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Post by featherduster on Jan 25, 2019 13:27:28 GMT -5
it's going to be cold enough to...
The story goes that cannonballs used to be stored aboard ship in piles, on a brass frame or tray called a 'monkey'. In very cold weather the brass would contract, spilling the cannonballs: hence very cold weather is 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'.
bring in the brass monkeys.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 13:44:56 GMT -5
Winter of 1977 was cold. Coldest weather for me was -43 in Lewiston, Maine. Went for 1 month never going about 0 degree F.
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Post by steiny on Jan 25, 2019 15:55:30 GMT -5
Time to get out ice fishing !
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Post by esshup on Jan 25, 2019 16:24:38 GMT -5
A group of us were snowmobiling in Wi in the late '70's (maybe the winter of '78-'79?), we all walked into a bar to eat and I remember seeing the thermometer saying 20°F. On the way out it now said 30°F. Being that the sun was going down I had to do a double take at the thermometer. Oops, I didn't realize that it was actually -20°F when we walked in and now it was -30°F. I had a full face helmet, grip heaters and a tall windshield on the sled.
Since there was no wind, and it was dry out it didn't feel that cold, but when my car was the only one that started the next morning, we knew it was dang cold out. (I had plugged it in, and had a heating element in the lower radiator hose that warmed up the anti-freeze in the block and the heater core.) We had to use my car to run to the local store to get aluminum foil, charcoal and lighter fluid. We got the charcoal going in the tin foil and slid it under the engines in the other vehicles. Took about an hour, but we finally got them all started.
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