Twins officials were determined to play Friday to avoid a day-night doubleheader on Saturday; that would have meant moving up the scheduled start of 3 10 p.m. Central time by at least two hours The game-time temperature was a degree colder than it was for Minnesota's opening day, on April 1. Friday's crowd, announced as 23,735, appeared half that size.
Unusual weather brought iron-rich dust from Africa to Europe, not only altering the colour of roofs and cars on the continent but also, according to recent calculations by Max Bangert, a graduate student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, making the place about a quarter of a degree colder for as long as the dust stayed in the air.Unusual for Germany; commonplace for the planet as a whole.
Decreased solar activity results in winter temperatures about half a degree colder than average.
And the year-round temperature in Embarrass averages out at 34.4, a full degree colder than anyplace else in Minnesota.
High altitudes demand a degree of cold adaptation plus adaptation for low air pressure and the consequent low oxygen.
High altitudes demand a degree of cold adaptation, as well as adaptation for low air pressure and the consequent low oxygen.
My sister in Minneapolis braved the -29 degree cold to throw boiling water in the air.
Behind the scenes, however, Mr. Obama and his advisers have been quite active, sometimes negotiating deals with a degree of cold-eyed political realism potentially at odds with the president's rhetoric.
Like the rest of the floor, their rooms are kept at a chilly sixty-seven degrees — "Cold, but not Letterman cold," as Questlove puts it.
There are lighter moments too: when a Nazi soldier, suffering dysentery on the Russian front, risked lowering his pants in minus-40-degree cold, a comrade with a movie camera was ready.
(The A.P. ran an item regretting the "breezy" Soyle oncehe exchange).
