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posted by martyb on Thursday November 07 2019, @07:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the build-more-wind-farms-to-push-it-back dept.

Punishing blasts of potentially record cold will bring an early winter preview to millions of people in the central, eastern and southern U.S. over the next few days.

The core of the first round of cold will gradually shift from the north-central U.S. into the Great Lakes and Northeast Wednesday through Saturday, making it feel more like the middle of winter rather than early November in some places, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Jake Sojda.

As the cold sweeps east, some snow is also likely in portions of the interior Northeast Thursday into Friday. The heaviest snow should fall in northern New England, where some spots could pick up half a foot.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/05/arctic-cold-blasts-bring-winter-weather-us-november/4165270002/

Possibly related: The sun has been blank for over a month now: http://www.sidc.be/silso/dayssnplot


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by pdfernhout on Thursday November 07 2019, @03:09PM (1 child)

    by pdfernhout (5984) on Thursday November 07 2019, @03:09PM (#917334) Homepage

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%2C_Be_Seated! [wikipedia.org]
    (Spoiler) "The story tells of a visit to a tunnel on the surface of the Moon which goes awry when a pressure seal fails, trapping three men (a supervisor, a reporter, and a tunnel worker). The title of the story derives from the way they plug an air leak while awaiting rescue: by sitting on it."

    Just remember that flesh can stick to really cold metal... Witness those people with their tongues stuck to flagpoles...
    https://www.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Stuck-Tongue-from-a-Frozen-Surface [wikihow.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday November 07 2019, @05:35PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Thursday November 07 2019, @05:35PM (#917396)

    >Just remember that flesh can stick to really cold metal...

    I don't think so - not quite. Besides, if your flesh (rather than skin) is being exposed to really cold metal, you probably have bigger problems.

    *Water* can stick to really cold metal though as it freezes, and to skin as well. And your tongue is normally covered in water. If you've been sweating heavily other areas might also be wet enough to freeze to cold metal surfaces, but unlike your tongue most of your body's surface is covered in many layers of dead skin cells that can flake away to release you. Rather like wax paper - most things actually stick to wax paper reasonably well, but the wax doesn't stick to itself well, and so you can pull the paper away easily, leaving a thin layer of wax still stuck to your food.