Viable cold is seeing your exhalation. Very Cold is when your nose hairs freeze up and snap off at inhalation. Balaclava helps, but you get icing and your eyebrows and lashes frost over. Eyeballs get sucked dry and hurt. Exterior relative humidity runs around 75%, but interior falls to 3-4% if people are breathing and the humidifier is left running overnight.
I see the forecast is for at least another dozen days of Very Cold. Now the stuff is sliding to the south and will be infesting SEA and PDX this coming week. Might be getting a Polar Vortex setting up for later this month. clay > On Jan 12, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Yeah, probably - at least if you linger outside at all! Any exposed mucous > membranes like your mouth or nose will tell you the minute the ambient air > hits them. > > Another way to tell how *really* cold it is is to expectorate and see how > quickly it freezes. If it turns to ice before it hits the ground, it’s very > cold. I’ve done the cup of water thing, too. It’s actually pretty cool. > > -D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
