Check the forecast for Detroit, Michigan for the next week — cold and snow. For those of you that use a rational scale such as Celcius for measuring temperatures, simply remember that 32 degrees Farenheit is the freezing point. Note that the temperature only varies a few degrees in either direction the whole week.
Actually, it could be much worse. Lows in the single digits (around -15 degrees C) are not uncommon in the Upper Midwest this time of year.
Much too cold for me. I’ll take our 55 degrees F (13 degrees C) and like it. Although, I’m beginning to consider building some sort of ark in case it rains again. We are one hard rain away from floating into the Gulf of Mexico, I’m telling you.
Best weather for the Saabs:)…
Ha! That’s not that cold!
Love,
A New Englander
Swade, remember that you’re still 14 hours away from the Gulf of Mexico. But should you float this way, I’ll see you there! :p
As today will be the hottest day while I’m here, today is “shorts day”!
It’s actually kinda warm for us this time a year. It’s seems the NAIAS normally brings blizzard like conditions to town and temps in the single digits. I remember many fun drives downtown in the snow. The weather here is screwy, just 2 weeks ago we were in the teens, a week later it got to 64 degrees during the day and now the 30s. Ahh, Michigan weather, give it a second and it will change.
Soft climates produce soft people.
Tell that to Troy Polamalu. EnG
Saab cars are desinged to hard weather. Saab is good in summer but excels compared to other brands in really cold weather when roads are icy and there is a lot of snow…
Swade: I lived in MI for 29 yrs before moving to D.C. and you do not know cold until those late Jan winds come down from the north and it gets down to -10 to -15 F. My last 9 yrs were over the north east coast of Lake Michigan… Ahh, I forgot to mention, those were daytime highs. The last year I lived in MI (1990) the first real snow was in Sept and the last storm of the season was the first week in May. I’ve been going to the NAIAS for alomst 30 years (only missed two since the late 70′s) and it is often near zero at Cobo the 2nd week in Jan. I guess you could say global warming has its good ponits as well.
What are you a man or a mouse?
The weather here in Maryland blows. It can be hot and huuuuuuuumid, and it can be painfully cold, and it rains a lot here. Did I mention that that can all come in the span of ONE FRIGGIN DAY?!
sissypants! what would sir edmund hillary (r.i.p.) think?
blix: and Hillary was a Kiwi, not an Aussie!
BTW, I just heard on NPR (“Left, Right, and Center” show) that Hillary Clinton once claimed that her mother named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, which would have been remarkable as at the time of Hillary Rodham’s birth he was a simple beekeeper in New Zealand and hadn’t yet scaled Everest. He accomplished the feat when she was like 10-years-old or something. That’s some foresight!