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February 13, 2007
In Which I Snap
Dear Weatherpeople:
You can stop now. All right? You can please stop telling us what the temperature is with the wind-chill factor.
You say, "it's 20 but it will feel like 10 because of the wind!" like it's supposed to mean something. We don't know what 10 feels like. It never feels like 10. Because when it's 10, it feels like 0. When it's 0, it feels like 10 below. And so on.
I don't know if you guys have noticed, but the wind never stops blowing. Boston is one sustained gust of wind from Christmas to Opening Day. Last week a hot dog wrapper flew out of my hand; three days later it came back to me with Customs stamps from Romania and South Korea on it.
So when you say, "it's 20 but it will feel like 10 because of the wind chill", you might as well say "it's 65 but it will feel like 10 because of the rotation of the Earth". Equally constant, equally useless.
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thank you for this post... it made me snarf my coffee a little. the wind is perpetual here too... it never stops. Oh, and it was way warmer here yesterday than it has been... it was 15 degrees instead of the usual 5- I can tell the difference... where is my prize? hahaha. Happy Valentine's Day to you and yours Fem.
Posted by: cherylann | February 14, 2007 11:41 AM
