Dot wrote:
>
> Tom Phillips wrote:
>
> > Remarkably cold is Colorado's record low of
> > an even -60 F (no wind chill.) I'm sure Dot
> > will take exception to that
>
> Gosh, where ya been? I was thinking about AWOLs the other day
Ah, I have things to do. Babysitting wilderness students
takes concentration
They're all from the east, you
know
Plus nsg discussions take time and I'd rather
be climbing (uh, climb now, work later...) Also have
work to do (EA comments due xmas eve, stupid GOV) and
not doing it...
CO had an extended Indian summer below 9000 ft. Fri.
after thanksgiving we climbed all day just for the
sun tan. Climbed with a lil' gal who does fire/atmos
studies for NCAR. More interesting than Doug's
truncated sage wisdom -- plus cuter, smarter, and
doesn't drink beer
> I believe coldest recorded in Alaska is about -80F
> http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wcstates.htm
Show off ;-) CO has the 4th lowest after AK, UT, and
WY. Even beat MN. Was below zero here last week (winter
finally arrived.) Highs about 0F, but calm and sunny.
Perfect running weather. Have to check out those "Physics
of Life at 40 below." My grandmother (2nd gen. norsky
MN immigrant) once advised me never to sit on a toilet
seat (er, outhouse style) when it's -40 F. Humidity ya
know...might as well stick yo tongue to a flag pole.
> http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF16/1630.html
Hey, I actually looked like that on a CMC school outing
May 1 during a white out on St. Mary's Glacier (60mph
winds@10,000 ft.) Nobody was running and O.K., it wasn't
quite -81F, but my whiskers got pretty frosted.
> (Ned Rozell is an ultrarunner, I think)
> http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/arc2002/alm02feb.htm
>
> But that's a little like the strongest wind - the anemometer blows off
> of Mt. Washington, and official US weather thermometers used to only go
> to -80F. I've heard (rumor mill) they have new standard thermometers in
> some places that go below -80F now.
Always some place colder. Mount Washington has nothing
on the Divide though. Strongest anemometry on Longs or
Evans exceed 200 mph too. Lucky if Boulder is only 100
mph. Did a climb last spring up Boulder canyon where the
downslope was about 70 mph. But nor'easter weather has to
be respected. A friend visited the White Mtns in October
last year and got blown off.
> I remember this cold snap - the one that resulted in more ice in Prince
> William Sound and the Exxon Valdez fiasco. I biked to work (not far)
> through most of that until it got below -25F, iirc.
> http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF9/912.html
>
> Betcha Doug has some stories
If DF is interested in a challenge, Gunnison gets
more -25 F days than much of AK
Plus there's
elevation. O.K, enough bragging. AK is cold and
you're a steely cold runner
> Of course the
> > effects of wind chill are dependent on its
> > erosive effects on bare skin. Even a t-shirt
> > would provide some minor temporary protection.
> > Also, wind chill calculations have changed
> > (google for past discussions in r.r on this
> > in which I participated...) to better reflect
> > the actual effects on human skin near ground
> > level (before was some abstract meteorological
> > calculation where skin was never actually affected.)
> > Suffice it to say your -93F chill yesterday might
> > be only -60F chill today. You'd need a 60 mph wind
> > off Lake MI in actual -40 F temps to get a -90F
> > wind chill today.
>
> Here's the windchill comparisons.
> http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/vortex/newwindchill.php
>
> Actually, where I am, when the wind blows, most of the time it warms up
> - disrupts the cold air settled on the ground. We occasionally (thank
> heaven only rarely) get winds where it gets colder. Don't remember the
> windchill on those.
Well, must feel at home. Same happens in Front Range
bowls, as you know..those chinooks, as we call them.
> >>I'm living proof that a few minutes of scantily clad hard running in
> >>such an environment need not kill or permanently maim a man.
>
> Hmmm, Charlie, are you sure?
ooh, a shot. A scantily clad charlie doesn't
excite me. Not even at -93 F
> --
> "You’ll never hear me say I beat the Peak. I’ve run up there pretty
> fast, and that mountain doesn’t care. I’ll never conquer the Peak." -
> Matt Carpenter
wise thought from an otherwise typical ridge runner?