"C J Campbell" wrote in message
e.com...
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:51:26 -0800, Jay Honeck wrote
(in article .com):

We (in the upper Midwest) are in the grips of some cold weather right
now. This is not surprising, since the last week of January is
statistically the coldest week of the year.

Despite this commonly known fact, the National Weather Service has
felt compelled to issue a urgent "Winter Weather Advisory" for
"extreme wind chills".

Ah, it is nothing. The daughter of a friend of ours was a missionary in
Novosibirsk, Russia. Novosibersk is (roughly) in what used to be known as
Outer Mongolia. Heh-heh. She should have paid more attention in my
Seminary
class. I warned her she would be sent to Outer Mongolia.

Anyway, she sent back a picture of herself dressed in a fur hat and fur
coat.
She looked cold. She said that sometimes your breath freezes and falls to
the
ground and makes a tinkling noise. They have a word for that in their
language. HA! A word for the tinkling noise your breath makes when it
freezes
and falls to the ground. Bet they don't have that in Iowa!

Having grown up in the upper midwest (Michigan) I can assure you there is a
word for when it gets that cold. Several words in fact. And, in addition
to the frozen breath, you also get air that turns a lovely shade of blue.

;O)

Jay Beckman
Shivering in 50 degree Wx in
Chandler, AZ