New England Temperature Conversion Chart

[Tony Crocker]

60° F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in New England sunbathe. <BR> <BR>50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. People in New England plant gardens. <BR> <BR>40° F: Italian & English cars won't start. People in New England drive with the windows down. <BR> <BR>32° F: Distilled water freezes. Maine's Moosehead Lake's water gets thicker. <BR> <BR>20° F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in New England throw on a flannel shirt. <BR> <BR>15° F: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in New England have the last cookout before it gets cold. <BR> <BR>0° F: All the people in Miami die. New Englanders close the windows. <BR> <BR>10° below zero: Californians fly away to Mexico. The Girl Scouts in New England are selling cookies door to door. <BR> <BR>25° below zero: Hollywood disintegrates. People in New England get out their winter coats. <BR> <BR>40° below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in New England let the dogs sleep indoors. <BR> <BR>100° below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. New Englanders get frustrated because they can't start their "kahs." <BR> <BR>460° below zero: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale). People in New England start saying, "cold 'nuff for ya?" <BR> <BR>500° below zero: Hell freezes over. The Red Sox win the World Series.

 

[Jonny D]

brilliant! I couldn't agree more.

 

[Kevin]

Very funny indead. The only thing about the last cold wave is that the skiers/population in Maine and Quebec were complaining somewhat about the last cold wave. I quess that where all getting used to the warmer weather of the past few winters. Nobody was snowmobiling out on either flagstaff or rangeley lakes last weekend, and they did not look too inviting either. The warm weather and rain really hurt the business that depends on snow and cold. Skiing and snowmobiling was much quieter than usual. Think snow and cold!!!

 

[Frankontour]

Imagine me... I'm actually 500+ miles northern than New England since 2 weeks !!!! <BR> <BR>This morning was -34C on the thermometer (something like -30F). At least, it wasn't windy and it's quite dry here. <BR> <BR>Excellent end of chart, sincerely ! <IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/clipart/happy.gif" ALT=""> hahaha

 

[billski]

While the non-New England behavior may be a bit of stretch, I couldn't help but notice how accurately the NE behavior was described. Yes, my daughter was out selling cookies last week at -10F. <BR> <BR>I grew up in Massena, NY where below 0 temps were ordinary for weeks at a time. I do remember -40F mornings, you could always start the car if you lit a fire underneath the engine first <BR> <BR>Close the schools due to the "extreme cold" like they did last week? Who said the word "wimps"? Beat me to it.... <BR> <BR> The only time our school would close is if it was burning down. I still remember going to grade school on days when the heating system worked on and off all day (the repaired it while we were there, unlike today) and we wore coats and hats all day in the school room (1960's). It was no fun when we had to take off our mittens and use our pencils. <BR> <BR>Now my daughter's school won't let the kids out on the playground when it is "too cold" Man, that's what we looked forward to. You could build a snow fort (can't do that at school anymore, too much liability) and it would last for weeks or months. You could build a helluva sliding/tobogganing/sledding hill and "improve" it with a few buckets of water. So fast, the only way to stop was to bail out before you married the trees (or road). <BR> <BR>Nothin' better than going for a walk outside and listening to the snow creak. <BR> <BR>I heard last week people were leaving FL because it was "too cold", 40F. <BR> <BR>Wimps.