Colder'n a...
Jan. 22nd, 2003 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penkwell... somethign anyway.
I have this sort of weird geeky metric. Since I have a car with a diesel engine (Golf TDI. bout 48mpg), it needs to have a pre-heater turned on in cold weather. This is shown by a little light on the dash that basically says, after you turn the key "Hang on a second, its so GODDAMNED COLD out, I need to warm up certain bits o me before i can start.)
Now, normally, this little light goes on for perhaps 4-5 seconds on a cold day.
This morning it was on for -15- seconds. I pictured this frozen popsicle in the car, staring at a dashboard thats saying, basically, "Its okay to start the engine now!"
Current temp outside: a smidge above 0. That's farenheit, btw.
Wind is WSW at at 16mph
That makes the windchill: -13degrees.
Ah LUV Boston!
I have this sort of weird geeky metric. Since I have a car with a diesel engine (Golf TDI. bout 48mpg), it needs to have a pre-heater turned on in cold weather. This is shown by a little light on the dash that basically says, after you turn the key "Hang on a second, its so GODDAMNED COLD out, I need to warm up certain bits o me before i can start.)
Now, normally, this little light goes on for perhaps 4-5 seconds on a cold day.
This morning it was on for -15- seconds. I pictured this frozen popsicle in the car, staring at a dashboard thats saying, basically, "Its okay to start the engine now!"
Current temp outside: a smidge above 0. That's farenheit, btw.
Wind is WSW at at 16mph
That makes the windchill: -13degrees.
Ah LUV Boston!
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Date: 2003-01-23 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-23 06:04 am (UTC)I'm actually contemplating getting a Golf TDI, you see. How do you like it for highway driving? I would assume that having big seething gobs of low-end torque helps a bit, but I'm not sure entirely how.
It was downright balmy in Dorchester last night. 6 degF. Yay.