The only thing good about below zero weather is: (Minneapolis: live, shop)

[Izzie1213]

Makes me appreciate the other seasons.

[mingna]

No runny noses, due to the dryness that accompanies extreme cold temps instantly freezing it all up. But then again, ya got your spontaneous bloody noses, resulting from snapped nasal blood vessels due to those same bloody (pun intended) conditions.

So, it's a wash.

[HighFlyingBird]

Originally Posted by mingna

No runny noses, due to the dryness that accompanies extreme cold temps instantly freezing it all up. But then again, ya got your spontaneous bloody noses, resulting from snapped nasal blood vessels due to those same bloody (pun intended) conditions.

So, it's a wash.

I know it might sound crazy, but have you tried an allergy pill like Zertec? My daughter used to get them like crazy and we thought they were the weather too, but the doc had us try an antihistamine and it worked like a charm.

[mingna]

Originally Posted by HighFlyingBird

I know it might sound crazy, but have you tried an allergy pill like Zertec? My daughter used to get them like crazy and we thought they were the weather too, but the doc had us try an antihistamine and it worked like a charm.

Thanks for the tip, but I was being mostly facetious.

It only happened a handful of times, and only during a sudden transition from the warm indoors to the sub-zero temps of an arctic blast coming down from Canada. *Shakes both fists at Canada*

Anyways, stay warm MN.

[demtion35]

The cold temps make for great hiking on trails.

[Ghengis]

splitting wood is a snap, if that ever comes up in your daily routine

[Izzie1213]

Ice skating on frozen lake. Only done it a few times when there was little or no snow fall. Ice so clear you could see the bottom in shallow areas. Really scary doing it at night when ice expands and makes huge cracking /booming noises. Very surreal skating at night under a starry sky.

[demtion35]

Originally Posted by Izzie1213

Ice skating on frozen lake. Only done it a few times when there was little or no snow fall. Ice so clear you could see the bottom in shallow areas. Really scary doing it at night when ice expands and makes huge cracking /booming noises. Very surreal skating at night under a starry sky.

Wish you could have seen Lake Superior at Duluth a few winters ago. It started out very cold for a spell, and we had basically no snow. This end of the lake froze over from Duluth clear up to
Two Harbors, with a sheet of clear ice, several inches thick. People were out there half mile or more and many were ice skating. The ice was clear and smooth as glass. NO snow on the surface except in small patches. Some one had those sleds with a windsail on them mounted on metal runners. They reached speeds up to about 50 miles per hour.

The bottom of the lake was visible through the several inches of ice, even down to 30 or so feet depth. Others would take their fat bikes out there and ride from Brighton Beach clear down to Canal Park on the lake.

People were out walking all over the place out there. Of these people, a father and son and daughter were walking out about 100 yards from shore about half way down Park Point, they were in about 10 feet of water depth, looking for a place to fish from. The young son looked down at the bottom of the lake through the ice and saw a forgotten ship wreck on the bottom.

Of course that was a huge discovery, sparking hundreds of people to go to the place of the ship wreck location.

That was awesome.

[Isleofpalms85]

-16 F really isn’t even really severely cold, at least not by Minnesota standards, now, if Indianapolis had a low temperature of -16 F, that would be anomalous, and in the top 10 coldest low temperatures ever on record, but a low temperature of -16 F for Minneapolis is probably a walk in the park as far as you Minnesota natives are concernedI am still waiting for the next stretch of -20 F or colder temperatures in Minneapolis, it seems like in recent years, even -20 F has been relatively infrequent in the twin cities.

[Muevelos]

Nothing but that is just my opinion.