Global Warming

**1oldsarge** · 7th January 14, 01:12 PM

Ken, in your military time, ever serve on an icebreaker????

**Grizzled Ian** · 7th January 14, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by ctbuchanan

Just a bit too chilly for the kilt here in Olde New England.

This guy isn't Bill Belichick preparing his team for the Colts, is it?

(He is the head coach of the New England Patriots NFL team, whose home ground is the open-air Gillette Stadium in Foxborough MA. They host the Indianapolis team in an NFL post-season game this weekend. Brrrrrrrr!)

**craigclan** · 7th January 14, 02:08 PM

-24 here . -35 with windchill . Way to cold for a kilt today . I wore one at - 20 to go Christmas shopping and that was enough for this cat lol

**unixken** · 7th January 14, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by 1oldsarge

Ken, in your military time, ever serve on an icebreaker????

Nope. I was an HH-3F helicopter flight crew. The icebreakers were, at the time, able to service the smaller HH-52, but not the larger H3. The closest I got to the arctic was Air Station Sitka, Alaska, which is in the southeast pan-handle of Alaska, and it was a shore-based air station.

**1oldsarge** · 7th January 14, 05:58 PM

Copy. I was in the USCG Reserves from '79 to '85.....

**ThistleDown** · 7th January 14, 08:52 PM

What's that, Alex?

"...it seems that North America is suffering the big chill as the opposite side of the vortex draws down arctic air."

I'm in Vancouver right now and here we are at 8 pm and a BC balmy 7C (44F). Good kilting weather I will say. Tomorrow's forecast is for a raising to 8C and I'm planning a beach walk northwards into the winds out of Japan via Alaska and Haida Gwaii. Ruth is an Davos, Swiss-land, at -2C tonight and 7C tomorrow. Ah, the Alps and the Wet Coast: how much they are the same

**IGA** · 7th January 14, 09:14 PM

Got down down to about -2F here in SE Peennsylvia with a windchill of -20F. There may come a day when it gets too cold for me to wear a kilt, but it was not this day! Wore mine with great pride today (but I did elect to wear boxer shorts over my traditional Scottish underwear, and wore several layers!) I meant to get a photo, but I got distracted and forgot.

**ctbuchanan** · 8th January 14, 10:07 AM

Ironically - this weekend we are going to rebound back up to 50F (10C) , so the game is going to feel downright tropical. The photo could be Bill - he is famous for his "cold" personality especially with the media!

Originally Posted by Grizzled Ian

This guy isn't Bill Belichick preparing his team for the Colts, is it?

(He is the head coach of the New England Patriots NFL team, whose home ground is the open-air Gillette Stadium in Foxborough MA. They host the Indianapolis team in an NFL post-season game this weekend. Brrrrrrrr!)