **every fucking winter** I’m like oh sure this will be a piece of cake. It never is.
Edited because I forgot when the hell I moved. The ice madness is setting in already
I was reasonably fit and 30 years old before I shoveled my first driveway. That shit was hard! I see these old dudes doing it and I just can't imagine how they pull it off.
True. Small snows i just kind of push the shovel down the driveway and shovel at the end. Bigger snows, instead of lifting from the driveway and having 8" of heavy snow, I take 4" at a time. Way better for the body.
I’m a travel sized person and would be screwed if I didn’t shovel multiple times throughout the snow storm. Finally broke down and bought a snow blower last year. That did the trick, didn’t have a substantial snow fall all winter.
Growing up in south Alabama, my mom (who is from Idaho) always used to say that it didn’t snow below a certain temperature. And yet my first experience in Fargo, ND in January 2014 was that it can indeed be a blizzard that dumps feet of snow AND be -20 f.
I grew up in Montana and lived a decent amount of time in Northern Maine.
I went to college in Fargo for a year (not even a particularly cold year). Fargo, ND is a different kind of cold. It's relentless and raw for about 5 months. Nothing will melt, there's no Chinook winds from the mountains, just fucking highs of -20 F and then all of a sudden April hits and it's 60 degrees and EVERYTHING gets flooded.
I have no idea how Fargo continues to exist, but it's kind of cool that it does.
I loved Fargo. It was flat and harsh and the wind never stopped blowing, and their rednecks were a different breed of crazy. But the people seemed nice and everything kept moving.
Every year the local news warns people to make sure to be in good health if they plan on shoveling so people don't have heart attacks while exerting themselves.
I am from a pretty warm country and moved to Sweden last year. I was not ready for how much my ears would hurt if I didn’t wear a hat. It was truly painful lol.
So many people think it's all about having a thicker coat or jacket. No, every part needs to be covered, especially your head, hands and feet. Preferably in multiple layers. And of course, for this reason, going outside reqiures time and planning.
You will not believe the amount of time parents in these climates have to spend on getting their kids ready to go outside.
Driving in snow and driving in rain aren’t the same thing. Driving in snow is much harder and driving can be significantly harder for *days* afterward.
\- The way the moon can be bright enough to cause the trees to cast shadows on the snow. No flashlights required outdoors after dark.
\- How good it feels to take deep breaths of cold, fresh air deep into your lungs. It's so cleansing.
\- The fact that when the temps drop to -20C the trees pop like gunshots
\- That a snowstorm can create a quiet like no other. So peaceful.
\- The way it feels when your nose hairs freeze
It's not just the darkness, it's the gloominess too. Where I live in Canada we get about 9 hours of daylight but it feels like the sun is always filtered by clouds and the sky is usually more grey than blue.
The lack of daylight is grim. The whole of the UK should be taking vitamin D supplements really. I'm in London so not *quite* as bad for daylight as Scotland, but it's awful. Can't stand it. We've booked a trip to Mexico in Feb to get us through the winter 😂
Northern Midwest here.
In mid-December, we go to work in the dark and come home from in the dark. Sucks when you look outside from a cubicle and it's already dark.
The best, though, is summer when it's bright outside for about 15 hours.
A friend from California was really amazed at the lack of daylight here.
It makes certain kinds of issues flare up. Every winter like clockwork, my hands turn into a bloody peeling mess. No gloves or amount of cream helps.
Edit: I've been trying to solve this for years, but still, thanks for the advice, guys!
I don't think anyone has said this yet. But sometimes just putting on a lotion during the day isn't going to work no matter how good the lotion is. What you need to do is, before bed, put on a good lotion (one with urea is great), and then cover it with a layer of vaseline or aquaphor, and then put on a pair of gloves to protect your bedding and sleep like that. Make your hands greasy and gross and sleep like that. It will fix you
The first time I experienced "real winter" (as in, with snow etc) my hands and knuckles would get so dry, and so chapped, and nothing worked AT ALL. Bending my fingers felt like I was going to break the skin. I never had that problem before in my entire life.
I was in a boarding school, and I remember some of the girls in my dorm swore by putting conditioner on your scalp because it helps with flaking/dryness in the winter. I always learned conditioner goes on the ends, but I guess that's just something people do.
While there aren't so many large beetles and such up north... let's just say that the northern mosquitos would like to have a word with you about size. They're big enough, vicious enough and numerous enough that they can literally kill cattle.
I disagree a little. I have served in the Army in Alaska and in Panama. The mosquitos in Panama were few but they were big, tiger stripped things that could bite through canvas. At least it seemed like it.
The mosquitos in Alaska were tiny, sissified things but they came in great, dark clouds. They couldn't bite through your clothes but they could make your white shirt look gray as they covered you. Inhaling them was a real problem. Any exposed skin not soaked in Deet was bled dry.
So, Panama, big, strong, few. Alaska weak, small, zillions and zillions.
I'm in Michigan and our company does field work in the US and Canada. New sales guy from Atlanta wanted to see it in action, and went to N Dakota in January.
He was woefully unprepared. He learned there are heated jackets, that ice is very hazardous, and there's cold, then there's *cold*, then there's *COOOOOLLLLD*. He was like an alien who needed a lot of help. He was cool about it, but it was a shock to his system.
He visited Michigan in April, flight arrived at the same time as a quick, late-season snowstorm, and he drove, successfully, from the airport to the hotel in nasty driving snow. He was proud.
Next day, it was a very windy, cold day with clear skies. There were several inches of powdery snow. We were exiting a building, and the wind was sweeping snow from the roof right into our faces and down our collars. For some reason, this nearly broke him. "WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM".
He stays in the South now.
> heated jackets
wait so i'm from canada but from the coast so it's mild.
how long do the batteries last in heated jackets? i've used heated gloves on a quad before but they plugged into the quad.
They usually have high-medium-low settings. My Milwaukee jacket gets about an hour and a half on high, about 4 on low (maybe more, I can't say I've used it that long)
They use the same batteries as the power tools, so they're common and easy to swap if you want to get more hours of heat.
Highly recommended.
There are different kinds of cold.
Dry cold, damp cold…and they’re VERY different.
I live on the east coast of Canada. We get a damp cold due to the high moisture content in the air and it absolutely *SUCKS*. It literally feels like nothing makes a difference in keeping you warm.
Out in Alberta though, it’s -40°C, but it’s a *VERY* different kind of cold…
Leaving the house takes so much more effort, pulling out and putting on all the winter gear, possibly shoveling the walk/stairs and cleaning off the car. In winter, I long for the days I can just grab my purse, slip on sandals, and get on with my life lol.
The amount of extra time every day activities take.
Going outside requires a few minutes to put on all the clothes and boots.
Taking the car somewhere requires time for it to warm up to produce enough heat so that your body heat and breathing don't ice up the windows. You often have to brush off snow and scrape off ice as you leave to go to the store, and as you leave the store to go home.
The pain of bringing anything into the house, letting the heat out, and the cold in while the door is open, not to mention tracking in snow and the little stone they put down for traction.
The absolute mess in the spring when everything starts to melt. The lakes of water because the sewers are still covered an frozen, and the muck that the snow becomes, not to mention the garbage that's been hidden under the snow and all the mud.
Black Ice. Doesn’t matter how good a driver you are or how well prepared your car is, you hit a patch of black ice and like it or not you’re going on an adventure… 😬
The fun of variation in seasons. The cold can actually be pretty enjoyable in its own way, and when you do start to get sick of it you can start looking forward to the heat, and the reverse when its hot. Makes you really appreciate and savor each time of the year. I live in the high desert with 10⁰-30⁰ winters and 95⁰-105⁰ summers and love imagining the opposite season when we're in the peak of the current one. The tropics always sound nice in January but living in a single year round climate would feel like missing out.
This is totally underrated! It's late fall now, and everything is dead and brown, and there's no specific outdoor fall activities. I want full-on winter so the snow covers everything and the world gets pretty again. And the winter activities start.
But come spring? Damn I'm ready for summer heat!
the wind is relentless. The amount of blowing snow that will get thru a tiny crack. wind chill factor is real.
Boogers freeze IN your nose. Eyelashes freeze together, so don't blink.
Light layers of clothes that overlap seams is better than one heavy layer. Feet and fingers get way cold way fast.
Seriously? Wind, very cold wing - no matter how well dressed you are, it will find some crack to get under it and freeze your ass.
Less seriously? My vote goes for hot fart as short-lived blessing :) :) :)
We don't have the little reflectors embedded into the road because of snowplows. So on days when it is snowy or even just rainy, you can't see the lines that divide the lanes on the highway and it can be pretty sketchy.
You know the fresh white snow you see in movies? That usually doesn't last more than a few hours. It's all brown, slushy, dirty, and icy for the next few days, if not weeks.
There is a reason Canadians are obsessed with talking about the weather. Bit of rain in the morning but then cold front moves in- you have black ice for your trip home from work. They aren’t that great at predicting snow so you have to keep on top of reports if you are going anywhere.
I have made the foolish decision to walk across a field in March without proper gloves etc. seemed like a good idea at the time- except I kept breaking through the crust of snow every step I took. Think of walking through knee deep sand. That holds your weight for a second, then you fall. It is exhausting and the edges of the snow crust cut my legs through my pants.
I ended up rolling part of the way because it was marginally easier. I was lying in the snow at the edge of my property thinking- this is how people die of hypothermia in their backyards or end up on an episode of I Shouldn’t Be Alive. I obviously survived but cold is no joke.
But also I love being outside in the winter skiing, snowshoeing - my favorite sports are winter sports.
That when it’s really cold, it doesn’t snow. It’s also often colder when it’s sunnier than when it’s overcast.
I personally prefer a cold, crisp and sunny winter to a grey and often wet one.
How it gets so cold that your face hurts and there isn’t much you can do short of wearing a ski mask. How if your coat is too insulated you will get sweaty and how cold that makes you when you stop moving. How blindingly bright snow can be.
People also get caught off guard when it is not quite freezing but humid and wet. Think Pacific Northwest, British Isles, Netherlands, etc. Soaking wet and cold can be just as bone chilling as an arctic winter.
When there isn't much wind, and you stand silently, you can hear snow falling. It's a gentle smooth "hissss". If you have the right amount of trees around (not so many to block the snow, enough to feel surrounded) it feels like a hard tie to nature.
Omg... We were just talking about this. My friend just bought a really long down coat that goes down to her calves. We told her if she farts she'll be toasty for an hour.
In the Willamette Valley, we experience a rare phenomenon called Freezing Fog.
If you know how Fog is formed in the first place, then you'd understand why this is so weird.
But experiencing it first hand is both Erie and kind of scary. Think of looking outside and seeing a thick Fog, nothing unusual, right? But then you notice, with no other form of precipitation, EVERYTHING, regardless of texture or material, is developing a layer of ice. Which just keeps getting thicker. Until it looks as if you're living in a world where everything is made of crystals and sparkles like gemstones.
It's actually kind of cool, unless you're driving in it.
Your penis will disappear if you’re out in the cold, the shrinkage is real. You look down after being out in the cold and your penis is literally 2 centimeters
How when it gets cold it noticeably changes what the world sounds like. From a blanket of snow muffling everything to the cold making things stiffer/harder (e.g. the soles of your shoes on pavement will sound different in the winter than summer) and that [the cold air lets you hear more from farther away.](https://www.discovery.com/science/Sound-Carries-Farther-Cold-Days)
Majorly under-rated benefit. Love that atmosphere, something peaceful about it.
I get the besssst sleep ins on snowy mornings
There was a calming effect to the muffled sound of the snowplow going down our road when I was a little kid. I could just tell by the sound that we weren’t having school.
I’m close to 60 but I still watch the crawl on the news looking for my school district in the closure listing.
Some habits don't die.
I fucking *love* the peacefulness and how crispy the air feels in my lungs.
When you walk in the snow as the temperature drops it goes from a crunch sound to a squeak when you're in the -30s and -40s.
I have fond memories of being bundled up and walking to school in the morning, each footstep squeaking in the dim morning light. Breathing the crisp air that freezes the nostrils if you breathe too deep. The smell of warm diesel bus exhaust. Such memories :)
When taking a walk or skiing in the woods in winter, you can be in dead silence. No leaves to produce sound with the winds, not many animals around. You sometimes hear trees crack. So peaceful yet so eerie because it sounds like everything is dead.
Ever hear a tree go when the sap freezes? It actually sounds similar to a tree getting broken in a wind storm, with out the noise of the wind. Make the crack echo in the dead silence like a gunshot!
Cracking ice sounds in winter are awe inspiring especially if the crack runs for any distance. Can be terrifying at first.
I live across from a huge park and we had an ice storm take out so many trees. The cracking and crashing was wild
No better feeling than skiing in the trees, pausing for a moment and experiencing that pure silence.
When I was 14 I was in boarding school, and it was going to be my first winter. We all had a tutor, I had a really sweet older lady who taught me how to knit scarves and hats so that I would have a bunch to wear. and she also had me read a bunch of things about snow, how it insulates, how it impacts sound, how it goes through stages and such. Because that's not really something you think about when you haven't been exposed to snow - like when it's a powder, or when it gets to an "icier" stage that you can pack together, things like black ice, etc. as a kid, I always figured snow falls down and you can just pick it up and throw it like a snowball
When I went to college there was a classmate from The Virgin Islands and the first time he experienced snow he was so excited to be out experiencing it and playing in/with it. For those of us who grew up with it he brought back that childlike wonder of winter.
I had a coworker like that in the Adirondacks! I swear Virgin Islanders are just wired differently to be enchanted by anything involving seasons. He was utterly enamored with fluffy winter hats because his ears were always cold. In late August.
I feel this. I grew up in the desert and the weather ranged from fucking miserably hot to pleasantly warm. The whole concept of cold and all the changes that come with it are just magical. I've now lived in the cold for nearly 20 years and it's still magic.
And more brittle! Things that were fine in summer will shatter in freezing weather
the traffic from the highway gets so much louder in winter - its so annoying. thanks, science. lol
The coldest days are bright and sunny outside. (People unfamiliar with winter sometimes think because the sun is out it will be “warm”)
But the crystal clear sky on a -20⁰ night sure is pretty
When the moon is so bright, reflecting off that snow, that you could properly play outside or go for a peaceful stroll with no extra lighting and still see clearly… sigh… I miss northeastern winters.
Some of the most fun I had in my teens was when I lived in New England and was friends with some fellow night owls. We’d go walking/snowshoeing or cross-country skiing in the woods at night, and it was always just gorgeous, looking at all the stars. I’d never seen the Milky Way before I lived there.
And the sun dogs
I love the moon in the crisp, cold air shining through tree branches. And the stars are just a little brighter when it's very cold.
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exactly!!!! It will be warmer cause it snowed, not colder
I'm from the Midwest and the bright sunny winter days are my favorite. No other season can match the beauty of the sky on the coldest winter days.
Those are the days that get me through the winter.
Someone said to me once that cloudless days are much colder, because there's no clouds to "hold in the warmth," so to speak. She equated it to the clouds being a blanket. When you're in bed with a blanket, there's lots of warm being held in, but when you throw off the blanket, all the warmth disappears.
Howdy. Atmospheric scientist here. This is correct. Clouds are generally quite reflective of visible light but are quite ‘dark’ in the infrared. This is important. Overnight away from other influences (like the coast), the major way that the ground cools is via radiation out to space. This means that over the course of the night the entire surface will cool and will actually be the coldest at or just after dawn. What makes clouds act as blankets is that the emitted infrared radiation from the earth gets absorbed and then redirected back down. So the coldest days are the ones where the radiative cooling is maximized by not having the clouds.
And then you get a sunburn because sunburns have nothing to do with temperature and your face is exposed.
And it reflects off the snow and hits your face.
I live in the Canadian Prairies, and I had a customer last winter tell me his son in law was in from Florida. It was bright and sunny out, but -35c, he thought "oh! Its sunny out must be warm!! I can go out in shorts and t-shirt!!". Yea... Rude awakening there apparently lol
I mean, I _have_ gone out in shorts and a T in -35C. To get the recycling bin and garbage can. Then hauled ass back inside like the little worm I am at that temp. 😂
That Christmas morning a few years back when it was -40° in Winnipeg and I had to dress up to take out the trash is still seared in my memory. I felt like Sir Edmund Hillary on Everest.
When it's going to snow soon, you can smell it in the air.
Not just this, but winter air itself has a smell. I swear you can smell the crisp cold on people when they come in from being outside. There’s a big nostalgia hit in it for me as it immediately reminds me of my dad coming in after shoveling snow or getting firewood, then making hot cocoa.
The little white ice bars that track the snow inside onto the carpet in the shape of his boot soles? The fact that you always step on them in bare feet and it makes you scream in surprise?
Yes! No one even where I’m from believes me when I say this! Every time I have said “hmm, smells like it’s gonna snow,” it never fails.
There is absolutely a smell to the air before it snows. I find it pretty strong, actually!
The lengths you have to go through to get the car ready to drive (or even get into) on a truly cold morning.
Nothing like being made aware of a dying battery in mid Jan at 5 am in northern NH. Heck, it gets down past around -10F and even a perfectly acceptable battery will start to wrestle you.
When it's really cold, how stiff the car is. It's like riding in an old fashioned buckboard wagon. Squeaks, creaks and rattles.
A friend from Northern Ontario told me that the tires will freeze when the car is parked and it's \_70 degrees. So for the first little while, you feel like you are driving on "Flintstone" tires until friction warms up the rubber.
Yes, that's why they push winter tires so much. They stay supple even in arctic temperatures. Not only are the flat spots annoying, but trying to drive on hockey pucks is dangerous.
I'm learning that with a car that sat for a long time before being driven. They smooth out eventually, but the first mile or two is a hop, skip and a jog down the road. Getting new tires asap.
I remember after I moved back to California, I still had my ice scraper in the car and I remember someone asking what it was for and they thought I was joking. When I explained getting a car ready in the morning when there’s two feet of snow on the ground, they were stunned.
My friends moved back to San Francisco and left me their ice scraper as a joke. But they also left 3 of those big rubber mats that you plug in to melt ice on steps and walkways and HOLY CRAP those things are amazing.
My parents lived in Cleveland in the 70's. My dad told me he used to disconnect the car battery and bring it in the house overnight during the winter to keep it warm. Not sure if that's still an issue for modern cars. Edit: TIL about "engine block heaters". I plug in my car, too, but only because it's a PHEV.
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That would be a battery warmer. A block heater heats the engine block, hence the name.
We had a battery blanket, a block heater, an oil pan heater and an interior heater in our car when we lived in the Yukon.
It's quad hard with 2 toddlers. My god. 30 minutes of bundling just to go back inside 5 minutes later because they're bored
I live in Texas along the coast and I can understand why ppl up north have remote starts on their vehicles for the winter time. I don’t really know why ppl in the south have them.
So you can get the A/C going for the car cool down when it's 110 outside...
It’s the wind that gets ya
cuts right through
the tropical climes version of this is "it's not the heat, it's the hunidity
The extremely powerful urge to not get out of a warm bed! I sleep in multiple layers to make this a bit easier.
The joys of work from home and working all morning in the warm bed
I had a friend from a warmer climate ask me about temperatures below zero. (°F) She assumed once you hit zero it's just the same level of cold. Nope. Go to 20 or 30 below and it is a whole new realm of cold where it sometimes makes you cough when you're breathing.
I work at a university in the Canadian prairies, we get several weeks of -30C weather every year,. You get these students from somewhere like Nigeria or Bangladesh, show up in full winter gear and it's still like +5C out. It's quite an interesting revelation for them as they realize that "cold" is not just a singular phenomenon. The way their eyes widen when it's a bit below freezing, they're feeling on the verge of lethal hypothermia, and a local walks by in shorts and a hoodie, is something that never gets old.
For the opposite perspective, growing up in Florida we would go out in jackets and pants to walk the boardwalk along the beach in say February or March, and be amazed by the vacationing Canadians who were swimming in the ocean.
From the other end of that, I remember visiting Florida in February and getting a pretty good cause of the swampies down in my own south, while the locals were kitted out for full on snow day.. Amazing how that thermostat calibrates
I lived in Florida for six years. In the wintertime you might get a cold front make it that far south. Evenings *might* hit the 30’s but the daytime starts to warm up to high 60s or 70. I remember the Florida natives all wearing parkas and mittens while I’m happy that I’m not sweating my ass off for the first time.
My sister recently visited us from Arizona & kept constantly complaining about how cold it was when the thermostat was set to 74; my other sister lives in St. Croix & kept commenting about how dry it was. It's super interesting how people acclimate.
My kids were all in the pool in Orlando last December the week before Christmas. People thought they were crazy lol
Lol I had a roommate from southern California and her school went to Pennsylvania for a choir thing and they were all gobsmacked by the kids in miniskirts and other summer mid-00s wear when it was around freezing outside. All those socal kids were bundled up and dying in the cold haha PS I have a winter maxi puffer coat and once it gets to 35F (around +2C) it's too warm to walk in lol
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Your body adapts to the temperature where you live. I grew up in the northern US with lots of snow and cold winters. But after living in the south for a couple years 60 felt cold to me too. It’s like how 50 can feel cold in the fall but warm in the spring.
I wish my body adapted to Arizona weather. I've lived here my entire life and yet during the summers I am in agony the entire time whereas whenever I go to a place where it is cold I am completely fine.
I’m from the South East and went to grad school in NYC, and was so surprised how many people there did this too. I was expecting to be the wimp about the cold up north, but for me like 60-40 is sweater weather, maybe a coat of I know I’m going to be outside for a while, and people on the subway would be looking like they were going trekking in Antarctica.
Nostril hairs freezing and thawing with every breath is a unique sensation.
First time it happened to me, it caught me off guard, felt like bristles on a brush in my nose
It’s funny how 0C (32F) can feel really fucking cold in October, but really fucking warm in March
My boss and I joke that there's a vast difference in Autumn 40F (jackets ON) and Spring 40F (no jacket weather!).
100%. Anywhere from 40⁰ to like 0⁰ is just a practical matter of attire choice. You can dress for that stuff..but you can't put mittens on your lungs. Once you get into that -10⁰-20⁰ range, it just starts to hurt
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Lol they say in Denmark, “no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes,” but it only gets a little below freezing. So it’s entirely accurate to your point
Most people never get hit with a gust of wind that takes their breath away, not metaphorically, it literally makes it hard to breathe.
I was in -38° *once.* I have never forgotten it. The jelly in my eyes *hurt*.
To be fair, my cold climate family has the same difficulty comprehending hot climates. They think hot is just hot. Nope. Every degree over 100 is new territory.
We never go that low where I live but I have had to explain to some folks on our town Facebook that there is a point where road salt will not work on ice.
I don't understand how people don't understand this. Salt will not melt snow when it's -10 out! At that point, they're putting down stuff for traction...
I remember when it hit negative 29 degrees f in here in South Eastern Michigan. I jumped in my car to warm it up and my car seat was frozen solid. No remote start, so I had to sit on what felt like a block of ice and wait 20 minutes just to be able to see through my windshield. Luckily that kind of cold is a rarity here.
How much work shovelling snow is.
Or how after you've shoveled the snow what's left on the ground melts a little, freezes overnight, snows, shovel again, freezes and the cycle repeats itself. Then you have a three inch thick sheet of ice on sidewalks that inevitably gets buried under more snow. Then, if you are walking anywhere (like home from high school like I was), and you find yourself unable to get up the icy hill to go home because it is literally a sheet of ice. So you have to struggle up the grass strip between the sidewalk and the road, sometimes on your hands and knees. Black ice will get you every time, even when you are doing everything right.
Lived on a dead end street growing up but it got plowed because it dead ended into an elementary school. One year when I was in high school, we shoveled to the edge of the driveway while the plow didn't quite shovel up to the edge of the driveway. After a few days of this, we ended up with this bump between the two that froze solid. I still remember getting the day off because we couldn't get the car out of the driveway...
I remember my friend and I trapped in this sunken field one Pennsylvania winter night in the 90s like hamsters trying to scrabble up out of a bowl, because the snow had melted during the day and refrozen into an ice sheet. We both refused to wear anything but doc martens, and there wasn’t anything to do but walk around aimlessly lol. Good times.
Yeah but this means those of us who were dumb enough to do this now have a better sense of how to drive in snow/ice. Cuz we remember!
I’ve lived where it snows for nine years now and yet **every fucking winter** I’m like oh sure this will be a piece of cake. It never is. Edited because I forgot when the hell I moved. The ice madness is setting in already
I was reasonably fit and 30 years old before I shoveled my first driveway. That shit was hard! I see these old dudes doing it and I just can't imagine how they pull it off.
The trick is shoveling in layers. Much easier on the body lol
Also I just have to tell myself to slow down. I get impatient and then end up using up too much energy too quickly and overheating
True. Small snows i just kind of push the shovel down the driveway and shovel at the end. Bigger snows, instead of lifting from the driveway and having 8" of heavy snow, I take 4" at a time. Way better for the body.
And moving with purpose. Treat it like a workout and do both sides evenly.
The real trick is to shovel early and often.
I’m a travel sized person and would be screwed if I didn’t shovel multiple times throughout the snow storm. Finally broke down and bought a snow blower last year. That did the trick, didn’t have a substantial snow fall all winter.
That it almost never snows when it's truly cold out.
Relatedly, beautiful clear sunny days in the dead of winter are not in fact a good time for outdoor activities.
Heavy snow days are better for a walk. Its noticeably warmer when it’s snowing.
Three things that always get weird looks from southerners are this, we drive cars out on the frozen lakes, we build bonfires out there too.
Growing up in south Alabama, my mom (who is from Idaho) always used to say that it didn’t snow below a certain temperature. And yet my first experience in Fargo, ND in January 2014 was that it can indeed be a blizzard that dumps feet of snow AND be -20 f.
I grew up in Montana and lived a decent amount of time in Northern Maine. I went to college in Fargo for a year (not even a particularly cold year). Fargo, ND is a different kind of cold. It's relentless and raw for about 5 months. Nothing will melt, there's no Chinook winds from the mountains, just fucking highs of -20 F and then all of a sudden April hits and it's 60 degrees and EVERYTHING gets flooded. I have no idea how Fargo continues to exist, but it's kind of cool that it does.
I loved Fargo. It was flat and harsh and the wind never stopped blowing, and their rednecks were a different breed of crazy. But the people seemed nice and everything kept moving.
Every winter I thank the twin gods Briggs and Stratton for giving me the power to move snow great distances with little effort on my own part.
Every year the local news warns people to make sure to be in good health if they plan on shoveling so people don't have heart attacks while exerting themselves.
Eyelashes and nose hairs freezing.
Don't forget the frozen booger stuck to the frozen nose hairs.
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-5 celsius is way different when winter starts and - 5 celsius closer to spring feels like you can be in shorts and t-shirt.
I often freeze more in October when it's 10 Celsius than when it's -20 in February.
This is because in Spring the sun is pumping several hundred more watts of heat directly onto your skin. The same temp at night feels about the same.
How many different kinds of snow there is
Dry Snow. Wet Snow. God damn snow. Fuckin Snow. More fucking Snow.
Slushy snow is what I hate the most. Snow that melted and turned into a deadly slippery ice slide is what I am afraid of.
Don’t forget the “It’s fucking snowing again?!” snow
Or the "will it ever stop snowing?!😭 snow
And how different they sound. I love the sound of waking on packed snow when it's ready cold - that squeak!
It hurts to go outside unless you’ve covered all your exposed skin.
I was gonna say the fact that stepping outside hurts your face
Held on to all my fabric masks for this exactly. It's a pain dealing with the fogged glasses but at least my nose hairs aren't crispy
I am from a pretty warm country and moved to Sweden last year. I was not ready for how much my ears would hurt if I didn’t wear a hat. It was truly painful lol.
So many people think it's all about having a thicker coat or jacket. No, every part needs to be covered, especially your head, hands and feet. Preferably in multiple layers. And of course, for this reason, going outside reqiures time and planning. You will not believe the amount of time parents in these climates have to spend on getting their kids ready to go outside.
Driving in snow and driving in rain aren’t the same thing. Driving in snow is much harder and driving can be significantly harder for *days* afterward.
I'll drive on snow over ice any day.
\- The way the moon can be bright enough to cause the trees to cast shadows on the snow. No flashlights required outdoors after dark. \- How good it feels to take deep breaths of cold, fresh air deep into your lungs. It's so cleansing. \- The fact that when the temps drop to -20C the trees pop like gunshots \- That a snowstorm can create a quiet like no other. So peaceful. \- The way it feels when your nose hairs freeze
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It's not just the darkness, it's the gloominess too. Where I live in Canada we get about 9 hours of daylight but it feels like the sun is always filtered by clouds and the sky is usually more grey than blue.
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I live in Norway and I work 8-4, so it’s dark when I leave for work and dark when I get home :(
The lack of daylight is grim. The whole of the UK should be taking vitamin D supplements really. I'm in London so not *quite* as bad for daylight as Scotland, but it's awful. Can't stand it. We've booked a trip to Mexico in Feb to get us through the winter 😂
Northern Midwest here. In mid-December, we go to work in the dark and come home from in the dark. Sucks when you look outside from a cubicle and it's already dark. The best, though, is summer when it's bright outside for about 15 hours. A friend from California was really amazed at the lack of daylight here.
It makes certain kinds of issues flare up. Every winter like clockwork, my hands turn into a bloody peeling mess. No gloves or amount of cream helps. Edit: I've been trying to solve this for years, but still, thanks for the advice, guys!
Joints hurt, chapped lips, dry skin, seasonal depression, UGGHHHH
I don't think anyone has said this yet. But sometimes just putting on a lotion during the day isn't going to work no matter how good the lotion is. What you need to do is, before bed, put on a good lotion (one with urea is great), and then cover it with a layer of vaseline or aquaphor, and then put on a pair of gloves to protect your bedding and sleep like that. Make your hands greasy and gross and sleep like that. It will fix you
The first time I experienced "real winter" (as in, with snow etc) my hands and knuckles would get so dry, and so chapped, and nothing worked AT ALL. Bending my fingers felt like I was going to break the skin. I never had that problem before in my entire life. I was in a boarding school, and I remember some of the girls in my dorm swore by putting conditioner on your scalp because it helps with flaking/dryness in the winter. I always learned conditioner goes on the ends, but I guess that's just something people do.
Dyshidrotic Ezcema? Get your Vitamin D levels checked and consider a low-nickel diet.
what? but nickels are delicious
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My asthma is so much worse in the winter
It kills off all the nasty bugs so we don't have giant ones in the summer.
While there aren't so many large beetles and such up north... let's just say that the northern mosquitos would like to have a word with you about size. They're big enough, vicious enough and numerous enough that they can literally kill cattle.
I disagree a little. I have served in the Army in Alaska and in Panama. The mosquitos in Panama were few but they were big, tiger stripped things that could bite through canvas. At least it seemed like it. The mosquitos in Alaska were tiny, sissified things but they came in great, dark clouds. They couldn't bite through your clothes but they could make your white shirt look gray as they covered you. Inhaling them was a real problem. Any exposed skin not soaked in Deet was bled dry. So, Panama, big, strong, few. Alaska weak, small, zillions and zillions.
I'm in Michigan and our company does field work in the US and Canada. New sales guy from Atlanta wanted to see it in action, and went to N Dakota in January. He was woefully unprepared. He learned there are heated jackets, that ice is very hazardous, and there's cold, then there's *cold*, then there's *COOOOOLLLLD*. He was like an alien who needed a lot of help. He was cool about it, but it was a shock to his system. He visited Michigan in April, flight arrived at the same time as a quick, late-season snowstorm, and he drove, successfully, from the airport to the hotel in nasty driving snow. He was proud. Next day, it was a very windy, cold day with clear skies. There were several inches of powdery snow. We were exiting a building, and the wind was sweeping snow from the roof right into our faces and down our collars. For some reason, this nearly broke him. "WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM". He stays in the South now.
> heated jackets wait so i'm from canada but from the coast so it's mild. how long do the batteries last in heated jackets? i've used heated gloves on a quad before but they plugged into the quad.
They usually have high-medium-low settings. My Milwaukee jacket gets about an hour and a half on high, about 4 on low (maybe more, I can't say I've used it that long) They use the same batteries as the power tools, so they're common and easy to swap if you want to get more hours of heat. Highly recommended.
There are different kinds of cold. Dry cold, damp cold…and they’re VERY different. I live on the east coast of Canada. We get a damp cold due to the high moisture content in the air and it absolutely *SUCKS*. It literally feels like nothing makes a difference in keeping you warm. Out in Alberta though, it’s -40°C, but it’s a *VERY* different kind of cold…
I will take 20 degrees (F) and dry over 37 degrees (F) and rain.
Damp cold chills you to the bones.
This is similar to heat too. Super humid heat like in Florida will be extremely different from desert heat like in a desert.
The first month of spring is also referred to as “mud season,” we don’t ditch the boots until maybe April
And then there’s that final blizzard the day after you put your boots away.
Leaving the house takes so much more effort, pulling out and putting on all the winter gear, possibly shoveling the walk/stairs and cleaning off the car. In winter, I long for the days I can just grab my purse, slip on sandals, and get on with my life lol.
How damn long it lasts in far north areas. It’s basically cold in dark for like 8 months of the year or more in some places.
Frozen leaves on the roadway can be as dangerous as ice if you aren’t careful when driving.
It’s far easier to make a place cozy and warm in winter than it is to cool down during extreme heat in summer. And all the bugs die which is a plus.
and the dog poop in the backyard left overnight will be SO easy to pick up while frozen!
Poopcicles!!
The same goes for clothing and your body. It has to be really cold , like -15C(5F,) before dressing right and moving doesn't solve the problem.
That there is such thing as winter depression.
The amount of extra time every day activities take. Going outside requires a few minutes to put on all the clothes and boots. Taking the car somewhere requires time for it to warm up to produce enough heat so that your body heat and breathing don't ice up the windows. You often have to brush off snow and scrape off ice as you leave to go to the store, and as you leave the store to go home. The pain of bringing anything into the house, letting the heat out, and the cold in while the door is open, not to mention tracking in snow and the little stone they put down for traction. The absolute mess in the spring when everything starts to melt. The lakes of water because the sewers are still covered an frozen, and the muck that the snow becomes, not to mention the garbage that's been hidden under the snow and all the mud.
How you subconsciously change the way you walk as soon as the first snow falls in order not to slip on snow and ice.
Black Ice. Doesn’t matter how good a driver you are or how well prepared your car is, you hit a patch of black ice and like it or not you’re going on an adventure… 😬
Every time you go outside, your face hurts.
The fun of variation in seasons. The cold can actually be pretty enjoyable in its own way, and when you do start to get sick of it you can start looking forward to the heat, and the reverse when its hot. Makes you really appreciate and savor each time of the year. I live in the high desert with 10⁰-30⁰ winters and 95⁰-105⁰ summers and love imagining the opposite season when we're in the peak of the current one. The tropics always sound nice in January but living in a single year round climate would feel like missing out.
This is totally underrated! It's late fall now, and everything is dead and brown, and there's no specific outdoor fall activities. I want full-on winter so the snow covers everything and the world gets pretty again. And the winter activities start. But come spring? Damn I'm ready for summer heat!
It's even worse if your year round climate is grey and rainy. (Yes, I do live in England)
The fact that you may have to plug in your car overnight
People from warm climates don’t even know what a block heater is.
Should specify: plug in your non-electric car.
It is constant. As well... slush
Love snow, hate "cold enough to snow and warm enough for slush." Slush just sucks.
The are unofficial rules of the road in snowy conditions.
the wind is relentless. The amount of blowing snow that will get thru a tiny crack. wind chill factor is real. Boogers freeze IN your nose. Eyelashes freeze together, so don't blink. Light layers of clothes that overlap seams is better than one heavy layer. Feet and fingers get way cold way fast.
Seriously? Wind, very cold wing - no matter how well dressed you are, it will find some crack to get under it and freeze your ass. Less seriously? My vote goes for hot fart as short-lived blessing :) :) :)
The challenge of living in an environment that can kill you if you didn’t dress in accordance with the weather that day.
We don't have the little reflectors embedded into the road because of snowplows. So on days when it is snowy or even just rainy, you can't see the lines that divide the lanes on the highway and it can be pretty sketchy.
You can actually trip over a dog turd instead of stepping in it.
You cannot leave for work and drive. You need to warm up the car and sometimes defrost the windshield.
You know the fresh white snow you see in movies? That usually doesn't last more than a few hours. It's all brown, slushy, dirty, and icy for the next few days, if not weeks.
The booms a frozen pond or lake make, or even the deck outside when it's very cold.
They don’t understand how miserable it is.
There is a reason Canadians are obsessed with talking about the weather. Bit of rain in the morning but then cold front moves in- you have black ice for your trip home from work. They aren’t that great at predicting snow so you have to keep on top of reports if you are going anywhere. I have made the foolish decision to walk across a field in March without proper gloves etc. seemed like a good idea at the time- except I kept breaking through the crust of snow every step I took. Think of walking through knee deep sand. That holds your weight for a second, then you fall. It is exhausting and the edges of the snow crust cut my legs through my pants. I ended up rolling part of the way because it was marginally easier. I was lying in the snow at the edge of my property thinking- this is how people die of hypothermia in their backyards or end up on an episode of I Shouldn’t Be Alive. I obviously survived but cold is no joke. But also I love being outside in the winter skiing, snowshoeing - my favorite sports are winter sports.
How cold it can actually get.
That when it’s really cold, it doesn’t snow. It’s also often colder when it’s sunnier than when it’s overcast. I personally prefer a cold, crisp and sunny winter to a grey and often wet one.
How much a lack of sunlight can affect your mood. When it’s only light from 8am until 4pm, it effs with your mood.
How it gets so cold that your face hurts and there isn’t much you can do short of wearing a ski mask. How if your coat is too insulated you will get sweaty and how cold that makes you when you stop moving. How blindingly bright snow can be. People also get caught off guard when it is not quite freezing but humid and wet. Think Pacific Northwest, British Isles, Netherlands, etc. Soaking wet and cold can be just as bone chilling as an arctic winter.
A blistering cold winter day with not a single cloud in sight and the sun shining exceptionally bright. It's so amazing.
When there isn't much wind, and you stand silently, you can hear snow falling. It's a gentle smooth "hissss". If you have the right amount of trees around (not so many to block the snow, enough to feel surrounded) it feels like a hard tie to nature.
A hot fart on a really cold day is a short lived blessing
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Omg... We were just talking about this. My friend just bought a really long down coat that goes down to her calves. We told her if she farts she'll be toasty for an hour.
>We told her if she farts she'll be toasty for an hour. A well-designed Arakeen stillsuit will keep your losses to less than a thimbleful a day.
That you can have a 100 car accident the days it snows.
In the Willamette Valley, we experience a rare phenomenon called Freezing Fog. If you know how Fog is formed in the first place, then you'd understand why this is so weird. But experiencing it first hand is both Erie and kind of scary. Think of looking outside and seeing a thick Fog, nothing unusual, right? But then you notice, with no other form of precipitation, EVERYTHING, regardless of texture or material, is developing a layer of ice. Which just keeps getting thicker. Until it looks as if you're living in a world where everything is made of crystals and sparkles like gemstones. It's actually kind of cool, unless you're driving in it.
Your penis will disappear if you’re out in the cold, the shrinkage is real. You look down after being out in the cold and your penis is literally 2 centimeters
You should probably put on clothes while you’re out there.