The football game has started in Green Bay and all the sportscasters can talk about is the weather and the fact that the actual temperature is 0 degrees but with the wind chill it’s about -30 degrees. Now that’s something that I can relate to. I went to St. Olaf College which is on top of a hill in the southern part of Minnesota and it’s the only hill around, so that when the wind comes whipping around the prairie land it gets SO cold. In fact St. Olaf is on the 4-1-4 system, where you take 4 courses in the fall and spring and 1 course in January. They time the course around either breakfast or lunch so that you don’t have to go outside more than once a day. The average temperature in January near St. Olaf is around 12 degrees F and with the wind chill it could get to the -20 degrees. We learned to layer and I knew people who actually wore goggles to protect their eyes when they went outside.
My friends Loki and his wife E. live near Minneapolis, and according to his web site yesterday the temperature (the actual temperature) was -16 degrees. Check it out if you don’t believe me. Boy am I glad that it’s 20 degrees here and I’m warm and toasty in my house!
(To find St. Olaf look straight south of the orange blob which is the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul for Northfield, and there you have it. Because St. Olaf is in Northfield, Minnesota.)
