Room temperature ranges from 20–21°C or 68–70°F.
Those feel equivalent in my brain. They make sense to me.
But then I'll see, like, 23° pop up on my screen and my brain automatically assumes that it's in Celsius. I think, "No way is it 70° outside today!"
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Yesterday's temps in °F |
And, like, it's not. Clearly it's not! It's literally freezing outside! When I switch to Celsius that -5° makes sense in a way that 23° simply does not. Like, my brain just cannot compute these colder temperatures in Fahrenheit.
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Yesterday's temps in °C |
And as you can see from the pictures, our cold weather here barely registers on the scale of what cold really is. Here we have temperatures of -5°C and an "extreme cold warning." In Raymond (Alberta), the weather is simply "mostly clear" with temperatures of -21°C.
Did I take these screen shots at 2:23 AM? Possibly.
Things are looking a lot warmer this morning. But still, Gwinnett County public schools has a digital learning day today, so we don't have to take Luna for a walk (since her family is home). Fulton County cancelled school altogether (so the girls didn't have to go to seminary). GSU cancelled classes because Atlanta feels it's at risk for icy roads (we have not had any precipitation and have very little % chance of getting anything). But UGA sent a message out last night saying they planned to be open for normal operations all day today.
So we started this morning like that was the plan. I did all the typical morning things, like making a list of things for the kids to do, and checking over Zoë's most recent math test, and packing up all my school things. And then I packed up a few blankets and things to keep in the car (because even though it's not that cold, I know to never travel without a blanket in the car...especially because if it snowed we probably weren't going to make it home from campus...not because of the roads, per se, but because the south has a habit of turning into complete gridlock in the snow and then people abandon their cars parked on the road and then no one can go anywhere and...yeah).
Rachel and I had just gotten gas. While we were stopped I pulled out my phone and found this funny story from my former primary teacher in Vancouver:
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An owl stole his toque (that's a knit winter cap or ski hat often called a "beanie" in the Intermountain West, sometimes (for reasons I don't quite understand) referred to as a "toboggan" in areas of the south) right off of his head!
Back on the road, I was texting that image to my family because I thought they'd get a kick out of it. Rachel had just pulled up to a red light, in the far left lane of the entrance to the highway, when...an notification from UGAsafe popped up on my phone: "UGA Athens will move to an early release at 2:00pm...all in-person classes, campus events and activities will be canceled for the remainder of the day."
"Oh, no!" I said. This notification was coming at the worst possible time! Couldn't it have happened while we were at the gas station?! "Turns out we don't have to go to campus after all."
"What do we do?" Rachel asked.
"Well, we get on the freeway because...we have to at this point."
We got off at the next exit and figured out a manageable route home from our mystery location (and neither of us even cried!) and...I still have asynchronous work to do for one class and a zoom link for another class...but we're home and we're warm and we don't have to worry about driving home on dark...potentially icy...roads.
As you can see the weather isn't that terrible today (and Alberta has warmed up significantly since yesterday...though poor Rexburg is now getting blasted with winter wind):
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Temperatures in °C |
But we have a 50% chance of snow, so I guess that's enough to call things off.
Here's Phoebe yesterday, playing warm and snug in her snowsuit, holding some ice that the kids found in a bucket.
We'll have to head outside this afternoon so she can get some good use out of them!
And here's Zoë wearing the scarf she finished crocheting when she slept over at Grandpa and Darla's (Sunday to Monday):
It's her first completed crochet project and as she spread it on the ground she quipped, "Well, you can tell I've been learning..."
It's not a perfect rectangle, but that's okay! It represents hours of hard work and dedication and clearly shows that she improved and gained confidence in her abilities. I'm sure her next project will turn out even better (and this scarf is bright and cheery and perfectly functional). She's considering turning it into an infinity scarf since it's a little short for a traditional scarf...
...but it works just fine. Here's Zoë modeling the scarf she made while wearing the sweater that Rachel made for her:
We'll have to head outside this afternoon so she can get some good use out of them!
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