The so called Nth American freeze hit us here last night. My bike wheels froze to the cockpit of the yacht to the point I had to poor warm water on it to move it. It reached -6 celcius at 4am.
Crazy thing is its sunny and beautiful clear blue sky…
Dont know how you guys do it for months, better than me.
27°F
(-3°C)
Sunny
Rel. Humidity: 50%
Wind: NE at 3 mph (5 km/h)
Sunrise: 8:29 AM
Sunset: 6:46 PM
Barometric Pressure: 30.1"Hg (F)
ahh, -3C…I wish it was that warm. about -30 with the wind this morning (-12C without). not enjoying these days at all! although it is supposed to get up to +7C (and raining) by the middle of next week, so with the 100+ cm of snow we have received in the past week, there should be quite a mess. then, the inevitable freeze will hit again, and I’ll be able to skate to work!! (I’m not bitter at all… 
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I think you should be saying "no balls on the brass monkey" As in "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
extra credit: what is a brass monkey?
I’m pretty sure a brass monkey is the pile of cannon balls (triangular in shape). when it would get really cold, the balls (I guess they would have been piled on a brass base) would shrink. this would cause the pile to collapse…hence, “freeze the balls of a brass monkey”.
kurt
The origin and true meaning of this phrase is actually totally unrelated to any form of animal or its testicles. Back in time to the period of the Napoleonic War, the great gunships of this time carried many cannons on various gun decks. As an efficient method of storage and delivery of cannon balls to the cannon for firing, a “Monkey” (this term is used to define a table and/ or a rail) made of brass was used to hold the balls. In very cold temperatures the brass would contract or even break thus allowing the cannon balls to roll off the Monkey onto the gun deck. Hence the sailors would say “it is cold enough to freeze the balls off a Brass Monkey”.
http://www.brassmonkeys.co.uk/history/default.html
The Truth
According to the United States Navy Historical Center, this is a legend of the sea without historical justification. The center has researched this because of the questions it gets and says the term “brass monkey” and a vulgar reference to the effect of cold on the monkey’s extremities, appears to have originated in the book “Before the Mast” by C.A. Abbey. It was said that it was so cold that it would “freeze the tail off a brass monkey.” The Navy says there is no evidence that the phrase had anything to do with ships or ships with cannon balls.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/brassmonkeys.htm
Google makes life too easy some times.
Tucker
Brilliant
Amyway my balls froze!
Ran last Sunday morning at a temp of -17F; coldest temp I have ever run in. Amazingly nothing got cold (even with a single pair of plain socks and regular running shoes.) The hardest part was seeing with all of the frost building up on the eyelashes. It was better than running on a treadmill!
The 48 degree mornings here in California have been quite hard to take. 
I don’t think I could handle the sweat rate! I’ve lived around the world and you adapt to whatever the climate your in and I chose to settle back in MI. Wish I had been riding when I lived in Poway; I would be a much stronger rider.
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I thought I was the only one that ran and got frost on the eyelashes! Pretty neat, actually - and yes, it is still better than the treadmill. I especially like to look into cars at intersections to see the crazed look on peoples faces when they see me running by at sub zero temps.
The problem here in Michigan isn’t the weather some much as the darkness. For the last three days I have not been outside in daylight. It is like living underground. I got in this morning for web updates before the sun came up, and am leaving in a few minutes after I get done fiddling around here.
We did have a nice snow fall recently. I skied up to Borders on my Salomon adventure racing skis and then over to the pizza place to get a pizza roll. It was very fun. Then the plows came along and ruined it all.