Stay warm. Jim!

[Harry C.]

Estimates of wind chill in Bangor, ME is -50 degrees Fahrenheit (-45.5 degrees Celsius) tonight. Yes I know you are in Lewiston, but still...

[ericp]

A bit south in Boston it will be -10F overnight, seems almost balmy compared to Lewiston

[JimHow]

This is nuts! All hunkered in with some roast chicken and a 2019 Haut Bages Liberal.
This is much worse than anything we experienced in Alaska, I don't ever remember it this cold!

The WCSH Channel 6 weather forecast with my favorite meteorologist Keith Carson:

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article ... 7-31689757

[PghMike]

Hah I also opened the 2019 Haut Bages Liberal. Just came back from Saskatoon Saskatchewan where it was bone chillingly cold....

[JimHow]

Have you ever seen it this cold, Nicola?
I remember going to the Quebec winter carnival, it must've been about 25 years ago, and it was amazingly cold.
I don't remember midday temps like this. Looks like Mt. Washington might set a record.

[JimHow]

Nice, Mike! Quite different from the Croizet-Bages, but I'm loving it! Whereas the CB was medium bodied, this seems like a big, black, burly 14.5% Pauillac beast but very pleasurable to drink! On to some mild cheese.

[PghMike]

We're enjoying it as well. Definitely bigger and black fruited but finishes a bit brighter thain the main attack for me. I've not found much oak in the other 2019s but I'm getting a little here on the nose and palate.

Quite a coincidence, I got home from the airport and it was the first bottle I saw in the cellar.

[JoelD]

Woof. That is nuts. What are the chances that we can get a pic of you holding up your 2019 Bordeaux next to the -50 reading on the thermometer?

Just kidding. That sounds like some stupid shit a TikToker would do and die.

[stefan]

Be glad you don't live in Texas. Here, when the temperature drops into the teens, you lose your electricity and heat.

[Claudius2]

Guys
If it gets any colder, you will all have to drink Vodka instead.
It's worked for centuries in Siberia.

cheers
Mark

[JimHow]

The Blue Demon started a little hard this morning, all 371,000 miles of her, but she started nonetheless, and a tire was flat, quickly inflated with my portable tire inflator, but other than that we seem to have survived the worst cold wave that I've ever seen, I don't know whether it broke any records but it was colder than a zip's ass. Goddamn is it cold, the wind is brutal.

Minus 105 on Mt. Washington with 95 mph winds, I think that's a record.

[JimHow]

The police were out in force yesterday morning carting off the homeless camping out on Lisbon Street, one of the mainstays, a mentally ill former client of mine, was taken away in an ambulance. Grim times.

On a brighter note, I enjoyed the 2019 Haut Bages Liberal, it was big, rugged, 14.5%, very deep black color, very different from the more elegant, 13%, 2019 Croizet-Bages from the other night. But that's a good thing, we don't want these wines to all taste the same, further evidence of the waning of Robert Parker's influence. Like the CB, I give this wine 93 points as well. I'll buy more when this goes on sale again in NH. Another excellent 2019!

[Musigny 151]

Be glad you don't live in Texas. Here, when the temperature drops into the teens, you lose your electricity and heat.

Not to mention your senior Senator.

[Nicklasss]

This morning, even better it is -30 C, - 51 C feel with wind chill....

You have to try it one day: going outside lightly dressed, under those conditions... you feel like Jack in Titanic within a minute...

Not very often we have THAT cold. Probably once every 10 years...

[JimHow]

The Blizzard of '78 and the Ice Storm of '98 were the two worst weather events I've ever seen, but I've never seen it this cold. I've seen temps go down lower, like in the minus 20s, but I've never seen such a high windchill. That wind was brutal.

[Nicklasss]

Improved ice bucket challenge!