Walking outside, in that WIND and low 20s nonsense, feels a lot as if you could somehow walk in solid 21 degree ice, breathe it, walk in it, and it blows past you like air. It is THAT frackin utterly COLD!
I am so accustomed to spending 7-10 months working outside in delightful 77 dewpoints and 97 degree ambient temps. I can sleep for hours in the shade in that stuff. But this freezing cold ridiculous stuff is a living freezing hell.
Nevermore have I so wished for a time machine, to take me to August 10 this year. It would be like coming Home, to Heaven in every way. 104 degrees, brilliant sun, all the grass is dead, lots of Texas dust, and a soothing 75 dewpoint. And nice 15 mph south winds straight off the Gulf of America! And weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks of summer weather yet to go! It can hit 95 degrees for Christmas down here! All we need is a subtropical ridge, from 1000mb clear to 1mb. Something like that could become semipermanent and never move for many months!