What do they mean by "suffer"? Isn't this normal in winter?
It's hyperbole, I actually enjoy winter weather.
75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
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#32As someone from the midwest, below-freezing is no big deal(so suffer seems like a silly word). I'm curious how much will suffer below 0F(~-18C) this week. We certainly will, and the wind chill won't help.
Also midwest, and below freezing is fine and below 0 is annoying. This potential -60F windchill through Minnesota on Wednesday is terrifying. The worst I've ever experienced is -40 and it was brutal.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/national/weather-forecast-... (third map)
Re: 75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
#33What do they mean by "suffer"? Isn't this normal in winter?
Normal to the north; not normal to the south or west. At least, temperatures that allow for snow to appear are not normal in the south or on the west coast. Spot temperatures below freezing are. I'd believe it's normal for 75% of the land area.
temperatures that allow for snow to appear are not normal in the south or on the west coast
That's more of a stereotype than a fact.
It gets very cold in winter in the vast majority of nation, including the south and west. It snows in Las Vegas every year. Las Vegas even has a ski resort.† But people rely on an old cartoon-inspired vision of what a "desert" is, rather than the fact that "desert" means a place with little water, not necessarily high temperatures year-round.
Their vision of "American desert" is usually Monument Valley.†† But guess what, that's under snow right now, too. And it's not unusual.
† https://www.leecanyonlv.com †† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Re: 75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
#34What do they mean by "suffer"? Isn't this normal in winter?
The usage in the headline is more akin to “the company suffered a blow to its bottom line,” that is, not to literally suffer, but to endure a difficulty.
That said, if you don’t live in a sub-arctic climate and don’t own the kind of outerwear rated for -15° F and below, suffering an actual injury is a very real possibility.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Central Illinois was my first time experiencing freezing rain. Leaving work, everyone had to spend 30+ minutes chiseling an inch of ice off their windshield with their car blasting heat, while being rained on and whipped with strong wind.
That sheet of ice over your whole car isn't too bad if you can figure out the right amount of force to crack the ice without also cracking your windshield. :D One day last week I spent my time after work removing it off my car, then driving to where my friend works, and removing it off her car too.
Yeah... Gripping and flipping a sheet of ice off a windshield is surprisingly satisfying.
Re: 75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
#36It's supposed to be -18 in mid-Illinois, with a windchill of -48. This typically happens once or twice a year - not fun, three days later it's supposed to be mid-50's. Gotta love the 70+ degree swings. I just want consistent weather, i.e. minimize the distance between the weekly minimum / maximum. Is that too much to ask?
That's the new normal friend. AGW means more unpredictable weather from now on.
That's the old normal, too.
Re: 75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
#37It's supposed to be -18 in mid-Illinois, with a windchill of -48. This typically happens once or twice a year - not fun, three days later it's supposed to be mid-50's. Gotta love the 70+ degree swings. I just want consistent weather, i.e. minimize the distance between the weekly minimum / maximum. Is that too much to ask?
Central Illinois was my first time experiencing freezing rain. Leaving work, everyone had to spend 30+ minutes chiseling an inch of ice off their windshield with their car blasting heat, while being rained on and whipped with strong wind.
It's not too bad if you're patient and plan ahead: raise the wipers so they're not frozen to the windshield and let the car warm up. After about 5-10 minutes of warming, the ice on a windshield comes off very easy. Granted, the last storm wasn't an inch of ice, it was about a 1/4" of ice, some snow, then about another 1/4" of ice. Took me longer to shovel around the car than it did to clean the car itself off.
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#38and if you're wondering, that's probably 100% for us canadians lol
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#39Big thank you for that lite.cnn.io URL variant. Very apropos to HN. The home page is beautiful: http://lite.cnn.io/en
I disagree, the lite edition significantly deteriorated my user experience.
On a wide 4K monitor, the text is not centred, stretching from the far left to the far right, making it very difficult to continuously read a sentence from left to right. Limits like 80 characters per line exist for a reason.
The text is formatted in a very annoying manner, line by line, sentence by sentence, like it was spit out by a debugger in a terminal. I'm trying to compare this to the experience of reading a column in a newspaper with proper typography and visual layout.
The page already loads a css stylesheet which is mostly empty, for whatever reason, and also tries to load an analytics plugin with javascript, so I don't see the reason to omit basic stylesheets to at least make it readable.
Compared to the "full" version with an adblocker, even with JS disabled, in my eyes it's still a significant step down.
Re: 75% of the US will suffer below-freezing temps this week
#40It's supposed to be -18 in mid-Illinois, with a windchill of -48. This typically happens once or twice a year - not fun, three days later it's supposed to be mid-50's. Gotta love the 70+ degree swings. I just want consistent weather, i.e. minimize the distance between the weekly minimum / maximum. Is that too much to ask?
This is what you agree to[1] when you live in Illinois. ;) Hello, fellow Illinoisan. [1] Other things you agree includes a terrible budget, corrupt politicians, and the sad realization that the government here only works here at all when those corrupt politicians are in charge.
I live in Illinois, while I accept and can deal with the weather, I neither agree with, nor accept any of the corruption. I generally vote against every incumbent at every election.