Just for you, Mimi!

[Nightfall]

A temperature scale graduated for people in the Great White North:
temperatures are in Farenheit

+50
New York tenants turn on the heat
Minnesotans plant gardens

+40
Californians shiver uncontrollably
Minnesotans sunbathe

+35
Italian cars don't start

+32
Distilled water freezes

+30
You can see your breath
You plan a vacation in Florida
Politicians begin to worry about the homeless
Minnesotans eat ice cream

+25
Boston water freezes
Californians weep pitiably
Cat insists on sleeping on your bed with you

+20
Cleveland water freezes
San Franciscans start thinking favorably of LA
Green Bay Packers fans put on T-shirts

+15
You plan a vacation in CANCUN!!!!!
Minnesotans go swimming

+10
Too cold to snow
You need jumper cables to get the car going

0
New York landlords turn on the heat

-5
You can hear your breath
You plan a vacation to Hawaii

-10
American cars don't start
Too cold to skate

-15
You can cut your breath and use it to build an igloo
Miamians cease to exist
Minnesotans lick flagpoles

-20
Cat insists on sleeping in your pajamas with you
People in LaCrosse think about taking down screens

-25
Too cold to kiss
You need jumper cables to get the driver going
Japanese cars don't start
Minnesota Twins head for spring training

-30
You plan a two-week hot bath
Minnesotans shovel snow off roof

-38
Mercury freezes
Too cold to think
Minnesotans button top button

-40
Californians disappear
Car insists on sleeping in your bed with you
Minnesotans put on sweaters

-50
Congressional hot air freezes
Alaskans close the bathroom window
Green Bay Packers practice indoors

-60
Walruses abandon Aleutians
Minnesotans put gloves away, take out mittens
Boy Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby

-70
Minneapolis residents replace diving boards with hockey nets
Ridgeway snowmobilers organize trans-river race to Buffalo,

-80
Polar bears abandon Baffin Island
Girl Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby

-90
Lawyers chase ambulances for no more than 10 miles
Wisconsinites migrate to Minnesota thinking it MUST be warmer

-100
Santa Claus abandons North Pole
Minnesotans pull down earflaps

-173
Ethyl alcohol freezes

-445
Superconductivity

-452
Helium becomes a liquid

-454
Hell freezes over

-456
Illinois drivers drop below 85 MPH on I-90

-458
Incumbent politician renounces a campaign contribution

-460 (Absolute Zero)
All atomic motion ceases
Minnesotans agree as to how it's getting a "mite nippy"

 

[Mimi]

Omg...ROLFMAO!!! How freaking true is THAT? Oh lord I am dying over here! *holding sides in pain*

Oh man, THANK you Nightfall for finding and posting that. Just what I needed to jump start my day!

Mimi 😀

 

[amk714]

Good list, but allow a lifetime Southern Californian to make some corrections here:

Originally posted by Nightfall

+40
Californians shiver uncontrollably

+25
Californians weep pitiably

-40
Californians disappear

We start to shiver at 70, weep at 40, and disappear at 32. 😀

P.S. Today, the high here's supposed to be +80, so I'll survive. 😛

 

[JoBelle]

+50

Mimi, I'll let ya know when it drops that low. I pull out the parka and electric socks for weather like that! *brrrrrr* God Bless my northern sistahs!!

Hehe-something tells me you wont' be gettin' that cold THIS weekend.

Joby

 

[TicklingDuo]

I can do you one better, amk. My aunt and uncle in AZ start to shiver at 80, cry at 70, get out the thermals and electric blanket at 60 and fall into a coma at 50.

Meanwhile, it's in the teens here. I'm indoors with the heat on 70, a t-shirt, sweatshirt AND sweater and am STILL freezing my arse off! Guess I'm not much better today! LOL

Ann

 

[amk714]

I can do you one better, amk. My aunt and uncle in AZ start to shiver at 80, cry at 70, get out the thermals and electric blanket at 60 and fall into a coma at 50.

It's just like the porridge in Goldilocks: one bowl's too hot, one's too cold, and the last one's just right. 😉

 

[venray]

I just bitch a lot when it drops below freezing...LOL...



Ven

 

[dvnc]

LOL! Them lists are always funny it seems.

Folks do seem to forget that California is bordered by snowcapped mountains on much of the eastern border, though. Winter Olympics were held there once, after all. Snow everywhere. California didn't have to import it. The Tahoe area is snowcapped in the winter, and the Sierras have some mountains that remain so all year 'round sometimes.

Hell, we used to cut school on those few days in the Silicon Valley that it snowed. Makes the news and all. It's a big deal, at a whole quarter inch. *rolls eyes*

Where I grew up, in the San Francisco Bay Area, most folks don't own or use gloves or scarves. Knit caps are worn in all weather by kids. "Winter" shoes are shoes that aren't open toed (thus, men don't understand the concept). The few really cold days keep folks indoors, and fightin' for nearer parking.

I notice that everyone seems to think California *is* LA and San Francisco. SF is actually colder than anywhere in LA, ever. This is in SF's summertime.

It's snowin' again here. I so dig this changin' seasons deal.

dvnc