Cold Day

Our temperatures plummeted around here last night into tomorrow. It is really cold. Cold enough to cancel school and delay it tomorrow just because it is cold. Our actual temperatures reached -12 with windchills reaching -40 below. Our basement pipes are frozen and our cars barely started. It has been awesome. Not. Although it was pretty nice to not have to go out to get Jaxson from school today!

So if you can't go sledding when it is this cold what does a 32yr old man do instead? Cold weather tricks like blowing bubbles in the freezing temps and throwing a pot of boiling water in the air and watching it evaporate immediately into a big puff of vapor. It was actually pretty neat...

Some other facts about our weather today from the news story "5 Facts To Tell Your Friends" It seemed fitting...

1. The 112 degree difference...
If it feels like 72 inside your house or at work and the wind chill outside is -40 -- that's a 112 degree difference.

2. It's colder than Alaska...
In Iowa on Monday it's colder than...   Anchorage, Alaska, where the high temperature will be 32 degrees compared to our -10 to -20.

3. It's just as cold as Antarctica...
In Iowa on Monday it's just as cold as...  Antarctica at the South Pole where the high Monday is -11 and with wind chill -30.  So with wind chills Iowa will be colder than the South Pole -- it's summer there you know.

I feel like every year though we talk about how it is so cold and we can't believe it. But I can believe it. We live in Iowa! Yes, usually it isn't quite this cold but really it always gets pretty ____ cold. I guess warm weather causes cold weather amnesia... every year. :)