Not here ;-( We're hitting the mid-70's all week.

I know! 70 here too. I'm 40 minutes outside of NYC.

I KNOW November has arrived and I almost wish I were about a thousand miles south. Cold, intermitent showers and an icy wind from the Northwest. Brrrrrrr. The newspaper today said there was a dusting of snow on the cameras at the Mountain Passes too. No doubt, whatever!

Chilly is when you do "brrr". :) After of Summer of high 80's to high 90's and an October "cool down" to the high 70's-low 80's, 74 is chilly. :) Now, mind you, I won't think it's cold until we hit highs of 65°. Chilly means take a sweater for outside rather than inside. :)

I love sleeping in a really chilly bedroom at night, particularly when I'm not paying for the AC.

It was so neat to feel chilly air this morning when I was taking the garbage bins to the curb. Now, thunder is rumbling and it's about 56 degrees F. I imagine that it will be back up to 75 - 80 soon, but it actually felt like autumn today.

It's in the upper 60s tonight and I'm wearing my hoodie. It's brrr to me :-) We are getting the thunderstorms on Thursday.

Same here, Pillog, but it is cooler along the coast. Love the lightning.

I early froze to death in a restaurant tonight. I need to keep a long sleeved shirt or jacket in my truck. When I got in the truck, it was 70 deg., which doesn't sound cold, I realize. Had to run in Kroger to get some cat food and it was cold in there too. I turned on the heater in my truck and kept it on the 15 miles home!

Marilyn, I always keep a cardigan in my car, as well as a straw hat. And sometimes wear both at the same time. ;)

The downstairs at home is down to 73 degrees. I think for the first time in months. Total brrr. I thought it would be too wimpy to go for the velour hoodie, so I settled for a French terry waterfall jacket. I think I'm over the novelty. Can we have warm back?

It's all relative, isn't it.... Location and normal high and low temperatures. If there is a 10-20° shift, it gets our attention. BTW - "room temperature" is considered 70°F.

Here in the land of extremes (Kansas), where temperatures are up one day and down the next like a roller coaster ride, our first frost was 3-weeks later than normal, and the temperatures have been above normal, so a very mild fall so far. With the strong south winds we are currently experiencing - they bring mild temperatures, but that changes again in a couple days.

It's interesting how the inverse response happens in the winter after a long spell of extremely cold weather and it gets into the 40's for highs. We exchange coats for jackets because it's gotten "warm".

-Grainlady

70 degrees is my favorite temperature or even cooler. I seldom put on a jacket or wear long sleeves year round to even go out and take care of chickens. We can have snow on the ground and for a little while it does not bother me. I love winter! It will be around 70 here today and I will love it. Of course my husband will freeze when it is 90 out!

Sue in Central Indiana

Lol Pillog. It's really all relative, isn't it? We hearty New Englanders LAUGH at 70 degrees! Lol. No complaining until it gets into the single digits!

plllog would not be able to survive in my home in the fall and winter. I set my thermostat to 64! If 74 at night, I want a fan on me, not a blanket, lol.

We move the thermostat down in the winter and wear sweaters or layers inside; in the summer it's set high and we turn on the ceiling fans.

Most of our friends seem to do the opposite and I've learned to dress accordingly when visiting their homes.

Grainlady how did you put that degree mark in your post? We had the heat on for a couple of days, but now it's Indian Summer time.

Plllog, our weather has been the same as yours. I want sunshine and temps back in the 80's. I too am chilly at any temp below 78. I keep sweaters in my car. Stores and restaurants about freeze me to death.

PWM1 -- in case Grainlady doesn't see... On PC/Windows, hold down the Alt key and type in 0176 to get °. On the old GW, we had to use ampersand codes, which were easier because the popular ones had word names. 0233 is é and 0241 is ñ. There are charts online.

Lindaohnowga, I totally hear you. I'll adapt to Winter, though, and wear warm clothes. Today, I'm wearing pants and long sleeves. :)

Rhizo, you're right! I'd cry. The year the kitchen was remodeled, I had no heat because of the dust, and we had so many delays because of the tile, it just got colder and colder. I wore my long hooded teddy bear fur coat in the house over my layers, and retired to bed as early as possible with the wooly hat and fingerless gloves, and layers and comforters and extra blankets. It was miserable. And I hated going out to warm places because coming home to 65° would make me cry. :(

Tibbrix, I don't mind you laughing. :) Apparently it's true that if you live someplace really cold your blood gets thicker and that keeps you warmer. It's supposed to take three years to acclimate, and that's only if you allow yourself to be cold.

I don't know what I'd do if I had the kind of extremes that Grainlady alluded to, other than move!

I learned when I was living abroad that 39° C is fine. 40° is tolerable. 41° is too d*mn hot. And 42° C is just miserable (107.6° F). See! I do have an upper limit. :)

Sun's out today. :)

Plllog, silly question: You say there are charts about symbols online, which I'd love to see. Which exact words did you search? TIA.

Alt code or alt key code

This one is good because it has Mac too, and there are four charts you can find through the links, but it's not exhaustive. I usually search on the name of what I'm looking for, but if you don't know the name of the tilde, for example, it doesn't help. Another search that will do it is special characters.

Make sure you're looking for Alt codes (or Option codes for Mac). There are also control codes, & codes, and a few other kinds, but it's the Alts that will work in this forum.