We're havin' a heat wave

Yesterday was a bone-chilling MINUS 6°, with a wind-chill of NEGATIVE 25° BELOW ZERO, here in the Chicago area... we have a bout 6-8 inches of the white stuff on the ground... (okay, in the city, it's now more like the grey and dirty stuff... but give a brutha a break... it's the holidays!!)

(for those of you in non-wind-chill states, that's when the weather is cold, but the wind is blowing so hard, that the -6 degrees, FEELS on the skin like -25°... and it's such a common occurrence, that they call it the wind-chill factor on the nightly weather report... oh, and by the way... for those of you, right now, reading this from "non-wind-chill areas".... pttthhhhp!.... sorry, couldn't help myself.)

So... where was I? .... Oh, yes, ... yesterday was -6°.... but today... is a balmy 11 degrees ABOVE zero... and the wind isn't particularly active... so it FEELS like 11 !! That's an effective increase of 36 degrees!!!

We're having a freaking heat wave here, in Chi-town!! Shorts and T-shirts weather. Okay the dancing doll may be a little under dressed, but it feels almost tropical. (yeah, I'm not convincing myself either... but with the sun shining today... it almost felt warm).

- heavy sigh -