How cold would Gryphon be?

drothgery wrote:LA is not one of the warmest places in the US; most of the south and southwest (and Hawaii) gets significantly warmer in summer than LA does. Of course, the eastern suburbs are another matter entirely.

I always thought LA considered Nevada and Arizona their eastern suburbs.

One wonders if a panic might ensue if a Luther Corporation started buying up land on the Eastern side of the fault?

Thucydides wrote:I remember visiting Los Angeles over a Christmas holiday, and being pleasantly surprised at how warm it was (daytime highs of @ 12 C on some days, a spring of fall day for most Canadians).

Of course the Los Angelinos were bundled up in down parkas and complaining about how cold it was (which we thought was really funny). One thing that our American friends don't seem to realize is that you have to dress in layers in order to stay warm, often we would get inside and take off the windbreaker and light sweater only to see the Americans shed the down parka and only have a shirt or dress underneath; no other layers between them and the outside world.

If you want a real treat for variable climates, try Saskatchewan or deep in the US great plains; it is a continental climate with no bodies of water to moderate the temperature swings. Bring lots of layers....

Hey, hey, HEY!!!
Don't bundle us all within the same group!

We here in Minnesota DO understand what snow, cold, and wind chill are. Yes, yes, those in Canada in general, and Calgary in particular DO have it worst, but DO NOT lump all of us in with those LA, DC, FL and Carolina wimps!!!

OK, OK, at the last moment, I did notice your "US great plains" comment, but really, we are NOT all from LA, regardless of what Hollywood would have you believe.
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Lord Skimper wrote:One wonders if a panic might ensue if a Luther Corporation started buying up land on the Eastern side of the fault?

Quiet!

You will foil my evil plot to kill millions of people.

When I got out of the service in '90 I spent a season as the lead chair operator at a ski resort in North Idaho. I can recall having to shut the mountain down when the temps at the top of Chair 4 (in a saddle) dropped below -70F with wind chill. It was so flipping cold the snot in your nostrils froze the first time you took a breath outside.

Of course it wasn't the cold that shut us down, it was the wind. The chairs were pranging off the towers. It was so bad they had to run snow cats up the mountain to pull the staff once we got the guests off the mountain and shut down the lifts. Talk about a hairy day.

We spent 10 years in northern New Hampshire. Negative numbers like -24ºF were quite normal at least overnight for several days at a time. We would have 40º swings some days from -20 to 20ºF. A couple of times a winter we would have a couple of days when we might run in the -24 to -36ºF overnight. You just keep the wood stove running and live with it.
What happens when you get -36º other than water lines that are not properly insulated or too close to an outside wall with nothing to help the freeze? And the oil in vehicles gets too thick to let the engine start?
Sometimes trees explode. Usually that happens when there has been some flaw in the tree that collects water in warm weather and is full by the time winter arrives. That kind of pocket will sometimes just sit there until the temperature crashes quickly (such as with wind-chill and then the freezing will cause portions of the wood to fail with a loud crack and may drop a limb.
Most varieties of Forcythia will survive just fine. Their challange comes when what will be the flower buds in the spring are not insulated below a nice thick layer of snow when you get to and below -25º. The bushes will leaf out in the spring but the flower buds will all be killed. Come spring you get a few yellow flowers near the ground and then the bush pushes out leaves.

drothgery wrote:

Uroboros wrote:Psh. Don't paint all Americans with the same brush. You're going to one of the warmest places in the US, of course they don't know how to dress properly. If you go to somewhere like Chicago, it's a completely different story.

LA is not one of the warmest places in the US; most of the south and southwest (and Hawaii) gets significantly warmer in summer than LA does. Of course, the eastern suburbs are another matter entirely.

The hottest place in North America is Death Valley CA during the summer it can be 120-130F and it is the worlds hottest location at Furnace Creek at 134F.

[quote="saber964"quote="drothgery"quote="Uroboros"Psh. Don't paint all Americans with the same brush. You're going to one of the warmest places in the US, of course they don't know how to dress properly. If you go to somewhere like Chicago, it's a completely different story. LA is not one of the warmest places in the US; most of the south and southwest (and Hawaii) gets significantly warmer in summer than LA does. Of course, the eastern suburbs are another matter entirely.
The hottest place in North America is Death Valley CA during the summer it can be 120-130F and it is the worlds hottest location at Furnace Creek at 134F.[/quote]


One hotter place is inside any car particularly with black leather seats sitting in the sun in hot weather.

drothgery wrote:

Uroboros wrote:Psh. Don't paint all Americans with the same brush. You're going to one of the warmest places in the US, of course they don't know how to dress properly. If you go to somewhere like Chicago, it's a completely different story.

LA is not one of the warmest places in the US; most of the south and southwest (and Hawaii) gets significantly warmer in summer than LA does. Of course, the eastern suburbs are another matter entirely.

Wisconsin here and just coming out of a real cold rings of hell winter. Snowdrops just began blooming a few days ago. Not mid Canada cold but a lot of -20 F this winter and near two months when it rarely got above freezing, literally, and most of it sub zero F. ugh. The demand for Northstar's wool fleece -by this I mean wool washed and carded by moi, from Finn sheep, very warm - lined hand knit wool mittens was high. I suspect they would be quite welcome on Sphinx as well. I wonder... do treecats knit?