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Rhiannon12866

(202,978 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:00 PM Jan 2015

Here Are Photos of Frozen Fountains to Remind You How Cold It Is Everywhere in the U.S.

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In case your numb limbs were not enough of an indication

Unless you live somewhere where it’s currently summertime, like Australia, you might have noticed that it’s, um, cold. Really cold. Like, consider renouncing all your possessions and moving to Costa Rica and just somehow making it work cold.

One aesthetically pleasing result of this bitter weather, however, is that fountains across the country are freezing, resulting in oddly beautiful ice sculptures. See, for example, the fountain in New York City’s Bryant Park:



But this bizarre phenomenon is also occurring in the South, where temperatures have also dipped well below 32°F:



More: http://time.com/3659773/frozen-fountains-cold-weather-us/
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Here Are Photos of Frozen Fountains to Remind You How Cold It Is Everywhere in the U.S. (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jan 2015 OP
Now wait just a minute randr Jan 2015 #1
I have family in Colorado Rhiannon12866 Jan 2015 #2
This is true randr Jan 2015 #3
Please fan some of that warm air to the East Rhiannon12866 Jan 2015 #4
I have been on a chair lift in a blizzard and was still randr Jan 2015 #5
Thanks! I just wish I could communicate that to my dog Rhiannon12866 Jan 2015 #6
Yeah 50 in Denver now, it was minus 10 last week... SomethingFishy Jan 2015 #11
I just cannot understand how you guys are able to live through multiple days of this... LanternWaste Jan 2015 #7
"Bizarre phenomenon"? Brickbat Jan 2015 #8
Yeah. Brigid Jan 2015 #10
We have a few fountains around here. Brigid Jan 2015 #9
yep just switch them off--no ice dembotoz Jan 2015 #13
yep. record low temps in Hawaii a few days ago. no ice in the fountains however nt msongs Jan 2015 #12
Sometimes it feels yuiyoshida Jan 2015 #14
no kidding drray23 Jan 2015 #15
Not so much everywhere... kiva Jan 2015 #16

Rhiannon12866

(202,978 posts)
2. I have family in Colorado
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:05 PM
Jan 2015

And from what I hear from them, you only have to wait just a minute for a nice day to turn into a snowstorm...

randr

(12,408 posts)
5. I have been on a chair lift in a blizzard and was still
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:26 PM
Jan 2015

warmer than back east on a wet 35 degree day.
The high over the western states will slowly move your way soon with some relief temp wise.

Rhiannon12866

(202,978 posts)
6. Thanks! I just wish I could communicate that to my dog
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:35 PM
Jan 2015

He really doesn't want to go outside and I can't blame him...

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
11. Yeah 50 in Denver now, it was minus 10 last week...
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 05:15 PM
Jan 2015

OMG... Winter is here. Guess what folks, it happens every year.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
7. I just cannot understand how you guys are able to live through multiple days of this...
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:45 PM
Jan 2015

Never having spent any appreciable amount of time in the north or northeast, I just cannot understand how you guys are able to live through multiple days (sometimes even weeks?) of sub-zero temperatures. Well, academically, I realize it's possible to live there in winter, but I have a difficult time wrapping my head around waking up where it's -15 in the morning day after day and going to work/school/etc/ in those conditions. I live in north-central Texas, and we consider anything below 20 degrees as frigid, an emergency warranting broadcast warnings, days of preparation, bottled water hoardings, school closings, etc.

Granted, I love winter camping trips (and am planning one for this weekend actually)-- but again, that's a Texas winter, we get maybe one snow (rarely anything more than an inch) and one icing a season. One heavy coat and (maybe) a scarf and we're good to go. But seeing on the news what people in MI or MN go through every year for weeks at a time makes my brain hurt.

My sympathies go out to everyone living through this.

kiva

(4,373 posts)
16. Not so much everywhere...
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 07:25 PM
Jan 2015

High 66, low 44. The Southwest is part of the country, so not just Australia and Costa Rica...though I do want to visit Costa Rica

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