Cold. Really Cold. And Dry.

Normally I'd consider the 30's and 40's cold. In December I decided that cold was actually in the teens and single digits. I withdraw that conclusion and instead definitively say that cold is somewhere between -1 and -20. (All temperatures herein specified are expressed in Fahrenheit measure.)

This morning our apartment was a little cooler than normal, in the 60's:


However, we frequently have a draft from the cabinets under the windows. As an experiment, Andy placed a milk jug with a probe thermometer in it overnight. The setup:



As you can see, the breeze from under the cabinet had cooled the water to about 34 degrees. This was 7:30 am so it may have been colder (frozen?) at some point prior. [I didn't notice that some sort of statement or other document was in view, so I deleted that content from the photo. It didn't appear to be of any true interest to shady characters, but we can never be too safe, right?]

Why did Andy and I do this, you might ask? Why wouldn't we? Honestly its just the sort of thing that geeky engineers find some small amount of joy in.

Spring semester = even more work than fall.