cold weather wear

All that for 46 degrees? NOT 46 below?

If the temps above freezing, I'll go out to run in shorts and a long-sleeve coolmax shirt over my singlet, and usually strip off the long-sleeve after a mile or so.. Now the bike is a different story: instant wind chill!

Bear,

Excuse me. Isn't it always above freezing in Cajun country?

Isn't it always above freezing in Cajun country?

Not at all. We have had entire winters where it hasn't gone below freeaing, but normally we'll have several major freezes. It can (rarely) get into the single digits. We need the occasional freeze to zap the mosquitos.

Considering we are expecting wet snow (why do they call it that - like there is any other kind??) tomorrow ...

I decided last year that my cut off point was around -35C (-31F), depending on the wind chill, for running outside. I wear some combination of the following - up to 3 layers top and 2 on bottom.

• All wick away clothes to start with
• headband and hat
• balaclava - but find it hard it freezes over my chin and makes me colder
• turtleneck, thick longsleeved Hind shirt, wind jacket
• long underwear, long pants ( if windy I use the ones with the thick stretch in the back and the wind panels in the front)
• mitts, and wind mits on top
• thick, blisterfree RR socks
• runners
• ice grippers over top my runners
• sunglasses (it may be cold in Winiterpeg, woops Winnipeg, but gorgeous sunshine!)

Winter running is a whole different, but equally wonderful sport.

Here's to living in the South!

I know it was an off-hand comment. But I'm a geeky hydrologist, so I'm gonna tell ya! Yee-haw! The "average" (more like a rule of thumb) water content of fresh snow is 10% (so, ten inches of snow is generally the same as an inch of rain). So if the snow has a much higher water content than that, it's considered a "wet snow".

For instance in spring of 2003, CO's front range had a blizzard that gave us around 3 feet of snow in most places. That may not sound like a HUGE blizzard, but that snow had a whopping 30% water content! It was waaaay more water than we'd seen in an awful long time!

Who knew I'd amass such a vast array of non- tri knowledge from a bt site?? Thank you Kim. 

Now wind chill is another one I always seem to have to explain to none winter people - you wanna tackle that one too??