BPR: Local CNN-affiliated morning reporter Melissa Cooney showed viewers, using a unique and impressive visual aid, just how cold it is currently in Burlington, Vermont with an “extreme arctic blast” plunging the Northeast into a deep freeze.
Cooney, reporting from Vermont’s WCAX, used a cold-weather prop during Friday morning’s edition of “CNN This Morning” to make her point. She showed a pair of jeans that had frozen solid within 15 minutes to drive her point home and earned comments from CNN anchors Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow.
“We’re going to check in on the latest forecast in a moment. But, first, we have our CNN affiliate reporter Melissa Cooney live on the ground in Burlington, Vermont,” Collins stated opening the segment. “Melissa, I know it’s already close to zero degrees where you are. How are officials in the area bracing for this? How bad are we expecting it to get?” MORE
They also got the reporter’s name wrong, it’s Melissa Looney.
They canceled the polar plunge because of cold weather 🙂
If your pee undergoes a phase change before it hits the ground, THAT is cold. Everything else is a heat wave.
^ Unless you’re on a planet like Venus in which case your penis (or significant other orifice) changed phase, as well.
Those things are as crispy as the plastic anchors frozen botoxxed faces from the upper lip up. They just look dead even when animated.
Inquiring minds want to know: Are frozen jeans a sign of frigidity?
@General Malaise:
Hoo-boy, yeah. Been there, seen that¹. One major problem in being caught short like that in extreme cold is that if you’re wearing the right kind of gear to be out and about, it’s a MAJOR deal to get your wedding tackle out, pee, and get it back indrawers before frostbite sets in where you least want it to. Speed is essential!
1. Decades ago, in West Virginia of all places, I was out in -4°F (that’s -20°C for Kcir (-; ) with a 15 knot breeze. Wind chill of COLD AF. I just had to go, and I saw a few little yellow miniature hailstones bouncing downwind on the frozen snow surface.
Quick Freeze
Lookup Goonies Fish Tale.
ASAPFABLES
Took one on a roof Friday at -19 C while fixing a 5 ton Lennox, but the sun was shining.
Tip: Back to The Wind, it really helps.
it was a good night for making ice
(don’t forget to freeze a bottle of water, then put in the fridge
(freeze the bottle outside))
You know it’s cold when…
…it snows inside your car when you get in it.
…your cat leaves one paw print in the snow and comes back in.
…your beard freezes up and you can’t open your mouth.
…removing a glove for even a second becomes incredibly painful.
…your usual runny nose plugs-up your nostrils and removing the ice cause them to bleed.
…you quickly realize that taking a deep breath is potentially life-threatening.
…it occurs to you that the only way to survive is to keep moving.
thefreshreads.com/to-build-a-fire/
“As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air. Undoubtedly it was colder than fifty below—how much colder he did not know…”
can’t wait ’till tomorrow, when she whips out a popsicle
Standing outside in 0 degree temperature to tell the viewers that it’s colder than than a witch’s tit is about as smart as standing on the sea shore during a hurricane to tell the viewers that it’s windy. These reporters aint too smart are they.
At 0 degrees or colder, a snot rocket becomes a solid, deadly missile, ready to take out someone’s eye.
When walking in the cold, do not rest. Keep going back home. Don’t stop.
Surrender your gas stoves and eat your bugs. Joe and Greta
Eh. Last Monday it was -25F with a high of -13F here on the frozen tundra of North Dakota. I’ve felt -70F windchill and that is cold.
@ General Malaise
You know it’s cold when…
when you find your dog froze to a fire hydrant.
when lawyers are walking around with their hands in their own pockets.
Next time she will hold a Dairy Queen Blizzard upside down to show how it won’t fall out of the cup in such a harsh environment.
I invented cold.
Yeah, but it’s a dry cold….