Its snowing here!!!!

 

Aw gee,

I live in Wisconsin and just took delivery on a 2011 MCS Vert. I finished a 36 hour 1,000 mile round trip Tuesday and now have 1,200 on the clock. My convertable indicator hasn't moved off 0.

I threw a set of Blizzak WS-60s on last weekend, just before mother nature dumped 10" of wet snow on Madison. They do make a difference. All the MINI's ordered by the Madison dealer have the cold weather package. Heated seats are a godsend.

As to the title of this thread, you know it is really cold -

When the majority of the noise you hear riding in a convertible is ice crystals rubbing together as the top flexes in the wind at 70 mph.

When the fastest part of your body to get warm is your butt.

When your burnt orange mini with the black top has turned all white.

When you almost can't get your doors open because the windows are frozen to the top.

When you can't roll down your windows to pay a toll for the same reason. Fortunately when you open the door and stick the money over the door top, the money is eye level for the collector.

When on a long trip you are amused by watching the temperature displayed by the computer go from -5 to +1 back to -5 as you go up and down hills running through microclimates.

When a trucker's smirk at how dumb you are to be driving a MINI convertible in this weather turns into shock as you accellerate past him on a straightaway.

There's more but that is enough for now.

I'll take northern cold over Florida summer heat and humidity any day. You can always layer up but at my age layering down leads to rude comments.

 

iamsteve710: Jupiter is a prime location! Feel free to send a PM if you have any questions. I am in the area.

 

I still miss snow on Christmas day, but that's it. It should all go away after that.

 

haha I SO agree. I'm originally from Ft. Lauderdale, and moved to NJ about 15 years ago when I was like 6. My first winter in the northeast brought a blizzard-ever since then, I always thought the snow was festive for the holidays, but after new years it should never ever occur again until the following holiday season

 

In minnesota, brisk is down to 30 degrees, cool is down to zero. Below zero is cold.

 

same as new england
90-100 is damn hot, especially if the humidity goes up to 100
80 is hot, but sunroof open/windows down weather... just run the AC for a minute to suck out the hot air.
60-80 is warm, windows down, sunroof open, best driving weather.
40 and people roll down their windows with the heater on full blast.
30 means you roll the window up and consider a jacket over your sweatshirt
15 means you wear your jacket
0 means it's cold and you're probably wearing a sweatshirt under the jacket
-15 to -30 means it's damn cold.
below -30 is frigid.

wind chills not included in above calculations.

 

You know it is cold outside when your tongue sticks to your shift ****..

 

You know it's cold when the temp. is 80 and you are turning on the heater, putting 3 blankets on the bed and start wearing sweathers in Florida.

 

You know it's cold when the temp. is 80 and you are turning on the heater, putting 3 blankets on the bed and start wearing sweathers in Florida.