65 ABOVE ZERO:
- Floridians turn on the heat.
- People in Iowa plant gardens.
60 ABOVE ZERO:
- Californians shiver uncontrollably….
- People in Iowa sunbathe.
50 ABOVE ZERO:
- Italian & English cars won’t start.
- People in Iowa drive with the windows down.
40 ABOVE ZERO:
- Georgians do coats, thermal underwear, gloves, and wool hats.
- People in Iowa throw on a flannel shirt.
35 ABOVE ZERO:
- New York landlords finally turn up the heat.
- People in Iowa have the last cookout before it gets cold.
20 ABOVE ZERO:
- People in Miami all die.
- Iowans close the windows.
ZERO:
- Californians fly away to Mexico.
- People in Iowa get out their winter coats.
10 BELOW ZERO:
- Hollywood disintegrates.
- The Girl Scouts in Iowa are selling cookies door to door.
20 BELOW ZERO:
- Washington DC runs out of hot air.
- People in Iowa let the dogs sleep indoors.
30 BELOW ZERO:
- Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
- Iowans get upset because they can’t start the snow-mobile.
40 BELOW ZERO:
- ALL atomic motion stops.
- People in Iowa start saying: “Cold enough fer ya?”
50 BELOW ZERO:
- Hell freezes over.
- Iowa public schools will open 2 hours late.
Thanks Mike L
The moral of the story: People in Iowa aren’t very bright, else they’d have moved to Florida or California by now.
No southerners are just wimps.
60 below
Minnesotans put on a light jacket and gloves….
Mainers start thinking “It’s a wicked good day for a chowdah!”
Hey Tammy, lets see this reversed, regarding high temps and see how wimpy us southerners are.
I once lived in an apartment and had a new neighbor. He was from Michigan. One day I was outside grabbing the mail while comfortable in my jeans and shirt. He asked me how I could stand it as he was in shorts, a muscle shirt and still dripping with sweat. It was only 85 degrees, and spring. He asked if the summers were hotter, I just nodded and felt kinda bad for the guy.
I’m pretty sure he moved back north.
I learned this after moving to Iowa from California last year. I talked to my mom yesterday and mentioned to her that it’s been pretty warm this week. She thought I was nuts when I told her it’s been in the high 20s.
As a long-time resident of Wisconsin, I laugh at wimpy Iowans and their intolerance for cold. However, let me be the first to commend the Minnesotans. I once visited Minneapolis in winter, and have to admit I was overwhelmed.
Pfft. I remember when I was 15, it was -75 with windchill in Montana and I still had to get to school at regular time.
Got lucky this year, it’s only been as cold as -30 so far…
Coldest temperatures ever (without windchill)
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wcstates.htm
Josh,
Interesting data you have there. Thanks!
If you click on the link supplied by Josh, you can also see the highest temperatures recorded in the U.S. Looks like global warming really hit in 1936. Must have been all those factories in China…
Atomic motion stops at a much much much colder temperature than 40 below.
Just sayin’.
The lowest possible temperature, or absolute zero as it is called, is −273.15 degrees Celsius, or −459.67 degrees Fahrenheit. It is also called 0 degrees Kelvin, a temperature scale with increments equivalent to degrees of Celsius, but uses absolute zero rather than water’s freezing point as its starting point. The lowest possible temperature is defined as the point at which all atomic motion ceases.
Ha, ha,ha, ha, ha!!
Well, that’s the reason why all those people came from north!!
By the way, if someday you come to México, please, PLEASE, try to learn how to speak spanish….
Thank you!
Alberto,
If I’m living there, it would certainly be in my best interest to learn and speak the language, but if I’m just visiting I’m most likely not going to. That being said, it’s always advantageous to be bilingual. The more you know about foreign cultures and language, you become a better informed citizen of your own country.
Seriously, the moral of the story is people from Iowa are retarded