BRRRR, 28 Degrees Below Zero in Watertown, NY this morning

[LosinIt]

Now that is cold. Check it out, set your weather software for zip code area 13601, pick Watertown 'International' Airport. Fort Drum, right next door,is have a heatwave -22F last time I checked. Longjohns, anyone?

[jmowreader]

1. The 10th Mountain Division Song is "Let it Snow"

The division motto is "If it ain't snowin, we ain't goin." We got a division commander in September 1992 who said "it's never too cold to train outside."

When we got tasked to go to Somalia in December 2002, they took us to the post theatre for a pre-mission brief. The first briefer was the commander of the Air Force weather element. When he said "the average temperature in Somalia in January is 79 degrees Fahrenheit," two thousand cold-hardened (a nice way of saying "frozen stiff") grunts broke out in a standing ovation.

It's pretty bad when you're willing to go to war to warm up.

[LosinIt]

2. It's a whole different world when it's that cold

Everything is so still, and the snow crunches. If you haven't experienced it, it's hard to describe.

[ClintonTyree]

3. We have a ................

summer cottage near there, in Cape Vincent. I've been there in the winter a few times to check on things and believe me, it is freakin' COLD! You first gulp of air upon going outside is shocking, there doesn't seem to be enough oxygen to fill your lungs.
It's a nice place in the summer with the lake breezes and all, but no way I could live there in the winter.

[scarlet_owl]

4. We're supposed to get some ugly weather here today.

The Weather Channel website is calling it "Wintry mix", which means sleet, snow, and ice. I guess it is about time, though. Our area hasn't seen much snow this winter.

[radwriter0555]

5. That's why I moved from Syracuse/Marcellus in 1978, at the first chance I

GOT.

TOO DANG COLD.

I like my palm trees and Pacific breezes, thank you very much.

Uh oh. Hang on, nuther earthquake.

Oh, no, just a truck rolling by.

[bearfan454]

6. Damn !

I used to live in Chicago. I live in the Austin Tx area now. It is 55 here right now and supposed to be in the 70's later on today.

[SoCalDem]

7. Cool NY photoshopped pic I found

[LosinIt]

8. 7PM Sunday Evening, it's already minus 10, how low can it go?

I find it strange that the Weather Channel generally never mentions that it gets that cold in Northern New York. They show Burlington, VT which is generally a lot warmer in the overnights. It might be something to do with the air between the Great Lakes and the Adirondacks,maybe a pooling effect. No meteorologist here.