I, personally, have invented the most efficient weather monitoring tool in the world…I call it the Eitherormeter…It’s a cup of water you set on your picnic table…..Either it freezes or it doesn’t. If it freezes, it’s freezing out. If it doesn’t, it’s just bone chilling cold. It is very accurate….
The TRUE determinant of cold is Spit.If it freezes before it hits the sidewalk it’s COLD!If you hear a “splat” instead of a “clink” it’s still just “nippy.”
Nose crackling? Why have I never heard of this before? Even if it doesn’t get that cold where I am, I’ve been to Germany for two winters and Minnesota in February.
I knew a woman who was a child around the turn of the twentieth century. She recalled that around her home, near Colorado Springs, they would go out on New Year’s Eve and blow bubbles. The bubbles would freeze, so that when they landed on the snow, they’d just sit there looking magical. They’d blow heaps and heaps of bubbles….Here in Denver, nowadays, it’s neither cold enough nor snowy enough to do that on New Year’s Eve. Some years we get a snap of below-zero in January or February, but then it sometimes gets into the 70s in February, too.
Thanks for the welcome, although I’ve been here for some time (just not posting much due to working all the time). Doonesbury, too, where I pointed out your absence for a time last summer. It’s been good to have you back there.
Love your reminiscence about the Cherry Creek “slide”! We’re just east of Colorado Blvd., a hop, skip, and a jump from C.Crk.
And, not to be outdone, at the end of my block on this very day, workers have dug up the street to insert new water pipe, or something. Warm and dry, indeed. No frozen nose hairs here!
During the gold rush miners would check the temperature by first looking at a bucket of water. If the water was frozen, then it was 32 or below. Secondly they would check a kerosene lamp. If that was frozen, they knew it was -48!!
For me the temperature at which the inside of my nose freezes enough to crackle is about -12F. It’s a real phenomenon, but it needs to get cold enough. It happened to me in northern Illinois. Maybe one has to both notice and be foolish enough to be outside when it is that cold.
It happened just after I stepped outside and inhaled the first time. I only really noticed it the first few times.
Varnes about 12 years ago
Just don’t let the frozen farts get near the frozen candle flames….
Varnes about 12 years ago
I, personally, have invented the most efficient weather monitoring tool in the world…I call it the Eitherormeter…It’s a cup of water you set on your picnic table…..Either it freezes or it doesn’t. If it freezes, it’s freezing out. If it doesn’t, it’s just bone chilling cold. It is very accurate….
Varnes about 12 years ago
BTW, if you blow bubbles in 10º air, they freeze. It’s really cool…..
LeoAutodidact about 12 years ago
The TRUE determinant of cold is Spit.If it freezes before it hits the sidewalk it’s COLD!If you hear a “splat” instead of a “clink” it’s still just “nippy.”
pschearer Premium Member about 12 years ago
Nose crackling? Why have I never heard of this before? Even if it doesn’t get that cold where I am, I’ve been to Germany for two winters and Minnesota in February.
GoBlue about 12 years ago
We always called it ‘cold enough that your nose hairs freeze’..
blather046047 about 12 years ago
Google “A Texan moves north” for my perspective on cold.
annieb1012 about 12 years ago
I knew a woman who was a child around the turn of the twentieth century. She recalled that around her home, near Colorado Springs, they would go out on New Year’s Eve and blow bubbles. The bubbles would freeze, so that when they landed on the snow, they’d just sit there looking magical. They’d blow heaps and heaps of bubbles….Here in Denver, nowadays, it’s neither cold enough nor snowy enough to do that on New Year’s Eve. Some years we get a snap of below-zero in January or February, but then it sometimes gets into the 70s in February, too.
Thriller87 about 12 years ago
@SF2 funny stuff
Varnes about 12 years ago
Can you add frozen farts to a snowball? (How big are those things anyway?) Because that would be awesome….
annieb1012 about 12 years ago
@Sharuniboy
Thanks for the welcome, although I’ve been here for some time (just not posting much due to working all the time). Doonesbury, too, where I pointed out your absence for a time last summer. It’s been good to have you back there.
Love your reminiscence about the Cherry Creek “slide”! We’re just east of Colorado Blvd., a hop, skip, and a jump from C.Crk.
And, not to be outdone, at the end of my block on this very day, workers have dug up the street to insert new water pipe, or something. Warm and dry, indeed. No frozen nose hairs here!
Yakety Sax about 12 years ago
During the gold rush miners would check the temperature by first looking at a bucket of water. If the water was frozen, then it was 32 or below. Secondly they would check a kerosene lamp. If that was frozen, they knew it was -48!!
craigthom about 12 years ago
For me the temperature at which the inside of my nose freezes enough to crackle is about -12F. It’s a real phenomenon, but it needs to get cold enough. It happened to me in northern Illinois. Maybe one has to both notice and be foolish enough to be outside when it is that cold.
It happened just after I stepped outside and inhaled the first time. I only really noticed it the first few times.