Lifestyle I have no aversion to cold weather. AMA

[Freeloading Rusty]

Both get cold enough to kill mortal men.

Nope, Chicago only gets cold enough to kill of hipsters with a false sense of immortality.

 

[Mix6APlix]

My uncle is a retired major in the USAF. He taught winter wilderness survival, Is an eagle scout, and worked for a few years as a ranger in the Tetons. He spent several years at Ramnstein and traveled throughout Europe skiing, as he still does in his 70s. He will tell you there is no place on Earth that feels colder than Chicago.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

My uncle is a retired major in the USAF. He taught winter wilderness survival, Is an eagle scout, and worked for a few years as a ranger in the Tetons. He spent several years at Ramnstein and traveled throughout Europe skiing, as he still does in his 70s. He will tell you there is no place on Earth that feels colder than Chicago.

and he'd be wrong.

Lol @ German cold. They were so unprepared for real, manly cold that it literally cost them WW2.

 

[Freeloading Rusty]

My uncle is a retired major in the USAF. He taught winter wilderness survival, Is an eagle scout, and worked for a few years as a ranger in the Tetons. He spent several years at Ramnstein and traveled throughout Europe skiing, as he still does in his 70s. He will tell you there is no place on Earth that feels colder than Chicago.

Alright. Cuz your uncle says it, I will take it as truth.

What is the coldest temp on record in Chicago?

Spoiler: .... once, thirty years ago.

-27

Where you there in Chicago on that cold day? What is the coldest you personally have ever experienced?

Growing up in northern Canada, a 'snow day' was called and school was cancelled when the temperature would hit -34 or lower. We would wake up on winter mornings, turn on the radio and pray for -34. Those days it was -33 or higher, we walked our asses to school and then played outside during recess and lunch. King of the hill was the go to game of the snowbanks. It is easy to get a bloody nose in -33 weather.

 

[Onetrickpony]

Alright. Cuz your uncle says it, I will take it as truth.

What is the coldest temp on record in Chicago?

Spoiler: .... once, thirty years ago.

-27

Where you there in Chicago on that cold day? What is the coldest you personally have ever experienced?

Growing up in northern Canada, a 'snow day' was called and school was cancelled when the temperature would hit -34 or lower. We would wake up on winter mornings, turn on the radio and pray for -34. Those days it was -33 or higher, we walked our asses to school and then played outside during recess and lunch. King of the hill was the go to game of the snowbanks. It is easy to get a bloody nose in -33 weather.

Those don't happen anymore. Kids just don't go out for recess when it's that cold.

 

[Judobill]

Those don't happen anymore. Kids just don't go out for recess when it's that cold.

I live in Wisconsin and the policy is the kids go outside to play until it gets colder than -30 including wind chill.

 

[Judobill]

I live in Wisconsin and the policy is the kids go outside to play until it gets colder than -30 including wind chill.

I lied, they just changed it this year to -25.