The Cold Standard
How cold is cold, anyway? Dorothea has her own personal standard, “mean cold.” I tend to like cold weather, and have been known to say “it’s not that cold” when penguins huddle together for warmth. Today, for example, it’s about 6 degrees above zero, including wind chill, and I think it’s refreshing. I will, however, concede that it’s reasonably cold when my wet hair freezes solid within a couple of minutes of going out. (Going out with wet hair does not make you sick. Germs make you sick.) So, what tells you that it’s time to bring in the brass monkeys?
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January 29th, 2004 at 2:33 pm
When the wind makes my eyes tear and my eyelashes try to freeze together when I blink, it’s too cold.
January 29th, 2004 at 3:00 pm
Frozen hair happens all the time - although frozen solid within the 20 seconds it takes to get from the door to the car is a pretty good sign. But I’d say the true sign is when it feels like your glasses have frozen to your face, and you have to start worrying about your eyeballs themselves freezing… that’s mean cold.